The USS Newport News (CA-148) Entering Pearl Harbor December 6, 1968 Crew getting ready to 'Man The Rails' as they pass theUSS Arizona (BB-39) Memorialand render a salute. On 25 Dec. NEWPORT NEWS returned to the gunline for her second tour in WESTPAC. During this period she operated...
got lost on patrol, ran out of fuel, and ditched.Dixon and his two crewmates, bombardier Anthony J. Pastula and gunner Gene Aldrich, survived for 34 days in a small rubber raft after their food and water were washed overboard, before drifting...
HONOR Click to view crew list The USS BOXER (LPH-4), an Essex-class aircraft carrier, was commissioned on 16 APR 1945 as CV-21. Built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. in Newport News, VA, USS BOXER was too late to see action in the Pacific in WWII. Deploying ...
“official” determination was that the accident was the result of drug abuse by the enlisted crewmen of the Nimitz, this conclusion coming despite the fact that every death occurred in the impact of the crash and not one crewmember was killed fighting the fire. Due to this incident, then-...
The CVN 77 ship sails at a maximum speed of 30kt. The aircraft carrier has the capacity to accommodate 6,000 crew members. USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier, CVN 77, is the final ship of the Nimitz Class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. ...
Machinery, 24,900 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines with Geared Cruising Turbines, 2 screws Speed, 35 Knots, Crew 101. Operational and Building Data Laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding on March 23 1918. Launched July 4 1918 and commissioned April 25 1919. ...
Eight Hellcats of VF-12 and VBF-12 circled overhead. The roar of the cats kept small boats away, but a large tanker was moving toward the downed air crew. The Hellcats pounced and the ship fled the area burning. The fleet off Okinawa just finished dodging a Kamikaze raid as the ...
The next major milestone on the horizon for George Washington and her crew is crew moveaboard (CMA), scheduled for late summer of this year. The focus will then shift to completing rehabilitation work throughout the ship and implementing a variety of system upgrades, including the installation ...
“These shock trials have tested the resiliency of Ford and her crew and provided extensive data used in the process of validating the shock hardness of the ship.” Metcalf said that the goal of the tests is to ensure that Ford’s integrated combat systems perform as designed and added “th...
One of the ship's crew told CBS News that "it feels like Big Navy has left us out to dry. Nobody cares." The seven sailors have died by suicide since 2019.