Cruise of the schooner Salee, 30 August 1939 to 20 March 1940, Solomon Islands, Maryland--Rio de Janiero-- Miami, Florida : the diary of Captain Sherwood Picking, USN, ca. 2011.

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Cruise of the schooner Salee, 30 August 1939 to 20 March 1940, Solomon Islands, Maryland--Rio de Janiero-- Miami, Florida : the diary of Captain Sherwood Picking, USN, ca. 2011.

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Proofing draft, including images of schooner Salee, photographs, map, and transcriptions of the diary.

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Maine Historical Society Library

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United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

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Picking, Sherwood, 1890-1941

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Capt. Sherwood Picking was the son of Rear Admiral Henry Forry Picking and Laura Sherwood Picking, a great grandson of John Neal, of Portland, Me., and a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in 1911. He was killed Sept. 1, 1941 in a crash of an RAF Ferry Command plane while it was attempting to land in the British Isles in a dense fog while on his way to take up new duties as assistant naval attacheĢ at the American Embassy in London. He was a resident of Baltimore, Md. From the descri...