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USS Tryon (APH-1)
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James R. Tryon—born on 24 September 1837 at Coxsackie, N.Y.—was appointed an Acting Assistant Surgeon (Volunteer) on 17 March 1863. After serving briefly at the United States Naval Hospital in New-York City, Tryon spent the last two years of the Civil War at Pensacola, Fla., caring for sick and wounded officers and men of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron. After duty ashore in Boston and Washington, Tryon served in USS Idaho on the Asiatic Station from 4 February 1870 to 9 December 1872. Next came an assignment in New York City from 1873 to 1876. Following two years in USS Swatara on the North Atlantic Station, he was transferred to USS Vandalia. Next came duty in New York City for two and one-half years and service in USS Alaska on the Pacific Station until 1883. He served on board USS Quinnebaug on the European Station and off Africa until 1887 when he was assigned to the Medical Examining Board in New York. Tryon was promoted to medical inspector on 22 September 1891 and served in USS Chicago on the North Atlantic Station until 1893 when he was promoted to Surgeon General of the United States Navy with the rank of commodore. The culmination of his career came on 7 September 1893 when Commodore Tryon became Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and Surgeon General. He retired on 24 September 1899. In 1911, Tryon was promoted to the rank of rear admiral, retroactive to his date of retirement. Admiral Tryon died on 20 March 1912 at the Naval Hospital in New York City .where he had begun his naval career almost half a century before. |
Bill Gonyo |
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Broadside view of USS Tryon (APH-1) off San Francisco, 10 October 1942.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 6323-10-42, 10/10/42. |
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USS Tryon (APH-1) underway, date and location unknown, circa October 1942. Note the characteristic small streamlined, funnel and solarium structure atop her deck house. She is still carrying merchant-type lifeboats rather than landing craft.
US Navy photo from "US Amphibious Ships and Craft", by Norman Friedman. |
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USS Tryon (APH-1) underway in October 1943. Her funnel has been reconfigured and enlarged following wind tunnel tests to keep smoke off the after decks. She has also received a radar mast but does not yet have Welin davits.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-223424, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. Photo from "US Amphibious Ships and Craft", by Norman Friedman. |
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII |
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USS Tryon (APH-1) at anchor off San Francisco, 18 May 1945, after an overhaul in which she received a new radar mast, Welin davits, and a small cap on her funnel, which evidently was still not satisfactory. At this time all three ships probably had their tall raked masts shortened above the crosstrees as shown here.
US Navy photo # 19-N-95123, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. |
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USS Tryon (APH-1) at anchor off San Francisco, 18 May 1945. She still shows the exotic raked lines left over from her liner design. Her small funnel projects from a streamlined structure, also left over form the liner design, used as a solarium. Unlike APAs, she did not carry LCMs.
US Navy photo. |
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