For all the old "Salts" out there.
I have been trying to ID this ship...it was traveling with us (USS Yorktown CVS-10) in 1968. I have checked online for all types of destroyers (DD,DDG,DE,etc) with hull#1 with no luck. Can anyone tell me what kind of ship this is?
Might it have been a destroyer escort?
That would be a DE, and I could not find a #1. The site I looked at had ships from the 1800's. Thanks for your response.
USS Gyatt? (DDG-1)
Launched April, 1945.
Sunk in 1970.
It's probably a munitions ship. I see ships that look just like that all the time at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons station taking on munitions to ship over to overseas troops.
Could it be a Coastie? They had some of their largest cutters as well as riverine in VN.
Not the Gyatt. It had two twin mounts on the front and a hull number of DDG-712 in 1969
Big Bill wrote:
USS Gyatt? (DDG-1)
Launched April, 1945.
Sunk in 1970.
Here is the Gyatt DD-712/DDG-1/DDG712
SpaceCowboy369 wrote:
Not the Gyatt. It had two twin mounts on the front and a hull number of DDG-712 in 1969
It a Claud Jones Class DE. They had hull numbers in the 10XX. Not sure why the other three digits are missing.
Jim 100 wrote:
I have been trying to ID this ship...it was traveling with us (USS Yorktown CVS-10) in 1968. I have checked online for all types of destroyers (DD,DDG,DE,etc) with hull#1 with no luck. Can anyone tell me what kind of ship this is?
It's definitely a Destroyer, possibly a DLG as evidenced by the guided missile array on the forward deck.
I see where several early DLG's were given low hull numbers when being built and then reclassified/renumbered.
She looks a lot like the USS Coontz early photographs, which was originally hull number 1 and then DLG-9, and DDG-40.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/dlg9.htm
[She looks a lot like the USS Coontz early photographs, which was originally hull number 1 and then DLG-9, and DDG-40.
It certainly does look like the Coontz, but it had hull #9 until 1972. I still haven't found #1, but maybe it is a Farragut Class.
I just noticed, but cannot tell for sure, but she is NOT flying an American flag? It looks Swiss but I cannot tell for sure.
Perhaps we are looking at the wrong Navy!! Lol!!
Thanks for your help everyone. I just checked online for the ships deployment history, and it is definitely the USS Brooke FFG-1. Again, thanks
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