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threatened for more than an hour to emulate the famous
Hawaiian volcano in more than just a name. With 3500 tons of explosives and a crew of 220 aboard she caught fire about 5 miles off Ambrose Lightship, the entrance to New York Harbor. The fire was contained to the ship's engine room and was
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remained there until the beginning of the
Okinawa campaign. On 13 March 1945 she departed Ulithi with TG 50.8 for 5 successful months on the "line," as it came to be termed, replenishing some 99 ships underway. The Japanese capitulation 14 August found her at
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Pacific, and soon thereafter arrived off Vietnam. From 1968 till 1970 her mission was rearming aircraft carriers, destroyers, and cruisers in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Mediterranean until her return to Norfolk 17 November for 2d Fleet operations. From 1 February to 27 June 1958
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extinguished by crew members. It was towed to
Gravesend Bay for repairs the following two weeks. Basing estimates on the destruction caused by the explosion of the
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continued a pattern of upkeep and supply service along the east coast out of
Norfolk and Earle, interspersed with training cruises and exercises in the Caribbean.
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moving the powder containers over faster than they could be removed to the magazines of the battleship, the cans gradually piled up to more than a hundred on
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open hold. Without a moment's hesitation, Boatswain F. B. Wilson seized a hose and turned it on the burning can. This stream of water checked the fire until
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Philadelphia 8 October for her home port,
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the 21st to replenish her cargo of ammunition. She got underway 10 April again for the South
Pacific, her destination being the
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forward deck. At 16:35 a flash of flame leaped out across her deck, accompanied by a dull boom – one of the cans had exploded.
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