The Wreck of USS Corry - A Destroyer Left in a River

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 22 гру 2024

КОМЕНТАРІ • 79

  • @DavidBerry-ee8mm
    @DavidBerry-ee8mm 28 днів тому +20

    Thanks! My Big Brother and I used to fish near the Corey in the 70's! We did not know her name or history, but were intrigued. We never climbed aboard as my mother would have skinned us both! Mystery finally solved, I sent the link to my childhood mentor. Thank you for the memory!

    • @Glenn-em3hv
      @Glenn-em3hv 28 днів тому

      What??? Are you a mommy's boy???
      There is no way I couldn't explore that wreck!!!

  • @OriginalCoalRollers
    @OriginalCoalRollers 28 днів тому +39

    Wish we still had a Clemson intact in ww1 configuration, besides the fletchers, the Clemsons are my favorite destroyer

    • @HM2SGT
      @HM2SGT 28 днів тому +2

      They're all pretty nifty. I favour the Wickes class myself, but it's just a matter of degrees, call it first among equals.

    • @Foxttellio
      @Foxttellio 27 днів тому

      Same here, I love the clemsons

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 25 днів тому

      the closest known is the USS Stewart but she was stripped of her weapons by the Japanese
      USS Wasmuth is still out there in her WWI weapons configuration, she’s most likely to fulfill that criteria

  • @ifga16
    @ifga16 28 днів тому +22

    It is so sad that no one kept a Clemson intact for one reason or another. It would be a great exhibit with a newer tin can or with USS Texas. BTW, ships do not have walls. They have bulkheads which is the term used from when ships started having compartments and dividers. They do have doors which are either water tight or non watertight but all provide horizontal access aboard. Hatches allow vertical access in a ship. To describe the return from liberty late at night is to stumble through a door and fall down a hatch.

    • @MarkCraig-x1z
      @MarkCraig-x1z 28 днів тому +3

      We know what a bulkhead is but the majority of the landlubers would scratch their heads.

    • @ifga16
      @ifga16 27 днів тому

      @@MarkCraig-x1z Ah, but part of your task in making these interesting and informative videos is to teach the lubbers sea talk. Arrrgh! Remember, relative bearing grease used properly can teach lessons. Has anyone found and explored HMS Barham yet?

    • @JoshuaTootell
      @JoshuaTootell 24 дні тому

      Bulkhead is also used in automotive and aerospace. Not limited to ships.

  • @lindsaybaker9480
    @lindsaybaker9480 27 днів тому +6

    In Australia a destroyer that was built prior to WW1 still exists in similar condition to USS Corry. The HMAS Parramatta hull still sits in the Hawkesbury river north of Sydney Australia. Her now and stern was removed in the 90’s I think. The bow sits at the museum next to the RAN fleet base in Sydney while the stern sits in parramatta park.

  • @jetwind72
    @jetwind72 28 днів тому +5

    Sir, you are a master storyteller, thank you for all the videos you have done..

  • @michaels.5878
    @michaels.5878 28 днів тому +6

    I've been in love with 4 pipers since I read Tragedy at Honda in the 60s.❤

  • @jessmeowmeow
    @jessmeowmeow 28 днів тому +6

    Another fantastic video!

  • @nigelmorroll3343
    @nigelmorroll3343 28 днів тому +9

    With the ship above the water, it does give us a more easy view of a ship wreak as it rusts away. Especially saves people the need to dive on it.

  • @davidvavra9113
    @davidvavra9113 28 днів тому +9

    My grandfather was a plank owner of her sister USS Reno, DD 303

  • @SamwiseOutdoors
    @SamwiseOutdoors 28 днів тому +13

    This one is local to me!
    I haven't been to the Corey, but other fellow North Bay history nerds have kayaked out to her wreck.

    • @SamwiseOutdoors
      @SamwiseOutdoors 28 днів тому +7

      *Corry
      The story behind Corry was that a local farmer bought her partially-scrapped wreck to use as a levy to keep the Napa River slough into San Pablo Bay from eroding his fields, or to convert more intertidal zone into arable fields.
      The wreck broke loose under tow and beached on the shore where she is now, and got stuck too fast for the farmer to recover, so there she rests.

    • @skyneahistory2306
      @skyneahistory2306  28 днів тому +5

      Huh…interesting. It’s always fun to see comments on stuff I couldn’t find detail on.

    • @SamwiseOutdoors
      @SamwiseOutdoors 28 днів тому

      @@skyneahistory2306 It was in a local newspaper from like twenty years ago. I'm not sure how I stumbled across it, but I think that I was just looking at Google Maps around the Mare Island area and it dropped me down a rabbit hole.

    • @williamlloyd3769
      @williamlloyd3769 27 днів тому +2

      @@SamwiseOutdoors- appreciate the rest of the story!

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT 28 днів тому +8

    5:55 7:33 8:59 *I wonder if that's the same person? Wouldn't that be nifty?*

    • @mikesmith-po8nd
      @mikesmith-po8nd 25 днів тому

      The age would be about right. Approximately 15/40.

  • @SgtChewy5
    @SgtChewy5 28 днів тому +2

    As a local from the Bay Area, its great to see some spotlight on such a known wreck in the area.

  • @MyBlueZed
    @MyBlueZed 27 днів тому +2

    The photos that you show at the time of her scrapping is firmly in the Great Depression. The demand and price for scrap steel was probably low.

  • @alephalon7849
    @alephalon7849 28 днів тому +7

    I only now realize that Corry has the same fate as USS Alliance, the only Continental Navy warship that survived the American Revolution. Both ships got abandoned on riversides...

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 25 днів тому

      USS Philadelphia begs to differ…she’s intact and in a museum
      HMS Diana is known and is entombed under a concrete pier in Massachusetts

  • @williamlloyd3769
    @williamlloyd3769 27 днів тому +2

    After ship was decommissioned and then stripped of usable parts at Mare Island Navy Shipyard, hull was probably taken up the estuary to Suisun Bay and anchored until sold to scrapers. Scrapers took her further up river to her present position. Surprised hulk survived scrap drives of WW2.
    PS - low salinity of estuary is probably why the hulk is still relatively intact compared to a wreck in the sea.

    • @wiscon60joe8
      @wiscon60joe8 27 днів тому

      Yeah, I was thinking that as I watched--why didn't scrappers take the steel for WWII? They pulled up old railroad rails and scrapped bridges no longer being used in Wisconsin where I lived, all for the war effort.

  • @puyi
    @puyi 28 днів тому +3

    Theres kinda another surviving four stacker, USS Tattnall DD-125 is part of a breakwater in Royston, Canada, though she’s admittedly mostly buried by rocks.

    • @Foxttellio
      @Foxttellio 27 днів тому

      I had a look and i couldn't find any photos unfortunately

    • @puyi
      @puyi 27 днів тому +1

      @Not much to see because she’s mostly buried but I found some here; nauticalarch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Royston-status-report-FINAL-3.pdf

    • @puyi
      @puyi 27 днів тому +1

      @ Theres a PDF called something like “A RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY OF THE SHIPS OF THE ROYSTON BREAKWATER” that you can find by just looking it up (YT doesn’t like when people post links). It has a handful of pictures, though admittedly there isn’t much to see since most of her hull is buried.

  • @seancushing1113
    @seancushing1113 28 днів тому +1

    Have you seen the early destroyer next to Hampton roads tunnel?

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 25 днів тому

      USS Stringham and it’s a torpedo boat, smaller cousin of destroyers and what destroyers were created to combat against

  • @SteamCrane
    @SteamCrane 27 днів тому +1

    The bow notch would have been to salvage the anchor machinery.

  • @Ro6entX
    @Ro6entX 28 днів тому +1

    It’s been nearly 15 years since but had I known about this wreck when I was visiting six flags discovery kingdom, I would have gone to see it. But, one thing in the bucket list 👍

  • @crazywarriorscatfan9061
    @crazywarriorscatfan9061 28 днів тому +4

    Rather sad seeing her rust away there

  • @michaelyounger4497
    @michaelyounger4497 28 днів тому +3

    I am shocked she was not broken up and scrapped during the second world war during one of the scrap drives.

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 25 днів тому

      likely used as a bombing target or deemed not worth the effort to fully scrap her given how much was available elsewhere

  • @bostonrailfan2427
    @bostonrailfan2427 25 днів тому

    her sister ship, the former USS Stewart(DD-224), was even more recently discovered this past August and is the only intact ship of her class: sunk as a target and forgotten about. and is the only ship to serve both the US and Japan as she was scuttled by the US to prevent usage then salvaged by the Japanese then recaptured by the US

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 26 днів тому

    I used to live on the Napa River. I was unaware of the wreck. The Napa River is a navigable river. So the Army Corps of Engineers left it alone. BTW the river has twice daily tides

  • @lennybooth5235
    @lennybooth5235 28 днів тому

    Please do a video on the U.S.S. Liberty AGTR-5.

  • @billchasser8978
    @billchasser8978 27 днів тому +1

    I lived in American Canyon and Napa for about 5 yrs. Where is the Cory exactly. I never knew anything about it.

    • @edgein3299
      @edgein3299 27 днів тому

      If you were to extend W American Canyon Rd. Out into the Napa River, you will see it jutting out from a small island on google maps. Doesn’t look like you can get to it by land.

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT 28 днів тому +2

    *I wonder why they don't recover her plates given the value of pre-atomic steel?*

    • @sleezesteve
      @sleezesteve 28 днів тому +4

      They're above water and therefore exposed

    • @ChickenNugget-dk9hp
      @ChickenNugget-dk9hp 27 днів тому +1

      @@sleezesteve That's not how it works, The radiation in modern steel comes from the air used in the smelting process having background radiation. Just because this has been on the surface it is still pre-atomic steel.

    • @craigplatel813
      @craigplatel813 27 днів тому +1

      Pre atomic steel isn't really needed any more. Better shielding of instruments and the fact that background radiation from air tests of nuclear weapons has pretty much gone gone back down to pre atomic age levels

  • @godlynewbie
    @godlynewbie 27 днів тому +1

    I thought to myself before looking at the comments that corry is a clemson class. glad I was right. I've played to much world of warships

  • @CharlesIngraham-v1z
    @CharlesIngraham-v1z 27 днів тому

    I heard the ship broke free from moorings at Mare Island and beached itself in the Napa River. The destroyer always used as a landmark for fishing. My dad always called it a WW1 destroyer. Evidently not.

    • @bostonrailfan2427
      @bostonrailfan2427 25 днів тому +1

      it was designed during WWI, her class came too late to fight

  • @benwilson6145
    @benwilson6145 27 днів тому +2

    Rust in peace

  • @stephenfarthing3819
    @stephenfarthing3819 28 днів тому +3

    Hmm! Interesting! I think that she's going to be about for another 10 years will be gone.

  • @69Applekrate
    @69Applekrate 27 днів тому

    Am surprised that is hasn't been scrapped when the prices are up

  • @dillonpierce7869
    @dillonpierce7869 22 дні тому

    Ive loved these 4 stackers since battlestations midway..... Theres a shot on google maps from 3 years ago that has me hoping theres still enough left to save and use to rebuild it or build one fresh but thatll never happen nobody's gunna pay for that.

  • @matismf
    @matismf 28 днів тому

    Corry is pre-nuclear steel. Is that not still valuable?

    • @_Jetbolt_
      @_Jetbolt_ 28 днів тому

      The ship is above water and therefore exposed. Had it sank in deeper water, it would had been shielded from all the nuclear particles.

    • @ChickenNugget-dk9hp
      @ChickenNugget-dk9hp 27 днів тому +1

      Not as much now, the radiation is level is almost back at natural levels. Most modern steel production is done using Basic oxygen process which uses uncontaminated pure oxygen.

  • @huddunlap3999
    @huddunlap3999 27 днів тому +1

    Probably lead based paint.

  • @Conman1181
    @Conman1181 26 днів тому

    That's a lot of, pre-atomic steel, surprised someone hasn't taken advantage of it.

  • @jessicawells5145
    @jessicawells5145 28 днів тому +1

    Seems like her steel would be valuable being pre nuke steel

  • @davidbarnsley8486
    @davidbarnsley8486 27 днів тому

    I have to agree as to the condition of Corey after all this time 👍👍🇦🇺

  • @dermensch2980
    @dermensch2980 27 днів тому +1

    I live not too far away and have been out to the wreck a few times.

  • @MrJeep75
    @MrJeep75 27 днів тому +1

    One of these should of been saved

  • @velezdragon3574
    @velezdragon3574 25 днів тому

    I’m suprised they didn’t try to use her in ww2

  • @haveraygunwilltravel
    @haveraygunwilltravel 28 днів тому +2

    I hope you are making something off the commercials because it's getting ridiculous.

    • @joewalker2152
      @joewalker2152 27 днів тому +1

      I agree but, I believe its UA-cam more than the creators. What I've heard from other creators is that even if they set up for minimum adds, its UA-cam who just overloads the vids with them.
      I sub to a number of channels with very few subs and views and some would say a boring subject, but even those NOW have un-skippable adds at the start and end and some you can skip in the middle, sometimes up to nine in a 15-25min video!!

    • @skyneahistory2306
      @skyneahistory2306  27 днів тому +3

      Yeah. I have very little real control over ads. Less control than before, even. It’s partially why I try to keep videos below 20 minutes, to avoid the worst of it.

    • @battleshipoverland8677
      @battleshipoverland8677 27 днів тому

      If you Install the "Brave" browser, it completely cuts out all the adverts youtube tries to force on us.
      I only ever watch YT through it, and have done for years.

  • @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
    @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe 28 днів тому +1

    What ever Her History, this is an American Warship and should have been disposed accordingly.

  • @ThemightyEnterprise
    @ThemightyEnterprise 26 днів тому

    I feel like if we had a chance, she would be a museum by now, probably like how Mikasa is with most of her superstructure just replica

  • @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
    @JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe 28 днів тому

    This class of Destroyer was meat on the Table for the IJN. Unfortunately!

  • @davidmills817
    @davidmills817 27 днів тому

    We built the ship. We can fix it.

  • @christiantroy3034
    @christiantroy3034 26 днів тому

    Her steel is still worth a small fortune due to pre Hiroshima construction

  • @isaacborthwick3903
    @isaacborthwick3903 28 днів тому

    first