What ship is this in Sasebo, Japan Harbor, Korean War Era?
Upvote:2
That appears to be a Bullfinch class mine sweeper/trawler of which there were 17 altogether. Source is Janes Fighting Ships 1942 and Janes Fighting Ships 1944-1945. All of the class were commissioned from civilian use in 1940. Most were built in the late 1920's into the late 1930's. These were all trawlers built mostly in New England with slight variations between each.
Since the photograph is at Sasebo, it is probably postwar. By that time there were only four or five still in commission, the rest having be stricken and sold off in 1944 -1945. Also of the 17 in the class only four were in the Pacific, the rest served as harbor minesweepers at ports on the US east coast. Superficial record search finds none of the Pacific stationed of this type venturing farther west than Iwo Jima but a photo at Sasebo would seem to belie that. Possibly transferred to Japanese or the South Koreans, but I've no information on that.
Only photo I could find, this from the 1944-1945 Janes, typical of the class, this is USS Goshawk (AM-79)
And I stand corrected, see User32229's answer. Thanks for the better eye than mine.
Upvote:9
That is the Camano class Light Cargo Ship USS Sharps (AKL-10).
She started out her life as an Army freight-supply vessel in 1944. The US Navy acquired her in 1947 and she was commissioned as Miscellaneous Auxiliary USS Sharps (AG-139), and reclassified as a light cargo ship (AKL-10) in 1949.
The Sharps served in the Korean War earning three battle stars. The Sharps was decommissioned in 1955 and transferred to South Korea where it was commissioned as ROKS Kun San (AKL-908).
Here's a photo of the Sharps in Sasebo in 1952:
Source for photo and info: Navsource.org service ship photo archive.
More post
- 📝 Was garlic an Egyptian deity, based on Pliny the Elder's "Natural History" (Book XIX, Ch 32)?
- 📝 Was the cingulum militare any good as protection?
- 📝 Where are the ancient books now?
- 📝 Ancient civilizations and their habits
- 📝 Are Chinese and Iranian "blocky" writing styles related?
- 📝 Did the British really bail out the Americans at the Battle of the Bulge?
- 📝 Roman armies seem to dislike fighting at night, Livy called it dishonourable. Skulking about. (Ennius, Scaenica, 254-7) Why?
- 📝 How was Napoleon able to take power from the Republic
- 📝 Learning about WW2 lead me to a current event question about German policy
- 📝 Are the Zemstvo Statistics Digitized?
- 📝 Why did the USA stay out of the League of Nations?
- 📝 What was the political significance of the investiture conflict?
- 📝 Why did Stalin exile Trotsky instead of killing or imprisoning him?
- 📝 Did Britain look into taking California?
- 📝 In Tolstoy's War and Peace, one character is captured after the Battle of Austerlitz and is taken as a POW. Was his experience historically accurate?
- 📝 How true is this observation concerning battle?
- 📝 How did Martin Luther King Jr. Day become a day of service?
- 📝 What was Nazi doctrine towards pro-Nazi Jews?
- 📝 When did "Africa" become the name of the whole continent?
- 📝 How was nut milk made before blenders?
- 📝 How many RAF and USAAF/USAF airfields were built in the UK between the mid-1930s and 1960?
- 📝 How was silver/gold mining done in colonial Americas?
- 📝 Why did the British have so few destroyers going into World War II?
- 📝 Who first published Marcus Aurelius' Meditations?
- 📝 How far away could zeppelins drop bombs?
- 📝 What does the inscription on this sword mean?
- 📝 What were the insignia of the Western Roman Empire and what happened to them?
- 📝 How were expelled ministers "witnessed" during the Great Ejection of 1662?
- 📝 Why did trench warfare accept deadlocks?
- 📝 Study of causal structures and dynamics in history?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What ship is this in Sasebo, Japan Harbor, Korean War Era?
- 📝 What rectangular object would is this Boer War era officer carrying on his left hand side?
- 📝 What era is this German 10 DM banknote from?
- 📝 What ship is this and which military campaign?
- 📝 What is this war machine shown on Trajan's column?
- 📝 What kind of radio equipment is depicted in this Vietnam era picture?
- 📝 What cult images are likely to be found in a Second Punic war era Roman field camp?
- 📝 In American Civil War era paper cartridges, what was taking up the space between powder and bullet?
- 📝 What is this Victorian era British Uniform? Royal Horse Artillery?
- 📝 How was Pre-Samurai Japan structured ? What part did solders and warriors play in the yayoi culture and how did the Yamato state wage war ?
- 📝 Is this Civil War era uniform?
- 📝 What is this Victorian era British uniform?
- 📝 What were the technological differences between Japan and the USA in World War 2?
- 📝 On 1941 Dec 7, could Japan have targeted the Panama Canal instead of Pearl Harbor in a surprise attack?
- 📝 Why didn't Imperial Japan attack the Soviet Union during World War 2?
- 📝 Identify the era or any other clues from this soldier's picture?
- 📝 Why didn’t Japan attack the West Coast of the United States during World War II?
- 📝 What mysterious Flemish peasant activity is depicted in this painting?
- 📝 What is the logic for the map maker classifying the map this way, specifically in Canada?
- 📝 What do the numbers on this 1960s anti-integration sign mean?
- 📝 What did Germany do in World War II about the different rail gauge in the Soviet Union?
- 📝 What were Germany's long-term aims in World War I?
- 📝 Why didn't Japan take Pearl Harbor when they had the chance?
- 📝 Did Rothschild say this famous quote? If yes, what did he mean by it?
- 📝 What was the reason for Soviet troops to withdraw from Yugoslavia in World War II?
- 📝 What is this symbol in a financial record from Wisconsin, USA, in 1860?
- 📝 What is the date and original source of this medieval picture?
- 📝 Were Russians in the cold war era USA discriminated against for their ethnicity?
- 📝 Were there any Germans in Japan after the surrender of Germany in May, 1945 and if so, what happened to them?
- 📝 What coin is this and where is it from? Thai script, Thai arms. Rev: left facing portrait