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USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) was the lead New Orleans-class cruiser in service with the United States Navy. The New Orleans-class cruisers were the last U.S. cruisers built to the specifications and standards of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
Battle of Tassafaronga.
New Orleans sailed to Fiji early in November 1942, then proceeded to Espiritu Santo, arriving on 27 November to return to action in the Solomons. With four other cruisers and six destroyers, she fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga on the night of 30 November, engaging a Japanese destroyer-transport force. When the flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which detonated the ship's forward magazines and gasoline tanks. This explosion severed 150 ft (46 m) of her bow just forward of turret No. 2. The severed bow, including Turret No. 1, swung around the port side and punched several holes in the length of New Orleans' hull before sinking at the stern and damaging the port inboard propeller.[4] With one quarter of her length gone, slowed to 2 kn (2.3 mph; 3.7 km/h), and on fire forward, damage control parties managed to repair the ship enough to sail to Tulagi Harbor near daybreak on 1 December.
S/O Marie Antoinette (Strunge) & Loomis Colver Barker
Wife was Doris Marie (Workman) Barker(m. 1939)
Service # 3369890
Rank Painter Second Class U.S. Navy
★ Purple Heart
Status Missing In Action
BARKER, Dick C, PTR2, 3369890, USN, from Illinois, USS New Orleans, location Solomon Islands, missing, date of loss November 30, 1942
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Remembered by Buffalo (50696055)
USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) was the lead New Orleans-class cruiser in service with the United States Navy. The New Orleans-class cruisers were the last U.S. cruisers built to the specifications and standards of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
Battle of Tassafaronga.
New Orleans sailed to Fiji early in November 1942, then proceeded to Espiritu Santo, arriving on 27 November to return to action in the Solomons. With four other cruisers and six destroyers, she fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga on the night of 30 November, engaging a Japanese destroyer-transport force. When the flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which detonated the ship's forward magazines and gasoline tanks. This explosion severed 150 ft (46 m) of her bow just forward of turret No. 2. The severed bow, including Turret No. 1, swung around the port side and punched several holes in the length of New Orleans' hull before sinking at the stern and damaging the port inboard propeller.[4] With one quarter of her length gone, slowed to 2 kn (2.3 mph; 3.7 km/h), and on fire forward, damage control parties managed to repair the ship enough to sail to Tulagi Harbor near daybreak on 1 December.
S/O Marie Antoinette (Strunge) & Loomis Colver Barker
Wife was Doris Marie (Workman) Barker(m. 1939)
Service # 3369890
Rank Painter Second Class U.S. Navy
★ Purple Heart
Status Missing In Action
BARKER, Dick C, PTR2, 3369890, USN, from Illinois, USS New Orleans, location Solomon Islands, missing, date of loss November 30, 1942
Source material from multiple public domain websites.
Remembered by Buffalo (50696055)
Cenotaph Here
USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) was the lead New Orleans-class cruiser in service with the United States Navy. The New Orleans-class cruisers were the last U.S. cruisers built to the specifications and standards of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
Battle of Tassafaronga.
New Orleans sailed to Fiji early in November 1942, then proceeded to Espiritu Santo, arriving on 27 November to return to action in the Solomons. With four other cruisers and six destroyers, she fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga on the night of 30 November, engaging a Japanese destroyer-transport force. When the flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which detonated the ship's forward magazines and gasoline tanks. This explosion severed 150 ft (46 m) of her bow just forward of turret No. 2. The severed bow, including Turret No. 1, swung around the port side and punched several holes in the length of New Orleans' hull before sinking at the stern and damaging the port inboard propeller.[4] With one quarter of her length gone, slowed to 2 kn (2.3 mph; 3.7 km/h), and on fire forward, damage control parties managed to repair the ship enough to sail to Tulagi Harbor near daybreak on 1 December.
S/O Marie Antoinette (Strunge) & Loomis Colver Barker
Wife was Doris Marie (Workman) Barker(m. 1939)
Service # 3369890
Rank Painter Second Class U.S. Navy
★ Purple Heart
Status Missing In Action
BARKER, Dick C, PTR2, 3369890, USN, from Illinois, USS New Orleans, location Solomon Islands, missing, date of loss November 30, 1942
Source material from multiple public domain websites.
Remembered by Buffalo (50696055)
USS New Orleans (CL/CA-32) was the lead New Orleans-class cruiser in service with the United States Navy. The New Orleans-class cruisers were the last U.S. cruisers built to the specifications and standards of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
Battle of Tassafaronga.
New Orleans sailed to Fiji early in November 1942, then proceeded to Espiritu Santo, arriving on 27 November to return to action in the Solomons. With four other cruisers and six destroyers, she fought in the Battle of Tassafaronga on the night of 30 November, engaging a Japanese destroyer-transport force. When the flagship Minneapolis was struck by two torpedoes, New Orleans, next astern, was forced to sheer away to avoid collision, and ran into the track of a torpedo which detonated the ship's forward magazines and gasoline tanks. This explosion severed 150 ft (46 m) of her bow just forward of turret No. 2. The severed bow, including Turret No. 1, swung around the port side and punched several holes in the length of New Orleans' hull before sinking at the stern and damaging the port inboard propeller.[4] With one quarter of her length gone, slowed to 2 kn (2.3 mph; 3.7 km/h), and on fire forward, damage control parties managed to repair the ship enough to sail to Tulagi Harbor near daybreak on 1 December.
S/O Marie Antoinette (Strunge) & Loomis Colver Barker
Wife was Doris Marie (Workman) Barker(m. 1939)
Service # 3369890
Rank Painter Second Class U.S. Navy
★ Purple Heart
Status Missing In Action
BARKER, Dick C, PTR2, 3369890, USN, from Illinois, USS New Orleans, location Solomon Islands, missing, date of loss November 30, 1942
Source material from multiple public domain websites.
Remembered by Buffalo (50696055)
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