 U.S.S. HERON
CD 2478061 E&MP12.040
Electric Appliances & Apparatus
January 26, 1942
THE U.S.S. Heron1, shown [right] below, distinguished in action in the Pacific, is a converted mine sweeper.
It acts only as a nautical filling station for large flying boats and cannot be used to aid in launching of any type of aircraft.
Original Caption by Science Service
©United States Navy
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Comment 2.22.2000
1 Great site. As a museum
director, I'm looking forward to making use of your images. However,
the caption for Image DC 247 8061 E&MP 12.040 may be incorrect.
The caption states the ship pictured is the "USS Heron, a converted
minesweeper" but I think the photo shows either the USS WASP or
USS HORNET. Both were capital ships and not converted minesweepers.
Thanks again, Doug Buchanan Stanly
County Museum Albemarle, North Carolina
We hope to gather valid information to cross reference our material.
However, we cannot change the existing Science Service caption,
though we can include corrections, comments and sources for expanding
the information on our image presentation.
Thank You! Science Service Historical Image Collection Webmaster
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Comment 2.23.2000
1 With regards to the picture of the U.S.S
Heron: I belive that Mr.Buchanan is correct in assuming the ship pictured
is the Hornet. However, there is no possibility that the ship is the
Wasp because the Wasp was an Essex class fleet carrier commisioned
in 1943 (one year after the date given for the photo).
Smithsonian Intern - David Georgen,
University of Virginia.
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Comment 2.25.2000
1 I think you're right; the photo is of USS
HORNET (CV-8) went down off Santa Cruz nine months after your photo
was made (26 October 1942). Your intern is right about the photo not
being the more modern Essex-class WASP (CV-18); I was thinking, though,
of the first carrier WASP (CV-7), built in 1936 and sunk at Guadalcanal
in 1943.
Best wishes from the Tarheel State,
Doug Buchanan
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