An interview with Muriel Helsel [sound recording] / Muriel Helsel ; Mark R. DePue, interviewer. 2007.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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United States. Bureau of Yards and Docks

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DePue, Mark R.

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Helsel, Muriel V.

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Muriel (Vanderwalker) Helsel was born on Apr. 24, 1919 in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Los Angeles. She married Rolland A. Helsel on Apr. 2, 1940, and shortly thereafter he joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. The navy soon sent him to Harvard Business School for course work, and following that Rolland was commissioned in the U.S. Navy, eventually being assigned to Pearl Harbor, specifically to the U.S.S. Pennsylvania. The young couple arrived in Hawaii just days before the attack on Pearl Harbor o...

Pennsylvania (Battleship)

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The third Pennsylvania (BB-38) was laid down 27 October 1913 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; launched 16 March 1915; sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Kolb; and commissioned 12 June 1916, Capt. H. B. Wilson in command. Pennsylvania was attached to the Atlantic Fleet. On 12 October 1916 she became flagship of Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, when Admiral Henry T. Mayo shifted his flag from Wyoming to Pennsylvania. In January 1917, Pennsylv ania steamed f...