04/03/2016
Just Released: only 1000 limited edition prints available
The Torpedo Boat Destroyer USS LAMSON (DD-367)
AKA "Lucky Lamson".
Lost to the Deep - Bikini Atoll - July 1946.
The USS Lamson (DD-367) received five battle stars and was credited with eight enemy planes shot down, two submarines sunk, two ships sunk and eight shore bombardments. In 1936 she also took part in the search for the missing U.S. aviator, Amelia Earhart, ironically around Bikini Atoll.
The Bell of the USS Lamson hangs on the Quarter Deck of the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Centre at Des Moines, Iowa, United States of America.
She remains in the hearts of those who served aboard her, a majestic icon, Lost to the Deep, in a place only a few care to visit.