Naval Ships of the World - Post Yours

[Ltdave]

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


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

different valves for moving air and water around the ship from different tanks i suppose.

yes its a former Soviet Sub. after the collapse of the USSR, the 'new' Russian government was selling off all manner of military equipment. Bob Lutz (he was a General Motors Executive) bought a Russian jet trainer!. the B-427 was decommissioned in '94 and some businessman bought it. i GUESS it sailed under its own power to Australia but then was sold again and relocated to Long Beach as a tourist stop. which it was successful in that my father in law and i went to visit lol.

taxes, and moorage fees and all that kind of put a big strain on them i guess especially around covid time and no maintenance was done and it started to leak. i guess now its pretty flooded and in danger of rusting out due to it being sitting in seawater there.

there was another Foxtrot that was in San Diego (B-39) but it was towed to Ensenada Mexico for scrapping.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

different valves for moving air and water around the ship from different tanks i suppose.

yes its a former Soviet Sub. after the collapse of the USSR, the 'new' Russian government was selling off all manner of military equipment. Bob Lutz (he was a General Motors Executive) bought a Russian jet trainer!. the B-427 was decommissioned in '94 and some businessman bought it. i GUESS it sailed under its own power to Australia but then was sold again and relocated to Long Beach as a tourist stop. which it was successful in that my father in law and i went to visit lol.

taxes, and moorage fees and all that kind of put a big strain on them i guess especially around covid time and no maintenance was done and it started to leak. i guess now its pretty flooded and in danger of rusting out due to it being sitting in seawater there.

there was another Foxtrot that was in San Diego (B-39) but it was towed to Ensenada Mexico for scrapping.

That's quite a story. Although I'm not too surprised. When the Soviet Union collapsed a lot of the old state property was bought for next to nothing and sold with huge profits. It made some people very very rich.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

USS Independence flight deck

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

USS America from the deck of the USS Independence

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Underway in the Med

 

[greatgrandma]

In November of 2000 we were on our sailboat at a marina in the Charleston SC area where the Yorktown was exhibited. So we visited with our son and his family

Son's family walking down the deck of the Yorktown

Bob and Rob walking down the deck

We went on the Yorktown first and looked at the planes. Our grandson, granddaughter and DIL went on the flight simulator.

Detail of one of the exhibits


Bob was very annoyed at how they'd carved up the Yorktown and filled it with exhibits and planes that had nothing to do with that ship so it wasn't a bit like when he was on it. I think our grandson enjoyed it though.

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.

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

USS Massachusetts BB59 heading to drydock

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

USS Kennedy at Fall River MA

 

[Ltdave]

USS Kidd DD-661
a Fletcher class destroyer in pretty much its WWII configuration in Baton Rouge Mississippi.

she sits on keel blocks with positioning mooring that allows her to float when the Mississippi river is up and at full tide, then settle back on the blocks when the water levels is low. currently in dry-dock to address some very pressing restoration issues.

i used 'background' select masking to put some contrast and drop the exposure of the sky and that left quite the 'glowing artifact' around the edges

seen here in black and white

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

The Kidd is currently in drydock for much needed maintenance. There are some good youtubes about the drydocking.