Landing Procedure," USS Suwannee CVE-27, Serial 065, 29 May 1945.). Aboard USS Suwannee (CVE-27), Lieutenant Edward P. Looney, a Catholic Chaplain, Heritage Center Open Everyday: 9:30am - 5:00pm, Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's, Honoring the Men & Women of the Sea Services, 701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20004. Hostilities ended on 15 August 1945, but Suwannee remained at Okinawa until 2 September; then headed back to the United States. On 28 October, the carrier was placed in a reserve status with the 16th Fleet, at Boston, and just over two months later, on 8 January 1947, she was placed out of commission. During that operation, Suwannee joined the Northern Attack Force, and her planes bombed and strafed Roi and Namur Islands, in the northern part of Kwajalein Atoll, and conducted anti-submarine patrols for the task force. She remained there for a week, then returned to the Netherlands East Indies at Makassar Strait to support the landings at Balikpapan, Borneo. 1 204 Photograph: 7 April 1943. Electronics on mast have been censored. Following the occupation of the Gilberts, the escort carrier returned to the United States, via Pearl Harbor, arriving in San Diego on 21 December. The leaflets were dropped on the Japanese installations located on the Visayas SUWANNEE (CVE-27) HELL U.S.S. The ship had taken 45 hits. Suwannees planes did not actually become engaged in the famous battle of naval aircraft, because they remained with the invasion forces in the Marianas providing antisubmarine and combat air patrols. National Archives and Records Administration By the time we arrived on the forecastle, the flow of gasoline had mostly consumed itself, and flames were only erupting and flickering from combustible areas of water and oil. On 20 August 1942, Suwannee was re-designated again, to an auxiliary aircraft carrier, ACV-27. If you also served aboard and you remember one of the people below you can click on . A muster revealed 2 officers and 56 sailors missing (some of whom were recovered subsequently). Suwannee remained in reserve at Boston, for the next 12 years. Decommissioned as indicated above. Departing that port on 19 December, Suwannee touched at San Juan, Puerto Rico, then returned to Norfolk. Suwannee was much farther south as an element of Rear Adm. Thomas Spragues Taffy 1. It was kept as a souvenir by the USS Suwannee Suwannee CVE-27 during World War II. Navybuddies.com Crew List - Reunite with old US Navy Buddies That stop was aborted because of a minefield on the path there, so they returned south to Wakayama on 27 September. Dimensions (wl):525' x 75' x 30' 7.5" (full load) / 160 x 22.9 x 9.3 meters Dimensions (max. About this time Suwannee received orders detaching them from the fleet and assigned them to Operation Magic Carpet. San Francisco followed suit and withdrew eastward along the north coast of Guadalcanal. USS Suwannee (CVE-27), was built as the civilian oiler Markay, in 1939, before being acquired by the US Navy, in 1941, and renamed Suwannee (AO-33), after the tradition of naming fleet oilers after rivers. 7 Dec 1941 - 31 Dec 1946 was 4,183,466 (390,037 officers and 3,793,429 enlisted) 3. Disembarking her passengers on 14 January, she provided fueling services there before returning to Hampton Roads, where, upon completion of unloading, she began preparations to undergo conversion. Registration and communicating with shipmates at Hullnumber.com is FREE FOREVER. Her hulk was sold to the Isbrantsen Steamship Company, of New York City, on 30 November 1959, for conversion to merchant service. Photographed by USS Suwannee (CVE-27) aircraft. On 12 October 1944, the escort carrier got underway from Manus in Rear Adm. Thomas L. Spragues Escort Carrier Group to provide air support for the landings at Leyte Gulf. (NARA), # 80-G-349434. The Modern Military Branch, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001, has custody of deck logs from 1941 to 1983, as well as muster rolls created. Flight deck poster made by an AMM, B.L. McKellar and his men and offloaded MTBRon 1s six ELCOs, completing that operation on 18 September. Her first assignment was close air support for the invasion troops; but, within a few days, she settled down to a routine of neutralizing the kamikaze bases at Sakishima Gunto. The vessel decommissioned shortly thereafter in Newport News to be converted to an escort carrier. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of USS Suwannee (CVE 27) Crew List. At 0125 on the 13th, the enemy force was discovered about 27,000 yards to the northwest and the US task group maneuvered to intercept. The ship continued to blaze until early afternoon, when the waters of Ironbottom Sound closed over her. Crew members of Suwannee were given shore leave during their stay and observed the devastation of ground zero first hand. She was designated an "Escort Helicopter Aircraft Carrier", CVHE-27, on 12 June 1955, while in reserve. exploded on flight deck immediately after coming to a stop following normal landing on board. This web site is dedicated to the men who served aboard the escort carrier U.S.S. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National A Sea2c, however, who embarked on the 26th with orders to report to the light cruiser Savannah (CL-43), deserted before the oiler cleared San Pedro for the Canal Zone on the 28th. (Quoted from the Twenty minutes later, completely immobilized in all departments, the ship was ordered abandoned. The battleship put the starboard 5-inch battery out of commission. Search crew members| In part because of the extent of damage suffered during the first kamikaze attacks of the war, much of the information about the Suwannee, and of what her crew and air groups endured, was classified for several decades. Suwannee was much farther south as an element of Rear Admiral Thomas Sprague's "Taffy 1". Suwannees group fought off two more air attacks before 1300; then steamed in a northeasterly direction to join Taffy 3 and launch futile searches for Kuritas rapidly retiring force. If you contact a Shipmate through HullNumber, your email address is not displayed in the message to your Shipmate. The escort carrier stopped at Pearl Harbor, from 1623 February, at Tulagi, from 414 March, and at Ulithi, from 2127 March, before arriving off Okinawa, on 1 April. Other 14 officers and men were also injured. Photograph: 7 April 1943. Explosion in the background resulted from a carrier-plane National Archives & Records Administration photo, # 19-N-2429?. With each salvo of popping, two or three more panicky crew men would leap over the side, and we found that our most urgent task was to persuade those poised on the rail not to jump by a combination of physical restraint and reassurance that fires were being controlled and that more help was on the way. With the old battleships fighting in Surigao Strait and Halsey's 3d Fleet scurrying north, Suwannee, with the other 15 escort carriers and 22 destroyers and destroyer escorts, formed the only Allied naval force operating off Leyte Gulf when the Japanese 1st Striking Force transited the unguarded San Bernadino Strait into the Philippine Sea. Artwork details the dangers (NARA), photo # 80-G-270618. The bow cables and hawser held and she remained safely in place by turning the screws to maintain position. At 0148, San Francisco opened fire on an enemy cruiser 3,700 yards off her starboard beam. USS Suwannee (CVE 27) Escort carrier of the Sangamon class Commands listed for USS Suwannee (CVE 27) Please note that we're still working on this section and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War. At 07:40, on 25 October, "Taffy 1" was jumped by land-based planes from Davao in the first deliberate kamikaze attack of the war. Suwannee disembarked her passengers, then underwent a restricted availability at the Norfolk Navy Yard, during which time the Japanese unleashed their onslaught in the Pacific (78 December 1941) and Germany joined its Axis partner (11 December). Operational and Building Data Authorized and Ordered 1933 Keel laid on 12 MAR 1935 by the New York Navy Yard Launched 30 NOV 1936 . A. W. Gardes in command 10 January 1947: Decommissioned at the Naval Repair Base, San Diego, Cal. Renamed Suwannee (AO-33), the ship was commissioned in ordinary [an inactive status] on 9 July 1941, then placed in commission on 16 July 1941, Cmdr. 1 208 She fired on a cruiser to starboard and, in turn, took a terrific pounding from battleship Hiei on her port side. Strange USN (Ret.) Most of the remaining wounded in the forecastle area were severely burned beyond recognition and hope. Clearing Norfolk for the Gulf Area on 3 November 1941, Suwannee arrived at her destination after a passage of five days, after which she down the Houston [Texas] Ship Canal, setting course for Argentia, Newfoundland, on 10 November, where she provided services to the Atlantic Fleets ships as the fleets involvement in the Battle of the Atlantic intensified. Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. and Records Administration, Escort Carrier Sailors & Airmen Association, Built under a Maritime Commission contract (hull number 5) as the civilian tanker, Acquired by the Navy on 26 June 1941; classified as a "Fleet Oiler", designated AO-33 and renamed. (NARA) photo, # 80-G-270613. William H. Abrams, USMCR, Ret., the district legal officer at the Marine Barracks, Balboa) and an OS3c to the Submarine Base, Coco Solo, C.Z., on the 8th; then continued on for Galveston, Texas. (AO-33: displacement 7,500; length 553'0"; beam 75'0"; draft 31'7"; speed 18.0 knots; complement 380; armament 1 5-inch, 4 .50-caliber machine guns; class Cimarron; type T3-S2-A1). Her gunners soon scratched a 2nd enemy plane, then engaged a 3rd attacking aircraft, circling in the clouds at 8,000 feet, which in its final dive, crashed into the flight deck of Suwannee 40 feet forward of the after elevator, opening a 10-foot hole in her flight deck. 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 Aircraft carriers at specific battles, invasions, and raids [ edit] Commanding Officers Date Assumed Command, Cmdr. Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-349247. The new passengers destinations ranged from new construction like the carrier Hornet (CV-8), the destroyer Hambleton (DD-455), and the submarine Finback (SS-230), to the gunboat Erie (PG-50). Would you like to have such a crew list on your website? They were declared dead on 4 October. After 30 years and learning the computer and finding VetFriends, I went to my first reunion of the USS Navasota AO-106. Her repairs were completed by 31 January 1945; and, after brief stops at Hunter's Point and Alameda, California, she headed west and back into the war. of propellers. The list is in chronological order. Click to view crew list USS Suwannee (CVHE-27) USS Suwannee was commissioned in July of 1941 as an AO-33. CVE-27 U.S.S. Suwannee - Historycentral William D. Johnson. Kamikaze attack in history (Battle Within two hours, her flight deck was sufficiently repaired to enable the escort carrier to resume air operations. Her gunners soon shot down another enemy plane, then bore down on a third circling in the clouds at about 8,000ft (2,400m). At the height of the violent battle, an enemy battleship came slashing through the darkness and both ships headed at full speed for the same spot. If you contact a Shipmate through HullNumber, your email address is not displayed in the message to your Shipmate. Home Join Now About Hullnumber Before You Register Tell A Shipmate FAQs Related Links Contact Us. Photograph: 7 April 1943. Less than a month after commissioning, Suwannee, with VGS-27 embarked, stood out of Hampton Roads on 25 October 1942 in Task Group (TG) 34.2, as part of Task Force 34, for Operation Torch, the invasion of Vichy French-held North Africa. After the war, she was later classified an "Escort Helicopter Aircraft Carrier" and again redesignated, CVHE-27, 12 June 1955. Air Raids in the Pacific, 1 July 1945. # 80-G-30228. (NARA) photo, # 80-G-270609. After deployment in Korea, where she earned two battle stars, the Cuban blockade, and the rescue efforts for the sub Thresher, she was decommissioned on January 7, 1965. (1) As a returning American torpedo bomber (lower plane) approaches deck for landing, a Japanese Many of the crew on the forecastle and the catwalks above it had been blown over the side by the explosions. Early in the morning of 8 November, she arrived off the coast of Morocco, and for the next few days, her Grumman F4F Wildcats maintained combat and anti-submarine (ASW) air patrols, while her Grumman TBF Avengers joined Ranger's in bombing missions. List of aircraft carrier operations during World War II I had a great time and intend to go again next year. the Distinguished Flying Cross with two stars and Air Medal with seven stars. SUWANNEE CVHE 27 - NavalCoverMuseum The first one crashed Santee (CVE-29) and, 30 seconds later, Suwannee splashed a kamikaze during its attack on Petrof Bay (CVE-80). A week later, she put into Espiritu Santo, for four days. Last Name. For RATING SHIRTS - Click on your Rating Abbreviation below: U.S.S. after 2 years and 10 months of service, having steamed 128,417 miles (last ship's muster is dated 01 July 1946) Report an offensive or inappropriate entry. Photograph released 20 August 1945. Suwannee (and her embarked air units for the pertinent periods: VGS-27, VGF-27, VGS-30, VGF-28, CVEG-60 and CVEG-40) received the Presidential Unit Citation and 13 battle stars for her World War II service: North Africa occupation, Algeria-Morocco Landings (811 November 1942), Anti-submarine action (planes S-10, S-11, and S-12 of VGS-27) (11 November 1942); Battle of Rennell Island (2930 January 1943); Gilbert Islands operation (20 November8 December 1943); Marshall Islands occupation: Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls (31 January8 February 1944) and Eniwetok (1724 February 1944); Pacific Raids: Palau, Yap, Ulithi and Woleai (30 March1 April 1944); Hollandia operation (Aitape, Humboldt Bay, and Tanahmerah Bay) 22 April5 May 1944); capture and occupation of Saipan (23 June11 July 1944); occupation and capture of Tinian (12 July1 August 1944); Morotai Landings (15 September 1944); Leyte landings (10 October29 November 1944); Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto (25 March4 June 1945); and Balikpapan operation (26 June6 July 1945). Air Raids in the Pacific, 1 July 1945. For the major portion of the next 77 days, her planes continued to deny the enemy the use of those air bases. The escort carriers put into Kossol Roads in the Palaus on 28 October, then headed for Manus for upkeep on 1 November. The two planes erupted upon contact as did nine other planes on her flight deck. 2010 - USS Suwannee CVE-27 U.S.S. Photograph released 4 August 1945. Branch. Copyright 2023 HullNumber.com. The carrier reentered San Pedro Bay, Leyte, on 6 July and spent the next month there. Arriving at her destination on 17 November, she remained at Argentia until she sailed for Hampton Roads on 4 December with passengers, the largest group of which (29) held orders to the carrier Yorktown (CV-5). (NARA), photo # 80-G-270619. Lt. Walter B. Burwell, MC, USNR, a medical officer on USS Suwannee when it was struck by two Japanese suicide (Kamikaze) aircraft [NHC: oral history] For additional photos, see the Main Page. BRANN, Richard Paul Engineman Second Class. Control was again lost. Juneau is hit by a torpedo in her port side near forward fire room. Swinging around Savo Island, the force of two battleships and four destroyers, entered the channel between Savo and Cape Esperance. Report an offensive or inappropriate entry. She was launched on 12 August 1995 by ships sponsor, Kelly Sullivan Loughren. Johnson) and 89 enlisted. We shall hold it as a duty to see that are given clothing, food, shelter, and medical Monteau, USNR; Lieutenant Junior Grade Joseph Coleman, USNR; Ensign Raymond L.J. HullNumber.com takes your privacy seriously. the National Archives and Records Administration off Samar, Battle of Leyte Gulf, 25 October 1944). Please click on one of the unit names below to request research assistance in locating U.S. ):553' x 114' 3" / 168.6 x 34.8 meters Armor:None Power plant:4 boilers (450 psi); 2 steam turbines; 2 shafts; 13,500 shp (design) Speed:18+ knots Endurance:23,920 nm @ 15 knots (with 4,780 tons of oil fuel) For their November participation in Operation Magic Carpet they were part of a much larger contingency of ships. USS Suwanee (1864), a double-ended side-wheel gunboat commissioned in February 1865, sent in pursuit of Confederate States Navy commerce raiders until the end of the American Civil War, and wrecked in 1868 USS Suwanee (1897), the United States Lighthouse Service lighthouse tender USLHT Mayflower, which served the U.S . For two weeks, she supported the Hollandia landings by shuttling replacement aircraft to the larger fleet carriers actually engaged in air support of the landings. After a stop in Hawaii, Suwannee was sent to Long Beach, and had a short dry-dock period. Prepared by CAPT R. O. Artwork details about crossing While the Japanese Mobile Force sailed from Japan and drew the bulk of Admiral Halsey's 3d Fleet to the north, the Japanese 2d Striking Force, attempted to force the Surigao Strait from the south. Strange USN (Ret.) Earl E. Hartman, USNR. Portland was torpedoed in the stern in that action and had to be towed to Australia for temporary repairs. The story of the U.S.S. There are currently no images of USS Suwannee Control was then established in the conning tower which soon received a hit from the starboard side. They hit the enemy; but he rolled over, dove at Suwannee, and crashed her about 40 feet forward of the after elevator, opening a 10-foot hole in her flight deck. The resulting fire burned for several hours, but was finally brought under control. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); There are 0 crew members registered for the USS Suwannee (CVE 27). HullNumber.com does not retain your payment information if you make a purchase. On 2 October, Suwannee Captain Charles C. McDonald and Rear Admiral William Sample, who headed COMCARDIV 22 on board Suwannee, took off in a Martin PBM Mariner to maintain their flight qualifications and never returned. Archives and Records Administration (NARA), # 80-G-349243. ALL HANDS Article Title. The escort carriers put into Kossol Roads, in the Palaus, on 28 October, then headed for Manus, for upkeep, on 1 November. Strange USN (Ret.) Commissioning. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National USS Suwannee (CVE-27) (originally an oiler AO-33, converted to an escort carrier AVG/ACV/CVE-27) was laid down on 3 June 1938 at Kearny, New Jersey, by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, under a Maritime Commission contract as Markay (MC hull 5); launched on 4 March 1939, sponsored by Mrs. Howard L. Vickery; delivered to the Keystone Tankship Corporation and operated by that company . After daybreak Monssen was still a floating incinerator. Consequently, she did not participate in the running surface Battle off Samar. Add yours! She was recommissioned alongside Pier 9, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., on 24 September 1942, Capt. Nonetheless, the decks and bulkheads were still blistering hot and ammunition in the small arms locker on the deck below was popping from the heat like strings of firecrackers. (1416 August)., before she returned to Norfolk on 21 August, setting course later the same day for the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y. Suwannee there embarked officers and men of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron (MTBRon) 1 under Lt.(j.g.) Farther out heavier Japanese ships were preparing to join in. During that span of time, she visited Guadalcanal, Efate, and Espiritu Santo in addition to New Caledonia. In 1942, she was converted to a Sangamon-class escort carrier. The USS Suwannee (CVE-27) was a Sangamon-class escort carrier laid down on June 3, 1938, and launched on March 4, the following year. not as enemies. USS Suwannee (AO 33) Crew List The table below contains the names of sailors who served aboard the USS Suwannee (AO 33). Suwannee, much farther south as an element of Taffy 1. did not participate in this surface engagement however her problems came from another quarter at 0740 when Taffy 1 was attacked by land-based planes from Davao in the first suicide attack of the war. Monteau points to trophy flags. U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Photo and text from Fire From The Sky, (NARA) photo, # 80-G-270615. Just after noon on the 26th, another group of kamikazes jumped Taffy 1. Because of bad weather they did not arrive in Okinawa until 21 December. Following the occupation of the Gilberts, the escort carrier returned to the US, via Pearl Harbor, arriving in San Diego on 21 December.

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