Posted on Feb 13, 2015
Does anyone know a way to find out where a Naval Ship was on a specific Date?
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With all the talk of Joni Ernst and her status, I started looking at the regional conflict dates, and 11/11/1998 popped up.
It was a really odd date, and it happens to pop up close to when my last MEU was leaving the Gulf, so I figured I'd ask if anyone knew how to check the dates a specific ship was in an area or not.
The three ships in our group were LHD-2, LPD-6, and LSD-36.
I know we were in the Gulf on 10/31/1998 (I re-enlisted on that day), and I know we drew Tax exempt the following month. Just don't know where we were actually at.
This is more a curiosity thing, as I've been to Kuwait, and the 1991 date covers me.
It was a really odd date, and it happens to pop up close to when my last MEU was leaving the Gulf, so I figured I'd ask if anyone knew how to check the dates a specific ship was in an area or not.
The three ships in our group were LHD-2, LPD-6, and LSD-36.
I know we were in the Gulf on 10/31/1998 (I re-enlisted on that day), and I know we drew Tax exempt the following month. Just don't know where we were actually at.
This is more a curiosity thing, as I've been to Kuwait, and the 1991 date covers me.
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The folks at Hazegray.org could possibly help. That recently wouldn't be in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), which has the Tabular Record of Movements (TROMs) for many USN vessels. They may be able to point to some information.
Also cruise books, and sometimes some of the ships will have facebook pages for other veterans that could help.
v/r,
CPT Butler
Also cruise books, and sometimes some of the ships will have facebook pages for other veterans that could help.
v/r,
CPT Butler
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Usually things like this place, have what you are looking for but it looks like there's a hole in the timeline right where you want the info, - http://www.uscarriers.net/lhd2history.htm
Wikipedia is sometimes helpful but again hole in the timeline right where you want info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Duluth_(LPD-6)
And again -http://www.uscarriers.net/lhd2history.htm
You sure there wasn't some Secret Squirrel stuff going on?
Was there a Cruisebook? Check Walsworth Publishing Company, Cruise Book Office 1203 West Little Creek Road, Norfolk, Virginia 23505.
Mine from a different deployment has a nice map of everywhere we went.
Wikipedia is sometimes helpful but again hole in the timeline right where you want info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Duluth_(LPD-6)
And again -http://www.uscarriers.net/lhd2history.htm
You sure there wasn't some Secret Squirrel stuff going on?
Was there a Cruisebook? Check Walsworth Publishing Company, Cruise Book Office 1203 West Little Creek Road, Norfolk, Virginia 23505.
Mine from a different deployment has a nice map of everywhere we went.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
Maybe.....
Let's put it this way. We had TWO Beer days on that deployment. We were the active MEU when the Embassies got hit by Bin Laden. It was a rough Fall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings
I had actually checked the first link and saw the weird gap in the time line, and had that WTF moment of "did someone just lose the ship log?"
I got to do some REALLY fun training on that deployment. But there doesn't seem to be an accurate recording of it. Float book is kinda vague too.
Let's put it this way. We had TWO Beer days on that deployment. We were the active MEU when the Embassies got hit by Bin Laden. It was a rough Fall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings
I had actually checked the first link and saw the weird gap in the time line, and had that WTF moment of "did someone just lose the ship log?"
I got to do some REALLY fun training on that deployment. But there doesn't seem to be an accurate recording of it. Float book is kinda vague too.
1998 United States embassy bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on 7 August 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the embassies of the United States in two East African cities – the Embassy in Dar es Salaam, the largest city of Tanzania, and the Embassy in Nairobi, the capital and largest city of Kenya.[1]
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GySgt Joe Strong
I know that my particular cruises Wiki page was way short of info on my deployment until I took my Cruise book and annotated the page, giving of course the reference source as a citation.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
I've actually got both cruise books.... the first one is great. It's got dates, places, people. The second one... if I didn't know better I would say the CIA snuck into the house and redacted it.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
Leatherneck,
There is another source of a ship's location you can try...the ship's deck log. You can get in contact with the Naval Historical Center on the Navy Yard in DC and ask about access. They are responsible for collecting deck logs from all ships. From what I remember, the last two years are maintained on site then they are transferred to the National Achieves.
The deck logs are legal records so, besides historical significance, they are maintained in case of a investigation or other legal matters.
Leatherneck,
There is another source of a ship's location you can try...the ship's deck log. You can get in contact with the Naval Historical Center on the Navy Yard in DC and ask about access. They are responsible for collecting deck logs from all ships. From what I remember, the last two years are maintained on site then they are transferred to the National Achieves.
The deck logs are legal records so, besides historical significance, they are maintained in case of a investigation or other legal matters.
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Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS
Thanks much Sir. it was just abject curiosity more than anything. It looks like my ship was ping-ponging back and forth in the Strait of Hormuz in Nov 1998, because.... ops... I was trying to figure out is the 11/11/98 date was tied to our ARG or Carrier group somehow, or if it was just a "random" date.
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