CSS Atlanta

[BronxYankee]

Was working on Dobbins Air Reserve Base and saw this outside of a Naval Unit:

 

[BronxYankee]

USS Atlanta (1861) - Wikipedia

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[Pollaco]

Is this the same bell that was aboard the Fingal, then the CSS Atlanta before it was captured?

 

[BronxYankee]

Is this the same bell that was aboard the Fingal, then the CSS Atlanta before it was captured?

Looks like it is. It looked like the real deal when I looked at it up close.

 

[rebelatsea]

Good find, but the dates are wrong, as CSS Atlanta became USS Atlanta in 1863. Having said that I wonder why they took the bell, as it usually stays with a ship for it's whole life.

 

[bdtex]

The things you find when you're not even really looking. I love it.

 

[Pollaco]

I'm not really familiar with that base. There is a Naval Unit on Dobbins Air Force Base? Navy jets not Navy boats right?

 

[BronxYankee]

I'm not really familiar with that base. There is a Naval Unit on Dobbins Air Force Base? Navy jets not Navy boats right?

Dobbins Air Reserve Base is in Marietta, GA. It's an Air Force Reserve Base but the unit I was working at was a Naval Security Forces Reserve Unit.

 

[Carronade]

I think that may be where I made an emergency landing in 1975. I was in NROTC summer training, 2nd class year, i.e. between sophomore and junior, and we were spending 1-2 weeks each with ships, submarines, Marines, and aviation to help us choose career paths (I had never wanted to do anything but ships, but it was fun seeing the rest). We were flying from Norfolk, Virginia to Corpus Christi, Texas, Navy flight school, on an old C-118 (DC-6) which had engine trouble and had to land somewhere near Atlanta, so it was probably Dobbins. We were stuck overnight, but it worked out o.k. for me and another middie; we met a couple of girls at the dinky little base club and just got back in time for the next leg of our flight.

 

[DaveBrt]

I think that may be where I made an emergency landing in 1975. I was in NROTC summer training, 2nd class year, i.e. between sophomore and junior, and we were spending 1-2 weeks each with ships, submarines, Marines, and aviation to help us choose career paths (I had never wanted to do anything but ships, but it was fun seeing the rest). We were flying from Norfolk, Virginia to Corpus Christi, Texas, Navy flight school, on an old C-118 (DC-6) which had engine trouble and had to land somewhere near Atlanta, so it was probably Dobbins. We were stuck overnight, but it worked out o.k. for me and another middie; we met a couple of girls at the dinky little base club and just got back in time for the next leg of our flight.

Your emergency landing story is far better than mine.

I was Intel Officer on an Amphibious Squadron Staff, at the end of my tour as we arrived in the western Pacific. The schedule had us arriving as reinforcements for an ongoing wargame. Since my time was up, and we were not going to be in port for three more weeks, the Commodore sent me ashore by helo to catch a flight back to the States. We took off in a Marine CH-46 while well out to sea. After about 30 minutes flight, we got a bad vibration that got worse and worse. We dropped to wave top height and the crewmen quickly made sure each of us passengers had our life jackets out and over our heads (in the use position) and our seatbelts were tight. A few LONG minutes later, we went feet dry (crossed over the shoreline) and immediately set down at the seaward end of the runway. The crewmen hustled us out quickly and we waited for a pickup to collect us passengers for transport to the terminal while the entire helo crew stood around the aircraft looking up at the forward rotor. Almost got fatally wet on that flight.

 

[Rhea Cole]

Built as an iron-hulled screw steamer in Scotland, the vessel was completed as the SS Fingal. After successfully running the blockade into Savannah 12, November 1862, she was converted into an iron-clad ram in 1862. She attempted to run the Union Blockade of Savannah GA 26 December 1863. In one of the very few classic line of battle ship to ship engagements of the Civil War, the Monitor Weehawken battered the CSS Atlanta into submission. Unlike the Monitor against the CSS Virginia, the Weehawken used full charges in her guns to devastating effect. The Atlanta's 7" Brooke's only left a few dents in the turret of the Weehawken. Ironically, the Weehawken was lost when she shipped water through the hawsehole while at anchor during a storm while anchored off Morris Island, Charleston on the 6th of December 1863.

Single banded 7" Broooke rifles from the CSS Atlanta U.S. Navy Museum at the Washington Navy Yard. Mathew Brady' studio photographed the USS Alabama on Trent's Reach James River, 1865. The boom extending from the bow is attached to a "torpedo rake".

After the war the former CSS/USS Alabama was renamed the Triumfo when sold to the Haitian government. She went down with all hands after departing Chester PA 18 December 1869 for Port-au-Prince.

 

[rebelatsea]

I think that may be where I made an emergency landing in 1975. I was in NROTC summer training, 2nd class year, i.e. between sophomore and junior, and we were spending 1-2 weeks each with ships, submarines, Marines, and aviation to help us choose career paths (I had never wanted to do anything but ships, but it was fun seeing the rest). We were flying from Norfolk, Virginia to Corpus Christi, Texas, Navy flight school, on an old C-118 (DC-6) which had engine trouble and had to land somewhere near Atlanta, so it was probably Dobbins. We were stuck overnight, but it worked out o.k. for me and another middie; we met a couple of girls at the dinky little base club and just got back in time for the next leg of our flight.

I presume anther couple of emergency landings were made !