Naval Ships of the World - Post Yours

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.
 
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! :D
 
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! :D

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
 
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?
 
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
 
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. :thumbsup:
 
In San Pedro (port for Los Angeles) is the USS Iowa

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USS Iowa


USS Iowa

The first three photos from a harbor tour boat and the last photo from a cruise ship in 2017
 
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In 2011 after we visited the Arizona memorial we were loaded back on the bus and driven to the
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USS Missouri

USS Missouri


Approaching the Missouri

Approaching the Missouri

Lining up

Lining up


We did have our picture taken.
Missouri photo

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

USS MIssouri

Memorial plaque on the USS Missouri

Memorial plaque on the USS Missouri
 
and Bob has really only served on subs and carriers - no battleships.
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Souvenir

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
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Elevator on the Missouri


Elevator on the Missouri


But I didn't see my grandson anywhere.
Location 5 - the Fan Tail of the Missouri

Location 5 - the Fan Tail of the Missouri


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