G. S. Patrick G. S. Patrick Goldsborough Serpell Patrick (26 April 1907 – 21 March 1999) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. Patrick was born Goldsborough Serpell Patrick on Goat Island in San Francisco, California. He was the son of Jane Deakins Serpell of Norfolk, Virginia, and Navy Chaplain Capt Bower Reynolds Patrick. He died 21 March 1999 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Patrick's first assignments were aboard the destroyers , and . On December 7, 1941, Patrick was stationed at Pearl Harbor. During the attack that day, his directive that moored ships store live ammunition in their gun mounts would
TrSS St Patrick (1906) TrSS St Patrick (1906) TrSS "St Patrick" was a passenger vessel built for the Great Western Railway in 1906. She was built by John Brown and Company for the Great Western Railway as one of a trio of new ships which included TrSS "St George" and TrSS "St David". From 1914 to 1919 she was requisitioned by the British Government as a hospital ship for the duration of the First World War. On 20 August 1927 she was in collision with her sister ship TrSS "St David" in Fishguard harbour. She was re-engined in 1926 and caught fire on 7