Sinking
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999
Ronald McCuiston Email address wrote:
The World Book Encyclopedia Vol. 11, J-K, c1978, page 303 states,
" Five Navy ships were sunk and 82 were hit during the war.
The vessels sunk were the minesweepers Pledge, Partridge, Pirate, and
Magpie, and the tug Sarsi."
Your list of ships mentions Pledge and Sarsi, but not he others.
I hope this is of some help.
Thank you for your project.
Ronald S. McCuiston
Ralph Gilbert
On 7 Oct 1997
Dick Thornton Email address wrote:
Our school system, Ft. Knox, will be dedicating a building to Ralph
Gilbert, a Navy veteran who was a survivor of the sinking of the
USS Pledge in 1950 at Won Son in Korea.
Anyway to find out about the history of the ship and what type of ship
it was? Couldn't seem to locate in on the Internet. Thanks for any
help you can offer.
Dedication is October 25.
Dick Thornton
502/624-4748
Getting history
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999
Don Potter Email address wrote:
Thanx for putting my info in the USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16) ships
history.
I have received some interesting e-mail as a result. One of the people
that contacted me is a survivor off the Pledge.
I asked if he would accept e-mail from you in an attempt to get
a little history of the Pledge and Pirate on line.
His name is Carl Pollock and he was a FT3 at the time of the sinking.
His e-mail address is carlp@rvi.net As an aside he was on three
cans at the end of WWII, two were sunk and the other took a kamikaze
hit.
Thanx for all your help.
Don Potter
DonBon54@aol.com
