The USS "Phelps" along with the cruiser "Chester", escorted a vessel that served as the flagship for the commander of what?
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USS Phelps (DD-360) USS "Phelps" (DD-360) was a World War II-era "Porter"-class destroyer in the service of the United States Navy. She was named for Thomas Stowell Phelps, who was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy in 1884. "Phelps" was laid down 2 January 1934 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts; launched 18 July 1935; sponsored by Mrs. Richard A. Kearny; and commissioned 26 February 1936, Commander Albert H. Rooks in command. In November 1936 "Phelps", along with the cruiser "Chester", escorted the heavy cruiser "Indianapolis" carrying President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Buenos Aires, Argentina for the opening of the Inter-American Peace Conference of 1936. The cruise included good-will visits to Montevideo, Uruguay and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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USS Indianapolis (CA-35) USS "Indianapolis" (CL/CA-35) was a "Portland"-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, named for the city of Indianapolis, Indiana. The vessel served as the flagship for the commander of Scouting Force 1 for eight pre-war years, then as flagship for Admiral Raymond Spruance, in 1943 and 1944, while he commanded the Fifth Fleet in battles across the Central Pacific in World War II.
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USS Hué City USS "Hué City" (CG-66) is a "Ticonderoga" class-guided-missile cruiser serving in the United States Navy. She is named for the Battle of Huế, fought in the city during the Tet Offensive of 1968 by the 1st Marine Regiment (composed of 1st Battalion/1st Marines, 1st Battalion/5th Marines, 2nd Battalion/5th Marines and attached units) during the Vietnam War. The three battalion commanders were the honored guests at her 1991 commissioning.
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USS Potomac (1822) USS "Potomac" was a frigate in the United States Navy laid down by the Washington Navy Yard in August 1819 and launched in March 1822. Fitting out was not completed until 1831, when Captain John Downes assumed command as first commanding officer. Although called a "44" 1st class, she was built to mount 32 carronades on her spar deck, 30 long guns on her gun deck, two bow and three stern chasers on each of these decks, significantly under-rating her on the rating system of the Royal Navy.
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USS Charles S. Sperry USS "Charles S. Sperry" (DD-697), an "Allen M. Sumner"-class destroyer , was named for Charles Stillman Sperry, the commanding officer of "Yorktown" . Sperry would later attain the rank of Rear Admiral.
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USS Somerset (1862) USS "Somerset" was a wooden-hulled, side-wheel ferryboat built at Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1862, which was purchased by the Navy at Washington, D. C., on 4 March 1862 and was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 3 April 1862, Lt. Earl English in command.
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USS Dewey (DDG-105) USS "Dewey" (DDG-105) is an "Arleigh Burke"-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. "Dewey" is the third Navy ship named after Admiral of the Navy George Dewey, hero of the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish–American War. The ship is part of Destroyer Squadron 1 of Carrier Strike Group One of which the flagship is the aircraft carrier  .
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USS Richmond K. Turner USS "Richmond K. Turner" (DLG-20 / CG-20) was a "Leahy"-class cruiser destroyer leader in the United States Navy. The ship was named for Admiral Richmond K. Turner, who served during World War II.
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USS Pontoosuc USS "Pontoosuc " was a Union Navy vessel in the American Civil War. A side wheel gunboat, "Pontoosuc" was built under contract with G. W. Lawrence and the Portland Company, Portland, Maine, and was named for Pontoosuc, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. She was commissioned at Portland on 10 May 1864 with Lieutenant Commander George A. Stevens in command.
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USS Point Cruz USS "Point Cruz" (CVE-119) was a "Commencement Bay"-class escort carrier of the United States Navy. Originally named "Trocadero Bay" until 5 June 1944 when it was renamed after the Honiara suburb Point Cruz, which was an important location during the Guadalcanal Campaign. She was laid down on 4 December 1944 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards Incorporated, Tacoma, Washington; launched on 18 May 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Earl R. DeLong; and commissioned on 16 October 1945, with Captain Douglas T. Day in command.
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Carrier Strike Group 1 Carrier Strike Group One, (CSG-1 or CARSTRKGRU 1), is a U.S. Navy carrier strike group.  is the strike group's current flagship, and other units current assigned are the ship’s Carrier Air Wing 2 and embarked Destroyer Squadron 1, deployed with "Ticonderoga"-class guided-missile cruiser USS "Lake Champlain" , as well as "Arleigh Burke"-class guided-missile destroyers USS "Michael Murphy" and USS "Wayne E. Meyer" .
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Capture of HMS Epervier The capture of HMS "Epervier" was a naval action fought off the coast of Florida near Cape Canaveral on 28 April 1814, between the ship-rigged sloop of war USS "Peacock", commanded by Master Commandant Lewis Warrington, and the "Cruizer"-class brig-sloop "Epervier" under Commander Richard Wales. The Americans captured the British vessel after a one-sided cannonade.
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USS Intrepid (1874) The second USS "Intrepid", was a steam-powered torpedo ram commissioned and built in 1874 that had the distinction of being the world's first U.S. Navy ship armed with self-propelled torpedoes. In concept and design she was roughly comparable to the Royal Navy's HMS "Polyphemus" , although "Intrepid" was completed more than half a decade earlier. The "Intrepid" was commissioned by President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson.
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USS Akela (SP-1793) The wooden-hulled, twin-screw, steam yacht "Akela"—built in 1899 at Morris Heights, N.Y., by the Gas Engine and Power Co. and the Charles L. Seabury Co.—was acquired by the Navy from Bridgeport, Connecticut businessman Henry Alfred Bishop and delivered on 24 December 1917. Redesignated  was commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 16 April 1918, Chief Boatswain's Mate John J. Stegin, USNRF, in charge.
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Cámara's Flying Relief Column During the Spanish–American War of 1898, Cámara's Flying Relief Column was a naval task force of Spain's most powerful warships, under the command of Rear Admiral Manuel de la Cámara, tasked with relieving Spanish forces in Manila after the defeat of Spanish Pacific Squadron under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón by the American Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey in the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898. The Spanish fleet, consisting of the battleship "Pelayo", armored cruiser "Emperador Carlos V", auxiliary cruisers "Patriota" and "Rapido", destroyers "Audaz", "Osado", and "Prosepina", and transports "Buenos Aires" and "Panay", left Spain in June 1898. The squadron was far more powerful than that commanded by Dewey, which only consisted of four protected cruisers and two gunboats. The monitor USS "Monterey" had been ordered from the U.S. to the Philippines, and departed on 11 June.
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USS Nicholas (DD-311) USS "Nicholas" (DD-311) was a "Clemson"-class destroyer in the United States Navy following World War I. She was the first Navy ship named for Samuel Nicholas (1744–1790), the first Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
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Warren Terhune Warren Jay Terhune (May 3, 1869 – November 3, 1920) was a United States Navy Commander, and the 13th Governor of American Samoa. Terhune was born in Midland, New Jersey, and lived in New Jersey most of his life when not posted elsewhere. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1889, and graduated as a Lieutenant in 1899. He was stationed on numerous ships, and held command of various ships and stations throughout his career. His most notable command posts include the Seventh Naval District of South Florida and the Naval Air Station Key West within his jurisdiction. His largest engagement came when President William Howard Taft ordered the United States Marine Corps to Nicaragua in an attempt to put down a rebellion there, primarily out of the city of Managua. Terhune commanded the "USS Annapolis", which landed hundreds of troops to quell the violence and protect American civilians and property.
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Roger Welles Roger Welles (1862–1932) was a U. S. naval officer, the first commander of USS "Oklahoma" and appointed the first "Navy Mayor" of San Diego.
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Charles B. McVay Jr. Charles B. McVay Jr. (September 9, 1868 – October 28, 1949) was an admiral in the United States Navy after World War I. In 1907–1909, after the cruise of the Great White Fleet, he commanded the tender USS "Yankton". He then held various assignments of increasing importance throughout and after World War I. In the early 1930s, he served as commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet.
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USS Cincinnati (CL-6) USS "Cincinnati" (CL-6), was the third "Omaha"-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, built for the United States Navy. She was also the third Navy ship named for the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, the first being "Cincinnati" , an ironclad commissioned in 1862, during the Civil War, and the second being "Cincinnati" , a protected cruiser, that was decommissioned in 1919.
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Catesby ap Roger Jones Catesby ap Roger Jones (April 15, 1821 – June 20, 1877) was an officer in the U.S. Navy who became a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He assumed command of CSS "Virginia" during the Battle of Hampton Roads and engaged the USS "Monitor" in the historic first battle of the two iron clads.
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CSS Manassas CSS "Manassas", formerly the steam icebreaker "Enoch Train", was built in 1855 by James O. Curtis as a twin-screw towboat at Medford, Massachusetts. A New Orleans commission merchant, Captain John A. Stevenson, acquired her for use as a privateer after she was captured by another privateer (later gunboat)  . Her fitting out as "Manassas" was completed at Algiers, Louisiana; her conversion to a ram of a radically modern design made her the first ironclad ship built for the Confederacy.