Official SSN-796 Website- If you visited this site looking for the official website for the new USS New Jersey (SSN-796), a Virginia class fast-attack submarine, this link will take you there. For best viewing use Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape Communicator 4.61 or newer. ...
After 25 years at Pearl Harbor, the cruiser USS Chosin pulled away from the dock Friday morning...Cole, William
New Jersey now the world's only active battleship departed Philadelphia 16 May calling at Norfolk and transiting the Panama Canal before arriving at her new home port of Long Beach California 11 June. Further training off Southern California f ollowed. On 24 July New Jersey received 16-inch ...
TEN in New London, Connecticut until August 1960. The keel was laid down by Electric Boat Division in Groton Connecticut on December 1, 1949. It was launched August 21, 1951. She now operates as a unit of Submarine Squadron FOUR with Charleston, South Carolina as her homeport. ...
With 400 Soviet submarines posing a threat to the world's sea lanes, many Essex-class carriers traded their attack missions for anti-submarine roles. In 1959, Randolph underwent such a conversion and redesignated CVS-15. She was fitted with a bow sonar and her air group consisted of a mix...
Page details technical specifications, development, operational history of the USS Virginia (SSN-774) Nuclear Attack Submarine including pictures.
I have a 1944 metal model of IOWA used in submarine periscope training on my bookcase. Picture of original launch and commemorative postal cover is framed on my wall. IOWA and my shipmates are always in my thoughts. Clifford Charles Smith Hails from: Brentwood, CA Division: MM Rate/Rank: ...
Every few minutes we changed direction and we were told the Queen was faster than any known German submarine. Our course took us right through German sub territory of the Atlantic. At a certain time announced in the afternoon, we were ordered to close all port holes and cover them. At ...
USS Hunt (DD-674) was a Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for William H. Hunt, Secretary of the Navy under President James A. Garfield. Hunt was launched by the Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.
I gained an entirely new perspective on the difficult and scary life servicemen had on board these vessels. Spent 1.5 hours on the ship, 30 minutes in the excellent aviation hangar and another half hour walking through the WWII submarine. It’s a tight fit but again offers persp...