Posted on Mar 9, 2021
Army ship named for Black Civil War hero Robert Smalls will sail to Charleston next week
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A revived Army watercraft named for one of South Carolina’s most prominent Black heroes will soon be sailing through Charleston.
While the ship was supposed to be decommissioned by the military, it was brought back into active service and named for Robert Smalls — an enslaved man from Beaufort who became a Civil War hero and congressman.
The Maj. Gen. Robert Smalls (LSV-8) is being recommissioned in Hawaii and “is the first Army watercraft to be named after an African American and will be making the longest voyage by an Army vessel since WWII,” Maj. Oliver Schuster, an Army spokesman, said in a statement.
While the ship was supposed to be decommissioned by the military, it was brought back into active service and named for Robert Smalls — an enslaved man from Beaufort who became a Civil War hero and congressman.
The Maj. Gen. Robert Smalls (LSV-8) is being recommissioned in Hawaii and “is the first Army watercraft to be named after an African American and will be making the longest voyage by an Army vessel since WWII,” Maj. Oliver Schuster, an Army spokesman, said in a statement.
Army ship named for Black Civil War hero Robert Smalls will sail to Charleston next week
Posted from postandcourier.com
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That’s jarring - I was at the original commissioning ceremony in Baltimore in 2007. I hadn’t realized she’d been decommissioned.
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
CW4 Guy Butler One of the Questions/Jokes from My Time During the Cold War. Who Has More Aircraft the Air Force or the Navy. At the Time the Navy Did. Surprise, Surprise. Who had More Waterborne Vessels the Navy or the Army? the Army Actually Did. The Ownership and Some of the Operational Control of Tugs, "Donuts" (Bilge Collectors) Barges (To Include a Living Barge where I Resided for Several Months) They Were Army.
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CW4 Guy Butler
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel When I was with the 359th Trans Battalion, I had 8 “Mike boat” landing craft, 2 small tugs, a large tug, the LSV, a barge-Derrick, 2 cargo barges, and the floating bomb fuel barge on the books. Also a LCU-2000 for crew certification and a handful of “pier queens”...
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