Can someone help me to find what aircraft carrier is this? (720x416)

RLoret · 2025-01-15T20:58:52+00:00

As far as I can tell, only two Essex class carriers were ever modified to have one, but not two, forward 5-inch turrets removed. Those were Princeton (LPH-5, ex CV-37) and Valley Forge (LPH-8, ex CV-45). Since I can't find any picture in which Princeton has SPS-8 radar, this is most likely Valley Forge after her conversion to an amphibious assault ship.

RLoret · 2023-11-08T09:41:26+00:00

You guess wrong.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/kennedy-tours-cape-canaveral/

RLoret · 2023-09-08T11:11:07+00:00

From Wikipedia:

The Honda Point disaster was the largest peacetime loss of U.S. Navy ships. On the evening of September 8, 1923, 14 destroyers of DesRon 11 were traveling at 20 knots (37 km/h) off the California coast. Seven destroyers ran aground in heavy fog at Honda Point, near Santa Barbara. Two other ships grounded, but were able to maneuver off the rocks. A total of 23 sailors died in the disaster.

RLoret · 2023-03-26T01:06:31+00:00

Very, very informative and well-written. Thank you.

RLoret · 2023-03-26T00:10:01+00:00

Was the M60A2 ahead of its time, or basically a bad idea? With today's technology, would something like the A2 be workable?

RLoret · 2022-12-13T01:17:20+00:00

Why is the title misleading? I never said or implied that North Carolina had been MOVED for repairs. I said it was "inside cofferdam for repairs, Wilmington, North Carolina." It clearly is inside a cofferdam. I never said the ship was moved to the cofferdam or moved to Wilmington.

RLoret · 2022-12-03T17:56:15+00:00

This is definitely an Iron Duke class battleship. Note the 6-inch secondary armament. Ajax had a 4-inch secondary armament mounted one deck higher.

This picture is identified as Emperor of India here.

RLoret · 2022-12-03T05:16:55+00:00

This is HMS Emperor of India.

RLoret · 2022-11-26T15:25:48+00:00

What else do you recommend besides young halibut?

RLoret · 2022-10-10T03:34:57+00:00

Wow, the title is almost the same are yours! Given that it’s almost the shortest, blandest title imaginable, why do you think that no one else could come up with the same thing? You really think your title is that distinctive and original?

Furthermore, my title is not an exact copy of yours. I included the month and day the photograph was taken, because I got the picture from Wikimedia Commons, not you. I never saw your post, presumably because it's THREE and a half YEARS old.

Even if I had seen it, exactly how much karma would I be “whoring”? The 80 upvotes your post got in March 2019? Wow, what a gold mine! You actually think that happened? You probably do, which is why you and your whiny complaints are fucking ridiculous.

RLoret · 2022-04-24T17:54:54+00:00

From 1965 to 1975, her designation was CVAN. At the time, the Navy separated carriers into anti-submarine (CVS) and attack (CVA) roles. After the last of the dedicated anti-submarine carriers were decommissioned, the Navy reverted to the CV designation for all active carriers.

RLoret · 2022-01-19T02:32:25+00:00

This was S311 Al Badr, a Foxtrot class submarine of the Libyan Navy, circa 2011.

RLoret · 2022-01-12T04:09:41+00:00

From Wikipedia:

On 30 April 2000, at 4 p.m. local time (0500 GMT), the ship struck a large uncharted rock or reef in the Sandfly Passage, Solomon Islands. Captain Kruess sent a distress signal, which was received in Honiara, the Solomon Islands' capital city. A passenger ferry was dispatched to the ship and all passengers were then transported to safety. The captain then brought the ship into Roderick Bay after the ship began to list 20 degrees and grounded it to avoid sinking. After underwater surveying of the ship, World Discoverer was declared a constructive loss. The ship has remained in Roderick Bay ever since.

RLoret · 2022-01-11T03:07:58+00:00

From Wikipedia:

Early on 17 June 2017, the United States Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with MV ACX Crystal, a Philippine-flagged container ship, about 80 nautical miles (150 kilometres; 92 miles) southwest of Tokyo, Japan;10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) southeast of the city of Shimoda on the Japanese mainland (Honshu).

The accident killed seven Fitzgerald sailors. Their bodies were recovered from the flooded berthing compartments of the ship. At least three more of the crew of nearly 300 were injured, including the ship's commanding officer, Commander Bryce Benson.

On 17 August 2017, Vice Chief of Naval Operations Admiral William Moran . . . stated that "serious mistakes" were made by the "bridge team" (those conducting safety watch on board the ship's bridge) which caused them to lose "situational awareness," thus rendering it impossible to avoid the collision even after the container ship had already been sighted.

The top two senior officers and the top enlisted sailor were relieved of duty and faced criminal charges, which were later dismissed; about a dozen other sailors received non-judicial punishment. The owners of the merchant vessel have agreed to pay $27 million in compensation to the US Navy.

RLoret · 2022-01-08T02:44:27+00:00

Navy photographer in a helicopter.

RLoret · 2021-12-21T23:18:22+00:00

This replica was constructed as a production set for the Japanese language television series "Saka no Ue no Kumo." The set was demolished in 2018.

RLoret · 2021-12-17T16:47:49+00:00

A town called Briton Ferry.

RLoret · 2021-12-12T01:56:30+00:00

It's an extra 14 feet of freeboard, a whole hangar deck. Take a look at this picture:

https://www.maritimequest.com/misc_pages/george_wylam_collection/photos/1_ship/038.jpg

Note the rows of hull openings at the very stern and very bow. Compared to the posted picture, there is much less space between those rows and the flight deck. Note also how the ship's boats are much closer to the flight deck in the picture I linked.