#USS Tallahassee

[lonestarbattleship]

USS TALLAHASSEE (BM-9), USS TEXAS (BB-35), and USS VIRGINIA (BB-13) frozen in at the location on the York River, near Yorktown, Virginia, known as "Base 2". The area was hit by a "bomb cyclone" that froze over much of the rivers and harbors.

"One of the young officers tasked with gunnery training aboard the newer superdreadnought TEXAS, future Vice Admiral Bernhard H. Bieri, recalled in an oral history he gave to the U.S. Naval Institute:

They took the whole fleet into the York River, behind the submarine nets, in early 1917. We spent the winter of 1917 in the York River and the Chesapeake Bay. The Germans were prowling in the Atlantic and sinking ships all over. So we had nets up, and they put us back of those barriers in the Chesapeake Bay, where we carried out our target practices. The river and the bay froze up very hard. We had some of the old battleships that were used as icebreakers."

The Navy ordered USS OHIO (BB-12) to break up the ice in Chesapeake bay and the Potomac, but the old battleship became stuck in the ice as well.

Photographed by Sailor Ernest A. Washburn from USS RHODE ISLAND (BB-17), sometime between January 1 and 14, 1918.

Photos from the E.A. Washburn Collection at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum: link

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Jersey Tough - The USS Princeton Eighty Years Ago - (Thursday) February 25th, 1943, the Philadelphia Navy Yard: The USS Princeton, a Light (Escort) Aircraft Carrier, is commissioned into the United States Navy. Although brand new, she has had a unique history thus far. She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Company right here at home in Camden, New Jersey. But she wasn't always a carrier. She began her life when her keel was laid down on June 2nd, 1941. She was to become a Cleveland-Class Light Cruiser, the USS Tallahassee (CL-61). However, as the war changed priorities, she was changed mid-construction. She was redesignated as a a light-carrier on February 16th, 1942, renamed Princeton on March 31st, and launched October 18th. (These incredible photos, 2-5, show her before, during, and after her launch and commissioning). Now, she’ll undergo a "shakedown" cruise in the Caribbean to train her new crew. After that, she and her Sailors and Flyers will be ready to roll and take the fight to the enemy. She is destined for very heavy combat against the Japanese. We will cover her incredible story as we continue our day by day look at the 80th Anniversary of World War II. 🇺🇲🇺🇲 ** Please Like & Follow "Sandy Hook History" on Facebook & Instagram for more amazing maritime and military histories of the Garden State and New York Harbor as well as a review of the 80th Anniversary of the Battle Of The Atlantic and World War 2** 🇺🇲🇺🇲 Photos: Navsource.org #visitmonmouth #newjerseybuzz #thejournalnj #locallivingnj #journeythroughjersey #centraljerseyexists #discovernj #yesnj #newjerseyhistory #newjerseyforyou #sandyhookbeach #sandyhooknj #sandyhookhistory #forthancockhistory #forthancock #ussprinceton #aircraftcarrier #lightaircraftcarrier #escortcarrier #independenceclass #therealindependenceclass #unitedstatesnavy #usnavy #princetonnj #camdennj #camdenhistory #njhistory #jerseypride #jerseystrong #jerseytough (at Fort Hancock, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIc_46gtL1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[the-firebird69]

it will be up several hours from now at this rate or probably two hours if it goes faster and it doesn't matter the winds won't reach here in any significant way it's already past the point so we don't have to worry about it and the assholes are going to try and come back here at 8 or 10 to try and grab him and it will be after get ripped out because people be freaked out which they're not there's going to sit here like lumps like they always do and we're going to have to get rid of them so we don't want them coming back at all ever we meet I issue the order now. We devote special teams to erase these masochistic imbiciles

Huge orders they say on us and him.

After they shall pursue Greece Italy Budapest Prague Sahara and more try for them fail. Then the uss midway and off to Vietnam then westboro state then prison then I'm caa let's go say that try stuff. Arrested ok. We prep the Titanic it's ready beautiful. Too many bothering him out now.

Wonderful job restoring. Then damaged again then restored as Clark heads in tommorrow.

Greenland yes the movie.

Atlanta area. Sure ok. It's clearing rapidly.

We take Tallahassee.

Lock stock and barrel. Ghost ship strikes

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Zues Hera

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[nebris]

Monitor (warship) - USS Tallahassee, formerly USS Florida (1903-1922), tending to submarines K-5 and K-6 in Hampton Roads, 1916

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There’s no NCAA Tournament this year, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have an NCAA Champ. At least in the eyes of the Florida Senate. Florida State!

Florida State basketball had an incredible run this season, even if there’s no NCAA Championship for them to compete in.

But while they won’t get to officially cut down the nets, that doesn’t mean they aren’t NCAA Champions – at least in the eyes of the Florida Senate.

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The Seminoles are your men’s basketball national champions! ... according to a declaration by the Florida Senate. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/acc/2020/03/14/florida-state-mens-basketball-team-declared-national-champions/5051773002/ …

Florida Senate declares Florida State as national champs with NCAA tournament cancelled

Lawmakers in the Florida Senate voted 37-2 to pass a resolution Friday that proclaimed the Seminoles (26-5) as “champions by default.”

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‘GameDay’s’ history of going to cool spots outside the Power 5

ESPN’s taken the show to a lot of campuses (and other places) that aren’t normally in the national spotlight.

ESPN’s College GameDay is broadcasting from UCF on Saturday for the first time in the show’s history. The No. 11 Knights even have the ABC Saturday Night Football spotlight later that day, when they host No. 24 Cincinnati in a key AAC game. It’s a huge moment for a program that claimed a national title last year and is still riding a 22-game win streak.

UCF fans have brought signs to GameDay for the last few weeks and been aggressive about promoting their team all year. They should be pretty fired up.

GameDay usually travels to Power 5 schools, but since 2001, the show has been choosing to go to smaller mid-major and FCS schools at least once during the season .

Let’s take a look back at some of the most fun ones.

Air Force

The first non-power school the show visited in 2001 was Air Force, for its game against Army in Colorado Springs. The show went back to Air Force the following year for its game against Notre Dame, and went again in 2009 for the Army game

The show has been to service academies a total of eight times, including the 2001 visit.

Army

The show went to West Point in 2002 for its game against South Florida.

Bowling Green

In 2003, the show traveled to Bowling Green for the first time for its game against No. 12 NIU.

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Utah

A 2004 visit to see the Alex Smith/Urban Meyer Utes technically counted as a visit to a non-power at the time it was made, as great as Utah was. The show’s been back a few times since, including after Utah made its way into the Pac-12.

Williams

In 2007, the show traveled to Division III school Williams in Williamstown, Mass. for its game against Amherst. The visit to Williams was the show’s first and only trip to a DIII school in its history.

Florida A&M

In 2008, the show traveled to Florida A&M in Tallahassee for the Rattlers’ game against Hampton in November.

The USS San Diego

In 2012, the show was filmed live from the naval vessel for Navy’s game against Troy, which made for a pretty awesome scene:

North Dakota State

The show chose to go to North Dakota State, in Fargo, N.D., in 2013, the first time the show had visited the school.

The Bison are an FCS powerhouse, having won five national titles in a row between 2011 and 2015 and another in 2017. The first three were under coach Craig Bohl, and the two most recent were under current head coach Chris Klieman.

“North Dakota State, in a way, is sort of the Alabama of the FCS,” GameDay senior coordinating producer Lee Fitting said in 2013 of the decision . “They’re two-time defending national champions, ranked No. 1 in the current poll, ten national titles for the program.

”The next question was, why not?”

My favorite moment from this year — Corso picking NDSU with a baby bison!

The show was so well-received from the location that it went back in 2014, too.

Army-Navy, specifically

Since 2014, the show has been traveling to the annual Army-Navy game each year, and it has already announced it will be there in 2018.

Never forget pic.twitter.com/4pK3fZgsDk

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) December 9, 2017

This one almost always takes place in Philadelphia or Baltimore.

Harvard

In 2014, GameDay went to an Ivy league school for the first time since 2002, traveling to Harvard ahead of the Crimson’s annual rivalry matchup against Yale.

“Yale game week is always administratively and media relations-wise by far the most hectic week of the year for obvious reasons,” Harvard head coach Tim Murphy told The Crimson, Harvard’s student paper. “This made it go from an extremely hectic week to an extraordinarily hectic week.”

“It seems like we were constantly juggling media requests that were either directly connected with GameDay or ESPN or a result of it,” he added.

12 years earlier, the show traveled to Penn for the Harvard game.

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“It is combination of trying to do something different and trying to give respect to Division 1-AA,” GameDay host Chris Fowler said via the New York Post in 2002. “We are always looking for unique types of shows. And, let’s be honest, there is not a monster 1-A game this week with national title implications.”

James Madison

In 2015, the show visited Harrisonburg and the Dukes for a game against Richmond. Corso made his picks dressed as literal James Madison:

The show returned in 2017, at which time Corso put on JMU’s fake dog mascot head and scared the hell out of the actual bulldog live mascot:

This wasn’t the show’s first time going to JMU — that was two years earlier in 2015. Tbat trip also gave GameDay one of its most unforgettable moments, when Corso dressed up as James Madison himself to make picks:

Temple

Philly was the GameDay site when the No. 21 Owls played No. 9 Notre Dame in 2015.

Western Michigan

The show went to Kalamazoo while WMU was on its way to a 13-0 run through the MAC:

No. 3 in the countdown: Stay classy, Kalamazoo. pic.twitter.com/WNkpXinfDI

— College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) August 30, 2017

New York City

In 2017, GameDay held a show in Times Square in New York City to represent the city’s diverse CFB fanbase:

“New York City is a melting pot of college football fans and the heartbeat of America,” said ESPN vice president of production Lee Fitting. “Thousands of alumni gather in the city each fall Saturday to root on their school and we are bringing College GameDay to New York for them! We want every alumni base and college football fan near and far to join us in Times Square to provide the celebratory, festive atmosphere that is synonymous with the show.”

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It’s not easy for a show like GameDay to pick a unique and intriguing location each and every week during a season.

But its continued emphasis on checking out at least one non-power location a year makes for a refreshing change of pace. Also still yet to be visited:

The now 11 P5 schools from which GameDay has not broadcast a show, ranked in order of odds on who I think will be the next first-timer to host a show. Iowa State Minnesota Maryland Duke Virginia Wake Forest Cal Syracuse Illinois Kansas Rutgers

— Chris Fallica (@chrisfallica) October 15, 2018

When any school hosts the show for the first time, it’s a really cool scene. (Hey, Wazzu!)

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The submarines K-5 (SS-36) and K-6 (SS-37) alongside the monitor USS Tallahassee, ex-Florida… via David Arkwright 1 - Google+ Public Posts The submarines K-5 (SS-36) and K-6 (SS-37) alongside the monitor USS Tallahassee, ex-Florida (M-9) at Hampton Roads, Virginia, 19 December 1916. David Arkwright 1 posted. View full size (1152x838)

[aviationhistory]

U.S. Army semi-rigid (blimp with a keel) Roma, bought from Italy, formerly T34, suffers control box failure at stern in flight, nosed into the ground, struck power lines at Army supply base, Norfolk, Virginia, and burst into flames, killing 34 of 45 on board, including Capt. Dale Mabry, its commander. This would remain the worst American aviation accident until the loss of the USS Akron in 1933. Accident spurs American lighter-than-air operations to switch to helium, less buoyant than hydrogen, but non-inflammable. Dale Mabry Municipal Airport in Tallahassee, Florida, that city's first airport, was named after Mabry, a Tallahassee native.

[lonestarbattleship]

The submarines K-5 (SS-36) and K-6 (SS-37) alongside USS Tallahassee (BM-9), which was used as a submarine chaser, at Hampton Roads, Virginia, on December 10, 1916.

NARA: 55167370

Library of Congress: LC-F82- 1807

Colorized by Alex Colors Studio: link

[lonestarbattleship]

State Ship Series: USS Florida

There have been seven ships commissioned named after the state of Florida in the US Navy. The state was admitted into the United States on March 3, 1845.

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Florida (1824), sloop, served from 1823 to 1831. She was used as a survey ship.

USS Florida (1850), side-wheel steamboat, in commission from 1861 to 1867.

USS Florida (1869), Wampanoag class, screw frigate, in commission from 1864 to 1867. Originally named USS Wampanoag, renamed in 1869. Scrapped in 1885.

USS Florida (M/BM-9/IX-16), Arkansas Class, Monitor, in commission from 1903 to 1922. Renamed USS Tallahassee to free the name for BB-30. She served during WWI as a submarine chaser.

USS Florida (BB-30), Florida Class, Dreadnought Battleship, in commission from 1911 to 1931. She sortied with the British Fleet during WWI.

She was the oldest battleship retained in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty and was modernized in the mid 1920s. However, she was scrapped in accordance with the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

USS Florida (SSBN/SSGN-728), Ohio Class, Ballistic Missile Submarine, later converted to a Guided Mssile Submarine, in commission from 1983 to present.

NHHC: NH 63849, NH 95699-KN, NH 64515, NH 60568

LOC: LC-F82- 1807

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Colorized by Alex Colors Studio: link

[lonestarbattleship]

USS Tallahassee (BM-9) underway in New York harbor, circa 1912.

Note: Statue of Liberty in Distance.

NHHC: NH 93140

[lonestarbattleship]

@brightfametexan

Background, the first USS TEXAS (1892) was renamed USS SAN MARCOS in February 1911 to free the name for BB-35.

The US Navy had already decided to dispose of her, as she woefully obsolete be this point (she was actually considered obsolete by the time she was commissioned because of the delays in her construction). The Navy saw she could offer some use and wanted to tests the main battery guns of battleships against battleship armor. So in March 1911, they towed her to Tangier Sound in Chesapeake Bay.

On March 22, she sank after being turned into swiss cheese the shells from USS NEW HAMPSHIRE (BB-25) penetrated her armor. The Navy gained a lot of insight from the tests and rather scrapping the hulk, the Navy continued to use her as an artillery target to train crews on other battleships and warships.

There are a lot of photos of the wreck, see my post here: link.

In 1912, a lattice mast was attached to her deck to test the new masts being installed on all active US Battleships and some Armored Cruisers. It took nine 12 inch shells from USS TALLAHASSEE (BM-9) before collapsing. The Navy considered the mast took the damage exceedingly well.

The wreck itself continued to be used as a target for more several years. Even her successor, USS TEXAS (BB-35) even fired upon her.

In the early 1920's, she was joined by ex-USS INDIANA (BB-1), ex-USS ALABAMA (BB-8), ex-USS VIRGINIA (BB-13) and ex-USS OSTFRIESLAND (formerly SMS Ostfriesland) for the famous (or infamous) Mitchell bombing tests. All these battleships were sunk.

Later, some of former battleships were raised and scrapped. Some sank in deeper waters and remain there today. The wreck of SAN MARCOS continued the be used as an anchor for floating targets (as little remained above the water) until the end of WWII.

By the 1940's, the wreck had become of a navigation hazard and an unlit buoy was attached to mark her location. In 1940, the cargo ship SS Lexington struck the wreck and sank. To remove the wreck as a navigational hazard, it was decided to use explosives to blow off the top part of the wreck and drive the rest deeper into the mud. By January 1959, they were complete and the remains lay there to this day.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 108611, NH 73106, NH 73105, NH 263-KN, NH 108624

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Remains of ex-USS San Marcos (ex-USS Texas (1982)).

Photographed on December 13, 2019

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