Troops

TROOPS

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BAYONNE TROOP NUMBERS
The oldest available list of troop numbers is from 1943. Over the years, while the troop numbers remained, the sponsoring organizations sometimes changed. For example, in the late 1930s, Troop 2 was sponsored by a “group of citizens” and by 1960, Troop 9 was sponsored by the Bayonne Naval Supply Base. There were also periods when troops were sponsored by individual public schools as listed below.
Troop 3	Henry Harris School
Troop 6	Horace Mann School
Troop 7	Phillip Vroom School
Troop 10	Roosevelt School
Troop 11	Mary J. Donahue School
Troop 13	Washington School
Troop 17	Woodrow Wilson School
Troop 38	Lincoln School
Troop 45	Bayonne High School
Troop 45	Bayonne High School
The full history of troop numbers is as follows:
Troop 1	Central YMCA
Troop 2	"A Group of Citizens"; St. Andrews Church
Troop 3	Henry Harris School; Trinity Episcopal Church
Troop 4	Wesley Methodist Church
Troop 5	Kiwanis Club
Troop 6	Horace Mann School; Christ Presbyterian Church
Troop 7	Phillip Vroom School; Grace Lutheran Church
Troop 8	First Reformed Church
Troop 9	Patriotic Order of Sons of America; Rotary Club; Bayonne Naval Supply Base
Troop 10	Roosevelt School; Conmar-Margon Corporation Knights of Columbus
Troop 11	Mary J. Donahue School; Joyce-Herbert Post 226, VFW
Troop 12	Angelic Baptist Church; Bayonne Housing Authority, LaTourette Gardens
Troop 13	Washington School; Jewish War Veterans, Post #18
Troop 14	Ohab Sholem Congregation
Troop 15	F.A. Mackenzie Post 165
Troop 16	Industrial YMCA
Troop 17	Woodrow Wilson School; Foreman's Club
Troop 18	St. Joseph’s Church
Troop 19	Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
Troop 20	St. Mary’s Church (Rover Crew)
Troop 21	St. Mary’s Church; Bayonne Housing Authority, Pamrapo Gardens
Troop 22	St. Mary’s Church; St. Sophia Ukranian Orthodox Church
Troop 23	St. Mary’s Church
Troop 24	Jewish Community Center
Troop 25	St. Vincent’s Church
Troop 26	St. Vincent’s Church
Troop 27	Our Lady of the Assumption Church
Troop 28	Carpathian Club
Troop 29	Salvation Army
Troop 30	St. John Greek Church
Troop 34	Bayonne Elks Club
Troop 35	St. Henry’s Church
Troop 38	Lincoln School
Troop 45	Bayonne High School
Troop 46	Bayonne High School
See Troop/Pack/Post/Ship Leaders - 1964 & 1969

Troop 1

1963

Troop 2

Eagle Scout Awards, 1968

Troop 3

Troop 5

Kiwanis Club Honors Troop, 1945

Troop 9

1945

Troop 10

Camping Awards, 1968

Troop 11

Heroism Medal Recipiant, 1941

Troop to visit Washington, D.C., 1945

Troop 16

Eagle Scout Awards, year unknown

Troop 18

Eagle Scout Award, 1964

Troop 19

Christopher Szymczak receiving Eagle Scout Award

Scout Week 1969

Troop 19 at steps of Washington DC Capitol with Congressman from Bayonne, Cornelius "Neil" Gallagher, with congressman's signature on photo, 1971

Certificate of Merit Award, 1982

Explorer Post 19 / Ship 19

Explorer Post 19 at Matagamon High Adventure Base, Maine, 1976.
Front Row kneeling: Paul Durak, George Gavrun, Mark Pintauro, John Antos, Kevin Ryan. Standing: Rich Pietruszki, Frank "Buddy" Antos, Andrew Przysbylski, Joey Oldakowski, Bob Lesiak, Rev. Rich Kwiatkowski and Ranger Scott Tritt

Explorer Post 19. Bayonne Memorial Day Parade, 1978

Troop 21

Troop prepares hike to camp, 1962

Troop 25

Charter, 1935

Eagle Scout Awards, 1969

Florida Sea Base, 2008

Florida Sea Base, 2008

Florida Sea Base, 2008

Assistant Scoutmasters in Key West, 2008

Mike Hurley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 2009

Whitewater Rafting on the Payette River, Idaho, 2009

Whitewater Rafting on the Payette River, Idaho, 2009

History of Troop 25

Pack 25 / Ship 25

Pack 25 Chartered, 1949

1955

ABOARD THE SEA SCOUT VESSEL CHARLES H. BRANDNER. Aug. 1 — Despite a broken throttle cable, this former Navy fleet tender, her crew of 20 Sea Scouts and a party of guests put out to sea this morning on a preliminary shakedown cruise from Caven Point, Jersey City, to the foot of Wall Street, Manhattan.

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She returned without incident. The dowdy craft was acquired by the Sea Scouts of “Ship 25” of Bayonne from the Government, which had declared her surplus and consigned her for destruction along with a 63‐foot former air‐sea rescue boat and the former Coast Guard cutter Agassiz.

Crew Is Combined

The cutter was given to Kearny Sea Scout “Ship 13” and the 125‐foot Agassiz, which has 40 years of Coast Guard service, was signed over to the Jersey City Sea Scout “Ship 86.” A second Jersey City Sea Scout group, “Ship 27,” had earlier acquired an 83‐foot Coast Guard cutter, which is tied up awaiting certification of her seaworthiness.

Aboard this 64‐footer today, members of the four “ships” made up a combined crew that took the Brandner into the waterborne traffic of the Upper Bay in the East River in an “expression of appreciation” and a salute to the men and the military services, including the Reserves, who are helping the Scouts build up their fleet. Their sea frontier is the western shore of the Upper New York Bay.

The Brandner was selected to carry the day's honors while the remainder of the Sea Scout fleet was at pierside.

But to the momentary dismay of the crew and Stephen Giedosh, a 24‐year‐old school teacher who is adviser to the Ship 25 troop, it was discovered that the throttle cable leading from the bridge to the engine room had fouled in its pipe and snapped as preparations for sailing were almost completed.

Undaunted, the captainmentor dispatched James (Peewee) Paridine, 14, a Sea Scout from Bayonne to the engine room and stationed between him and the bridge a relay of human telegraphs to carry orders from the bridge to the throttle.

Shouted calls for full throttle, half throttle, reverse and stand by reached the young seaman, who pressed his thumbs on the throttle in the din of the racketing diesel engine below decks.

Captain Giedosh called for consultation by the crew to find what could be done to relieve the strain on Peewee's thumbs. It was decided to jury rig an extension to the throttle. While this was being sited, Peter O'Brien, 17, of Bayonne, a boatswain, was at the helm guiding the craft through Upper Bay traffic toward Buttermilk Channel.

The jury rig was completed when a vicegrip wrench was affixed to the throttle, giving Peewee a more comfortable and surer control of the lever.

Intership rivalry among the four Scouting groups was put aside for the cruise, and all hands worked as a single crew for the shakedown salute cruise, which lasted about two hours.

The Scouts dealt with other minor problems with speed and skill.

When the quartermaster pushed a button to sound the “under way” signal, minor confusion broke out when the horn stuck and the protracted blast continued to signal what might have been taken by other seamen in the bay as a mistaken “welcome to port” signal for an incoming ship or “I am going down with flying colors” from the Brandner. Several sharp raps with monkey wrench returned the horn to normalcy.

General Is Grounded

The guest of honor of the cruise and the salute, Brig. Gen. Fred Welsh, commander of the 79th Army Reserve command, which embraces New Jersey and eastern Pennslyvania, was grounded by fog in Philadelphia in his helicopter.

The Brandner, named for a Bayonne youth who served in the Navy and lost his life in the Korean war, was escorted on this morning's cruise by a privately owned converted cutter. Richard F. Lindsay, 52, an ex‐Navy chief and former New Jersey city policeman, owns the vessel. He is a civilian employe of the Corps of Engineers n the office of the New York Harbor Supervisor.

Mr. Lindsay, who is based at Caven Point, is the coordinator of the Sea Scout activities with the 469th Battalion Reserves. He calls himself the chief scrounger of the operation.

At the end of the cruise and back ashore Mr. Lindsay ordered a muster for a critique of the cruise and seamanship.

“First,” he said, “let's thank our visitors for sailing with us—then we will muster for a bit of butt chewing,” said the ham‐fisted former water tender who served on the carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Source: New_York_Times_Archives

Troop 27

Ad Altare Dei Awards, 1969

Eagle Scout Awards, 1971

Troop 34

Scout of the Year, 1967