Naval Ships of the World - Post Yours

[Ltdave]

You did? That’s pretty cool.

How do you guys keep up with what happens to these ships? Dedicated website? YouTube? Magazine maybe even?

USS New Jersey BB-62, has a website and a youtube channel.

USS Texas BB-35 had a long youtube series on its dry-docking.

i just happened to visit New Jersey when it had its yard period because it was only a 10h drive. i visited the Kidd when i was on the road with the semi-pro hockey team i shoot photos for. they had practice and some other team stuff to do and the museum was right across the street from the arena.

 

[Levina]

USS New Jersey BB-62, has a website and a youtube channel.

USS Texas BB-35 had a long youtube series on its dry-docking.

i just happened to visit New Jersey when it had its yard period because it was only a 10h drive. i visited the Kidd when i was on the road with the semi-pro hockey team i shoot photos for. they had practice and some other team stuff to do and the museum was right across the street from the arena.

That was a nice coincidence!

because it was only a 10h drive

That's funny. A 10h drive would take me from Amsterdam, across Belgium, to the south of France, beyond Lyon! So to us a 10h drive is considered a looong drive!

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

That was a nice coincidence!


That's funny. A 10h drive would take me from Amsterdam, across Belgium, to the south of France, beyond Lyon! So to us a 10h drive is considered a looong drive!

when I was younger we used to drive to Florida pulling a tent trailer with our 3 boys, 24 hours over 3 days, camping on the way, without the trailer we would make it in 2 days 12 hours each day. Now a 2 hour trip is long for me!

There is a good facebook group that covers ships all over the world

https://www.facebook.com/groups/128259094448648

Where I live just south of Boston MA we are within a 2 hour drive of at least 20 historic ships, and I am afraid to say I don't get to them very often but now with my new knees maybe I will

 

[Levina]

when I was younger we used to drive to Florida pulling a tent trailer with our 3 boys, 24 hours over 3 days, camping on the way, without the trailer we would make it in 2 days 12 hours each day. Now a 2 hour trip is long for me!

There is a good facebook group that covers ships all over the world

https://www.facebook.com/groups/128259094448648

Where I live just south of Boston MA we are within a 2 hour drive of at least 20 historic ships, and I am afraid to say I don't get to them very often but now with my new knees maybe I will

You have new knees now?! I remember you mentioned it before, I think after the first knee replacement but before the second? If I remember correctly that is.

How are the new knees doing? Did the surgery improve your mobility?

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

You have new knees now?! I remember you mentioned it before, I think after the first knee replacement but before the second? If I remember correctly that is.

How are the new knees doing? Did the surgery improve your mobility?

knees are doing fine, I can now walk downhill without pain and squatting down is easy, just need to do more exercise now Both knees are great

 

[Levina]

knees are doing fine, I can now walk downhill without pain and squatting down is easy, just need to do more exercise now Both knees are great

That's really good to hear, Jeff. I'm happy for you. I know how hard it was for you to walk even.

 

[greatgrandma]

In San Pedro (port for Los Angeles) is the USS Iowa

USS Iowa

The first three photos from a harbor tour boat and the last photo from a cruise ship in 2017

 

[greatgrandma]

In 2011 after we visited the Arizona memorial we were loaded back on the bus and driven to the

USS Missouri

Approaching the Missouri

Lining up


We did have our picture taken.

Missouri photo


I was told that I could go up in the elevator, but not told that I could have a wheelchair. So my grandson went on without me - I was too tired to climb around on another ship

USS MIssouri

Memorial plaque on the USS Missouri

 

[greatgrandma]

and Bob has really only served on subs and carriers - no battleships.

Souvenir


I went into the store which had A/C and sat on the floor next to the drink cooler after I got an iced tea and a snickers bar. My iced tea top rolled under the cooler and I tried to retrieve it with my hat but didn't get it and got my hat full of dust bunnies and dirt. One of the people warned me that tea is a diuretic and I'd have to 'go'. I don't know if that was it or not, but my ankles are not swollen anymore.


The people were apparently unhappy with me sitting there so they brought me a wheelchair and took me up the elevator
.

Elevator on the Missouri


But I didn't see my grandson anywhere.

Location 5 - the Fan Tail of the Missouri


So I rolled down the deck (it was not level) to the fan tail.

Flags on the Missouri Fan Tail


Then I saw him finishing his tour and he took me back down the elevator

 

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[greatgrandma]

Charing Cross station and HMS Belfast from the London Eye

 

[greatgrandma]

From the ramparts of Fort Bodkin you can see the mothball fleet up the James River.

Mothball fleet

 

[greatgrandma]

When we got back to the tender dock on San Andres Island, there were Colombian police and a Colombian Navy destroyer next to the ship.

Military at the tender dock

Colombian Navy ship

Colombian Navy ship

 

[Ltdave]

In San Pedro (port for Los Angeles) is the USS IowaView attachment 6219View attachment 6220View attachment 6221View attachment 6222

USS Iowa

The first three photos from a harbor tour boat and the last photo from a cruise ship in 2017

sister ship to the New Jersey and namesake of the class.

4 Iowa Class battleships. Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin. 2 were canceled and broken up on the ways. Kentucky and Indiana.

the Wisconsin's newest nickname (from 1956) when it struck the USS Eaton and got the bow of the canceled USS Kentucky. hence the combination of Wis and Ky for Wisky (or Whiskey)

 

[greatgrandma]

In 2000 crossing the Savannah River....
There is a lot of talking on channel 13 from pilots bringing boats in and out of the Savannah River, which we are about to cross. We have the side curtains down because it is cold. Bob eats his other two donuts and I steer while he goes up and puts up the staysail. We hear that a German warship is coming into the harbor - sounds funny to hear the very southern accent of the pilot making the security calls.

I mention to Bob that I keep thinking that some trees which I can see blurred through the plastic curtain (which has gotten dirty) look like the superstructure of a ship. He opens the curtain and looks. It IS a ship. We are going to be crossing the river right in front of the German warship. I make Bob take the wheel, and tell the pilot on the radio that we will stay out of his way. We do get to the other side before they pass.

German warship

I have a distant photo of the USS Alabama in Mobile, but I have seen the battleship Texas in the Houston area

We drove over and paid our $1 @ to get in to the Battleship Texas area, and walked around and took pictures of it.

Battleship from a distance

Battleship Texas

Detail Battleship Texas

BB 35 Texas information sign


There was a self-guided tour which includes the flying bridge, the engine room the restored sleeping quarters and medical facilities, engine room,

The BIG GUNS

Guns on Battleship Texas


guns, and anchors. But the price of admission ($12.00 each) we thought was too much, especially since Bob was in the Navy and has been on many Navy ships. So it wasn't going to be that enlightening for him and Bob said he didn't think I wanted to go climbing around a ship (and he was right) So I just took photos of the informational signs

 

[greatgrandma]

On our way down to Norfolk in 2006 - We turned down 17 before 9:30 and were through Tappahannock before 1000. I had wanted to drive through Gloucester Courthouse, but before we got there, we saw a sign which said that the Coleman Bridge was going to open at 11:00. The last time we were on 17, the Coleman Bridge (which Bob correctly ID as being in Yorktown - I had forgotten the name of it) got stuck, and we had to go around through West Point.. So I didn't think we'd have time to take any side trips. What with traffic lights and all,

We got to the Coleman Bridge at 1054, and just as we were on the approach a school bus yellow crew cab truck blocked the bridge by parking across it. We were about the fourth car in line. They opened early. There was a destroyer waiting on the other side.

Destroyer waiting

Destroyer after it went through the bridge


The bridge managed to get itself shut by about 1115.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

some of my teak collection and oak from the HMS Victory and USS Constitution

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

USS Massachusetts - Shaft alley not open to the public

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

USS Massachusetts Flag bridge under rehab

 

[JohnPD]

USS Massachusetts Flag bridge under rehab

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Looks like a complete mess.