Ship Photo of the Day

[Randy Daytona]

USS Hornet (CV-8) Although sunk at the Battle of Santa Cruz in October 1942, it will live in history thanks to the Doolittle Raid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-8)

 

[RobLyman]

USS Randolph (CVS-15)

Picture taken the year before I was born. My Dad was a CWO aboard during one of its last Med cruises. I remember looking through his cruise book as a kid. There were pictures of the Gemini capsule they recovered (after deployment). Interesting story about the Randolph and the man who save the world during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

 

[Griz882]

Today marks the 100th Anniversary of America's entry into WWI. BB-8, USS Alabama.



And let us not forget Naval Air!

 

[Pags]

Today marks the 100th Anniversary of America's entry into WWI. BB-8, USS Alabama.

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And let us not forget Naval Air!

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Then why not a pic of BatDiv 9 entering Scapa Flow to cheers from the Grand Fleet:

 

[Flying Low]

Sunset at the DDG.

 

[Jim123]

Sunset at the DDG.

Hope the parking brake on that Sierra holds

 

[Randy Daytona]

HMS Barham - a Queen Elizabeth class battleship that fought at Jutland and sunk at the beginning of WW2 by U-331. The German U-boat launched 4 torpedoes at a range of 400 (that's 400, not 4,000) yards and 3 hit. The U-boat dove well beyond its design depth of 500 ft to approximately 870 ft but survived. The Barham, mortally hit, rolled over with its magazines exploding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Barham_(04)

 

[Randy Daytona]

Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the greatest maritime accident in US history, the explosion and sinking of the SS Sultana (27 April 1865). Over 1,700 died, more than on the Titanic.

http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=311/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0501_river5.html

 

[Pags]

Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the greatest maritime accident in US history, the explosion and sinking of the SS Sultana (27 April 1865). Over 1,700 died, more than on the Titanic.

http://thisweekinthecivilwar.com/?p=311/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/0501_river5.html

Many of those killed were recently paroled POWs from Andersonville.

 

[Mandingus]

HMS Barham - a Queen Elizabeth class battleship that fought at Jutland and sunk at the beginning of WW2 by U-331. The German U-boat launched 4 torpedoes at a range of 400 (that's 400, not 4,000) yards and 3 hit. The U-boat dove well beyond its design depth of 500 ft to approximately 870 ft but survived. The Barham, mortally hit, rolled over with its magazines exploding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Barham_(04)

All that crew scrambling on the hull just before the magazines go up....

 

[Randy Daytona]

Although the USS Utah (BB-31, sunk at Pearl Harbor) and USS Wyoming (BB-32, gunfire training ship) were slightly older, USS Arkansas (BB-33) was the oldest US battleship to fight in various campaigns of WW2. Commissioned in 1912 and mounting 12 x 12" rifles (in 6 twin turrets), she served as a convoy escort and interesting supported both the landings at Normandy and at Iwo Jima. She went out with a bang, only 250 yards away from an underwater atomic bomb test in 1946.

Arkansas being sunk in the Baker nuclear test. The black mark on the right of the column marks the position of the capsizing Arkansas

If anyone is interested in the Atomic Test at the Bikini atoll, here is the link to the National Park Service site detailing the tests.

http://npshistory.com/series/archeology/scrc/37/index.htm

 

[Gatordev]

I don't know that I've ever seen a picture of the test where the ships' boilers were still operating. Or am I just seeing that smoke of stuff that's already caught fire in the flash?

 

[Flash]

I don't know that I've ever seen a picture of the test where the ships' boilers were still operating. Or am I just seeing that smoke of stuff that's already caught fire in the flash?

I am going to hazard a guess that is debris thrown up by the shock wave visible as the white line on the water right where the first landing craft at the base of the giant column of water is and past the ship in question. Some of the other ships within the shock wave also have some smoke/debris coming off of them.

 

[Griz882]

I am going to hazard a guess that is debris thrown up by the shock wave visible as the white line on the water right where the first landing craft at the base of the giant column of water is and past the ship in question. Some of the other ships within the shock wave also have some smoke/debris coming off of them.

I looked at an old report from Cross Roads and it noted the "over-pressure" from the submerged bomb forced all the soot, dust, and other crap out of the funnels just before the surface was broached by the explosion. Although to be exact, the official report didn't use the word crap. Still, the services had several animals on the ships for testing and some lived (for a few days) so maybe there was some...crap.

 

[jmcquate]

You haven't eaten until you've had nuked goat.