ASTORIA, plus two destroyers on the night of August 8-9, 1942 comprised Task Group 62.3. She completed three more reserve training cruises from 1 October to 20 December. This area was finally abandoned due to intense heat and smoke. She departed Portland 24 June for Cherbourg, France. The first hit (No. Eventually, the powder or the projectiles in the forward 5" magazine exploded, rupturing the hull. As a result, QUINCY was without fire power about eight minutes after contact with the enemy. HullNumber.com's mission is to provide a means for shipmates to keep in touch with one another. [6] Quincy sits upright in roughly 2,000 feet (610m) of water. "Besides these effects the fires had the following concomitant effects: (a) Heat made control spaces physically untenable. This space was flooded to the floor plates in a period of seven minutes. Astoria (CA34) 29, Battle of Savo Island Battle of Savo Island Allied and Japanese Orders of Battle Vignette: Lieutenant. USS Quincy (CA-71) was a heavy cruiser of the Baltimore -class of the United States Navy. U.S.S. 1 user currently logged in and 60 visitors active. One 8" projectile (Hit No. This projectile probably detonated in the gun chamber where exposed projectiles were, in turn, detonated and powder was set on fire. Nineteen of the twenty-one primary targets assigned the task force were successfully neutralized or destroyed thus enabling Army troops to occupy the city on 26 June. After the action, the heat from the fires on the wardroom exploded ammunition in the hoists. Midship Repair Station and Second Deck Ammunition Hoists. No hits were received in No. 8. II turret about frame 38. Probably the 2-3 port list which developed during the action was due to flooding of an off-center tank or compartment from an unreported underwater hit. Please keep in mind that this list does only include records of people who submitted their information for publication on this website. Of the Baltimore class she had the second shortest active career (Fall River was in service just .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}2+12 years), and was in active service for only 5+12 years. The new year saw the ship visiting Cannes, France; Valenica, Spain and Oran, Algeria, before the QUINCY returned to Norfolk. Each Aug. 9, Navy veteran Dan Galvin honors 389 shipmates who lost their lives when Japanese warships sank the USS Quincy at Guadalcanal on Aug. 9, 1942, by reading their names from his front . In cases of damage as severe as that incurred by ASTORIA, however, it cannot be assured that controls for either flooding or sprinkling will remain operable. Report an offensive or inappropriate entry. The cruisers of this task group, in a column led by VINCENNES,. It is based on the lessons learned from this and other actions. She was the third ship to carry the name . 83. Quincywas decommissioned at Bremerton, Washington, in October 1946. 1. From 15 March to 28 April, she engaged in important battle practice off Hawaii with the Pacific Fleet in Fleet Problem XIX. HullNumber.com does not retain your payment information if you make a purchase. Two hits (Nos. 31, 32 and 33) wrecking the blower intakes and bringing smoke and debris into this space. 84. 43 and 44) which did not detonate. The cruisers of this task group, in a column led by VINCENNES, were patrolling the perimeter of a square five miles on a side in the area between Savo and Florida Islands. 2 mess hall were hit repeatedly, apparently the same hits mentioned in the preceding paragraph. During this period the bridge was hit again killing most of the personnel, including the Commanding Officer. The other hit at frame 74 in way of No. This is borne out by a statement of a survivor. Course was changed to the left and speed increased; however, at no time was it greater than 19.5 knots. 19, USS South Dakota BB57 War Damage Report No. Survivors from the forward part of the ship collected on the forecastle with the Commanding Officer in charge. In connection with elimination of existing fire hazards aboard ship, the Bureau is actively cooperating with the forces afloat to accomplish this. 27). Between 27 July and 13 August the cruiser participated in training exercises at Malta and Camarota, Italy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his party embarked on Quincy on 23 January 1945, at Newport News, Virginia, for passage to Malta, arriving 2 February. He unfortunately passed away in 2005 in San Diego, CA. Five hits, all estimated to be 5", struck below the waterline. Nineteen of the twenty-one primary targets assigned the task force were successfully neutralized or destroyed, thus enabling Army troops to occupy the city that day. 3 mount put No. Structural fragments from the No. 19) struck the port side armor a glancing blow. One of these (Hit No. Samuel Moore Class of 1913. Structural damage to ASTORIA, although extensive, was not such that loss of the vessel was inevitable. USS Quincy honors the past crews of the ships that bore this name, the people/Veterans from communities named Quincy and President. This reel was located near No. The Commanding Officer then gave orders to abandon ship. This program involves the installation of additional pumps with independent sources of power, separation of fire mains into loops to reduce probability of a few hits placing the entire system out of operation, installation of fog nozzles and other mechanical aids and rearrangement of inflammable stowage in which essential inflammable materials are to be carried below the waterline and at the extremities of the vessel. About 0200, attempts were made to evade enemy fire by turning hard right. At this time all turrets and secondary battery except turret III and gun No. 8) was received on top of the turret but did not penetrate. 71. After stops in Oakland, Calif., and San Diego, Calif., QUINCY passed the Panama Canal in June and continued to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for six weeks of shakedown training. She then returned to Belfast Lough, and began final preparations for the invasion of Europe. She was commissioned at the U.S. special treatment steel splinter shield around No. In accordance with reference (e), a vertical loop fire main in the forward and after living spaces, separated by at least one deck is being installed in all heavy cruisers in commission. projectile. 3 set the hawser reel on fire. 2 fireroom. This torpedo hit probably resulted in the flooding of all of the magazines on the second platform deck between frames 30 and 45 and the crew's spaces on the first platform between frames 30 and 40. 5 exploded. The arrangement of fire mains on the new cruisers under construction, both light and heavy, is such as to possess greater flexibility under damaged conditions. Heavy clouds surrounded Savo Island and the Guadalcanal area. The third Quincy was authorized on 17 June 1940, and laid down at the Fore River Shipyard of the Bethlehem Steel Company, Quincy, Massachusetts, as St. Paul on 9 October 1941. In all three ships these fires were fed by topside paint, life jackets, signal flags, airplanes, airplane spare tails, wings, parachutes, ships' boats, lubricating oil and kerosene which made the area between the bridge and the after bulkhead of the hangar an inferno beyond human endurance. Reference (a) also reported that "the explosion carried away the forced draft blower in No. There was a minor flareback in No. (d) "Present fire-fighting equipment, depending on the central power plant of the ship, proved unsatisfactory. The increased draft and port list which resulted, brought the projectile holes in the skin of the ship below the water line. A few tubes in No. She also neutralized and destroyed heavy, long range enemy batteries, supported minesweepers operating under enemy fire, engaged enemy batteries that were firing on the crews of the ships USS Corry (DD-463) and Glennon (DD-620) during their efforts to abandon their ships after they had struck mines and participated in the reduction of the town of Quinville on 12 June.[1]. Hits were received from automatic A.A. weapons. 2 boiler room was structurally intact and that personnel escaped from the plotting room and central station which are located immediately forward of No. A fire was started in the upper powder handling room, but the turret sprinkling system was turned on and prevented a serious fire or explosion. 28, USS Princeton CVL23 War Damage Report No. After fitting out at Boston for a Presidential cruise, Quincy steamed for Hampton Roads, Virginia, 16 November. The boats and the 20mm clipping room were set on fire by Hit No. 27, USS Chincoteague AVP24 War Damage Report No. 19) in the space immediately above. The narrative of each ship will be taken up independently beginning at 0155 when enemy searchlights illuminated. Many 5" hits were also sustained in the wardroom country. 13. Of the superstructure, the bridge is heavily damaged but intact, both funnels are missing, and the float plane hangar completely collapsed. At 0208 course was changed to the left and the stern was again brought through the enemy's fire. At some time during this period an 8" projectile entered No. Vincennes (CA44). (a) "There should be a diesel generator set from 50 to 75 kw located in the end of the ship independent of the central power plant.". 43. Turret III was jammed in train by a hit (No. BUCHANAN came alongside to help fight the fire but the list had increased to such a point that the shell holes on the second deck, port side, were shipping water. From then until 0200 the enemy was hitting with large and small caliber projectiles with increasing rapidity. She made one Western Pacific deployment, arriving in July 1953, just as the conflict was negotiated to an end, and remained in Asiatic waters until December. 1, 5 and 7 were put out of action, after three star shell salvos were fired to starboard, from a series of hits (Nos. The turret was completely gutted and left burning like a torch. Quincy, the second ship to carry the name, was laid down by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, on 15 November 1933, launched on 19 June 1935, sponsored by Mrs. Catherine Adams-Morgan, wife of Henry S. Morgan, and commissioned at Boston, on 9 June 1936, Captain William Faulkner Amsden in command.[4]. At the same time, Rear Admiral James H. Thach, Jr., Commander Cruiser Division Six, shifted his flag from USS MACON (CA 132) to QUINCY and he and his new flagship steamed out of Norfolk bound for Europe. USS Astoria CA-34, lost August 9, 1942 in Battle of Savo Island (NHHC, click to enlarge): return to US Navy Casualties, WW2 or to World War 2 Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 CA-39 USS Quincy. 56, USS Houston CL81 War Damage Report No. On all three of these ships, as the compartments flooded, the vessels trimmed down by the head putting the second deck under water. projectiles. Copyright 2023 HullNumber.com. 25) Finally decommissioned on July 2, 1954, the ship was stricken from the Navy list on October 1, 1973, and sold for scrapping in August 1974. It also emphasizes the importance of reducing fire hazards aboard ship to the absolute minimum. In honor of the meeting between Saudi's King Abdul Aziz and Franklin D. 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