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June 22 - November 22, 2022
Lee and Miss Mabelle Elspeth Allen, daughter of John and Margaret Allen, were married on Monday, 14 July 1919. She was twenty-four years old at the time, having been born on 12 September 1894 in Gilchrist, Illinois.14 Her new husband was thirty-one.
submarine tender Bushnell from September 1919 to June 1920. (The ship was named for David Bushnell, a Revolutionary War–era inventor. He created a primitive submarine named Turtle that attacked a British warship in 1776.)
The Bushnell had been commissioned in late 1915. She spent most of 1918 at Queenstown, Ireland, acting as a tender for submarines operating from there in World War I. After the armistice, she escorted surrendered German U-boats to England, Canada, and the United States.
The Bushnell had been commissioned in late 1915. She spent most of 1918 at Queenstown, Ireland, acting as a tender for submarines operating from there in World War I. After the armistice, she escorted surrendered German U-boats to England, Canada, and the United States.
Erin Go Bragh!
In contrast to today’s practice of treating submarine operating characteristics as classified, the information was quite open in that period.
While ashore at the Hotel Inglaterra, the unpretentious executive officer did something that endeared him to Hillenkoetter.
A civilian overheard the conversation, approached the pair, and said of Hillenkoetter’s familiar manner, “Ensign, you can’t talk to a commander like that.” Lee, whose back was to the civilian, did not even bother to turn around. He just said, “Hilly, tell that guy to go to hell.”
A civilian overheard the conversation, approached the pair, and said of Hillenkoetter’s familiar manner, “Ensign, you can’t talk to a commander like that.” Lee, whose back was to the civilian, did not even bother to turn around. He just said, “Hilly, tell that guy to go to hell.”
Haha, BURN (pun intended)!!
All told, Lee participated in fourteen events, including seven in one day. As a member in five-man team events, he captured the following medals: gold, men’s 50-meter small-bore rifle; gold, men’s 300-meter free rifle; gold, men’s 300-meter military rifle, prone; gold, men’s 300-meter military rifle, standing; gold, men’s 600-meter military rifle, prone; gold, men’s 300-meter plus 600-meter military rifle, prone; silver, men’s 300-meter military rifle, standing; bronze, men’s 100-meter team running deer, single shots.
In time the silk wore out, and Lee got so many more medals—around seventy altogether—that she created a cloth the size of a card table upon which to display them.
Lee compensated for his poor vision with shooting glasses, which had only half a lens on the right side, to keep the rifle’s bolt from hitting the glass and breaking it.
There they received congratulations from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
There they received congratulations from Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels.
Oh yeah, that guy; banned alcohol on U.S. Navy ships and was the inspiration of the slang phrase “cup o’joe” for coffee.
On 28 September he took over his first command, the four-stack destroyer Fairfax.
“Maybelle was so tickled she couldn’t sit still a minute.” (At times he used an alternate spelling for his wife’s name, in addition to calling her “Chub.”)
And she discovered that in South Carolina the word “hear” has two syllables, pronounced as “he-ah.”
