Dead Reckoning: The Pollux-Truxtun Disaster

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Gus Etchegary and Linda Loughridge Kasper, 2009
Gus Etchegary and Linda Loughridge Kasper, 2009
Rescue participant Gus Etchegary and Linda Loughridge Kasper, sister of Ensign Fred Loughridge (USS Truxtun survivor and first Officer in charge of rescue operations on the beach in Chambers Cove in February 1942) at the commissioning ceremony for the new USS Truxtun DDG103 at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April 2009.
Photo by Carmelita and Wayde Rowsell. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Carmelita and Wayde Rowsell.


Vice Admiral Melvin William and Wayde Rowsell, 2009
Vice Admiral Melvin William and Wayde Rowsell, 2009
Vice Admiral Melvin G. William, Jr., Commander, U.S. Second Fleet, chats to Mayor Wayde Rowsell of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Truxtun Visitors Section, 2009
Truxtun Visitors Section, 2009
View of the visitors section on the dock at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Band Playing at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Band Playing at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Band playing at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.


Gus Etchegary at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Gus Etchegary at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Gus Etchegary, a resident of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and a rescue participant in the USS Pollux and USS Truxtun disaster of 1942 at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.


Wade Rowsell at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Wade Rowsell at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Mayor Wayde Rowsell of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.


Lanier Phillips at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Lanier Phillips at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Lanier Phillips, USS Truxtun survivor, at the commissioning ceremony for the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Lieutenant Commander Sherry Smith at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Lieutenant Commander Sherry Smith at Commissioning Ceremony, 2009
Lieutenant Commander Sherry L. Smith speaks at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Truxtun DDG 103, at Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



Congressman Brown and Commander Weber
Congressman Brown and Commander Weber
(L-R) Congressman Henry E. Brown, Jr., 1st District of South Carolina and Commander Timothy R. Weber, Commanding Officer of the new USS Truxtun DDG 103, at the commissioning ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina, 25 April, 2009.
Photo by Tanya Drake. © 2009. Reproduced by permission of Tanya Drake.



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