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!
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
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 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?
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.
*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 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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
@ 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.
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 👍
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
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
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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!
What??? Are you a mommy's boy???
There is no way I couldn't explore that wreck!!!
Wish we still had a Clemson intact in ww1 configuration, besides the fletchers, the Clemsons are my favorite destroyer
They're all pretty nifty. I favour the Wickes class myself, but it's just a matter of degrees, call it first among equals.
Same here, I love the clemsons
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
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.
We know what a bulkhead is but the majority of the landlubers would scratch their heads.
@@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?
Bulkhead is also used in automotive and aerospace. Not limited to ships.
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.
Sir, you are a master storyteller, thank you for all the videos you have done..
I've been in love with 4 pipers since I read Tragedy at Honda in the 60s.❤
Another fantastic video!
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.
My grandfather was a plank owner of her sister USS Reno, DD 303
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.
*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.
Huh…interesting. It’s always fun to see comments on stuff I couldn’t find detail on.
@@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.
@@SamwiseOutdoors- appreciate the rest of the story!
5:55 7:33 8:59 *I wonder if that's the same person? Wouldn't that be nifty?*
The age would be about right. Approximately 15/40.
As a local from the Bay Area, its great to see some spotlight on such a known wreck in the area.
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
I had a look and i couldn't find any photos unfortunately
@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
@ 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.
Have you seen the early destroyer next to Hampton roads tunnel?
USS Stringham and it’s a torpedo boat, smaller cousin of destroyers and what destroyers were created to combat against
The bow notch would have been to salvage the anchor machinery.
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 👍
Rather sad seeing her rust away there
I am shocked she was not broken up and scrapped during the second world war during one of the scrap drives.
likely used as a bombing target or deemed not worth the effort to fully scrap her given how much was available elsewhere
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
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
Please do a video on the U.S.S. Liberty AGTR-5.
I lived in American Canyon and Napa for about 5 yrs. Where is the Cory exactly. I never knew anything about it.
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.
*I wonder why they don't recover her plates given the value of pre-atomic steel?*
They're above water and therefore exposed
@@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.
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
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
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.
it was designed during WWI, her class came too late to fight
Rust in peace
Hmm! Interesting! I think that she's going to be about for another 10 years will be gone.
Am surprised that is hasn't been scrapped when the prices are up
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.
Corry is pre-nuclear steel. Is that not still valuable?
The ship is above water and therefore exposed. Had it sank in deeper water, it would had been shielded from all the nuclear particles.
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.
Probably lead based paint.
That's a lot of, pre-atomic steel, surprised someone hasn't taken advantage of it.
Seems like her steel would be valuable being pre nuke steel
I have to agree as to the condition of Corey after all this time 👍👍🇦🇺
I live not too far away and have been out to the wreck a few times.
One of these should of been saved
I’m suprised they didn’t try to use her in ww2
I hope you are making something off the commercials because it's getting ridiculous.
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!!
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.
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.
What ever Her History, this is an American Warship and should have been disposed accordingly.
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
This class of Destroyer was meat on the Table for the IJN. Unfortunately!
We built the ship. We can fix it.
Her steel is still worth a small fortune due to pre Hiroshima construction
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