![]() ![]() Anne Randle was the first member of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service) to be assigned to the Office of Shipbuilding in New York City. ![]() The KIDD would become the only vessel in the history of the United States Navy to ever have such leave granted to fly the flag of piracy.Īnother unique distinction about KIDD’s first voyage was the make-up of her crew. Kidd obtained official permission from the powers-that-be in the Navy for them to paint the pirate on the stack and fly the Jolly Roger. ![]() ![]() The Admiral’s nickname at the Naval Academy had been “Cap” (as in “Captain Kidd”) and he had gone by this nickname his entire life. Not wishing to dishonor RADM Kidd, however, the crew obtained permission from Mrs. The crew quickly adopted the pirate Captain Kidd-who ironically hailed from New York-as their mascot and hired a local cartoonist to paint the famed buccaneer’s image high of the forward smokestack. The edition of TIME magazine that week carried a photo of KIDD, announcing that it had been one hundred years since the Jolly Roger had flown in New York Harbor. flying the skull and crossbones of the Jolly Roger high from the foremast. Roby, the destroyer moved across New York Harbor for delivery to the Brooklyn Naval Shipyards. The KIDD’s first voyage was one of some notoriety. Inez Kidd, widow of RADM Kidd, served as the ship’s sponsor, christening her and presenting her crew with a handsome wardroom guest book in which she wrote: “May the destiny of the USS KIDD be glorious! May her victories be triumphant and conclusive!” who was killed aboard his flagship, USS ARIZONA (BB-39) during the surprise attack by the Japanese on the American fleet anchored at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.īuilt at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Company of Kearny, New Jersey, KIDD was one of four destroyers launched on Februin a record-breaking fourteen minutes. In the traditional system of naming destroyers after Naval heroes, she was named after Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, Sr. The USS KIDD (DD-661) is a Fletcher-class destroyer, the six hundred sixty-first destroyer built by the United States Navy. The only Fletcher-class destroyer restored to her WWII (1945) configuration and open to the public for tours. ![]()
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