The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Friday, August 23, 2013

USS Ramsay (DD-124)(DM-16)-- Part 2


Eight days later, the Ramsay, escorting a merchant ship, had two more submarine contacts and made two runs over it dropping depth charges. This created another oil slick, but no definitive kill.

Later, the ship planted defensive mines off Samoa. After that, the ship served off the Aleutian Islands by Alaska and then more Pacific duty before being decommissioned in 1945 and sold for scrapping in 1946.

The Ramsay was 314 feet long, had a crew of 133 and carried four 4-inch guns, torpedo tubes and depth charges.

--GreGen

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