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USAJMP Joseph Henry
ex
 USACS Joseph Henry (1909 - 1937)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Cable Ship / Mineplanter:
  • Built in 1908 by the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA. as a cable laying ship for the War Department’s US Army Submarine Cable Service of the Army Signal Corps
  • Launched on 30 December 1908
  • Accepted for service by the Quartermaster Department on 31 March 1909, originally as a Signal Corps cable ship
  • Designated as U.S. Army Cable Ship Joseph Henry in honor of Dr. Joseph Henry, renowned scientist who invented the magnetic relay for electrical cables and performed experiments with new forms of casting large artillery pieces
  • Stationed at Fort Totten, N.Y., January 1919
  • Assigned to the Middle Atlantic Coast Artillery District, 4 May 1920
  • Further assigned to the Coast Defenses of Eastern New York, 8 November 1920
  • Redesignated USAMP Joseph Henry, 10 February 1921
  • Transferred, 16 November 1921 to Fort Wood, N.Y.
  • Relieved from the Coast Defenses of Eastern New York, 25 November 1921 and assigned to the Coast Defenses of Sandy Hook
  • Conducted six separate voyages to perform mining and cable operations at each of the Coast Defense commands on the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf Coast between November 1920 and September 1923
  • Transferred, 29 June 1923, to Governors Island, N.Y.
  • Personnel assigned to Headquarters Battery, 7th Coast Artillery Regiment, 30 June 1924
  • On detached service June to October 1926 to conduct training with the Harbor Defenses of Galveston, Pensacola, and Chesapeake Bay.
  • Personnel relieved from Headquarters Battery, 7th Coast Artillery, 20 August 1926
  • Transferred in 1928 to Fort Hancock, N.J.
  • On detached service February to November 1928 to conduct training with the Harbor Defenses of Eastern New York, Pensacola, Galveston, Portland, Boston, and Long Island Sound.
  • On detached service March 1930 to June 1930 and September 1930 to April 1931 to conduct training with the Harbor Defenses of the Delaware, Chesapeake Bay, Boston, Pensacola, Charleston, and Narragansett Bay
  • On detached service from March 1936 to October 1936 to conduct training with the Harbor Defenses of Portland, Boston, and Narragansett Bay
  • On detached service from February to May 1937 to conduct training with the Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay, Eastern New York, and Portland
  • On detached service from July 1937 to September 1937 to conduct training with the Harbor Defenses of Boston, Narragansett Bay, and Long Island Sound
  • Redesignated U.S. Army Cable Ship Joseph Henry, 31 December 1937
  • Returned to Mine Planter service by June 1940
  • On detached service in September 1940 to Fort Monroe, VA
  • Permanently transferred on 17 September 1941 to Army Base, Boston, MA., and assigned to the Harbor Defenses of Boston
  • Inactivated and departed U S Army service, 11 August 1945
  • >Sold to the Greek Government in 1947, renamed Thalis O. Milissios used for cable maintenance
  • Withdrawn from Greek service in 1991
  • Owned by Faliro Maritime Museum, Athens, Greece as of 2002.
  • Converted into a Museum for the Greek Merchant Navy
    Specifications:
    Displacement 601 t. gross
    Length 160'
    Beam 32'
    Draft 17'
    Speed unknown
    Complement
    Officers, unknown
    Enlisted, twelve
    Civilian, unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Fuel Capacities unknown
    Propulsion
    two reciprocating steam engines
    two shafts, 900shp
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    USACS Joseph Henry
    Joseph Henry 95k USACS Joseph Henry moored pierside, date and location unknown. History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications
    Joseph Henry 116k USACS Joseph Henry under way Galveston, Texas January 1923.
    Photo courtesy Randy Biddle     		Indicator Loops
    USAJMP Joseph Henry
    Joseph Henry 48k USAJMP Joseph Henry moored pierside, date and location unknown. US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol. 2 Courtesy Martin Dwyer, Scranton, PA.
    The history for USACS / USAJMP Joseph Henry is from US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol. 2
    Commanding Officers
    01Capt. H. E. West, USA23 August 1917 - 24 October 1919
    02Capt. Willard M. Hall, USA24 October 1919 - 13 November 1920
    031st Lt. Ernest C. Bomar, USA23 November 1920 - 19 January 1922
    04Maj. Belton O. Kennedy, USA19 January 1921 - 22 February 1922
    051st Lt. Joseph Harris, USA22 February 1922 - 20 October 1923
    06Unknown21 October 1923 - 10 July 1924
    07Capt. Thomas R. Parker, USA10 July 1924 - 4 September 1927
    08Capt. LeRoy H. Lohmann, USA5 September 1927 - 30 June 1931
    091st Lt. Charles F. Wilson, USA1 July 1931 - 15 October 1934
    101st Lt. John D. Robertson, USA15 October 1934 - 2 March 1935
    112d Lt. Richard S. Spangler, USA2 March 1935 - 9 August 1935
    121st Lt. Paul A. Roy 9 August, USA1935 - 5 October 1935
    13Capt. D. Burgo Gill, USA5 October 1935 - 7 March 1937
    14Capt. William B. Hawthorne, USA7 March 1937 - 4 September 1937
    15Maj. James B. Carroll, USA2 September 1937 - 30 June 1941
    16Lt. Col. Gerald Gibbs, USA30 June 1941 - January 1942
    US Army Order of Battle 1919-1941 Vol. 2
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications - USAF Basil O. Lenoir
    Indicator Loops - The Army Cable Ship Joseph Henry
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    Last Updated 8 February 2019