On Thursday evening, 12 November, 1942, U.S.S. Away All Boats (International Post-production script for the 1956 film) by Joseph Pevney (director); Kenneth M. Dodson, Ted Sherdeman (screenwriters); Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Richard Boone,. The story of U.S.S. All books noted as First Editions are also First Printings unless indicated otherwise. Smoke and hot gases from the explosion in the engine room, however, appear to have filled the officers' lounge on "B" deck immediately and this would seem to indicate the rupture of some bulkheads in the vicinity. 28, USS Princeton CVL23 War Damage Report No. 2. If you have questions about a book, feel free to call us anytime at 410-366-7329. Destination, rates & speeds. References: And few anticipate the challenges in store at Okinawa. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty to deal with as the only experienced officers on board during the "shakedown." Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew . EDWARD RUTLEDGE, War Diary. Large quantities of fuel oil flowed out on the water on the starboard side. The ship was ordered abandoned over the port (high) side. When the explosion occurred, all circuit breakers for pumps in operation were blown open and lubricating oil and fresh water pressures were lost, which caused the main engines to be stopped. In addition, as part of the 1950s modernization of the Navy's amphibious force with faster ships, two more attack transports (APA-248 and APA-249) were converted from new Type C4-class ships, the Mariner-class freighters. Joseph Hewes (APA22), Edward Rutledge (APA24), Hugh L. Scott (AP43), Tasker H. Bliss (AP42) & Electra (AKA4) - War Damage Report No. Unlike standard troopships often drafted from the merchant fleet that rely on either a quay or tenders, attack transports carry their own fleet of landing craft, such as the landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat. from the main deck, although the bottom of each was thickly covered with fallen timbers. for landing combat assault troops. 26, USS Saratoga CV3 War Damage Report No. Actually, the net result was such that ELECTRA was in a rather dangerous condition where the slightest error in the handling of the ship might have resulted in her loss. until February 1943, by which time two ships that had APA numbers We value your privacy and use cookies to remember your shopping preferences and to analyze our website traffic. not have an active link on this page, contact the Photographic The electrical forces, including a number of landing craft personnel, removed, recleaned, installed and placed in operating condition 80 motors and generators. 32, Destroyer Report - Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage, Destroyer Report - Torpedo and Mine Damage and Loss in Action, Submarine Report - Vol. 2 deep tanks which were loaded to about 79% of their capacity with gasoline in 5-gallon tins. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. When it became apparent that nothing could be done to save the ship, the Commanding Officer ordered the ship abandoned. In the early 1940s, as the United States Navy expanded in response to the threat of involvement in World War II, a number of civilian passenger ships and some freighters were acquired, converted to transports and given hull numbers in the AP series. In less than 30 seconds the fireroom flooded with oil and water to a level at least four feet above the floor plates, and within five minutes the stern of the ship had settled so that the deck beading aft was not more than three feet above the water. Fragment damage to the third deck in way of the hit is also visible. Her material condition was not reported. 3 hold and on 12 December 1942 this large patch was placed over the side and secured in place with hogging lines, (see photo No. Sanborn was decommissioned and placed in reserve for the last time and berthed at Orange, Texas. The fragment attack on bulkhead 113 opened large holes into No. Investigation showed that all panel boxes secured to bulkhead 80 on the starboard side were out of commission. Large quantities of oil flowed out on the sea on the starboard side. Attack transport is a United States Navy ship classification for a variant of ocean-going troopship adapted to transporting invasion forces ashore. (i) C.O. The engineer force was split into three sections and worked three shifts 24 hours a day and seven days a week. This period of negative stability existed for only a short period of time after which the ship came back to the upright position and remained so until flooding stopped. 23. Transports Torpedoed Off Fedala 11-15 November 1942 The Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations directs that this report be shown only to those persons to whom the. If you have questions about a book, feel free to call us anytime at 410-366-7329. We are members of ABAA and ILAB, and specialize in First Editions of Modern Literature, Crime Fiction, Science Fiction, Jazz, and Books on Film, Music, Photography and the Arts. You may phone, fax, or email an order at any time, 24 hours a day. TASKER H. BLISS (AP22) Sanborn (APA-193) was laid down on 10 March 1944 under Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 661); launched on 19 August 1944 by the Kaiser Shipbuilding Corp., Vancouver, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. Eric Johnson; acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 3 October 1944. Learn more Take a stab at guessing and be entered to win a $50 Biblio gift certificate! Very little information is available regarding the stability characteristics of HEWES, RUTLEDGE, SCOTT and BLISS. At this time the ship was still afloat, but she sank some time later during the night. RAVEN - Serial 002 - of 17 November 1942. 19. Another two transports sunk in 1942, George F. Elliot and Leedstown, were also configured as attack transports but did not survive to be reclassified as such. All books are guaranteed to be as described, and may be returned at any time for any reason for a full refund, including return postage. World War II [ edit] transports. Boats continued in the vicinity of the ship until about 2030. Between these visits, Sanborn participated in landing exercises to maintain both the ship's company and embarked U.S. Marines in combat readiness. No. In addition, as part Away All Boats (Domestic Post-production Joseph Pevney (director); Kenneth M. Dodson, Ted Sherdeman ( Joseph Pevney (director); Kenneth M. Dodson, Ted Sherdeman (screenwriters); Jeff Chandler, George Nader, Richard Boone, Charles McGraw, Julie Adams (starring). The system followed in restoring these motors and generators was to remove them to the topside where they were boiled for 24 hours with a complete change of water every eight hours, and were then baked in portable ammunition lockers, which had been converted into bake ovens, until clear readings were obtained with a megger. The summation of these effects, i.e., 6 feet of center of buoyancy rise minus 10 feet of loss in metacentric radius (BM) plus the 5 feet gained in BM equals the one foot increase in initial stability after flooding was completed. Sump tanks were pumped, refilled with fresh water, pumped and wiped dry. 37. We are an open shop on Baltimore's Book Block in midtown. As tank manholes to both No. ELECTRA - looking forward and to starboard at the inside of the patch over the torpedo hole. All pumps were started but water continued to rise and the ship continued to settle by the bow. The anchor chain was slipped and the ship was allowed to drift toward the beach with the wind and tide. Title page dated April 17, 1956, with a credit for director Joseph Pevney. 52, USS Lexington CV2 War Damage Report No. Fires were started by the hits and could not be controlled as there were no means available for fighting them. Take a stab at guessing and be entered to win a $50 Biblio gift certificate! No collapsing of bulkheads, such as was reported by HUGH L. SCOTT, was noted on the BLISS. 16, USS Liscome Bay CVE56 War Damage Report No. We accept VISA/MC/AMEX/DISCOVER, check or money order, and PayPal (ID is mail@royalbooks.com). Navy Department, JOSEPH HEWES (APA22) In such a helpless condition and with the heavy list, it was necessary to abandon both ships to the progressive flooding which finally caused them to sink. For vessels now in service, a swinging type watertight door is required. By the late 1960s, 41 of these ships were redesignated with the hull symbol (LPA) Landing Platform, Amphibious, but they all retained their names and hull numbers.[1][2][3][4]. Some of these were outfitted with heavy boat davits and other arrangements to enable them to handle landing craft for amphibious assault operations. 35. If you are using a screen reader and having problems using our website, please call, Away All Boats (International Post-production script for the 1956 film), Film Scripts | War Film | World War II | Post-Production Film Scripts. Post-production International Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1956 film. He observed that bulkheads and decks in this area were spotted with oil and that the staircase down to "E" deck seemed to be sagging. 3 hold more slowly. Check our website for directions if you are coming through the Baltimore area. 6 hold filled and the main deck aft was soon awash, the list gradually decreasing to not more than 3 as the ship settled. assigned (Joseph Hewes and Edward Rutledge) had The last of these were decommissioned in ELECTRA - starboard side looking forward and showing the outside of the large patch over the torpedo hole. 3. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty to deal with as the only experienced officers on board during the "shakedown." Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew . USS PICKAWAY (APA-222 ) - a Haskell-class attack transport In Commission 1944 to 1946 APA-222 Deployments - Major Events APA-222 General Specifications Class: Haskell-class attack transport Complement: 536 Officers and Enlisted Displacement: 14837 tons Length: 455 feet Beam: 62 feet Draft: 24 feet The ship was in material condition ABLE except for doors and hatches in holds which were being worked (holds Nos. At about 1731 she was struck by one torpedo on the starboard side near the bulkhead between the fireroom and the engine room, and a few seconds later a second torpedo struck the starboard side near No. A total of 388 APA (troop) and AKA (cargo) attack transports were built for service in World War II in at least fifteen classes. USS Sanborn (APA-193) was a Haskell-class attack transport acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II for the task of transporting troops to and from combat areas. Despite personal friction, the two have plenty to deal with as the only experienced officers on board during the "shakedown." 15. This seller has earned a 4 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers. To compound problems, these forces were not able to assemble or train together before executing the Aleutian invasion on 11 May 1943. The holes in the port tank were considerably larger than those in the starboard tank and apparently the rapid flooding of this tank, combined with a probable immediate, though temporary, loss of stability (see paragraph 36), caused the ship to heel to port, and then to come to an even keel as the holds and starboard tanks flooded. He reported that for the next hour the list seemed to increase gradually and objects kept sliding across the deck. George Psalmanazar played a grand prank in 1703, pretending to be a resident of the island of Formosa. She next headed for San Francisco to embark troops of the U.S. 86th Infantry Division, transporting them to Batangas, Luzon, via Eniwetok and Ulithi. been lost. By 1969, when the surviving attack transports were redesignated Flames, smoke, oil, water and debris were thrown up abreast the stack and came down over the ship as far forward as the end of the upper deck. reserve fleet. We accept VISA/MC/AMEX/DISCOVER, check or money order, and PayPal (ID is mail@royalbooks.com). All U.S. Navy Attack Transports (APA) in commission during WWII listed by class; with descriptions and links to individual ship pages. The reported setting of a fire by the first hit on SCOTT and extinguishing of this fire by the second hit is difficult to explain, particularly in view of the immediate and extensive fire on BLISS. that there was a glow of short duration just abaft the uptakes following the first hit. No other information is available concerning the extent of the flooding. 34. The cast and crew boarded in St. Thomas and filmed aboard the USS Randall (renamed the "Belinda" in this movie). 1 fireroom, and the second probably hit in the engine room. No information at all is available regarding BLISS, but from the close similarity in performance of the two ships it is apparent that their stability characteristics were about the same. The Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations directs that this report be shown only to those persons to whom the report would be of value in the performance of their duties. 31. (c) C.O. On the evening of 12 November, 1942, TASKER H. BLISS was anchored in 25 fathoms of water off Fedala, French Morocco, with 45 fathoms of chain to the starboard anchor. faster ships, two more attack transports (APA-248 and APA-249) 48, USS Canberra CA70 War Damage Report No. The APA/LPA designation may, therefore, now be safely considered extinct. Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew remains far from perfect when the ship sees action, landing troops on enemy beachheads. 28. It is possible that some list would have resulted anyway because of the division of the refrigeration spaces previously mentioned and because of loss of initial stability. The crew shot deck and aerial photography of the Navy's maneuvers. 61, USS Northampton CA26 War Damage Report No. This increase in initial stability was caused by the combination of two factors: (a) The freeboard before damage was great enough to permit the ship to sink a large amount without submerging the bulkhead deck. SCOTT and BLISS present a somewhat different picture. No machinery or electrical derangements occurred in the plant throughout the return voyage, which speaks well for the promptness and thoroughness of the repair measures undertaken by the ship's force. There was no difficulty from fire, but there was apparently a fire for a brief period immediately following the first explosion. Post-production International Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1956 film. Recommissioned at San Diego on 6 January 1951, Sanborn conducted shakedown training off southern California before transiting the Panama Canal and joining the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, at Norfolk, Virginia. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. The ship was unloading to the beach with all boilers on the line and engines ready for immediate use. The engine room was abandoned at about 0700 and continued to flood. Shortly after the torpedoing of RUTLEDGE and SCOTT at 1732, TASKER H. BLISS was hit simultaneously on the starboard side by two torpedoes. to transports and given hull numbers in the AP series. We value your privacy and use cookies to remember your shopping preferences and to analyze our website traffic. Page made 23 November 2003 At about 1930 all remaining officers abandoned the ship as there was no hope of rescuing those still trapped inside. In 1942, when the AP number series had already extended Film Scripts, We are open 10AM-6PM EST, Monday through Friday, and Saturdays by appointment or chance. Multilith duplication. (APA) was created and new numbers were assigned to fifty-eight APs (AP Yellow untitled wrappers, script on white stock. types were converted to attack transports, taking the list of About two minutes later electric power was restored and lubricating oil pumps started. APA-100 through APA-249: To the best of our knowledge, the pictures provided in the EDWARD RUTLEDGE ltr. commissioned service. of the 1950s modernization of the Navy's amphibious force with Gasoline from the cargo trailed out on the water and the fumes were strong. Be the first to contribute. The ship sank at about 2032, 11 November, 1942. 2 hold and No. LPA (retaining their previous numbers), only a few remained in Don't let a few small mistakes erode the value of your growing book collection. Near Fine. 17. The searchlight platform shook and guys to the stack were snapped. Seller Rating, Publisher: Universal Pictures, Universal City, CA. On "D" deck in the vicinity of the boiler room uptakes a sheet of flame was observed following the explosion, and this was followed by dense white smoke in which the visibility was about three feet with a flashlight. Carrying 232 casualties, Sanborn sailed for the Marianas on 28 February. Some terminology that may be used in this description includes: Sign up for our newsletter for a chance to win $50 in free books! Fire was reported immediately sweeping through "C" deck passageways. By what name was Away All Boats (1956) officially released in India in English. There were 11 large holes and numerous smaller ones in the port side. This created extreme logistics burdens for the invasion force because it resulted in considerable overloading of the transports with both men and equipment. The last of these were decommissioned in 1980 and sold abroad, leaving only a few thoroughly obsolete World War II era hulls still laid up in the Maritime Administration's reserve fleet. to Honolulu, Hawaii; the, landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat, World War II troopships - Army Center of Military History. 36. The story of USS 'Belinda', a U.S. naval ship, and its crew during the battle of the Pacific 1943-1945, as it prepares for action and landing troops on enemy beachheads. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks and ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. 7. 6 hold, resulting in complete darkness. The story of USS 'Belinda', Attack Transport PA22, launched late 1943 with regular-navy captain Hawks & ex-merchant captain MacDougall as boat commander. Goofs About a third of the way through the film, the Belinda is shown taking part in the assault on Makin Atoll. A total of 388 APA (troop) and AKA (cargo) attack transports were built for service in World War II in at least fifteen classes. Naval ship and its crew in the Pacific, from 1943 to 1945. The gain in initial stability with extensive flooding, as in the case of the ELECTRA, is accompanied by a large decrease in maximum righting arm and range of stability. As a matter of principle, however, wing tanks should be kept full, at least to the waterline, whenever possibility of underwater damage exists. She remained with her stern awash for some time and then began to sink slowly until the rudder apparently hit bottom. ELECTRA (AKA4). 26. The ship heeled sharply to port, then rolled to starboard about 40 and finally settled on a list of about 200 to starboard. Calculations made by the Bureau of Ships on the basis of information supplied with reference (j) brought out a very interesting set of conditions which resulted in the ELECTRA's initial stability being about one foot greater after damage than before. (1) At a draft of 30 feet and with an assumed permeability of .85 at the ends and .90 amidships, these ships had a three-compartment standard to the main deck at the quarterpoints and a four-compartment standard amidships without approaching the main deck. Steps shall be taken accordingly to insure that the report will be seen by those persons responsible for design, construction and repair of naval vessels, as well as for their operation, but by no others. The Commanding Officer attempted to slip the anchor chain and back the ship onto the beach, but the excessive trim by the bow placed the forecastle under water and backing the engines did no good as the propeller was out of water. Read the rules here. Despite personal friction, the two have .META_DESC_FILM_PROVIDERS see . JOSEPH HEWES, Action report dated 16 November 1942. 1 and No. Almost laughable incompetence gradually improves, but the crew remains far from perfect when the ship sees action, landing troops on enemy beachheadsand with few anticipating the challenges in store at Okinawa. 1 deep tank. You may search our entire stock, get directions, or view our newest arrivals by catalog or category by going to our easy-to-use catalog homepage: If you are using a screen reader and having problems using our website, please call, Away All Boats (International Post-production script for the 1956 film). The actual reclassification of these ships was not implemented until February 1943, by which time two ships that had APA numbers assigned (USSJoseph Hewes and USSEdward Rutledge) had been lost. She was of the VC2-S-AP5 Victory ship design type and named after Pickaway County, Ohio . 1. AWAY ALL BOATS (1956) [WW2] Made during the Cold War. In late March, Sanborn sailed west for Okinawa with the largest amphibious task force of the Pacific campaign. This door should be kept closed and dogged at all times except when actually in use. If the attack transport you want does 5. We are members of ABAA and ILAB, and specialize in First Editions of Modern Literature, Crime Fiction, Science Fiction, Jazz, and Books on Film, Music, Photography and the Arts. However, by the end of that decade, it was clear that boats No fires were started by the torpedo; or, if any had been started, they were immediately put out by the flooding. 3. 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