USS Vestal (AR-4) was a repair ship in service with the United States Navy from 1913 to 1946. Before her conversion to a repair ship, she had served as a collier since 1909. Vestal served in both World Wars. She was damaged during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and received two battle stars for her World War II service.
The history of USSVestal (AR-4) began when Erie (Fleet Collier No. 1) was authorized on 17 April 1904; but the ship was renamed Vestal in October 1905...
converted to the repair ship USSVestal (AR-4) in 1913 USS Erie (PG-50), a gunboat launched in 1936 and sunk in 1942 USS Lake Erie This article includes...
explosion of the U.S.S. Arizona, to which the U.S.S. Vestal was moored, he swam back to his ship. The entire forward part of the U.S.S. Arizona was a blazing...
HMS Vestal, the name of eight ships of the Royal Navy USSVestal (AR-4), a US Navy ship Vestal moth Rhodometra sacraria, a moth of Europe, Africa and...
sailors from USS California, three from USS Arizona, two each from USS Nevada and USS Oklahoma, and one each from USS Utah, USSVestal, USS West Virginia...
USS Arizona was a battleship built for the United States Navy in the mid-1910s. Named in honor of the 48th state, she was the second and last ship in...
Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia. A repair ship (former coal ship), Vestal, was also present, moored next to Arizona. When the United States Navy decided...
USSVester (SP-686) was a United States Navy patrol vessel and minesweeper in commission from 1917 to 1919. Vester was built as a wooden-hulled commercial...
damaged vessels included USS Pennsylvania, USS Maryland, USS Tennessee, USS Helena, USS Honolulu, USS Raleigh, USSVestal, and USS Curtiss. Other ships had...
HMS H31, USS Nereus, HMS Triumph, Vizcaya Other incidents 7 Dec: USS Gamble, USS Maryland, USS Pennsylvania, USS Tennessee, USS Thresher, USSVestal 8 Dec:...
Danish professional football forward Saskia Vester (born 1959), German actress and author Other USSVester (SP-686), a United States Navy patrol vessel...
Repairs continued even as she sortied, with work crews from the repair ship USSVestal, herself damaged in the attack on Pearl Harbor six months earlier, still...
USS Prometheus (AR-3) USSVestal (AR-4) USS Vulcan (AR-5) USS Ajax (AR-6) USS Hector (AR-7) USS Jason (AR-8) USS Delta (AR-9) USS Alcor (AR-10) USS Rigel (AR-11)...
USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts, she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in...
commanding USSVestal during the attack on Pearl Harbor Rear Admiral Theodore E. Chandler (1894–1945), U.S. Navy, Navy Cross for action aboard USS Louisville...
Enterprise's damage control officer along with 40 men off the repair ship USSVestal. He wrote that on 11 November: "She made the open sea with her decks....
drydocks. The USSVestal was next to the USS Arizona during the attack. Other repair ships during the attack: USS Medusa (AR-1) and USS Rigel (AR-11)...
Pennsylvania. He served from 1934 to 1937 on the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and the repair ship USSVestal (AR-4). Transferred in June 1937 to the Naval Hospital...
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