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 USS Paul Revere (APA-248)
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Paul Revere, born in Boston 1 January 1735, became a skillful goldsmith under his father’s guidance. Strongly attached to the patriotic cause in Massachusetts and an instigator of the Boston Tea Party, he subsequently gathered information on British movements and Tory activities, and reported the intelligence to Patriot leaders. On the evening of 18 April 1775, after learning that the king’s troops were about to march, Revere crossed to Charleston by boat and raced on horseback through Medford spreading “...the alarm through every Middlesex village and farm...” along his path to Lexington. There he warned Hancock and Adams that “redcoats” were approaching to arrest them. The next morning minutemen were on hand to challenge the British advance. “The shot heard round the world” was fired launching the Revolution and the American Ship of State. Subsequently helping to win the struggle he had done so much to start, Revere established a powder mill in Massachusetts, served on the Committee of Correspondence, rose in the Massachusetts Militia to Lieutenant Colonel, and fought in the Penobscot Expedition. After the war he returned to business as a gold and silver smith and introduced new techniques in copper metallurgy. His foundry fashioned the bolts, spikes, pumps, and other copper hardware used in building Frigate Constitution. Remaining actively interested in civic affairs, he energetically worked for ratification of the United States Constitution. Paul Revere died in Boston 10 May 1818.
Portrait: Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, c.1768–70
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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Ex-SS Diamond Mariner at the Todd Shipyard, San Pedro in September 1956 prior to beginning conversion to the attack transport Paul Revere (APA-248).
US Navy photo from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman. |
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Paul Revere (APA-248) at Todd Shipyard, San Pedro, CA., 30 August 1958. The conversion of the ex-Mariner class cargo ship is nearly completed in these photos. This class was unique among US attack transports because it had AKA-style quadrupod masts for handling LCM(6)s. Note the enclosed control station around the funnel.
US Navy photo and text from "U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History" by Norman Friedman. |
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USS Paul Revere (APA-248), under way, date and location unknown.
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A Sikorsky HO4S helicopter assigned to Helicopter Utility Squadron One
(HU-1) "Pacific Fleet Angels" lands aboard
USS Paul Revere (APA-248), 20 September 1960. The ship was taking part in Project NERV Missile Launcher and Nose Cone Retrieval.
US Navy Pacific Missile Range photo #LAW 41049-L-9-60. |
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USS Mount Baker (AE-4) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with USS Paul Revere (APA-248) and USS Valley Forge (LPH-8) during a WestPac deployment, circa 1960-1962.
US Navy photo. |
Charles Schiele, Radioman, Comservron Three |
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USS Paul Revere (APA-248) at anchor in 1964, location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
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9th Marine Regiment Marines board USS Paul Revere (APA-248), 14 July 1969, at Danang, South Vietnam for redeployment to Okinawa.
UPI Telephoto by K. Sawada |
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USS Paul Revere (APA-248) outbound to sea from San Diego, date unknown.
US Navy photo |
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USS Paul Revere (APA-248) under way in the harbor at San Diego, date unknown.
US Navy photo |
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USS Paul Revere (LPA-248) moored pierside at New Westminster, BC, Canada in August 1975. |
Photo by Jon Paul Henry |
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USS Paul Revere (LPA-248) tied up at Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1977.
Photo by Karsten Petersen |
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USS Paul Revere (LPA-248) under way in harbor, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Paul Revere (LPA-248) outbound to sea from San Diego, CA., date unknown.
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USS Paul Revere (LPA-248) ship's plaque.
| Howard Evans, HT-3 USS Paul Revere 15 Oct. 1972 - 15 Oct. 1975. |
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The Spanish amphibious transport Castilla (L 21), ex-USS Paul Revere (LPA 248), at Barcelona, Spain,
31 May 1981. Note she was fitted with an SPS-12 air-search radar, whereas her sister SPS Aragón (L 22), ex-USS Francis Marion (LPA 249), had an SPS-40 |
Photo by Fabio Peña |
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Castilla (L 21) under way in the Gulf of Cadiz, January 1986 |
Photo by Ignacio Lopez
ex member Armada Espanola |
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Castilla (L 21) at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 25 May 1986 |
Photo by Ignacio Lopez
ex member Armada Espanola |
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Castilla (L 21) location unknown, January 1986 |
Photo by Ignacio Lopez
ex member Armada Espanola |
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Castilla (L-21) off Huelva (Exercise Crisex-83), November 1983 |
Photo by Ignacio Lopez
ex member Armada Espanola |
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Castilla (L-21) moored pierside at Naval Station Rota Spain, 10 March 1987.
Defense Visual Information Center
photo # DNSC8806742 a US Navy photo by PHAN James L. Saylor. |
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Castilla (LA-21) moored forward of Aragón (L-22)
[ex-USS Francis Marion (APA-249) at Rota, Spain, circa late 1980s. |
Photo by Antonio Gómez Martín |
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Castilla (L-21) arriving at La Spezia, Italy, 26 April 1996. |
Photo by Carlo Martinelli |
