Pennsylvania (BB 38) - Naval Cruise Book

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'LQ UPPER LEFT 8. CENTER: She was plenty low in the water. UPPER RlGHT: 'Removing 40 mm. ammo from the after magazines subsequent to the torpedoing. CENTER LEFT: The crew massed while Captain Martin is relieved by Captain Moses. CENTER RlGHT: Lt. Johnny Asaff refereeS boxing bout at smoker on homeward iourney. LOWER LEFT: Crew's beer party at Gab Gab on Guam. LOWER RlGHT: Afternoon band concert on the boat deck.

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UPPER LEFT Here IS the damage as revealed in the drydock at Guam The Jap aircraft torpedo struck at the starboard quarter and smashed both starboard screws. Several signal flags and the national ensign hang downwards from the gaping hole, blown out of a flag locker in the stern. LOWER LEFT: The Quarterdeck was a busy place. UPPER RIGHT: Preparing to take a look at the tor- PGdo's damage. MIDDLE RHGHT: The Chaplain conducts the funeral of four of the men who lost their lives in the torpedo explosion at Okinawa. LOWER RIGHT: The PENNSYLVANIA docked in ABSD No. 3 at Apra Harbor, Guam, after returning from Okinawa. . ,, , . .. O -- -H-..uf...-.....,.........,f...-.+L .1-:f,,fa.:a..a...fn:.r-fff-'-'4 :14.:.:.:.g.-:.: Q.:s.,.:a6-api-.-lf..,?.Lgn.4..:..--psi.fLv.-. .-'. . .- .- . ..,....,.....--. Y ., ...e.,-.. ...-M... ..,vo..-.-, ,, -- . . .. ., ,, ,, ' ' f -

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CI-IRO OLOGY 1912 AUGUST. Authorized by Congress. 1913 1915 NOVEMBER. First docked at Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. 1916 FEBRUARY TO 2 MARCH. First Official Sea Trial. JUNE. Delivered at Navy Yard, Norfolk. JUNE. Commissioned at I404. JULY. Put to Sea on Shakedown Cruise. AUGUST. Put to Sea on Fleet Maneuvers. AUGUST. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, came on board. OCTOBER. Named Fleet Flagship relieving USS WYOMING. DECEMBER. Gave Christmas Party for Underprivileged Chil- dren at New York. 1917 JANUARY. Sailed on Fleet maneuvers in Caribbean, touching Culebra, Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince. APRIL. Returned to base at Yorktown day of declaration of War Against Germany. AUGUST. President of the United States came aboard at York- 1918 DECEMBER.Sailed for Brest, France, escorting SS GEORGE WASHINGTON which was taking President Wil- son to France. DECEMBER. Arrived Brest. DECEMBER. Sailed from Brest for New York. 1919 FEBRUARY. With the Fleet in the South. 1921 ' JANUARY. Lead the Atlantic Fleet through the Panama Canal and in the Pacific the two fleets ioined for first time. JANUARY. Crossed Equator for first time. APRIL. Returned to Hampton Roads with Atlantic Fleet. APRIL. President of the United States came aboard. 1923- ON WEST COAST OCTOBER. Keel laid. town. 1925 JULY. Crossed Equator Enroute to Australia. JULY. Arrived Melbourne. SEPTEMBER. Arrived back in States. 1929 JANUARY. Cruised to Panama. JUNE. Arrived Philadelphia for modernization. Remained al- most two years during which cage masts were replaced by tripods. 1934 PARTICIPATED IN PRESIDENTIAL REVIEW OF THE FLEET, NEW YORK HARBOR. 1936,1937,1938 CRUISES T0 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 1939 ckuwe TO EAST COASL 1941 I' DECEMBER. In drydock, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Oahu, T. H. Japanese carrier planes attacked fleet units in Pearl Harbor. Damaged by bomb. DECEMBER. Undocked. DECEMBER. Departed Pearl Harbor. DECEMBER. Arrived San Francisco Harbor, Calif. 1942 JANUARY. Entered drydock, U. S. Naval Drydocks, Hunter's Point. JANUARY. Undocked. FEBRUARY. Departed San Francisco for practice firing. FEBRUARY. Arrived San Francisco. MARCH. Departed San Francisco for practice firing. MARCH. Arrived San Francisco. APRIL. Capt. T. S. King, l'l, USN, relieved Capt. C. M. Cooke, IUSN, as Commanding Officer. APRIL. Departed San Francisco. MAY. MAY. MAY. MAY. MAY. JUNE. JUNE JUNE. JUNE Arrived San Pedro Harbor, Long Beach, Calif. Departed Long Beach. Arrived San Francisco. Departed San Francisco. Arrived San Francisco. Departed San Francisco. Arrived Long Beach. Departed Long Beach. Arrived San Francisco. LOWER LEFT: PENNSYLVANIA in the days of her youth, still sporting cage masts, gets a royal reception as she sails under Brooklyn Bridge. LOWER RIGHT: Closeup, following modernization in 1931 in Philadelphia, with her new tripod masts.