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The officers and crew of U.S.S. Ganymede are Star Trek fans in their leisure time and knowledge workers and creative artists professionally. We chose correspondence status because of time constraints and travel costs limiting our attendance at face-to-face meetings. We’ve chosen the functionality of the Internet to overcome time and distance and interact real-time with voice chat and share news and our own creative work via file exchange and archives. As individuals we can perform our community service mission of bringing breakthroughs in science and technology to school youth in our own locations. We interact with STARFLEET primarily online. STARFLEET Academy’s leadership courses are available for download already, and all other courses are at minimum available by postal mail. As possible for each of us, we attend Regional and International conferences and events, hold Regional and Fleet duty positions, and recruit members online and in our daily circles of activity. Our ship has been certified by the Academy’s Vessel Readiness Certification Program. This covers all our departments, including the 107th SF Marine Strike Group. |
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U.S.S. Ganymede NCC-80107 |
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An Online Correspondence Chapter, Affiliated With STARFLEET , the International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. |
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U.S.S. Ganymede (AK-104) was a Crater-class cargo vessel commissioned by the United States Navy for service in World War II. She was 14,250 tons loaded displacement, with a 1,950-shaft horsepower reciprocating steam engine and a speed of 13 knots. She was 441 feet 6 inches in length, with a 56-foot 11-inch beam and 27-foot 7-inch draft. She was fitted with mounts for one 5-inch/38 gun, one 3-inch/50 gun and eight 20-mm antiaircraft cannon. Her crew complement was 206. She was responsible for delivering troops, goods and equipment within the Pacific Ocean theater of operations. Ganymede, formerly the merchant ship SS James W. Nye, was launched under Maritime Commission contract on June 8, 1943 by the Permanente Metals Corporation of Richmond, California; sponsored by Mrs. William C. Dalby of Oakland, California, acquired by the Navy June 23, 1943, and commissioned July 31, 1943 with Lieutenant Commander Glenn H. Melichar in command. The photograph was taken in San Francisco Bay by the U.S. Navy’s Mare Island Shipyard August 16, 1943. After shakedown training out of Oakland, California, Ganymede departed San Francisco, California August 8, 1943, carrying military cargo to Pallikulo Bay, New Hebrides, and to Queensland, Melbourne and Sydney, Austrailia. Assigned to the United States Navy Seventh Fleet Service Force, she sailed from Queensland on November 29, 1943 with fuel, supplies, and passengers for Milne and Langemak Bays, New Guinea and thence returned to Australia. During the next 12 months she transported military cargo of many types and provided limited passenger service from ports of Australia to bases in New Guinea, including Humboldt Bay, Milne Bay, Cape Sudest and Tanahmerah Bay. Her itinerary was expanded in February 1945 to include Leyte, Manila, Subic Bay and Samar in the Phillipine Islands, with occasional calls at Manus, Admiralty Islands. Ganymede continued her busy Australia–New Guinea–Philippines–Australia supply circuit until November 20, 1945 when she departed Brisbane, Austrailia for the United States, arriving at San Francisco December 18. She remained in port until February 20, 1946 when she sailed for Pearl Harbor to take part in special explosive tests prior to her decommissioning there April 15, 1946. Towed back to San Francisco, her name was struck from the Navy List August 1, 1947. She entered the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisin Bay California on October 1, 1947, where she remained until scrapped in 1973. |
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FROM TERRAN NAVAL HISTORY—THE ORIGINAL U.S.S. GANYMEDE: |
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Logo and Motto |
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Ad astrae per scientia (To the stars through knowledge) |
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FROM WIKIPEDIA—THE STARSHIP U.S.S. GANYMEDE, NCC-80107: |
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The Luna-class is Starfleet's newest-generation long-range explorer, a starship not built specifically for combat, but like the Constitution-class of the previous century, a vessel designed for long-term multipurpose missions into uncharted space. Equipped with conventional tactical systems (deflector shields; phasers; quantum torpedoes), the Luna –class also boasts state-of-the-art propulsion and cutting-edge scientific equipment, as well as being a testbed for experimental science tech not yet available on other classes. The Luna-Class Development Project was initiated in 2369 in response to the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole, and originally conceived as leading a planned Starfleet wave of deep-space exploration in the Gamma Quadrant. The project was spearheaded by Dr. (Commander) Xin Ra-Havreii, a Starfleet theoretical engineer at Utopia Planitia. Field testing on the prototype U.S.S. Luna, NX-80101 was under way by 2372 in the Alpha Quadrant,. Although the U.S.S. Luna was subsequently destroyed by a warp core breach, STARFLEET judged the design space-worthy. Construction of the fleet was scheduled to begin in 2373. Unfortunately, contact with the Dominion and the subsequent outbreak of hostilities mothballed the project indefinitely, as Starfleet redirected its shipbuilding resources to the production of vessels better suited to combat. The ships of the Luna-class are all named for moons in Earth's solar system. In addition to the USS Titan, NCC-80102 and the USS Ganymede, NCC-80107, the others are: |
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USS Almathea, NCC-80108 USS Callisto, NCC-80109 USS Charon, NCC-80111 USS Europa, NCC-80104 USS Galatea, NCC-80112 USS Io, NCC-80105 USS Oberon, NCC-80103 USS Rhea, NCC-80110 USS Triton, NCC-80106 |
