![]() The shellfire killed one man during the attack. A launch carried the wounded into Georgetown, and Gypsum King landed the remaining survivors. Norwegian SS Sorwangen rescued the survivors about six hours later and transferred them at the Demerara Beacon (now removed) to Canadian SS Gypsum King. Officers on U-515 questioned the survivors before the U-boat departed. U-515 then surfaced, passed astern, and began shelling the starboard side of the vessel, expending sixteen shells at 200 yards. They escaped in three boats in less than ten minutes. The seven officers, twenty-five crewmen, and nine armed guards began abandoning ship without orders from the master. ![]() ![]() The explosion carried away the hatch covers and the well deck bulkhead, destroyed the living quarters, ruptured steam lines, flooded the #4 and #5 holds, and damaged the steering gear. Within moments a torpedo fired by U-515 struck on the starboard side at the after bulkhead of the #5 hold. Forty-one miles north of the Georgetown Beacon, Guyana and just after midnight, a lookout spotted a blinking light on the port side. Huntington was convoying six troopships across the Atlantic to France and the balloon observation was being made as it transited the war zone.ġ942 – American merchantman Mae departed Trinidad en route to Georgetown, British Guiana, steering a zigzag course. For this act of heroism, McGunigal was later awarded the Medal of Honor, the first of the Great War. As the balloon was pulled toward the ship, Patrick McGunigal, Ships Fitter First Class, ( – 19 January 1936) jumped overboard, cleared the tangle and put a line around Lieutenant Hoyt so that he could be hauled up on deck. Hoyt, was knocked out of the basket and caught underwater in the balloon rigging. 5) was hit by a squall and while being hauled down struck the water so hard that the observer, Lieutenant (jg) Henry W. The accident was not considered to be due to faults in the aircraft, but to have been caused by Cammell's lack of experience with the aircraft.ġ917 - A kite balloon from USS Huntington (Armored Cruiser No. Wright was hospitalized until 31 October 1908 and spent several more weeks on crutches.ġ911 - Lieutenant Reginald Archibald Cammell of the British Air Battalion was killed conducting a trial flight of an ASL Valkyrie Type B with his own engine fitted. Clemens, Michigan, was later named for the first U.S. Selfridge AFB (now Selfridge Air National Guard Base), near Mt. It is now on display at the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C., after having been accepted for exhibition on 20 October 1911. This aircraft served for two years and was retired on. The trials continued the following year with a new smaller version of the Wright A which became the first military aircraft when purchased by the US Army. During the flight, which had begun soon after 5pm., a propeller broke and severed control wires. During this time, Jamestown serves as part of the Brazil Squadron.ġ861 - During the Civil War, a landing party from gunboat USS Massachusetts takes possession of Ship Island, Miss., forcing the Confederates to evacuate.ġ862 - American Civil War: Union 346-ton whaler Virginia was captured and burned in the Atlantic, some 78 nm (145 km) WNW of Flores Island in the Azores by screw sloop-of-war CSS Alabama.ġ902 - Landing parties of Marines and Sailors from sternwheel gunboat USS Cincinnati go ashore at Coln, Panama (later Colombia) to protect American property during a period of unrest.ġ908 - Army Signal Corps Wright Model A, Army Signal Corps serial number 1, piloted by Orville Wright, crashes at Fort Myer, Virginia, killing Lt. Navy ship in service.ġ852 - A party of Marines from sloop-of-war USS Jamestown land at Buenos Aires, Argentina, to protect Americans during a revolution. Named in honor of the Constitution, USS Constitution is launched in 1797 and to date is the world's oldest commissioned U.S. 1787 - The Continental Convention signs the Constitution of the United States at Philadelphia, Pa., replacing the Articles of the Confederation.
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