Hide Your Daughters, The Fleet Is In

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Posted 15 months, 15 days ago

ttomtucker
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San Diego staged this exposition in 1915 to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canel. The Navy fleet was on hand for the celebration. The three foot photo post card shows six armored cruisers, four torpedo boats, and two submarines.

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1. AR8Jason, 15 months, 13 days ago
   Are the names of the ships given?
2. AR8Jason, 15 months, 13 days ago
   http://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/sdexpo4.htm
3. ttomtucker, 15 months, 13 days ago
   AR8Jason, I don't know if you lived in San Pedro, CA like I did when the fleet was out to sea, the town was dead. Boy when the fleet came back in all hell broke loose on Beacon St. My dad was moonlighting as a bouncer at the notorious Shangrila Bar. He would say that's no place for a woman to be when the fleet is in. I sent the photo to the Navy Archives and they could not ID the ships, because there were no hull numbers then. I thought they were battleship and they informed me they were battle cruisers with the four stacks.
4. AR8Jason, 15 months, 13 days ago
   I lived in San Diego and the fleet was always in.
   
   Every where I went, it seemed the fleet was always in. Then again, I was in the "fleet."
   
   The roughest times was payday, or a ship had been gone awhile, and they came back with their wallets full.
   
   Standing Shore Patrol at the EM Club at Pearl Harbor following Payday, especially if a "Jar Head" Carrier or a Aircraft Carrier was in, was the worst.
5. AR8Jason, 15 months, 13 days ago
   The girls in San Diego had an advantage, as you never knew if the girl you were eyeing was a Captains daughter. Have you heard of the song, "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor" ... All kind of bad things are in the response including "put him in bed with the Captains daughter."
   
   Once at Balboa Park Zoo (Free to in uniform sailors) and a good place to meet "nice" girls a couple of buddies of mine and I got in went to the restroom and changed to civies and began strolling around looking at the animals. The ones in skirts. We met a group of five and had a good day together. My favorite was a very nice blond. At the end of the day we exchanged info, and I found out she was a Captains Daughter.
6. AR8Jason, 15 months, 13 days ago
   Back to the link I posted,
   
   http://www.sandiegohistory.org/pancal/sdexpo4.htm
   
   Exploring the postcards etc. they have from the Panama/California Expo. you may find out what ships were in for the Expo and therefore identify the ships in the photo.
   
   San Diego is now known as a Navy town, but it wasn't then. Ships coming to town was news. The News Papers could be of help as well.
7. ttomtucker, 15 months, 13 days ago
   AR8Jason, I have added another photo. What I have found out about what ships were in San Diego bay during the exposition. The Navy reclassified Battle Cruisers to Armored Cruisers and at the same time changed there names from being named after states to cities. These were the ships in the SD bay.
   USS California named changed to USS San Diego
   USS Maryland " " USS Frederick
   USS Tennessee " " USS Memphis
   USS Washington " " USS Seattle
   USS Texas '' '' USS Galveston
   USS Missouri " " USS St Louis
   Now to tell what name went to what ship was by the white rings on there smoke stacks. The armored crusier dead center in my photo with two white rings on her first stack was the USS San Diego. if you look at all the armored cruisers there are one or two white rings on either of the four stacks. One white ring on the first stack is the first ship of that squadron.
8. ttomtucker, 15 months, 13 days ago
   I added a second photo number 4, it has two white rings on the second stack. this would be the second ship in line for the second squadron. I believe this is the USS
   Frederick.
9. AR8Jason, 15 months, 13 days ago
   I noticed the first one does not have a boiler lit, the second has just one. Most would have a boiler lit to have electricity. Odd the San Diego does not unless she was docked.
   
   What does the caption say in the upper left corner. Was this taken from San Diego side or Coronado side?
10. ttomtucker, 15 months, 12 days ago
    AR8Jason, the caption reads: United States Pacific Coast Fleet of Battleships, Torpedo Boats, and Submarines, San Diego Harbor, California.

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