US Naval Ships that were at Pearl Harbor

[RCS]

These US Navy ships were all at Pear l Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, these are not all of them, but just a few that I was able to collect years ago.

These ships all had the postal equipment and had the ships name in the cancellation plus the date. Only the very small ships such as PT Boats did not have their cancellations. US submarines and even had their cancellation

[Bob Womack]

Nice collection!!!

Where do you reckon the cancellation stamp for the Arizona ended up? Did Hoga YT-146 have a stamp? She's the last ship afloat from Pearl Harbor.



My son was the Director of Drydocks and Environmental at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and traveled to Pearl often to consult. One time they had just gone through a big overhaul on Drydock One where Pennsylvania, Cassin and Downes were during the attack.


I asked him to grab me something from the drydock that was there during the attack out of the trash. He brought me a check valve handle that hangs in my garage.

Bob

[RCS]

Years ago I was able to get a Model 1903 stock (single stock bolt) from the CMP north store.
This stock was painted white (many coats of paint). As I took my time and very carefully removed the coats of white paint, I found AT 21 inletted into the butt stock. My friend, Tom in NJ, told me that is the navy designator or code for the USS Bagaluce. This was an ocean going tug boat from 1919 to 1944. The USS Bagaluce also had cancellations/post marks too. It is interesting that Model 1903 rifles were issued to this fleet tug.

Now there are no reported cancellations for the USS Hoga.

[Bob Womack]

Years ago I was able to get a Attachment 137829Attachment 137830Attachment 137831Attachment 137832Attachment 137833 Model 1903 stock (single stock bolt) from the CMP north store.
This stock was painted white (many coats of paint). As I took my time and very carefully removed the coats of white paint, I found AT 21 inletted into the butt stock. My friend, Tom in NJ, told me that is the navy designator or code for the USS Bagaluce. This was an ocean going tug boat from 1919 to 1944. The USS Bagaluce also had cancellations/post marks too. It is interesting that Model 1903 rifles were issued to this fleet tug.
Now there are no reported cancellations for the USS Hoga.

I'm remembering all the shots from the Pearl Harbor raid with sailors doing anti-aircraft duty with 1903s. I'm not sure the Navy had made the transition to the M1 Garand by Pearl. In 1944, my father shot first in his class on the Garand at Naval Induction Station Great Lakes, so the transition had made it to the induction stations by then. I still remember small arms inventories from large ships that had 1903s in their armory far into 1943. I think, I think, the armory inventory of USS Wisconsin, parked down the road from me, which was completed in 1944, listed 1903s when I visited last. Could be wrong on that one.

Bob

[RCS]

Alot of pre WW2 USN Model 1903 stocks had the ships name or hull number cut or stamped into the stock,

My photos show some of these stocks which came from Rock Island salvage or CMP sales

[Surpmil]

Nice collection!!!

Where do you reckon the cancellation stamp for the Arizona ended up? Did Hoga YT-146 have a stamp? She's the last ship afloat from Pearl Harbor.

Bob

+1 : USCGC Taney - Wikipedia

[Bob Womack]

+1 : USCGC Taney - Wikipedia

Okay, okay, the last NAVY ship.

Bob

[Sapper740]

The Sotoyomo YT-9 launched in 1903 was the oldest ship in Pearl Harbor and was sunk in the same drydock as USS Shaw. She was later raised and saw service throughout the Pacific until she was stricken and scuttled near Leyte in 1946.

[Riter]

Wonderful cachets. Love the one with the Great White Fleet battleship, USS Connecticutt.

[RCS]

This is one of my favored cancellations, the USS Zircon.

In 1929, F.j. Fisher of Detroit (Fisher auto body) built a private yacht called the Nakhoda. In
Dec 1940, Fisher donated his yacht to the US Navy where it was renamed the Zircon. It
was refitted with two three inch cannons and six thirty cal Browning m/g's. plus two depth charge throwers.

The USS Zircon patrolled the east coast during WW2 and sold in 1947, it was bought and restored