Naval Ships of the World - Post Yours

[Jeff WX1USN]

In the Med 1976

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

The shots are great but that looks pretty serious, no doubt lives were lost.

the 3 man crew all were lost.

 

[JohnPD]

the 3 man crew all were lost.

Yeah, that's sad.

 

[JohnPD]

Jeff, how do you digitise your photos?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I ran the color darkroom in addition to shooting jobs. Loved doing the color work.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Jeff, how do you digitise your photos?

Since I shot mostly slides for my own work I use a Plustech 8200i slide and neg scanner. I still have more to find and digitize. It is cheaper than sending them out in the long run. I also got all my grandparents slides that my aunt took in the 40's 50's and 60's as well as negs from the 30's and have digitized them.

Which reminds me, winter is going too fast and I need to spend more time digitizing old photos so the my boys will have them.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

I also collect TEAK from US Navy ships including the USS Constitution.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

The USS Massachusetts in dry dock, 1999

 

[Darren75]

Great thread! Jeff, your images are amazing.

 

[JohnPD]

I ran the color darkroom in addition to shooting jobs. Loved doing the color work.

Looks impressive.
When I was young we all did B&W because colour was too difficult to develop ourselves.

Since I shot mostly slides for my own work I use a Plustech 8200i slide and neg scanner. I still have more to find and digitize. It is cheaper than sending them out in the long run. I also got all my grandparents slides that my aunt took in the 40's 50's and 60's as well as negs from the 30's and have digitized them.

Which reminds me, winter is going too fast and I need to spend more time digitizing old photos so the my boys will have them.

I have some old pics that I would like to digitise but the Plustech is too pricy, I don't want it that much. I used a flatbed scanner before and it worked but some pics show some weird grid-like pattern. I should just photograph them.

 

[JohnPD]

I also collect TEAK from US Navy ships including the USS Constitution.

That is so cool. Those pens must be pretty special.

The USS Massachusetts in dry dock, 1999

I've never seen a pic taken from within a dry dock. It looks amazing. I love it.

 

[Levina]

Wow...

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Shot of myself in the drydock and of the Massachusetts' screws

 

[JohnPD]

Shot of myself in the drydock and of the Massachusetts' screws

View attachment 3903

Look at the size of that screw!

 

[greatgrandma]

My husband was originally in the reserves as enlisted in submarines and then he went to the USNA and was a Navy pilot- flying the S2F anti submarine plane. He was on the Essex for one tour (North Atlantic and the seas were so rough - green water over the carrier deck that it broke the keel of the ship) and 3 tours on the Intrepid. One as ship's company. Of course I didn't take any photos of operations of the ships although I have been on some of them, but I do have a ragged unfinished needlepoint I did of one of the S2F's landing on the carrier

 

[JohnPD]

My husband was originally in the reserves as enlisted in submarines and then he went to the USNA and was a Navy pilot- flying the S2F anti submarine plane. He was on the Essex for one tour (North Atlantic and the seas were so rough - green water over the carrier deck that it broke the keel of the ship) and 3 tours on the Intrepid. One as ship's company. Of course I didn't take any photos of operations of the ships although I have been on some of them, but I do have a ragged unfinished needlepoint I did of one of the S2F's landing on the carrier View attachment 3913

Looks nice, Rosalie!

 

[greatgrandma]

I did spend the summer of 1964 following the fleet around the Med. I met him in Valencia, but I don't have ship photos from here. This was in Marseilles

 

[greatgrandma]

Coming home from a winter in FL and the Bahamas on our sailboat, we were leaving Norfolk at the same time as these guys were returning from deployment - April 2002

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Loading bombs on CV 62

 

[Jeff WX1USN]