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- Dad part Indian from Jack Co, TX
Source-Doyle Wayne Smith Bible
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/id4031a.htm
Sol Navis, a 10,000-ton (dead weight) freighter, was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, for the Luckenbach Steamship Company. Converted to a troop transport while still under construction, upon completion in July 1919 she was delivered to the Navy and apparently placed in commission as USS Sol Navis (ID # 4031-A). During her brief service she made at least one round-trip voyage to bring World War I veterans home from Europe. In September 1919 it was reported that the ship was to be turned over to the U.S. Army, and this may have happened after the Navy transferred her to the U.S. Shipping Board in October 1919. Sol Navis was later returned to the Luckenbach firm and had extensive commercial service as S.S. Harry Luckenbach. On 17 March 1943, while part of Convoy HX-229, she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic by the German submarine U-91. Though several lifeboats reportedly left the rapidly sinking ship, no one from the Harry Luckenbach was rescued.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/bb18.htm
USS Connecticut, lead ship of a class of six 16,000-ton
battleships, was built at the New York Navy Yard. Commissioned
in September 1906, she became flagship of the Atlantic Fleet in April 1907 and retained that role for some five years. During the rest of 1907, Connecticut took part in the Jamestown Tri-Centennial celebration and participated in fleet exercises. In December, she led the Atlantic Fleet's battleships out of Hampton Roads, Virginia, beginning a historic cruise around the World that lasted until February 1909.
Upon her return to the United States, Connecticut was modernized, receiving new "cage"
masts, grey paint and numerous other alterations. Thereafter, she mainly conducted routine operations in the western Atlantic and Caribbean. However, in 1910-11 and in 1913 the battleship crossed the Atlantic to visit European waters. During World War I, Connecticut was employed as a training ship off the U.S. east coast and in the Chesapeake Bay. In the first half of 1919, she served as a transport, making four trans-Atlantic voyages to bring home veterans from France.
In 1920, the year she was given the hull number BB-18, Connecticut made a training cruise through the Panama Canal to the west coast. She made another training voyage in 1921, this time to Europe, then transfered to the Pacific Fleet. USS Connecticut decommissioned at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in March 1923 and was sold for scrapping in November of that year.
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