USS PC-815 USS PC-815 USS "PC-815" was a built for the United States Navy during World War II. It was commanded for about eighty days in 1943 by L. Ron Hubbard, who later became the founder of Scientology. After Hubbard was removed from command for shelling Mexican territory, the "PC-815" served as a shore patrol vessel off San Diego, California. She was lost with one of her crew in September 1945 after colliding with the destroyer USS "Laffey". "PC-815"s short career led to the vessel being dubbed the "jinxed sub-chaser". "PC-815" was laid down on 10 October 1942 at the Albina Engine
American Trans-Oceanic Company also included a full-time flight school in Long Island and Palm Beach using Curtiss aircraft. New innovations were deployed, such as a Sperry autopilot. Rates varied from $15 for a 15-minute flight to $250 for a 320-mile flight to Cuba. Four five-hour flights a week were flown to Bimini at night. By 1918, the company carried four to five thousand passengers without incident. The company's most distinctive aircraft was "Big Fish", A Curtiss H-16 painted as a fish that flew between Palm Beach, Havana, Nassau, and New York City. In 1927, Wanamaker sponsored Richard E. Byrd through the American Trans-Oceanic