Essex (CVA 9) - Naval Cruise Book

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CMDR. CHARLES S. WALLINE Commander Charles S. WALLINE became Executive Officer on October 20, 1957. He entered the Naval Academy in 1936, and after graduation served two years at sea aboard the USS YORKTOWN and USS NORTH CAROLINA. Then followed flight training. By the middle of World War II he was, as senior aviator aboard the USS IDAHO, the Commanding Officer of VO-3. At the War's end he was attached to the training command at Green Cove Springs, Florida, as an F4U instructor. Commander WALLINE'S war experiences include operations at the Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, Marianna Islands, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the bombardment of Kavieng. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three stars. In the years 1945-46 he was again at sea, oboard the USS VELLA GULF as Navigator. Next came duty as post graduate student in personnel administration and training at Ohio State University. ln the following years he was engaged in routine squadron, shore and staff assignments. The .Commander and his wife, Shirley, have two daughters, ages 12 and 8. His family cur- rently resides in his home town of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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But just as impressive is the ESSEX line-four ships in all-which began with the construction of the U.S. Frigate ESSEX, boasting 32 guns, at Salem, Massa- chusetts in 1799. This predecessor, only a seventh as long as and one-fifty-sixth as heavy as the CVA-9, was financed through popular subscription among the generous folk of Salem, a folk who little dreamed how far the name of their county would be carried in American naval history. Commanded by Captain Edward PREBLE, the frigate sailed in early 1800 to Batavia, Dutch East Indies, along with the CONGRESS, on a mission whose purpose was toescort back a convoy of American merchant ships otherwise unprotected in the existing naval war with France. Six days out of New York the CONGRESS was demasted in a storm. But the ESSEX, undaunted, continued alone, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and brought back the convoy safely. In 1801 she cruised to the Mediterranean, there engaging in more convoy duty in addition to blockading Tripolitan ships. Four years later saw her back in the Mediterranean participating in the siege and capture of the town of Derne. Then, just before the War of 1812, the illustrious Captain David PORTER took command of the vessel. In the fated year he took her south- ward, sporting the flag inscribed Free Trade and Sailors' Rights , and proceeded to capture several British merchantmen and a troop transport. In August she was attacked by the armed British ALERT, a vessel which did not live up to its name in this engagement for it surrendered only eight minutes of battle. Later in 1812 she captured the packet NOCTON with a prize of 350,000 in specie aboard. Down to Valparaiso PORTER took her next year, with plans for destroying the English whaling industry in the Pacific, and learned upon arrival the unwelcome news that the viceroy of Peru had sent out cruisers against American ships. Acting swiftly against his new enemy, PORTER seized the NEREYDA, a 19 gun Peruvian privateer, along with two captured American whalers held in company. He proceeded after that to raise havoc among British' whaling ships. Having heard that the English Captain James HILLYER had been sent with vessels against him, he took the ESSEX to the Marquesas for refitting, sub- dued hostile natives, on the island of Typee fthe beautiful is- land later to be made famous in a book by Herman Melvillej, and took possession of Typee in the name of the United States. It was at Valparaiso again that Captain HILLYER, commanding the frigate PHOEBE and her consort CHERUB, at last caught up with PORTER. The British ships had picked crews specially sent to the Pacific to knock out the ESSEX and her expensive raiding. The ESSEX and ESSEX JR. fthe ex- Atlantic which had been captured and re-named, attempted to escape, but a squall disabled the former, she sought refuge in the neutrality of the harbor, but the warships under HILL- YER, with over twice the armament and almost twice the men, advanced to the kill, but met with a savage resistance that lasted 2-1 X2 hours of incessant firing. At last the ESSEX surrendered, having lost 155 men killed, wounded, or missing. ' . -ffl f , , ,f , .' ...ww ,. l- N, A ,,, f, ' S' . fi , ' 5 . 'S ' Nl- ------- - ' , I . K lgx dp H i nf., ..., , V L? M., , - . I .. , W. .-WW -Sifiiflffffffi ?'- X 'f J' T, Q 'i f ' ff. 'alf1i:4il i V , f, ,f ' 1 f ,.,, , f rg 5 ' W ,, , , p .,.,z7,,-...,,.,,. ..... E .,., I ,Aa fff. ffffr. ...ugh 5 ,,,7 X 4 ,,y,, .. . :Mix , of '1 rw F Zn fi lrztff--zwfrfg, mr. , g itll? l had the 'lim-cxirnp lwrc. sho 'wt-ulil lic- north ri million to href' cnc., ' ata... 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