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by this i mean memorials and museums to all the brave guys that saved r butts, except for U505, they didnt exactly save me lol

ive been on

the USS COD in cleveland, back in 97

and U-505 a few years ago, and in 2001

and i think thats all


on the 505 my 6'6 brother in law hit his head [:'(]

USS Arizona
USS Nautilus
USS Intrepid (and the DD and SS moored alongside - forget their names)
USS Kitty Hawk (She was in port in San Diego)
USCGC Eagle (Coast Guard Academy training ship)
USCGC Escanaba (Port call in New London, CT)

What about service aboard a ship?

HMCS Haida (Tribal), HMCS Sackville (Flower Class Corvette), HMCS Huron (DDG-rebuilt 280 DDH), HMCS St. John's (City Class FFG), HMS Belfast (Edinburgh Class CL)...basically not enough. Wish they managed to keep USS Enterprise CV-6 as a museum, what a waste. British dreadnought like Warspite or Iron Duke would have been something. Saw the armoured cruiser Georgios Averoff from my window seat leaving Athens...had no idea she was there or even existed! Freaked me out seeing that old cruiser. Ships just don't look like ships much anymore.

ORIGINAL: TheElf

What about service aboard a ship?

I regret not having served in the navy. Missed my other true calling.

i went to visit my brother who was in the USAF in the canal zone. we were lucky the IOWA was passing thru the locks and we were able to go on board. looked inside of one of the gun turrets.

Being an mature Coastie I visitied or served or in one case made use of many the old warhorse: USCGCs BIBB, CAMPBELL, DUANE, INGHAM, SPENCER, TANEY (327' Secretary Class - WPGs in WWII), USCGC TAMAROA (fleet tug of a different name in WWII), USCGCs HUMBOLDT, CASTLE ROCK, UNIMAK and CHINCOTEAGUE (think they had same names in WWII serving as small seaplane tenders (AVPs?), USCGC WEST WIND (icebreaker - can't remember but this one might have been lend-leased to the Russkis during WWII). The most useful ship was USS MASSACHUSETTS (BB) from which USCGC BIBBs GMC managed to unofficially procure spare parts for BIBBs main battery (5"/38 cal) - spare parts which were necessary to restore the main battery to some semblance of operational utility and which at the time were unavailable in the USN supply system. MASSACHUSETTS is moored in Fall River, MA for anyone interested and is the centerpiece for nice naval museum which includes a WWII era DD (Sumner class I think), a WWII fleet sub, and a PT Boat Museum with at least one of the boats fully restored. Great place to visit for kids and old kids. I've also been on the USS INTREPID, USS BOSTON, a WWII era CL of the CLEVELAND class who's name I can't recall, whatever WWII fleet boat is moored in Groton, CT at the Submariners Museum. Oh yeah, I was also on the USCGC EAGLE (aka HORST WESSEL) which trained many of those German sailors who engaged those 327' Treasury Class I mentioned before in convoy battles in the North Atlantic. 'OLDER SHIPS HAVE BETTER SAILORS' - motto of the USCGC BIBB (WHEC-31).[8D]

One 6 month deployment aboard USS John F. Kennedy (Afghanistan). Just got back from the USS George Washington (Iraq).

Never had the privledge of service on board ship as I was too tall to join the navy (6'9"), but I did get the chance to see the USS Alabama (BB60) and the small sub moored beside her in Mobile Bay. Both VERY impressive.

The battleship Missouri when she was moored in Bremerton. The Cold War destroyer Turner Joy. Plus the Russian Foxtrot-class submarine B-39that is on permanent display in Seattle

ORIGINAL: TheElf

What about service aboard a ship?

Did 16 years in the RN. Visited HMS Eagle and Ark Royal (the CVL version), Cavalier. Served at sea on HMS Galatea (F18) and did the rest of my time on SSBNs. Did sea time on Revenge, Resolution and Repulse. Also visited the Illustrious and worked on some O Boats and Valiant class.

Visited (as a tourist) Victory and Mary Rose and Belfast. Haven't yet visited Warrior.

Based, at various times, at Portsmouth, Plymouth, Faslane and Rosyth. Refitting Reso at Rosyth we has an old LST, Lofoton, as a workship ship. We were in a dry dock built for battleships pre-WW1 and the Reso was lost up at one end.

It's cool now looking at photos of dreadnoughts docked down in the same dry dock we were in. If anyone has read "The Man Who Bought A Navy" we were in the same dry-dock as Seydlitz was docked in upside-down bt Cox & Danks.

After I left the RN I moved to the Orkney and spent 4 years sorrounded by RN history. Scapa Flow is there with it's sad wreck bouy marking the last resting place of the Royal Oak, still leaking oil. Some of the block ships still lay there. slowly rusting away, left there even after the Churchill barriers were built. The outline of the mail naval base is still on Hoy. There are gun emplacements still all over the place and even a Martello Tower from the Napoleonic Wars when the Baltic convoys formed up there.

Anyway, got to go, wife wants to use PC...

More than I can List

Some of the more interesting
USS Olympia
USS Constitution
USS IOWA (BB-61)
USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS ALABAMA (BB 60)
USS DRUM (SS 228)
USS Becuna (SS-319)
USS Coral Sea (CV-43)
USS Constellation (CV 64)
USS Stark (FFG-31)
USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16)
USCGC Eagle
USS Arizona (Memorial)
USS Kitty Hawk - Saw her launched in 1961 and 25 years later worked on her SLEP refit
USS R Regan (CVN 73)
USS Eisenhower (CVN 69)

I work at the Phila Navy. right now there's 2 AP's and 2 AK's and the USS Iwo Jima right out side my office window, plus there's an old three piper from WWI (don't know her name) on backside of the basin

Wow...more then I care to count...I was a navy photographer for 5 years...so I have seen them all (except subs...couldnt get me underwater ). My primary ship was USS Ranger a carrier out of San Diego, but I would say that I spent time on every escort vessel to sail with her. I shot or sailed with 3 of the 4 active battlewagons (none of them of course are currently active). I also go to go aboard a French carrier (can't think of the name) a Japanese destroyer and a few other foreign national ships.

In 1981 My parents sent me to England for the summer, I stayed with my Grandparents. It was the best time of my life. I was 11 years old. My Grandfather and I went all over the southern half of the Isle. I was able to tour the HMS Victory ( by the way I'm distantly related to Nelson) I also have pictures of the HMS Shefield before she was sunk in the Falklands.

In 1996 went to San Francisco on a trip and toured the WW2 Fleet sub they have there along with various Clipper Ships they have at the Docks. Great Time!

ORIGINAL: Point Luck

More than I can List

Some of the more interesting
USS Olympia
USS Constitution
USS IOWA (BB-61)
USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS ALABAMA (BB 60)
USS DRUM (SS 228)
USS Becuna (SS-319)
USS Coral Sea (CV-43)
USS Constellation (CV 64)
USS Stark (FFG-31)
USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16)
USCGC Eagle
USS Arizona (Memorial)
USS Kitty Hawk - Saw her launched in 1961 and 25 years later worked on her SLEP refit
USS R Regan (CVN 73)
USS Eisenhower (CVN 69)

I work at the Phila Navy. right now there's 2 AP's and 2 AK's and the USS Iwo Jima right out side my office window, plus there's an old three piper from WWI (don't know her name) on backside of the basin

What three piper? Are you saying a Flush Decker is still in existence?!!!!

What three piper? Are you saying a Flush Decker is still in existence?!!!!

Yea flush deck, althrough I wouldn't really say still in existence, she's floating but she's all cut to hell, could never find out what they where doing with her, those NAVSEA guys think thier engineering sh_t doesn't stink.

ORIGINAL: Point Luck

More than I can List

Some of the more interesting
USS Olympia
USS Constitution
USS IOWA (BB-61)
USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS ALABAMA (BB 60)
USS DRUM (SS 228)
USS Becuna (SS-319)
USS Coral Sea (CV-43)
USS Constellation (CV 64)
USS Stark (FFG-31)
USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16)
USCGC Eagle
USS Arizona (Memorial)
USS Kitty Hawk - Saw her launched in 1961 and 25 years later worked on her SLEP refit
USS R Regan (CVN 73)
USS Eisenhower (CVN 69)

I work at the Phila Navy. right now there's 2 AP's and 2 AK's and the USS Iwo Jima right out side my office window, plus there's an old three piper from WWI (don't know her name) on backside of the basin

any of the new san antonios outside ur windows?


san antonio class assault ships

really futuristic lookin

15 replies already

wow

this is sumthin

to everyone u served in the USNm coast guard and other us military forces - Thank you


~S~

i salute u

[&o]

ORIGINAL: Ron Saueracker

HMCS Haida (Tribal), HMCS Sackville (Flower Class Corvette), HMCS Huron (DDG-rebuilt 280 DDH), HMCS St. John's (City Class FFG), HMS Belfast (Edinburgh Class CL)...basically not enough. Wish they managed to keep USS Enterprise CV-6 as a museum, what a waste. British dreadnought like Warspite or Iron Duke would have been something. Saw the armoured cruiser Georgios Averoff from my window seat leaving Athens...had no idea she was there or even existed! Freaked me out seeing that old cruiser. Ships just don't look like ships much anymore.

i agree on the enterprise

we owe that proud old ship alot

i would loved to have been able to see halseys flagship

ORIGINAL: madflava13

USS Arizona
USS Nautilus
USS Intrepid (and the DD and SS moored alongside - forget their names)
USS Kitty Hawk (She was in port in San Diego)
USCGC Eagle (Coast Guard Academy training ship)
USCGC Escanaba (Port call in New London, CT)

the sub u went aboard was prolly the growler

only fleet missile sub open to the public

she did have abulge on her foredeck right?

if so, then she was the growler

the dd may have been a frigate, the bainbridge

i know they have the growler and the bainbridge, the lightship nantucket and a couple other ships there