Electric engine plaque from the USS Finback, the submarine that rescued President George W. Bush.
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USS Finback – Submarine SS-230 Elliott Motor Co. Engine Plaque.
Founded in 1901 as the Liberty Manufacturing Company to produce boiler cleaning equipment based on the patents of William Swan Elliott, the company incorporated as the Elliott Company in 1910. Elliott Company moved to the former Clifford-Capell Fan Works in Jeannette, Pennsylvania, in 1914 and has maintained a factory and offices there since.
Elliott purchased the Kerr Turbine Company in 1924 and Ridgway Dynamo & Engine Co. in 1926. These acquisitions allowed Elliott to begin manufacturing turbines and compressors and enter the rotating machinery market.
In the 1930s and during World War II, Elliott supplied the United State Navy with some of the electric motors and generators used in fleet submarines under the name Elliott Motor Company. The Elliott company’s broader war contribution included turbines, generators, blowers, ejectors, heaters, and other warship and engine parts.
Elliot Motor Company “MAIN MOTOR NO.3”
Year built: 1940.
Bronze Plaque measures 4 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches.
U.S.S. FINBACK SS- 230
Gato-class submarine; Finback was laid down 5 February 1941 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine. She was launched 25 August 1941.
12 wartime patrols in the Pacific. She returned to Majuro 21 July for refit, then sailed 16 August on her tenth war patrol under command of Lieutenant Commander Robert Russell Williams, Jr., and was assigned to lifeguard duty in the Bonins. Guided by friendly aircraft, she rescued a total of five Naval aviators, one very close inshore off Chichi Jima. Watchman Torpedoman First Class, Donnet Kohler, pulled out a tall lanky young pilot who ended up becoming the 41st President of the United States, George W. Bush. Pilot Beckman was rescued by holding on to the periscope until the partially submerged Finback was 5 miles from Haha Jima, out of range of the shelling from the Japanese cannons.
A small piece of the boat with a super WWII history. What else might have been salvaged from this great WWII submarine.
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| Weight | 1 lbs |
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