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Help Save the USS Laffey

Dubbed "The Ship That Would Not Die" for withstanding kamikaze attacks during World War II, the Laffey sprang more than 100 rusting leaks late last year where she is moored at Patriot's Point Naval Museum near Charleston, SC. Unsure if she would survive a hurricane season, Patriots Point considered turning the destroyer into an artificial reef before learning that would cost almost as much as salvaging her.

Our Mt Mac crew toured the Laffey during the Charleston Reunion and most are familiar with her history. An estimated 3 million is needed to drydock the ship and fix the leaks. Here is the link for more info....

   
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Saluting Harold Steves RDM3, who served his country proudly aboard the Mount McKinley AGC-7 during the period 44; 45; 46 in J Division.

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Amphibious AGC's participated in all aspects of landings. We have found written details about one such landing in World War II in the pacific where AGC's directed the fighter planes involved. Read about a CIC (Combat Information Center) Operation in an AGC during the landings at Iwo Jima.... the story mentions the Eldorado and the Auburn.


 

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  • 02/01/1959 - USS Mt McKinley AGC-7 - Mount McKinley's third Mediterranean navy cruise from 20 February to 26 August 1959 was marked by seven amphibious exercises involving U.S. and NATO forces. In February 1960, the ship sailed to Valpariso, Chile, via Panama Canal to provide communications support for President Eisenhower's good will visit to Latin America. On 19 April, the AGC deployed to 6th Fleet, returning to Norfolk 7 December. Upon completion of her yard period in the summer of 1961, Mount McKinley made her fifth deployment to the Mediterranean from September to February 1962, acting as flagship for several large-scale amphibious exercises

  • 02/01/1960 - USS Mt McKinley AGC-7 - Mount McKinley's third Mediterranean navy cruise from 20 February to 26 August 1959 was marked by seven amphibious exercises involving U.S. and NATO forces. In February 1960, the ship sailed to Valpariso, Chile, via Panama Canal to provide communications support for President Eisenhower's good will visit to Latin America. On 19 April, the AGC deployed to 6th Fleet, returning to Norfolk 7 December. Upon completion of her yard period in the summer of 1961, Mount McKinley made her fifth deployment to the Mediterranean from September to February 1962, acting as flagship for several large-scale amphibious exercises

  • 02/12/1946 - USS Mt McKinley AGC-7 - On 21 March 1945, with ComPhibGru 7 aboard, Mount McKinley proceeded to Kerama Retto off the southern coast of Okinawa. Six days prior to the last major assault of the war, AGC-7 directed the landing of the 77th Infantry Division. For the next 58 days the navy ship underwent continuous air combat conditions, her crew going to General Quarters 147 times, but, despite this constant strain and lack of sleep, the ship functioned at full efficiency. On 22 May, she sailed for Saipan, thence to Pearl Harbor and San Francisco, arriving in CONUS 23 June. In overhaul for 2 months, she deployed 20 August arriving Sasebo, Japan on 23 September, she participated in landing occupation troops there and at Kure. Returning to the United States 12 February 1946, she sailed in the early summer for Bikini Atoll where she was flagship for Operation "Cross Roads." Following the atomic bomb test in July, the ship operated out of San Diego for the next 18 months.

  • 02/16/1804 - Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it

  • 02/20/1861 - Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms

  • 02/22/1917 - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships

  • 02/26/1942 - WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"

  • 02/26/1944 - 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed

Famous Birthdays February ..

  • 02/04/1764 - Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral/minister of Navy
  • 02/06/1933 - Mamie Van Doren, Rowena SD, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters) [or 2/2]
  • 02/11/1812 - Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
  • 02/11/1840 - Sanuel Dana Greene, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1884
  • 02/15/1892 - James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy
  • 02/18/1805 - Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
  • 02/23/1633 - Samuel Pepys, London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs)

Famous Deaths for February ..

  • 02/28/1844 - Thommas W Gilmer, Navy Secretary, dies in explosion on USS Princeton



What happened to the Mt McKinley?

A note of interest from member Bill Ellis: This is a message I received several years ago from one of our members
concerning the fate of the McKinley.

"Subj:   Re: Mt McKinley    
Date:   09/04/2002 7:13:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:   (withheld)
To: Bill Ellis  
Sent from the Internet (Details)    
   
Bill:

I'm sorry I took so long to get back to you.  My point of contact was out of town on vacation.  My friend referred me to Ken Alt of Naval Ships in Bremerton, Washington.

Ken tells me the records reflect the USS Mt. McKinley AGC-7/LCC-7 was sold in 1977 to a Scrap Metal company in Terminal Island, California.

Unfortunately the ship has long since been reclaimed for root metal products!

Wish I could have been able to tell you she was still alive and kicking and provided a location to view her, but alas.....

Ernie"

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