Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Telescope, v. 11, n. 10 (October 1962), p. 215

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Telescope -215- Above: U.S.S. YANTIC , painting in Brodhead Naval Armory in Detroit. Events have conspired to dedicate this issue of Telescope to the activities of the United States Naval Reserve on the Great Lakes. Immediately below, Father Dowling has presented a list of U. S. naval vessels that have been in reserve training service on the Lakes. To this we add views of a selection of Lake naval reserve vessels in a mural of the dining room of Detroit's Brodhead Naval Armory. These appear at the top of this and six following pages. A group of painters prepared the mural in the late thirties, so the vessels date from before then. Others in the mural not shown here include U.S.S. WILMINGTON, U.S.S. DON JUAN de AUSTRIA, U.S.S. YOSEMITE (not on lakes), U.S.S. WILMETTE and U.S.S. DUBUQUE. We are grateful for courtesy of the Armory's Adm. Jacobi and Mr. Armstrong. Bill Hoey provides two pages of photographs of the guided missile destroyer IAWRENCE (DDG 4) at Detroit on her shakedown cruise into the lakes this September. IAWRENCE flew a pennant bearing Lawrence's words, "Don't Give Up the Ship," as did Perry from his own LAWRENCE in the Battle of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813. We presume that next year's 150th anniversary of that battle will be further observed. Third, Dossin Museum will dedicate its periscope from submarine U.S.S. TAMBOR this month. TAMBOR was recently scrapped after being stationed some years at Detroit. In the Midway operation in 1942, TAMBOR's periscope sighted several Japanese warships including the cruisers MOGAMI and MIKUMA. TAMBOR was too slow to draw near to them, so she radioed their location to the U.S. carrier ENTERPRISE. Dive bombers from the "Big E" sank MIKUMA and severely damaged MOGAMI, as shown in a famous photograph. Today, in more peaceful pursuits, TAMBOR's periscope looks up and down the Detroit River. The Great Lakes Navy By the Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J.

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