USS Tripoli (CVE-64) - US Navy - Korean War Project

USS Tripoli (CVE-64)

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Entry: 74691 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	HISTORY OF USS TRIPOLI CVE 64

FRED VONVOIGT SR. wrote on May 14, 2010 City and State: TEMECULA CA Unit: INTERIOR COMMUNICATIONS Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN Comments: SERVED ABOARD 1952-1953 Keywords: U.S.S. TRIPOLI CVE 64


Entry: 67183 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	LOOKIN FOR SHIPMATES

EDMUND WENTWORTH wrote on September 12, 2008 City and State: BILLERICA MA Unit: Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN Comments: On the tripolli till july 1955. Looking for any ship mates or any information regarding the ship. Lost everything would like picture or to get in touch with anyone. Keywords:


Entry: 63742 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)

JUDY DELANO-TURCOTTE wrote on January 9, 2008 City and State: NAPLES ME Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My Dad was on the USS Tripoli during the years of 1952 to 1956 . His name is Lewis Delano (Red) Anyone wishing to contact him please email me.Thanks Keywords:


Entry: 51463 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	USS TRIPOLI CVE-64 CRUISE BOOK

RONALD HUNTER wrote on June 11, 2005 City and State: NORFOLK VA Unit: Service or Relationship: AIR FORCE VETERAN Comments: Have a USS Tripoli CVE-64 cruise book (1954) for sale. Best offer. Keywords: USS Tripoli CVE-64


Entry: 48671 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	USS TRIPOLI SHIPMATE

RUSS MARTIN wrote on February 3, 2005 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My grandfather was on the USS Tripoli as a Torpedoman during WWII. His name was Olen Johnson from Arkansas. He left the service in 1945. Keywords:


Entry: 44965 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	MY FATHER SERVED ABOARD USS TRIPOLI IN 1945

DAVID WELSH wrote on August 3, 2004 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My father, LCDR Clifford Welsh USNR, served as Chief Engineer of Tripoli from February to November 1945, a period during which the ship was mostly involved in pilot qualification training. He passed away last year and I am editing his WWII memoirs for publication. They would be very interesting reading for anyone with an interest in this ship. I need all possible information about Tripoli during this period, particularly: Photographs Log Books Details of the ship's movements Interior details of the engine rooms, catapult shack, and officers' berthing areas Career details for the following officer: Captain Hunte I would really like to acquire a copy of the WWII cruise book for Tripoli and would pay A LOT for it. Due credit will be given for anything contributed. Keywords: Clifford Welsh, USS Tripoli


Entry: 36857 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	EDWARD R. BLACK, 'B' DIV

RODNEY FRANKLIN wrote on September 11, 2003 City and State: ROANOKE VA Unit: 'B' DIVISION (AFT BOILERROOM) Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: Ed Black was from New Castle Indiana and served aboard the Tripoli (B Div) from 1951-1955. Would love to contact him, or anyone who knows of his whereabouts. Keywords:


Entry: 16823 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	USS TRIPOLI

JANICE GIRARD wrote on May 27, 2001 City and State: ROSENBERG TX Unit: Service or Relationship: FAMILY MEMBER Comments: My father was in WWII. He passed away in 1978, at the age of 56. He was in the Navy, I believe as a torpedoman. I think he was on the USS Tripoi. Was the USS Tripoi in WWII, or was it only in Korean War? Keywords: H. L. Chuzzy Jenkins was his name. He was from Sugar Land Texas.


Entry: 14391 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	LOOKING FOR SHIPMATES-USS TRIPOLI CVE 64

WILLIAM CUPPS wrote on January 18, 2001 City and State: PLANO TX Unit: USS TRIPOLI CVE 64 Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: USS TRIPOLI CVE 64 Keywords:


Entry: 14057 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	FORMER USS TRIPOLI SHIPMATE

LEE RUTHRUFF wrote on January 4, 2001 City and State: VA BEACH VA Unit: PERSONNEL Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: PERSONNEL Keywords:


Entry: 13320 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	LOOKING FOR SHIPMATES!

ROSIE ANDERSON wrote on November 28, 2000 City and State: Unit: Service or Relationship: FRIEND OF VETERAN Comments: He has a few names and one in partuicular is a Carl Brashear! Anyone that remembers him or would like to contact him, please e-mail me! I will forward all messages etc to Charles. He is my boyfriends cousin from the Bronx, N.Y. Thanks!!!!! Keywords: Looking for former Shipmates from the USS Tripoli who were on the ship during the Korean War! I'm looking for guys that remember a Charles Mauro!


Entry: 5053 USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64)	SHIP'S HISTORY - KOREAN WAR SERVICE

CRAIG ROTHHAMMER wrote on November 17, 1999 City and State: LA CRESCENTA CA Unit: USS GRASP (ARS-24) USS BOLSTER (ARS-38) Service or Relationship: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA Comments: USS TRIPOLI (CVE-64) ...the erstwhile "hunter-killer" began her new career as an aircraft transport and ferry. Displacement: 7,800 t. Length: 5123 Beam: 65 Extreme Width: 1081 Draft: 226 Speed: 19 k. Complement: 860 Armament: 1 5; 16 40mm; 20 20mm Class: CASABLANCA Maritime Commission standard type: S4-S2-BB3 Communist aggression in Korea in the summer of 1950 resulted in the return of many of the Navy's reserve ships to active service to support American operations in the Far East. Accordingly, TRIPOLI was recommissioned at New York on 5 January 1952, Capt. Raymond N. Sharp in command. Assigned to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS), Atlantic Area, the erstwhile "hunter-killer" began her new career as an aircraft transport and ferry. Over the next six years, TRIPOLI conducted 44 transport voyages, mostly to European and Mediterranean ports but with one visit to Hawaii and two to the Far East. Following the ship's third voyage to Europe, TRIPOLI was berthed at the Port Newark Terminal on 5 August 1952, where she loaded 45 Republic F-84 Thunderjet aircraft, 90 wingtip fuel tanks, and related gear for transport to the Far East. After going to sea on 7 August, bound for Japan, TRIPOLI steamed via the Panama Canal and San Diego and made port at Yokosuka with her vital cargo on 5 September, where cranes lifted the reinforcements ashore--soon to be in action in their ground attack role in Korea. After onloading battle-damaged aircraft for repairs in the United States, the carrier embarked 245 Navy and Marine Corps personnel for rotation back to Alameda Naval Air Station, Calif. Making port on the west coast on 22 September, she then put to sea for the Far East a second time, once again carrying jet aircraft to Yokosuka, as well as transporting men of the Sea Echelon of Boat Unit 1. Loading a cargo of helicopters and military passengers, TRIPOLI returned to the west coast and arrived at Alameda on Armistice Day, 1953. Subsequently making her sole Hawaiian voyage under MSTS, TRIPOLI then headed east to finish out her career with transport voyages to European and Mediterranean ports. From: DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN NAVAL FIGHTING SHIPS Keywords: MILITARY SEA TRANSPORTATION SERVICE, BOAT UNIT 1, HELICOPTERS

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