Naval Ships of the World - Post Yours

[greatgrandma]

Visiting the USS Bowfin at Pearl Harbor in 2010

Grandson on deck and going down the hatch


My feet don't pick up high enough to get across the hatch threshold. So I would put my cane on the other side of the hatch, pick one foot up and put it through, and then get my body through, stand on that first foot and then pull the other foot after me steadying myself with the cane. We took lots of photos.

Hatch on deck and Hatch looking up

Torpedo tube

Bowfin controls

Typewriter and Safe in the office

 

[greatgrandma]

Office

Bunk and Sink

numbers are for audio tour

Galley

Galley

 

[greatgrandma]

Sample menu

Crew mess

Brass bell


Some places on the sub (like the

Officer's Mess


I recognized from when I've been aboard with Bob long ago.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

the results kind of suck...

Dave, I don't know about the processing but the images are great! They give someone like me a look into a world I know nothing of and it's fascinating and wonderful. I love this thread.

digital images of USS New Jersey BB-62

me in the orange shirt.
my best friend with me. GMM2 from USS King 1965-1969

And more great images. Those ships are really monstrously huge when you see them out of the water in dry dock like this. And look at you, looking good!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Visiting the USS Bowfin at Pearl Harbor in 2010

Rosalie, these are great additions to the thread!

 

[JohnPD]

USS New Jersey BB-62, from her most recent yard time in May. virtually ZERO extra space to get in front of or behind her in the dry dock.

shot on a 1955 Graflex Crown Graphic on Frankenstein ASA 200 4x5 film. processed by me but, i SUCK at processing sheet film. i think i did these individually in trays. scanned on a lightbox, photographed with my R6m2. the results kind of suck...

ive got a sheet film tank but havent tried it yet. havent really been in the mood to soup negatives since this summer...

What? No, the results don't suck at all. Photos are great.

digital images of USS New Jersey BB-62

me in the orange shirt.
my best friend with me. GMM2 from USS King 1965-1969

Those dry docks are really something else. It's like a factory in and of itself.

 

[JohnPD]

Visiting the USS Bowfin at Pearl Harbor in 2010

My feet don't pick up high enough to get across the hatch threshold. So I would put my cane on the other side of the hatch, pick one foot up and put it through, and then get my body through, stand on that first foot and then pull the other foot after me steadying myself with the cane. We took lots of photos.

You may have problems picking up your feet, but you still get the shots, Rosalie. Well done. Great photos!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Me when a LOT younger

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Hello handsome!

That's a really great portrait, Jeff.

 

[LtDave]

Dave, I don't know about the processing but the images are great! They give someone like me a look into a world I know nothing of and it's fascinating and wonderful. I love this thread.

And more great images. Those ships are really monstrously huge when you see them out of the water in dry dock like this. And look at you, looking good!

well, the black and white (shot with the graflex in the last color photo) are a bit underexposed that i COULD have rectified some by processing the film longer (push processing) and if i had agitated the film more aggressively or more often, i could have increased the contrast of the image. also if you look at the very edges (where there's a uneven border of sorts) you can see uneven development. along with lots of defects on the image in the way of black marks or white marks...

i just havent done enough sheet film processing to be REALLY good at it. roll film is a bit easier to get consistent results from frame to frame since their all processed at the same time.

 

[greatgrandma]

One of the things we saw after we got back to the marina in Callao Peru in 2008 was BAP Abtao which is a Sierra-type submarine which was launched as Tiburon (Shark). In 1957 her name was changed to Abtao in memory of the naval battle of 7 February 1866 fought between the Spanish and Peruvian/Chilean naval squadrons. The Peruvians, under Captain Manuel Villar were victorious.

Submarine from tour boat


This was one of four submarines, classified as class Lobo (Wolf class) - all acquired by Peru - this one was launched October 27, 1953 in the port New London, Connecticut, and named after BAP Shark (SS-6), and put into operation on 1 March 1954. I found this interesting as Bob serve some time in submarines and I visited him on one in New London when he was a midshipman.


BAP Abtao served 48 years in Peruvian navy. During which she completed 5,003 dives. Her motto was "Silence and assistance" in both times of peace and war. During 1988 she assisted in the rescue of the crew of BAP Pacocha after her collision with a fishing vessel and sinking. Abtao was decommissioned in 1998 and became a museum in 2004.

While we were eating breakfast on the cruise ship we saw a submarine getting underway in the port

I am almost positive I have a photo of a submarine in the St.Mary's River in Georgia, but I can't find it. I do have some photos of the Submarine Museum in St. Mary's Georgia, but that's not a ship so maybe it is inappropriate here.

 

[LtDave]

USSR 'Scorpion'

actual name B-427
it is a Project 641 (Foxtrot-class) diesel-electric attack submarine of the Soviet Navy

moored in Long Beach California next to the RMS Queen Mary. currently half flooded (fully flooded?) and in structural decay to the point they dont know if they could crane it out of where it is sitting.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

well, the black and white (shot with the graflex in the last color photo) are a bit underexposed that i COULD have rectified some by processing the film longer (push processing) and if i had agitated the film more aggressively or more often, i could have increased the contrast of the image. also if you look at the very edges (where there's a uneven border of sorts) you can see uneven development. along with lots of defects on the image in the way of black marks or white marks...

i just havent done enough sheet film processing to be REALLY good at it. roll film is a bit easier to get consistent results from frame to frame since their all processed at the same time.

I did some of that in the past, not that I was any good at it, but it was fun when I was young, it's ages ago. But I remember it was a delicate process and you only had so much wiggle room, although that might have been because I hardly knew what I was doing. Still, whatever was possible with film doesn't come close to what we can do in post now, with our digital files.

I love how film stills look, I really do, but I hated the whole process. I actually still hate post processing. Luckily the sensors have become better and better and I have to do very little now to get decent results. I sometimes don't even take my files to Photoshop any longer. That's a biggie for me!

Anyway, I think you and all of us here with a camera most always see the things that could have been done better. It's never perfect. Which is good, because it drives us, motivates us to try again and do better. Keeps us going.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

USSR 'Scorpion'

actual name B-427
it is a Project 641 (Foxtrot-class) diesel-electric attack submarine of the Soviet Navy

moored in Long Beach California next to the RMS Queen Mary. currently half flooded (fully flooded?) and in structural decay to the point they dont know if they could crane it out of where it is sitting.

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What on earth are all those, those wheels? If "wheels" if the correct term for them.

attack submarine of the Soviet Navy

Seriously, it's a former Soviet sub? How did it end up where it is now?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

While we were eating breakfast on the cruise ship we saw a submarine getting underway in the port

Cool!

I am almost positive I have a photo of a submarine in the St.Mary's River in Georgia, but I can't find it. I do have some photos of the Submarine Museum in St. Mary's Georgia, but that's not a ship so maybe it is inappropriate here.

If it's just a single photo I think nobody would object to that, Rosalie. But if it's a series then how about starting your own thread for it in Urban Life & Travel? You can call it "Submarine Museum in St.Mary's Georgia" or something else catchy.

 

[Rosalie]

It is a tiny museum. I am too occupied with other stuff now. Maybe later something like Little Known Museums.
Rosalie