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 Post WWII Merchant Service
 Vaccaro Brothers SS Co.
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97k | SS Vacuum wearing the colors of Vaccaro Brothers SS Co., underway, date and location unknown .
Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site |
Robert Hurst | |
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43k | Vaccaro Brothers tanker SS Vacuum moored pierside, date and location unknown.
Auke Visser's MOBIL Tankers & Tugs Site |
Robert Hurst | |
| USS Dawn (IX-186) |
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126k | USS Dawn (IX-186) discharging AVGAS at the Diloma Gas Jetty at Subic Bay, circa 1 April to 19 July 1945. | Forwarded by John Clingman for Daniel Wilmes to honor his father Robert K. Wilmes MM/3c USS Dawn | |
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211k | Two of USS Dawn (IX-186)'s crew playing cards in a raft, near the fantail, while underway. date and location unknown. | Forwarded by John Clingman for Daniel Wilmes to honor his father Robert K. Wilmes MM/3c USS Dawn | |
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338k | USS Dawn (IX-186) moored pierside at Naval Station Norfolk, VA. awaiting decommissioning, circa 8 February to 12 April 1946. | Forwarded by John Clingman for Daniel Wilmes to honor his father Robert K. Wilmes MM/3c USS Dawn | |
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573k | USS Dawn (IX-186) moored pierside at Naval Station Norfolk, VA. awaiting decommissioning, circa 8 February to 12 April 1946. | Forwarded by John Clingman for Daniel Wilmes to honor his father Robert K. Wilmes MM/3c USS Dawn | |
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658k | USS Dawn (IX-186) moored pierside at Naval Station Norfolk, VA. awaiting decommissioning, circa 8 February to 12 April 1946. | Forwarded by John Clingman for Daniel Wilmes to honor his father Robert K. Wilmes MM/3c USS Dawn | |
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89k | Authorization for USS Dawn (IX-186)'s boat crew to enter the Olongapo area to repair the ships boat. Click here to get the story behind the memo |
Daniel Wilmes to honor his father Robert K. Wilmes MM/3c USS Dawn | |
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| An antidote to the history ofUSS Dawn contributed by Daniel Wilmes in honor of his father Robert K. Wilmes MM/3c "When my father's tanker was in Hollandia, they were given an LCVP to use to travel in the harbor, he said this was standard practice for ships which didn't have motorized craft of their own. Upon leaving in a convoy to the Phil. on Jan 24, 1945, they enlisted the aid of a Liberty ship to hoist the LCVP on deck (Dawn had cranes capable of lifting nothing heavier than hoses and drums). This "stolen" craft they used from then on, there is reference in his journal of being alongside another Liberty ship to unload the LCVP when they got to the Phil. At one point they had to cross to another island when no helpful freighter was around, and so it was towed a few hundred miles with my father and a cox[swain] aboard in case the towline parted. My father said it was the most miserable "cruise" he had ever been on, being dragged through rather than over waves... The manual for the Greymarine engine is in his sea chest still, he was responsible for The manual for the Greymarine engine is in his sea chest still, he was responsible for keeping it running. At one point it did break down, and I have an order giving permission for him to travel to Olongapo to get the LCVP "belonging to Dawn" repaired." |