Arkansas (BB 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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1 'A' V 4.1 s.1 ...... - ..... - - at Commanding Officers Following is a list of the officers who have had the honor and great responsibility of commanding Battleship number thirty-three. The dates are not exact, only approximate: RoY C. SMITH . . VwiRJSHOEMAKER VV.ll.CL BULLARD L. R. DESTEIGUER STANFORD Eh.h4OSES RIDLEY MCLEAN . FRANK LYON. . AMoN BRONSON. . IIAYNE ELLB. . 1912 1915 1917 1919 1920 1922 1924 1927 1929 CAPTAINS 1915 1916 1918 1920 1922 1924 1925 1928 1930 G. RICHARDS . C.S FREEMAN. . CliB.LANDENBERGER P.VV.FOOTE. . RHIIMADAMS.. R. B. COFFEY . . J.S.BARLEON . . VV.lI PASHLEY . . tI.L.IlALL,jR. . C.F.BRYANT . . . . 1943- COMMANDER G. M. BAUM, 1926-1927, during modernization. 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1936 1938 1940 1941 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1937 1940 1941 1943 if .,.v-,,, 44.1 ,--,---v.vv v - - 4.

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U x lx Jx lx Jx 4x 1x4vLv1 i f':'. :X6f'. .'J'v'X.vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv ARKANSAS HISTORY The first vessel of the United States Navy to bear the name Arkansas was a steam-driven single screw vessel of the vintage of 1863. The second was a turreted monitor, commissioned in 19025 the name of this ship was changed to Ozruk in 1909. The present and third Arkansas was built by the New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, N. It was christened as such on 14 January, 1911, by Miss Mary Mapon, daughter of the late Representative Macon of Helena, Arkansas. The commissioning took place at the Philadelphia Navy Yard at 1420 on Tuesday, 17 September, 1912. Captain E. A. Anderson, Captain of the Yard, at Philadelphia turned the ship over to her Hrst commanding ofhcer, Captain Roy C. Smith. At the time, she and her sister ship, the Wyoming, were by far the most powerful battleships in the world. Commissioned but a few months, the Arkansas started to inscribe her name on the pages of his- tory. In 1912 President Taft took passage in her to inspect the Panama Canal. In 1913 her crew established a coaling record at Naples, Italy, tak- ing 687 tons of coal aboard in a single hour from the collier U. S.S . Cyclops. That same year Turret Four established a record for this type of gun that has never been equalled. In 1914 during the occupation at Vera Cruz a battalion was landed from the ship with casualties of one man killed and seven wounded. At the time she flew the flag of Admiral Henry T. Mayo, Commander-in- Chief, United States Fleet. , v In January, 1917, the Arkansas furnished the Guard of Honor for the funeral of Admiral George Dewey. I The Arkansas in World War I . In july 1918, the Arkansas left the States for Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. On the trip across the Naval Af- fairs Committee of Congress were passengers aboard. The Arkansas joined the Grand Fleet in Firth of Forth on August 1, 1918, relieving the Delaware. She reported to Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, Commander of the Sixth Battle Squad- ron of the British Grand Fleet. Only three days after her arrival, while on maneuvers with the Fleet, an enemy submarine was sighted and fired upon by the Arkansas. On 21 November, 1918, she witnessed the surrender and dissolution of the German High Seas Fleet under the terms of the Armistice. In 1919 she acted as reference vessel for the first trans-Atlantic flight, being made by Naval Aviators. HIGH LIGHTS In April 1919 she received from the State of Arkansas the handsome silver service which now may be seen in the Captain's cabin. She underwent modernization and was com- pleted on 21 November, 1926. In 1927 she es- corted the HMS Renown with the Duke of York aboard, into Colon, Panama. In 1931 she searched for and stood by the disabled submarine Nautilus. In October of the same year she carried Presi- H 12 t 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 v1K.----v----------Jxaxggfgng