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USS Stickell (DD-888)
History
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NameUSS Stickell
NamesakeJohn H. Stickell
BuilderConsolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas
Laid down5 January 1945
Launched16 June 1945
Commissioned31 October 1945
Decommissioned13 December 1952
Recommissioned2 September 1953, as DDR-888
Decommissioned1 July 1972
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DDR-888, 1953
DD-888, 1964
Stricken1 July 1972
Honors and
awards
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6 battle stars (Korea)
1 battle star (Vietnam)
FateTransferred to Greece, 1 July 1972
BadgeUSS Stickel patch
History
Hellenic Navy ensignGreece
NameHNS Kanaris (D-212)
NamesakeConstantine Kanaris
Acquired1 July 1972
Commissioned1 July 1972
Decommissioned15 September 1993
Stricken1994
FateSold for scrap, 2002
General characteristics
Class and typeGearing-class destroyer
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2,425 long tons (2,464 t) standard
3,520 long tons (3,576 t) full
Length390 ft 6 in (119.02 m)
Beam40 ft 10 in (12.45 m)
Draft19 ft (5.8 m)
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4 Babcock and Wilcox boilers
Geared steam turbines, 60,000 shp (45 MW)
2 shafts
Speed33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range4,500 nmi (8,300 km) at 20 kn (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement274
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As built :
• 6 × 5"/38 caliber guns (3×2)
• 12 × 40 mm AA guns
• 10 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
• 1 × depth charge track

After FRAM upgrade :
• 4 × 5"/38 caliber guns (2×2)
• 1 × MK112 eight cell ASROC launcher
• 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3) for Mk44/Mk46 torpedoes
• 1 × depth charge track

In Hellenic Navy service :
• 4 × 5"/38 caliber guns (2×2)
• 1 × MK112 eight cell ASROC launcher
• 6 × 12.75 in (324 mm) torpedo tubes (2×3) for Mk44/Mk46 torpedoes
• 1 × depth charge track
• 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm/62 cal. DP gun (in floor of the helicopter deck, had separate fire control)
• 4 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles (2×2) (in helicopter deck)
Aircraft carried2 × QH-50 DASH helicopters (1963-1976)

USS Stickell (DD-888) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy. She was named for Lieutenant John H. Stickell USNR (1914–1943), who was killed in action at Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands on 13 December 1943 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

USS Stickell (DD-888)

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1945–1950

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Stickell (DD-888) was laid down on 5 January 1945 at Orange, Texas, by the Consolidated Steel Corporation; launched on 16 June 1945; sponsored by Miss Sue Stickell; and commissioned on 31 October 1945, Comdr. Francis E. Fleck in command.

Assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, Stickell operated under Commander, Amphibious Training, Galveston, Texas, for a month, 10 December 1945 to 11 January 1946. She then conducted shakedown training out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, before arriving in Charleston, South Carolina, on 11 March for post-shakedown availability. She shifted to Norfolk, Virginia, on 21 April and, until 6 May, supported carrier qualifications from that port with Kearsarge (CV-33). She then screened Kearsarge to Guantanamo Bay and, from there, to the Panama Canal. She returned to Norfolk on 13 June. Two days later, she got underway for the west coast. Heading via the Panama Canal, she reached San Diego, California, on 29 June and joined Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 11. Over the next four and one-half years, Stickell made three cruises to the Far East to serve with the 7th Fleet. During these deployments, she visited the Philippines, the Marianas, Japan, China, and Okinawa. After each tour of duty in the western Pacific, she returned to duty along the west coast and in Hawaiian waters. Drills and exercises occupied the bulk of her time during the postwar period.

Korea, 1950–1952

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On 6 November 1950, Stickell completed overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard and sailed for the Korean War Zone with DesDiv 52. She made Sasebo, Japan, on the 27th and, three days later, joined the screen of Task Force (TF) 77. The destroyer's first Korean War tour lasted until 20 July 1951. During that deployment, she operated with the fast carriers off the southern and eastern coasts of Korea, participated in anti-submarine warfare exercises off Yokosuka, Japan, conducted shore bombardments of the Songjin-Wonsan area and patrolled the waters off Shingjin, Yong-do, and Chongjin for enemy small craft. In addition, she landed Republic of Korea intelligence teams on hostile shores: and she rescued three air crewmen while on lifeguard duty for the carriers. On 20 July 1951, she headed east toward the United States and arrived in San Diego, California, on 4 August.

For almost seven months, Stickell remained on the west coast, conducting training operations out of San Diego. On 26 January 1952, she put to sea for the Far East once again. After stopping at Yokosuka from 19 to 23 February, she began her second combat tour in Korean waters. Between 23 February and 19 March, she operated with TF 77 off the coast of Korea and made three shore bombardments; one off Yong-do on 28 February with heavy cruiser Rochester (CA-124); one at the bombline on 5 March; and one off Singchong-Ni on 11 March with Saint Paul (CA-73). On the 19th, Stickell and the rest of DesDiv 52 joined the United Nations blockading and escort force, Task Group (TG) 95.2. As the bombardment and patrol element, Stickell not only blockaded Hŭngnam, but also delivered interdiction and shore bombardment fire.

After bombarding Wonsan Harbor on 31 March, she rejoined TF 77 on 1 April and retired with that force to Yokosuka. She remained at Yokosuka during the first two weeks in April; then resumed support for TF 77 air strikes and intermittent shore bombardments. She was in Yokosuka from 29 May to 18 June for dry-docking and repairs before conducting a brief operation along Korea's east coast, including a night landing in the vicinity of Pohang Dong. Stickell cleared the area on 23 June with DesDiv 52 for exercises out of Buckner Bay, Okinawa. The division returned to Yokosuka on 5 July and, on the 6th, was underway again to visit Hong Kong and to patrol the Taiwan Strait. She rendezvoused with Carrier Division 3 on the 14th and, with TG 50.3, conducted operations in the Philippines and in the South China Sea, before returning to the Taiwan area to rejoin TF 77 on the 27th. After further operations off the eastern coast of Korea, she entered Yokosuka on 6 August and, four days later, sailed for return to the United States.

1953–1962

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Stickell arrived in San Diego on 26 August and remained there until 13 December, when she was decommissioned at Long Beach to begin conversion to a radar picket destroyer (DDR). On 2 September 1953, Stickell (DDR-888) was recommissioned at Long Beach, Comdr. James Boyd in command. Following training out of Long Beach, she joined DesDiv 21 at San Diego on 18 January 1954. Two days later, she and her division headed for the western Pacific. This deployment consisted primarily of hunter-killer training and Taiwan Strait patrol. On 1 June, she departed Sasebo on a voyage to complete a circumnavigation of the globe. Along the way, she visited Hong Kong, Singapore, Ceylon, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, and Trinidad, She reached Norfolk, Virginia, on 10 August 1954 and joined DesDiv 262 of the Atlantic Fleet.

For the next nine years, Stickell served the Atlantic Fleet as a radar destroyer. Between 1954 and 1958, she went through two complete training cycles, including yard overhauls, Mediterranean deployments, refersher training, and NATO and Atlantic Fleet exercises. She received the latest in electronic equipment during her 1958 overhaul; and, soon thereafter, she was outfitted with an experimental data processing and weapons analysis system. In 1961, she earned the Atlantic Fleet Destroyer force Antiair Warfare Trophy. Her seven-month Mediterranean cruise in 1962 was highlighted by an excursion into the Black Sea. In the fall of 1962, Stickell participated in the Cuban Quarantine and showed great efficiency by departing Norfolk on very short notice to assume her station.

1963–1965

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In May 1963, she entered the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for a Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) overhaul. Stickell surrendered her anti-aircraft warfare electronics equipment in return for the latest in ASW gear, including ASROC missiles and DASH drone helicopters. Early in 1964, she rejoined the Atlantic Fleet in Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 12 as a straight DD. Home ported at Newport, Rhode Island, she became the flagship of DesDiv 122. Following refresher training in April, she became a unit of the midshipman training squadron and made a cruise to northern European ports in June and July. From August to November, she served with the Atlantic Anti-submarine Warfare Forces; then she deployed to the Mediterranean until March 1965.

She returned to Newport and, in April, shifted to Norfolk to complete her DASH outfitting. In June, Stickell joined TF 124, in supporting United States and other OAS forces operating in the Dominican Republic during the 1965 upheavals in that country. After five weeks of patrolling, she entered the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard at Boston, Massachusetts, for a six-week overhaul. In October, she took station off the west coast of Africa to participate in the recovery of Gemini 6. However, the mission was scrubbed, and Stickell returned, via Martinique, to Newport. In November and early December, she participated in amphibious exercises at Vieques Island, near Puerto Rico; then returned to Newport.

Vietnam, 1966

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On 19 January 1966, Stickell, along with the other units of Destroyer Squadron 12, departed Newport for duty with the 7th Fleet in the Far East. After transiting the Panama Canal and brief stops at San Diego and Pearl Harbor, the ship commenced wartime operations in the South China Sea in support of the Republic of South Vietnam. While attached to the 7th Fleet, Stickell was assigned to Search and Rescue (SAR) and helicopter inflight refueling duties in the Gulf of Tonkin; plane guarding for various attack carriers, especially Ranger (CVA-61); and gunfire support duties. During the deployment, the ship visited the following Far East ports: Kaohsiung, Formosa; Yokosuka, Japan; Subic Bay, Philippines; Hong Kong; and Naha, Okinawa. En route back to Newport — completely circumnavigating the world — Stickell visited Port Dickson, Malaya; Cochin, India; and Aden. She transited the Suez Canal and touched at Athens, Greece; Palma, Mallorca; and Gibraltar. The ship returned to Newport on 17 August 1966.

1966–1968

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In October 1966, Stickell entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for overhaul. She emerged in February 1967 and headed toward Guantánamo Bay for refresher training. Stickell then headed for Culebra Island where she qualified as a naval gunfire support ship. After a short inport period, Stickell deployed on a four-month ASW cruise. During the northern European segment of the cruise, Stickell visited Bergen, Norway; Aarhus, Denmark; Sundsvall, Sweden; and Thurso, Scotland. She operated with ships and aircraft from the navies of Norway, Denmark, West Germany, Great Britain, and France. Stickell then entered the Mediterranean Sea and joined the 6th Fleet. She operated with Essex (CVS-9) and several other destroyers as a "pouncer" ASW Task Force. While in the Mediterranean, Stickell visited Naples, Italy; Valletta, Malta; and Palermo, Sicily. On 19 September 1967, she steamed past Brenton Reef Light and was home again.

Before the end of the year, Stickell participated in two ASW exercises. The first, "Canus Silex," a combined Canadian-United States ASW exercise and the second, "Fixwex India." By February 1968, Stickell was preparing for a visit to the Caribbean and her part in "Springboard 68." After leaving frozen Newport behind, Stickell participated in a variety of training operations designed to sharpen her crew's already finely honed efficiency. Following "Springboard", she acted as sonar training ship at the Fleet Antisubmarine Warfare School at Key West, Florida.

The next several months were spent preparing for Stickell's next deployment. On 2 July 1968, Stickell left Newport for a six-month, 13-nation cruise of the Indian Ocean as part of the Navy's Middle East Force. She visited San Juan, Puerto Rico; Recife, Brazil; Luanda, Angola; Lourenço Marques, Mozambique; Port Louis, Mauritius; Cochin, India; Karachi, Pakistan; Bahrain; Massawa, Ethiopia; Mombasa, Kenya; Assab, Ethiopia; Bandar Abbas, Iran; Bushehr, Iran; Kuwait; and Dakar, Senegal — touching some ports more than once. While in the Persian Gulf area, Stickell participated in the international naval exercise "Middlinx XL". Together with units of the United States, British, and Iranian navies, Stickell once again demonstrated her readiness in the fields of anti-submarine and anti-aircraft warfare. Stickell returned home on 10 January 1969.

1969–1972

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Over the next three years, Stickell alternated deployments with operations off the east coast of the United States and in the Caribbean Sea. She was deployed to the Mediterranean again from September 1969 until late March 1970, when she returned to Norfolk, After post-deployment leave and upkeep, she headed to Davisville, Rhode Island, on 18 May for a month of hull repairs. Back in Norfolk again on 20 June, she remained there, except for two brief operations with John F. Kennedy (CVA-67) in July, until 9 November when she got underway to off-load ammunition at Yorktown, in preparation for drydocking at Newport News, Virginia, from 13 November until 7 December. For the remainder of the year, she prepared for deployment to the Indian Ocean. Her second deployment with the Middle Eastern Force began on 7 January 1971, when she put to sea from Norfolk and ended on 29 June, upon her return to Norfolk. In the meantime, she visited ports in Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Iran, India, Pakistan, Kenya, and Senegal.

At the end of this, her last, deployment, Stickell remained in the Virginia Capes area - for the most part at anchor or in port. She spent most of the remainder of 1971 and the first half of 1972 preparing for decommissioning and transfers to the government of Greece. On 1 July 1972, Stickell was decommissioned and struck from the Navy list. Immediately thereafter, the Greek Navy took possession of her and recommissioned her as Kanaris (D-212).

Awards

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Stickell (DD-888) earned six battle stars for Korean War service and one for service in the Vietnam War.

See also

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Some of my Book transcriptions on Wikisource

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[1] Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

[2] Reverend James Maury vs Patrick Henry (Penny Parson's Cause)

[3] Narrative Of The United States Expedition To The River Jordan And The Dead Sea

[4] Matthew Fontaine Maury 1853 Brussels -- First International Maritime Conference Held At Brussels 1853 For Devising An Uniform System Of Meteorological Observations At Sea. Official Report August And September 1853.

[5] Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury of the Naval Observatory - Virginia Historical Society

[6] Rear-Admiral Marin H. Jansen [Henri,] of the Royal Netherlands Navy. This brilliant man was a very close friend to and co-worker with Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury. All honour due to him! History remembers these men.

[7] Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by Lt. Wm. Lewis Herndon Vol.I

[8]Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by Lt. Lardner Gibbon Vol.II

[9] John Walker Maury A Sketch of his Life and Lineage by his son William Arden Maury

[10] Virginia Military Institute, It's Building and Rebuilding. Author: General Francis Henney Smith, the Superintendent of V.M.I.



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A Few Projects with more coming

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WikiSource Projects

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  1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meteorological_Organization
  2. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Maury,_Matthew_Fontaine,_USN,_1853_--_Brussels_--
  3. _First_International_Maritime_Conference_Held_For_Devising_An_Uniform_System_Of_Meteorological_Observations_At_Sea.
  4. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury
  5. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Physical_Geography_Of_The_Sea_1855



A Favorite Quote

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A TALE OF TWO CITIES

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Exploring My Wicki-Ticki World

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Hello MAURY, and welcome back to Wikipedia! Here are some recommended guidelines to help you get involved. Please feel free to contact me if you need help with anything. Best of luck and happy editing! Earl of Sandwich 22:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


Getting started
Getting your info out there
Getting more Wikipedia rules
Getting help
Getting along
Getting technical

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Wiki-Table w/ No Chairs

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Civil War Battle Names
Date Southern name Northern name
July 21, 1861 First Manassas First Bull Run
August 10, 1861 Oak Hills Wilson's Creek
October 21, 1861 Leesburg Ball's Bluff
January 19, 1862 Mill Springs Logan's Cross Roads
March 7 – 8, 1862 Elkhorn Tavern Pea Ridge
April 6 – 7, 1862 Shiloh Pittsburg Landing
May 31 – June 1, 1862 Fair Oaks Seven Pines
June 27, 1862 Gaines's Mill Chickahominy River
August 29 – 30, 1862 Second Manassas Second Bull Run
September 1, 1862 Ox Hill Chantilly
September 14, 1862 Boonsboro South Mountain
September 17, 1862 Sharpsburg Antietam
October 8, 1862 Perryville Chaplin Hills
Dec. 31, 1862 – Jan. 2, 1863 Murfreesboro Stones River
April 8, 1864 Mansfield Sabine Cross Roads
September 19, 1864 Winchester Opequon

Trivial Matter ?

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Paraphrased comment about administration stated by Jimbo Wales in Feb 2003, referring to administrators as sysops:

I just wanted to say that becoming a sysop is *not a big deal*.

I think perhaps I'll go through semi-willy-nilly and make a bunch of people who have been around for awhile sysops. I want to dispel the aura of "authority" around the position. It's merely a technical matter that the powers given to sysops are not given out to everyone.

I don't like that there's the apparent feeling here that being granted sysop status is a really special thing.

Research

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This is the User page for Brother Officer

Josiah Perkins Creesy, Jr. (1814-1871)


Lieut. Lardner Gibbon

Lardner Gibbon, USN; Midshipman, 22 December, 1837. Passed Midshipman, 29 June, 1843. Master, 10 April, 1851. Lieutenant, 5 December, 1851. Resigned 15 May, 1857. Lardner Gibbon is one of three brothers related to USA General John Gibbon, a man who was disowned by his Southern family during the Civil War. The other brothers served in the Confederacy. It is one of those sad situations of a family divided and "brother against brother." Genl John Gibbon's parents also sided with the Confederacy and lived in the South.


http://www.history.navy.mil/books/callahan/reg-usn-g.htm

EXPLORATION OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON VOL. II by Lieut. Lardner Gibbon.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Valley_of_the_Amazon_vol.2_by_Lt._Lardner_Gibbon

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