Gun #3 of the USS Ward, which fired a round at a Japanese midget submarine and sank it outside the Hawaiian harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, about an hour before the infamous aerial sneak attack ...

One of those original ships was the USS Arikara (ATF-98),” Ward said. The original USS Arikara (AT-98) was an Abnaki-class of fleet ocean tugs. It was launched in 1943 in Charleston, S.C ...