Talk:USS Long Island (CVE-1)
Latest comment: 16 years ago by AvHistoryGuy in topic History
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editThere are serious date discrepencies between the 3rd and 4th paragraphs and they need to be corrected.
Other ships?
editI removed the line
- USS Long Island for other ships of this name.
as it redirect back here and there seem to be only one ship named USS Long Island --Rayyung 05:50, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, I was wrong. There are two USS Long Island. RayYung 06:27, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
History
editI was born in 1953. I came to Canada in Aug. 1954 on the ship Seven Seas, a converted aircraft carrier. As far as I know this is the Long Island. I have doubts about the name Nelly and your other dates. What I learned about the Seven Seas is that it wound up as a youth hostel in Rotterdam.AvHistoryGuy (talk) 03:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
- Silverstone's U.S. Warships of World War II p.52 indicates Long Island became the mercantile Nelly in 1949 and then Seven Seas in 1953. Thewellman (talk) 06:59, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
- A more accurate rendition of her post-carrier role and in particular the dates is given in http://www.ssmaritime.com/sevenseas.htm. It confirms her name as Nelly and her subsequent refit as the Seven Seas. There are great pictures as well.AvHistoryGuy (talk) 20:58, 27 September 2008 (UTC)