Estate Asstd 60s Booklets Papers: USS BROWNSON DD-868 /HANK DD-702 /PARLE DE-708

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Estate 1960s Assorted
This is a grand find as we went thru the estate boxes…
A family member was part of the Navy League in Rhode Island, and visited many destroyers, submarines, aircraft carriers and the like, between Quonset Point, Newport, New London, Groton, and Boston - Hoping someone out there will want these.
USS BROWNSON DD-868 / USS HANK DD-702 / USS PARLE DE-708
Info on the ships below
Paperwork:
BROWNSON: Informative Booklet for Visitors: How it was named, dates, timeline, statistics, etc
BROWNSON: Invitation to America Cup Viewing
HANK: Invitation to Newport-Bermuda Race Viewing
PARLE: Program for Awards Ceremony, ASW Selected Reserve
See our other listings for materials on other ships including: USS Tinosa, USS Lake Champlain, USS Skipjack, Bainbridge, Dewey, Nautilus, and more!!
FROM THE WEB:
USS Brownson (DD-868
), a Gearing-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Admiral Willard H. Brownson, USN (1845–1935).
---Brownson conducted shakedown in the Atlantic and Caribbean then in October 1946, she participated in Operation Highjump between November 1946 and April 1947. On 10 February 1947, a boat party attempted to make a landing in the Antarctic on Charcot Island but was unsuccessful because of heavy field ice within three miles of the coastline.
Modernized before March 1950, she conducted refresher training in the Caribbean and in the summer of 1950 made a Midshipman cruise in the Caribbean. She then participated in fleet exercises, operating out of Newport.
----During night operations on Bermuda on 8 November 1950 Brownson collided with USS Charles H. Roan. After repairs and further modernization, in 1951 she joined the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. In August 1952 she went to the North Atlantic with the 2nd Fleet for NATO's Operation Mainbrace. In October 1952 she rejoined the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. Returning to Newport in February 1953, she operated along the Atlantic seaboard and in the Caribbean until August 1954, with the exception of one Midshipmen cruise and participation in Operation Springboard.
----She departed Newport 2 August for an extended tour in the Far East with the 7th Fleet. In the Far East Brownson cruised in Japanese, Philippine, and Korean waters until January 1955. Departing the Far East she returned to the east coast, via the Suez Canal, arriving at Newport 14 March 1955.
---- In 1962 the ship transferred to Cuban waters during the period of tension that culminated in the Cuban quarantine (the Cuban Missile Crisis). Brownson returned to home port in November 1962, then entered a Boston shipyard to receive the FRAM I modification in 1962–63. It returned from service in Vietnam via the Suez Canal in 1967.  It underwent REFTRA (Refresher Training) in Gitmo in winter 1971–72, joined the Sixth Fleet north of Egypt that spring, and participated in NATO fleet exercises.
----Brownson was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 30 September 1976 and sold for scrap on 10 June 1977.
USS PARLE (DE-708)
Parle (DE-708) was laid down 8 January 1944 by Defoe SB Co., Bay City, Mich.; launched 25 March 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Harry V. Parle, mother of Ens. John Joseph Parle; and commissioned 29 July 1944, Lt. Comdr. James C. Toft, Jr., USNR in command.
---After shakedown off Louisiana and Bermuda, Parle was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet for convoy duty, completing one Atlantic-Mediterranean voyage before her permanent assignment to Escort Division 60. She sailed for Panama, arriving 3 January 1945. After reporting for duty with the 7th Fleet, she was assigned to the Philippine Sea Frontier and routed to Leyte by way of Galapagos, Bora Bora, Manus and Palau.
----As an escort with Task Unit 94.18.12 she carried out numerous operations between Kossol Roads, Leyte, Lingayen, Subic, New Guinea, Okinawa, Ulithi and Hollandia. Although engaging in repeated attack runs on sound contacts, during these escort assignments, she never made positive contact with the enemy.
----In August 1945, Parle was with the Amphibious Forces of the Pacific Fleet engaged in escorting occupation troops to Korea. In January 1946 she joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs and decommissioned 10 July.
----During the first quarter of 1952 Parle underwent training at Guantanamo Bay and was then sent to Key West, in March, for duty as a training vessel with the Fleet Sonar School. The latter part of the year found her in the North Atlantic and Baltic Sea areas engaged in fleet exercises.
----The succeeding years, through 1958, were spent in training in ASW tactics out of Guantanamo, off the Virginia Capes and Norfolk with interim periods for overhaul and readiness evaluations. Parle periodically provided services to the Fleet Sonar School and Type Commanders.
----On 1 January 1959, Parle was transferred to the operational control of the Commandant, 5th Naval District and designated as a Naval Reserve Training Ship, Group 1. Her compliment was reduced and she was assigned a mobilization crew of Reservists for training and augmentation. As a training ship for the reservists she conducted year-round schedules of two-week cruises, other than periods for upkeep.
-----During a heightening of world tensions in August 1961, President Kennedy called for partial mobilization of the Reserves. Parle received her reserve crew 26 October, bringing her to full complement, and she commenced a year of duty with the active fleet. Following additional training to peak the performance of her new crew, Parle assumed patrol duties in the Caribbean.
-----In July 1962, Parle detached the Reserve crew and reverted to inactive status as a Reserve Training Ship. In August she was placed in service in reserve and retained in a training capacity. She has since continued her training duties, operating from her Great Lakes home port of Chicago, III
----Into 1970 Parle continued a vital service to the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Naval Reserve Training Program, until she was decommissioned.
USS Hank (DD-702
) was launched 21 May 1944 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs. William Edwin Hank, widow of Lt. Cmdr. Hank; and commissioned 28 August 1944, G. M. Chambers in command.
---After completing her Caribbean shakedown 18 October, USS Hank joined battleships USS Missouri, USS Texas, and USS Arkansas at New York and then sailed for the Pacific reaching Pearl Harbor 6 December via the Panama Canal and San Francisco. USS Hank (DD-702) reported to Ulithi 28 December and sortied 2 days later as part of the screen for Task Force 38, a fast carrier force under Vice Admiral John S. McCain. After launching one final raid against Okinawa, the carriers and escorts, USS Hank (DD-702) included, returned to Ulithi 26 January 1945. As the Pacific war moved into its climactic phases, USS Hank (DD-702) steamed from Ulithi with Task Force 58 14 March for further strikes against the Japanese home islands. Closing to within 75 miles of their targets, the carriers launched massive strikes against airfields on Kyushu and ships in the Inland Sea 18 and 19 March.
-----She resumed screening and radar picket duties off Okinawa. June was spent at San Pedro Bay, Philippines, undergoing replenishment and training, and on 1 July the carriers redesignated Task Force 38 and operating under Vice Admiral McCain in Admiral Halsey's 3d Fleet sortied to launch further strikes against the Home Islands. Hostilities ceased 15 August 1945, and USS Hank (DD-702) steamed proudly into Tokyo Bay 10 September to participate in the occupation. She continued operations around Japan and Pearl Harbor through 30 December.
-----After a yard overhaul at Norfolk, USS Hank (DD-702) resumed the peacetime training operations, Caribbean exercises, and annual deployments to the Mediterranean that kept the fleet ready to serve America well at any moment on the seas. In the fall of 1956 as warfare flared over the nationalization of the Suez Canal, USS Hank (DD-702) was there. She conducted patrols in the eastern Mediterranean to assert and confirm America's determination to keep the peace as well as to protect her citizens and interests.
---In 1960 the destroyer with the Navy began to reach into space. USS Hank (DD-702) participated in training for Project Mercury, America's first man-in-space effort, off the Virginia capes, and she was designated one of the recovery ships when Astronaut Lt. Oomdr. Scott Carpenter made his orbital flight 24 May 1962. USS Hank (DD-702) operated with USS Independence on blockade and surveillance duty during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, remaining in the tension-filled Caribbean for nearly a month. USS Hank (DD-702) was designated a Naval Reserve Training Ship in October 1963 and proceeded to her new home port, Philadelphia. After undergoing repairs at Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester Pa., in 1964 USS Hank (DD-702) began reserve training cruises along the East Coast from Fort. Lauderdale, Fla., to Halifax, Nova Scotia, continuing into 1967, when she was decommissioned.
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Some General Info re: Silver charms and bracelets in our listings
--FYI: it is not unusual for sterling charms to be unmarked from this era: many charms came unmarked on display sales cards that had the maker and metal info; as well as jewelry items under a certain weight did not have to be hallmarked.
--FYI: Rhodium is in the Platinum family of metals.
It was often used in the 50s-70s to plate sterling silver to avoid tarnishing,
In the Rhodium plating process, 925 Sterling Silver is given a nickel underplate prior to Rhodium plating. The nickel is magnetic and causes the magnetic attraction.
--FYI: Sterling 925 or Euro Silver 800, 835, 900 - vintage European silver is highly collectible.
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----Many are just simply wrinkled from storage... Many can be worn as they are, but would benefit from a pressing or cleaning at winner's discretion -- especially worn garments, or even if clothing in new "store" condition, with or without tags, or New Old Stock, because they were once hanging on racks or in store displays, handled by shoppers, dumped in carts, possibly dropped, certainly tried on, some taken home & then returned to store, -- and/or often have a dingy look from dust and light soiling from handling, or evidence of being in storage.
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"Go hang a salami, Im a lasagna hog."
"Solo Gigolos."
"Mr. Owl ate my metal worm."
"Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
"Never odd or even."
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