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USS NORTON SOUND DEPARTING The Cuniniamling Ullicer U.S. S. NORTON SOUND - . . Ulllcers and Crew Ships in the Navy are named according to type. Seaplane tenders are ordinarily named alter bodies ol water of thr- of the sound variety. The U.S.S. Norton Sound is named alter Norton Sound, Alaska, an inlet some 200 miles long in western Alaska, noflh latitude 63' 16 65i, west longitude 161 1' 16 166'. U 5 U U T U SU U AV The city of Nome, Alaska, lies on the northern shore of the ' - ' - Sound. Norton Sound WGS 9XPl0f9d Und m0PP9d by C0PlUl'1J0m05 rr-qmrst the lmnor nl' your prcsvnu Cook in 1778 on his third world voyage. One of Cook's offi- cers, a Lieutenant King, made the detailed survey of Norton Sound. Because of an excellent survey, Captain Cook honored at the Lieutenant King by naming the Sound after one of his cele- . . . . brated relatives, Sir Fletcher Norton.. lcieutenant lCing's kins- man was a noted English lawyer-politician in the time of King ' George Ill. He was Speaker of the House of Commons for a long period, knighted on 9 April 1782, he became Baron I.0lv0lw'lfl11f Grantley of Markenfield, Yorkshire. Sir Fletcher was a shrewd man noted for the clearness ol his argun1ents and the inaccuf .Btfflll 59 racy of his statementsg a figure around whom considerable controversy raged in his dayshe was widely caricatured and Naval Supply Dlfpul. nicknamed Sir Bull-lace Double Fee. San Pedro, California l'lr-use present this link-A-an---W-Wm We ' 1 1 card at gate, Tilllt'--A----A 1- -- H THE DECOMMISSIONING STORY OF USS NORTON SOUND tAvM1t IN THE FINAL PUBLICATION PRODUCED BY THE SI-IIP'S CREW, SPONSORED IN PART BY THE SHIP'S WELFARE s. RECREATION COUNCIL 6. COMMITTEE AND IN PART BY THE NORTON SOUND CAV 11fAVM ll ASSOCIATION. PUBLISHED BY JOSTENS PUBLISHING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, 1986.
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