![]() USS Shaw (DD-373) entering Rio de Janiero harbour, Brazil, 1 September 1938. Photo by Marius Bar, possibly in a French port (most likely Toulon). USS Shaw (DD-373), June 3, 1937, during her shakedown cruise. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. ![]() USS Shaw (DD-373) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 26 January 1937. Photo courtesy of the National Naval Aviation Museum. Thedestroyer was the first vessel struck by Japanese dive bombers at Pearl Harbor. Group image of theoriginal commissioning crew of the destroyer Shaw (DD 373) taken in 1936. Newspaper clipping the day before the launching of the Shaw and the Cassin dated October 27 1935. Captain Shaw died at Philadelphia on 17 September 1823. During the Barbary War, Shaw commanded frigate, John Adams, in the Mediterranean under Commodore Rodgers from May to November 1804 and frigate, United States, during the War of 1812. By the time he was relieved of command due to ill health in October 1800, he had made Enterprise one of the most famous vessels of the Navy. On 20 October 1799, he was given command of the schooner Enterprise in which, during the next year, he captured seven armed French vessels and recaptured several American merchantmen. Appointed Lieutenant in the United States Navy on 3 August 1798, he first served in Montezuma in Commodore Truxtun's squadron in the West Indies during the early part of the naval war with France. He came to the United States in 1790, settled in Philadelphia, and entered the merchant marine. Mellick, Queens County, Ireland, in 1773. Launched Octoand commissioned September 18 1936.įate Scrapped at Brooklyn Navy Yard July 12 1946. ![]() Laid down by Philadelphia Navy Yard October 1 1934. Machinery, 49,000 SHP General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws Photographic History of the United States Navyĭisplacement 2103 Tons (Full), Dimensions, 341' 4" (oa) x 35' 5" x 12' 4" (Max)Īrmament 5 x 5"/38AA, 4 x 0.5" MG, 12 x 21" tt.(3x4). You dishonor a war hero, his family and his service to this country by your unwarranted actions.Destroyer Photo Index DD-373 USS SHAW NavSource Main Page * Update: Am curious to know why and who removed the photo of Jack Suggs from this posting. USS West Virginia under attack on December 7, 1941: Library of Congress. Images: Commander Suggs photo*: Suggs/Iverson families. ![]() Thank you for your service, Commander Suggs. Navy and was decorated for his salvage operations at Pearl Harbor. In all, he made 630 career dives for the U.S. By 1944, it became the first previously “sunk” battleship to re-enter the war effort.Ĭommander Suggs, who died in 1996, has several generations of his family living in the San Diego area, including grand daughters Lorraine Iverson and Lynette Mauzy. Suggs would in later years relate to a reporter that one of the events that made the Pearl Harbor diving teams proud was the fact that they were able to get inside the USS West Virgina and make strong case that that the battleship should and could be saved.Īs a result, the WeeVee was refloated in early 1942 and towed back to the Navy’s repair facilities on Puget Sound. Divers had to feel along the sunken hulls by hand and at all times avoiding the jagged metal that had been twisted at grotesque angles. While, Commander Suggs kept silent about the human element, author Madden in his book, points out what many of the divers encountered. There was a tremendous urgency on the part of the Navy in the days after the attack to determine which of the damaged ships could be saved for the war effort. His daughter Hazel Suggs Iverson of Allied Gardens agreed with one caveat that the blog state that her father was only one of millions of allied heroes who fought in WWII.Īs a master diver and diving instructor, Suggs, who later became director of the Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School, was part of a dauntless team of divers who worked round the clock in rescue and salvage operations in the minutes, hours and months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Navy officer played in the Navy’s salvage operations following the bombardment of Pearl Harbor. Seventy years later, I asked the family of the late Commander Garland “Jack” Suggs if I could mention the role that this dedicated career U.S. PEARL HARBOR DIVER -Daniel Madsen, author of “Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle fleet at Pearl Harbor” points out in is book that “surprise, the primary weapon of the Japanese that morning, had doomed the battle fleet.
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