Rare Collection 1925 USS Oklahoma BB-37 Visits Melbourne AU Photos Programs Menu

Description: Rare Collection 1925 USS Oklahoma BB-37 Visits Melbourne AU Photos Programs Menu Up for sale is a great collection of photos and ephemera from the 1925 US Navy Fllet visit to Melbourne Australia. All original and not reproduction. Included in collection: 5 3/4"x 3 1/2" Photo 1 - USS Oklahoma Marines and Sailors marching in Melbourne. Photo 2 - USS Oklahoma docking pierside in Melbourne- welcoming Aussies on pier. Ephemera 1. Invitation to an informal dance given by the Crew of the USS Oklahoma on board at Melbourne July 29th, 1925 2. Dance card with pencil - To Meet the Petty Officers and Men of the United States Fleet - Programme July 30th, 1925 3. USS Oklahoma Printed Booklet - Visit of United States Fleet to Melbourne Australia - Programme of Entertainment 23 July to 6th August 1925. 17 pages - details each days events while visiting Melbourne. 4. Menu - Cover illustration- Welcome and flags of the US, UK and Australia. Luncheon Menu - by the Commonwealth and Victorian Governments to Officers and Men of the United States Fleet Who Participated in the March Past at Federal Parliament House. 24 July 1925 5. 48 page booklet - cover illustration "Australia Greets America 1925". United States Fleet Programme of Entertainments at Melbourne 23 July to 6th Aug 1925" Printed by H.J. Green Government Printer. Includes attached map of Melbourne. 6. Newspaper clipping (glued to scrapbook page) showing battleships Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Cruiser Seattle. Also pictured is the USS Oklahoma coming in to berth. On the back of this scrapbook page is a program "The Engineers present Twelve Nights in a Fireroom" on board USS Oklahoma enroute from Hawaii to Melbourne. The program booklets and Menu have residual scrapbook page glued on the back. Doesn't impact the cover and any of the pages. After World War I, the Oklahoma traveled the world providing help to those in need. In 1925 the Oklahoma and ten other battleships, along with their destroyer escorts and support ships, traveled around the Pacific Ocean. They sailed all over the Pacific, including places like Samoa, Australia, and New Zealand. The sailors on board the Oklahoma enjoyed the trip and even had a special celebration to mark their crossing of the Equator. USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy, notable for being the first American class of oil-burning dreadnoughts. Commissioned in 1916, the ship served in World War I as a part of Battleship Division Six, protecting Allied convoys on their way across the Atlantic. After the war, she served in both the United States Battle Fleet and Scouting Fleet. Oklahoma was modernized between 1927 and 1929. In 1936, she rescued American citizens and refugees from the Spanish Civil War. On 7 December 1941, during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, several torpedoes from torpedo bombers hit the Oklahoma's hull and the ship capsized. A total of 429 crew died; survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet (15 m) into burning oil on water or crawled across mooring lines that connected Oklahoma and Maryland. Some sailors inside escaped when rescuers drilled holes and opened hatches to rescue them. The ship was salvaged in 1943. Unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm while being towed from Oahu, Hawaii, to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay in 1947.

Price: 225 USD

Location: La Grange, Texas

End Time: 2024-11-05T19:48:36.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4.63 USD