as a Gunnersmate, it irks me that historians confuse gun mounts with turrets. laymen could be excused but historians should know better. technical differences aside, basically, 6 inch guns and larger were in turrets while 5 inch and smaller were in gun mounts.

4:26 The subs that are identifiable in this picture are USS Volador SS-490 (Tench-class), USS Segundo SS-398 (Balao-class), USS Diodon SS-349 (Balao-class), USS Bugara SS-331 (Balao-class), and USS Rasher SS-269 (Gato-class). Rasher is probably the most interesting for two reasons; 1. She was the third most successful American submarine by tonnage sunk, possibly second of you remove a dubious kill Flasher was credited with. Among her kills was the escort carrier Taiyo. 2. She is one of the relatively few submarines to receive the Migrane III radar picket conversion, with this photo being taken while she was serving this role; you can see the radar arrays way in the back. There weren’t very many radar picket submarines, and only one was preserved, USS Requin which was the first to receive the Migrane I conversion and happens to be my most local museum ship lol.

Berlin Wall = Berliner Mauer Maurer Berliner = Bricklayers' Donuts

That's really great stuff Shane, they found the right home for it for sure!

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Great History! Great that you had that to share. Thanks Shane.

Very nice - have fun!

Hey shane

A great story about her. To bad she broke up. It would be neat to see some of them in museums.

You had me at PowerPoint

Another great story. Very interesting stuff. I enjoy these videos. Thank You so much for sharing.

Thanks for telling us about this freighter Shane, i'm looking forward to the next one!

130 bushels of grain seems a bit light for a ship that size?

1976 this Ship went out of commission....1949 the first time....LOL...Well no wonder....Lol

By the way CHT is Controlled Holding tank...where all the grey water/black water go to.....Galley/Heads/AC condensation you name it...... all goes here and usually flows into the man City sewer systems from the piers or Outboard the Ship while out in Sea.....

Some of these Barges and Ships have no heat and broken down A/C chillers for the summer....Piping that the inside diameter is shrinking to 1 inch......Yet no one up there wants to fund this...But yet they come out with this 'Quality of life BS...... Common man take care of your Own...No wonder why it is so hard to recruit new blood...By word of mouth it all SUCKS, not worth it...

The New Generations of Sailors/Marines are using too many bad things that are going down the commodes.....I always tell them F up your system by neglect and you will use the pier toilets provided.....Not sure how long....We might have to get this contracted out and might take weeks....

Great place to film a Horror movie.....No?

I’ve chatted with Parks on FB about this gallant ship and how we both want a major motion picture to be made about this ship and the others (and the aircraft). The only film that has Samar is In Harm’s Way 1965 and they radically altered it. I think it might have been thought as too impossible to believe so they upgraded the tin cans to heavy cruisers and made it a night battle to eliminate the aircraft. The name of the movie of course used Evans’ partial quote from John Paul Jones when he commissioned the Johnston. Note also that the Yamato was in the movie but of course Hollywood mentioned her by name and size but we never knew that until the war ended.

I had an uncle on a destroyer that was with Admiral Halsey that day, when Halsey was baited to leave the area.

Shane of the Buffalo Naval Park - Happy Holidays to you , and the rest of the staff there and a Happy New Year’s

I was looking forward to the in depth story on the USS Pueblo. NOT a hodge podge on other, & famous ships BUT NOT THE TITLE of this video ! No thank-you.

This woman is a joke...get a real military minded person to over see the sub...typical DEI...in a liberal state.

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Awesome stuff Shane, Vielen Dank, dass Sie mit uns geteilt haben

As someone from New Zealand who has an interest in all things US Navy, I really appreciate these Videos. I Can't just go accross the Pacific and visit so these are the next best thing for me. There is less on the USS Little Rock on you tube so these videos are very welcome as a virtual tour for me.

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Very interesting especially the footage of her being moved and rotated.

Thanks for sharing Shane, to bad you couldn’t get in. Maybe closed for the winter like some of the Northern museums ship. Enjoy the rest of your trip in Europe!

Fascinating and another great informative video. I actually followed her on her trip thru the waterways, etc...imagine seeing her! ..ty Shane for sharing this with us 👍...take care 🙂

That's really cool Shane, thanks for sharing that with us!

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Enjoyed the talk. Good work.

HI Shane what an interesting video. Enjoy your vacation!

I had a model of the ship, The Sullivans.

Cool video but you are supposed to be on vacation!😊

Nice video! I found a few sections of the wall in Manhattan - pretty surreal touching it

A great video, I remember it being raised and torn down.

Thanks for the video Shane, i remember the tearing down of the wall quite well.

Naval movies don’t bother me, I served in the navy, I know what’s true and what’s a load of crap, but don’t bother me and ruin my movie 😈♍️🗝🧙🏻‍♂️

Hi, Dad 👋🤗. Great informative video about The Wall..still remember hearing Ronald Reagan's famous quote from the Brandenburg Gate on 6/12/1987.." Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Would be awesome if ur museum could get a piece of it 👌On 12/8/87 Reagan & Gorbachev signed the INF treaty. ..Enjoy the rest of ur stay..will look forward to the U-boat clip👍..tc and ty for sharing 😊

And the lesson is... Building walls at borders to segregate people is never a long term sustainable solution. Having watched the wall come down on TV when I was young and then having visited Berlin and walked much of the route of it was a weird feeling. Also surprising just how obvious it still remained in some areas that were previously east/west Berlin.

HI SHANE'S DAD

Fascinating to see all this after running the vietnam scenario in sea power starring Galveston

As a QM3 later QM2 stationed on USS Springfield CL66 later CLG7 (sister ship to Little Rock CL92 later CLG4 ) 1972-1974. I need to correct/add to what the EN1 said about when that space was manned and by who, I am sure he is partial to his engineers (grins) . NAVY watch standing regs require a qualified helmsman from the NAVIGATION Division (ie Quartermaster) in that space during General Qtrs, Sea and Anchor, Underway replenishment and also at the discretion of the Captain anytime underway to maintain "positive steering control". There is NO WAY OUT when it is buttoned up for GQ etc. I stood many a watch down there in that frickinhole and that place is DEAFENING, no sound deadening atenuators, only sound powered headphones to bridge and damage control. It is hot as hell in there. One also hears the prop wash in there. An after steering check was performed on every mid-watch (0000-0400) while underway. I never even saw a Junior Officer in that space EVER, usually only a Machinist mate and an Electricians mate along with the QM3 or QMSN striker who was helm qualified. DATS DAH FACTS JACK! On Springfield Capt Harkness required a QM in that space whenever underway because Our Old Girl had some "issues" shall we say. Springfield was decommisioned in May 1974 and scrapped in 1980.

I have an out-of-the-box suggestion. Instead of spending millions of dollars dry docking the Sullivan. Why not dispose of the Sullivan and get the Oliver Perry class destroyer that is being held for museum ship the group that was trying for it as given up.

Father Thomas Conway is the same Father Conway that the park is named after in South Buffalo.

Radio navigation is basically a series of shore radio transmitters that are received by the ship or plane with a loop antenna that gives a bearing. Getting a strong signal gives a bearing to the shore transmitter, get two identifiable bearings and you have a fix. Dead reckoning is simply traveling from a known point simply using time, speed and course to determine (guess) a future position. Currents, wind compass error and actual speed can greatly effect dead reckoning positions.

The stand on the bridge supported the TBT (target bearing transmitter). On it was a set of special binoculars and below it was the gyro compass repeater. The binoculars could swing freely and had a gripping handle on either side. On one of the handles was a transmitter button that, when depressed, transmitted the bearing of the binoculars to the TBT in the conning tower. These were binoculars were watertight and were left on the bridge when the boat dove. The tubular shaped locker appears to be a ready ammo locker that was retained when the boat was converted from its original configuration and the sail installed. We had several five-inch lockers aboard Carp that were mounted in the superstructure and were used for miscellaneous storage, such as paint, the paint sprayer, and other items used by the seaman gang when in port. The protective plexiglass dodger the swing down into the bridge, was called "the bubble" and provided protection from spray for the OOD -- it was not of any use for the lookouts. The are forward of the bridge (known as the doghouse) had the magnesyn compass and its transmitter -- the magnesyn repeater was mounted in the conning tower within view of the helmsman who could use it when the gyrocompass died.