Naval Ships of the World - Post Yours

[JohnPD]

USS Midway (museum ship) in San Diego.

Smart looking ship. Great shots.

 

[greatgrandma]

I don't think I've posted this one - from the aircraft carrier in Charleston SC

In 2000 before I switched totally to digital

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I don't think I've posted this one - from the aircraft carrier in Charleston SC
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In 2000 before I switched totally to digital

If I am correct that is the submarine Cavalla it was allowed to fall apart and was scrapped just recently

 

[greatgrandma]

If I am correct that is the submarine Cavalla it was allowed to fall apart and was scrapped just recently

I don't think so - I may have already posted this - from the Lexington

Coast Guard Cutter INGHAM


As it got dark, we went down into the submarine the USS CLAMAGORE. Bob served as an enlisted man on submarines before he went to the Naval Academy. He was much happier with the submarine presentation because it was more like when he served on submarines.

Submarine

The website says: "USS CLAMAGORE was commissioned on June 28, 1945, as the war in the Pacific was drawing to a close. Based at Charleston for much of her career, she cruised Atlantic and Mediterranean waters for nearly thirty years, including critical patrols at the height of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Twice modified from her original World War II configuration, Clamagore continued in service as one of the U. S. Navy's last diesel-powered submarines until decommissioned in 1975.

Submarine


"Aboard the Clamagore, it is easy to visualize what it was like to live onboard a submarine, visit her control room, crew's berthing and mess areas, engine rooms, maneuvering room and a memorial to submariners lost at sea. "


In truth it is hard to do much to butcher up a submarine - there isn't enough room inside. This is not a handicapped available exhibit because each section of the submarine is cut off by watertight doors and you have to step over the sill.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I don't think so - I may have already posted this - from the Lexington




As it got dark, we went down into the submarine the USS CLAMAGORE. Bob served as an enlisted man on submarines before he went to the Naval Academy. He was much happier with the submarine presentation because it was more like when he served on submarines.


The website says: "USS CLAMAGORE was commissioned on June 28, 1945, as the war in the Pacific was drawing to a close. Based at Charleston for much of her career, she cruised Atlantic and Mediterranean waters for nearly thirty years, including critical patrols at the height of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962. Twice modified from her original World War II configuration, Clamagore continued in service as one of the U. S. Navy's last diesel-powered submarines until decommissioned in 197


"Aboard the Clamagore, it is easy to visualize what it was like to live onboard a submarine, visit her control room, crew's berthing and mess areas, engine rooms, maneuvering room and a memorial to submariners lost at sea. "


In truth it is hard to do much to butcher up a submarine - there isn't enough room inside. This is not a handicapped available exhibit because each section of the submarine is cut off by watertight doors and you have to step over the sill.

You are right it was the Clamagore,

From the wiki

USS Clamagore (SS-343) was a Balao-class submarine commissioned in 1945 and decommissioned in 1975, serving primarily during the Cold War. It was the last surviving GUPPY III type submarine in the U.S. and was decommissioned as a museum ship before being scrapped in 2022 due to severe hull degradation.

 

[Ltdave]

USS Intrepid Air and Sea Museum NYC

had to include the A-12 on deck. part of Project Oxcart. it was the CIA version of the later SR-71 with only a single crew member (SR-71 of Senior Crown) had a Pilot and a Reconnaissance Officer who operated the cameras and other sensors

 

[GSPEP]

Old minesweeper (Belgian Navy). They wanted to make a museum of it, but lack of funding prevented it.
They scrapped it.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

USS Lexington CV-16 when training carrier in Pensacola FL early 70's

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Charlton Heston coming down the gangway during the filming of the move Midway 1975

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

USS Lexington, the gangway is in the lower left

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Charlton Heston coming down the gangway during the filming of the move Midway 1975

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Cool.

 

[JohnPD]

Charlton Heston coming down the gangway during the filming of the move Midway 1975

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Good old Chuck. Did you meet him?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Good old Chuck. Did you meet him?

Sure did and talked to him a little bit and shook his hand. One of the Waves in the Photo Lab said I should never wash that hand again LOL

I also met Hal Holbrook, Henry Fonda, Glen Ford, and saw Kate Jackson.

Here is a short I put together from some Super 8 film I shot

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[greatgrandma]

USS Intrepid Air and Sea Museum NYC

had to include the A-12 on deck. part of Project Oxcart. it was the CIA version of the later SR-71 with only a single crew member (SR-71 of Senior Crown) had a Pilot and a Reconnaissance Officer who operated the cameras and other sensors

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Bob was on the Intrepid twice - Once when he was stationed in Norfolk in the early 60s (he was also on Essex at that time) attached to an antisubmarine squadron , and the second time was late 1969 when he was in the ship's company - flew out to the Philippines and came back around South America, went into the yard in Philadelphia, and then down to Pensacola to replace the Lexington and up to Boston into the yard again, and then attached to an antisubmarine squadron on the Intrepid at Quonset Point until late 1973.

Have not been on her since she was made a museum, but I was on shore when she came into NYC for Armed Forces Day in 1970. As she came around the corner into the cruise ship dock, the carrier deck took out the corner of the building on the dock and I saw the debris falling into the water.

 

[GSPEP]

USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)