DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Collection Number
Pending
Creator
This collection was assembled by Richard Trenbeth, 1940 – 1945. It was donated to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History by Joan Trenbeth in 2003.
Extent
Number of Containers: One (1) Box
Linear Feet: 0.5 Linear Feet
Repository
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Archives
705 Front Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Abstract
This collection consists of a war cruise map and a war time diary of Richard Trenbeth. The map is primarily of the Pacific region. The diary covers his time in the ROTC, military training, and service on the LST 828.
Location
The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
Preferred Citation
The Richard Trenbeth Collection, The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the head of Archives at MAH. Researchers may be responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material not produced by museum personnel.
Process By
G. Gardner
Date Completed
2013
The Richard Trenbeth Collection consists of a war time cruise map for the LST 828 from Biloxi, MS to Pearl Harbor and then back and forth across the eastern Pacific. Richard Trenbeth also wrote a war time journal of his experiences in the ROTC, military training, and on the LST 828. There were additional items donated that are in the objects collection including a scale model of an LST and Richard Trenbeth’s uniform.
SERIES I. WAR TIME CRUISE MAP OF THE LST 828 (1941 – 1945)
One (1) Box
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains a framed war time cruise map for the LST 828. The cruise is traced from Biloxi, MS through the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor. From Pearl Harbor the LST 828 travelled several times to the eastern Pacific and most notably participated in the invasion of Okinawa.
Box ID#: Folder ID#
1:X
SERIES II. WAR TIME JOURNAL OF RICHARD TRENBETH (1939 – 1945)
One (1) Folder
Series Scope and Content Summary
This series contains a war time journal written by Richard Trenbeth. He wrote and published this journal for his family in 1990. It traces his time in the Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps at Georgia Tech. The journal also includes his military training at various locations in the eastern United States. He then assumed command of the LST 828 and sailed it through the Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor with a stop in Nicaragua due to a medical emergency. LST’s were nicknamed by their crews Large Slow Targets. He then sailed on to Ulithi in the eastern Pacific – one night when he was returning to his ship the small boat he was on ran out of gas fortunately he was able to signal his ship or they would have drifted out into the China Sea. The LST 828 participated in the Invasion of Okinawa in which it was an ammunition ship supporting the radar picket destroyers. In August 1945 he was part of a convoy going back to Pearl Harbor when they received notification the war was over, they requested permission to test pyrotechnics but were told to save them until it was dark.
Box ID#: Folder ID#
1:1
