USCG info please

...looking for help on any information on the Joseph Dickman, I believe was manned by USGC.....also possibly the USS Woodbury
...the person I am looking for information on that served on the ships = last name is Riordon
...time he served on the Dickman/etc?
I've seen this link:
Attack Transport APA-13 Joseph T. Dickman

 

What is the first name?

Several Riordons can be found on the Navy muster rolls.
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Probably northern Irish decent...has dropped the O'

 

Good luck finding your sailor

 

More ship info

USS Joseph T. Dickman (AP-26/APA-13) - Ship History and Specifications

 

sorry...I'll have to find that out....it's a co-worker's father
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..supposedly he was in Casablanca in 1945......
?
..maybe memories are failing

 

..this is about a co-worker's father -I thought he said his grandfather was an Irish policeman--but in America
..I'll ask him again

 

....you know you're Irish stuff...confirmed by the son of the sailor, the sailor's father was Irish...the parent's of the wife of the sailor were both Irish....they visited relatives in Ireland 13 times! ....the son said everyone in their family has Irish names
....it never sounded Irish to me

 

..the sailor's son gave me a 3 page article on the Dickman..very interesting ...says it was in Operation Torch and at Casablanca around then/etc....like I said, maybe memories are failing somewhere...but he was on other ships
...thanks for your replies

 

The name should be O'Riordan...those in Northern Ireland who wanted to join the Brits dropped the "O" or Anglosised their names...don't get me started : )
Don't mention this to them...could hit a nerve.

 

...good trivia....interesting to me ....I didn't think you were Irish?
..the son--my co-worker--mentioned his Irish grandfather--but, Riordon never sounded Irish to me

 

Pronounced "Reer-den" or "Ree-ordin"

A famous O'Riordan

Dolores O'Riordan - Cranberries
From Limerick, southern Ireland.

I'm an Aussie mate...but my ancestors are from Ireland (County Cork - about as south as it gets) Scotland and England...but 80% Irish. Due to the discrimination of Irish and Catholics, there was a huge cohort of Irish given transportation to Australia as punishment for even small crimes in Britain, where many Irish travelled in the hope of employment. (Sounds familiar). So they thought sending us to sunny Australia was a punishment..? Many today say thankyou to the British government!

 

...they and a lot of English/Irish bands sound so ''non-foreign''--I never knew they were Irish

 

Limerick!! surely that is not where the word ''limerick'' comes from??!!
there's a town in Ireland called Limerick !!!??

 

Haha...yes and yes.

 

very hahhaha
....one of my favorite TV shows has an episode about some Irish in America trying to get weapons/etc--and the Irish murderer has a lot of limericks
..I never knew..that is ''funny''