USS Preble (DD-345) - Postscript

Postscript

In the episode "Long Live the King" from the first season (1964–1965) of the television show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the long-since-scrapped USS Preble (DD-345) is plainly visible in stock footage used in the final quarter of the episode, and the Captain Lee Crane character played by David Hedison indicates that the footage is showing the advanced units of the United States Seventh Fleet during the 1970s, the time period in which the first season is set.

Even though not named but clearly marked 345, the USS Preble appeared in the 1942 movie, The Navy Came Through starring Desi Arnez and Jackie Cooper. The Clemson class destroyer is easily identified by its tell-tale four smoke stacks, also known as a 'Four Stacker'.

See USS Preble for other ships of this name.

Read more about this topic:  USS Preble (DD-345)