Korean War Project

USS Ellyson (DMS-19)




Photo by Hal Barker. Copyright 1989.






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Entry: 70682
USS ELLYSON (DMS-19)
USS ELLYSON
RANDY WHITE wrote on June 23, 2009


CITY AND STATE: FLORENCE AL

UNIT:

SERVICE OR RELATIONSHIP: FAMILY MEMBER

Comments: my uncle phill paul white serves on the ellyson,was going to make a career of the navy,when he found out us was giving (HIS) ship to japan he did not re-up.

phil gave me a full color picture of her at sea,with her battle ribbons.


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Entry: 62899
USS ELLYSON (DMS-19)
SHIP MATE MAY 1951 TO JULY 1954
JOSEPH PERRI SR. wrote on November 8, 2007


CITY AND STATE: STATEN ISLAND NY

UNIT: USS ELLYSON DMS 19- AFTER ENGINE ROOM

SERVICE OR RELATIONSHIP: NAVY VETERAN

Comments: Four of the greatest years of my Life

Previously lived in 176 34th Street Brooklyn NY


Keywords: Boot Camp Newport Rhode Island October 10th 1950
Approx Jan 1951 Great Lakes Machinist Mate School
Approx May 1951 Aboard USS Ellyson in Charleston S.C.
until Discharged July 1954


 
Entry: 61140
USS ELLYSON (DMS-19)
PLEASE ADD MY FATHER!
JULIE MORSE wrote on May 29, 2007


CITY AND STATE: PIONEER OH

UNIT:

SERVICE OR RELATIONSHIP: NAVY VETERAN

Comments: RONALD ARTHUR MORSE b. JULY 18, 1934. MEADVILLE,PA...d. FEBRUARY 14, 1974. LAS VEGAS, NV. AND BURRIED IN KINGMAN, ARIZONA. HE WAS STATIONED IN CHARLSTOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA. HE WAS A COOK ABOARD THE USS ELLYSON DMS 19, AND WAS ON SEVERAL MEDITERIANIAN CRUISES. DISCHARGED IN 1953. HIS GRAVE IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE VETERAINS GRAVESITES, NOR LISTED AS A NAVAL VET; I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO GET HIM LISTED AS SUCH? SINCERELY, JULIE MORSE (DAUGHTER)

Keywords: USS ELLYSON DMS 19 - HONORABLE DISCHARGE IN 1953.

 
Entry: 60646
USS ELLYSON (DMS-19)
USS ELLYSON
JULIE MORSE wrote on April 12, 2007


CITY AND STATE: TOLEDO OH

UNIT:

SERVICE OR RELATIONSHIP: FAMILY MEMBER

Comments: MY FATHER WAS ABOARD THE USS ELLYSON, USS PLOVER, AND THE USS VERDIN DURING HIS YEARS IN SERVICE. DISCHARGED IN 1953. SERVICE NUMBER WAS 3277445, CS3, NAME -RONALD A. MORSE.

Keywords: HE LOVED BEING THE COOK! MADE WHAT HE LIKED TO EAT AND PROUD OF IT. LOL

 
Entry: 17974
USS ELLYSON (DMS-19)
ON BOARD,1951 AND 1952
BILL SHARKEY wrote on July 14, 2001


CITY AND STATE:

UNIT:

SERVICE OR RELATIONSHIP: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA

Comments: hi to my shipmates

Keywords:

 
Entry: 5088
USS ELLYSON (DMS-19)
SHIP'S HISTORY - KOREAN WAR SERVICE
CRAIG ROTHHAMMER wrote on November 18, 1999


CITY AND STATE: LA CRESCENTA CA

UNIT: USS GRASP (ARS-24) USS BOLSTER (ARS-38)

SERVICE OR RELATIONSHIP: NAVY VETERAN - KOREA

Comments:


THIS SHIP DID NOT SERVE IN THE KOREAN WAR ZONE.


USS ELLYSON (DMS-19)


(DD-454: dp. 1,630; 1. 347'10"; b. 36'1"; dr. 15'8"; s. 38 k.; cpl. 208; a. 4 6", 5 21" tt., 6 dcp., 2 dct.; cl. Benson)


“...served in the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet...”


Ellyson (DD-454) was launched 26 July 1941 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Miss Gordon Ellyson, daughter of Commander Ellyson; and commissioned 28 November 1941 Lieutenant Commander L. B. Rooney in command. She was reclassified DMS-19, 15 November 1944.


Attached to Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet, Ellyson continued to operate from Charleston on training duty along the east coast and in the Caribbean. She served in the Mediterranean with the 6th Fleet in 1949, 1951, and 1953. On 4 May 1954 her designation reverted to DD-454. She was decommissioned 19 October 1954, and transferred to the Japanese Government 20 October 1954 under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program. She serves in the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force as Asakaze.


From: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships


Keywords: MINESWEEPER, BENSON CLASS, MEDITERRANEAN, 6TH FLEET, ATLANTIC FLEET, MINE FORCE,

 

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USS Ellyson (DMS-19)




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