The Ships Of The Line thread!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The USS Hornet, where my father served in Vietnam on a special task force reporting directly to the fleet admiral that had something to do with navigation and plotting air strikes - wish he had talked about it more, but he didn't seem interested in sharing the details.

I can probably dig up that information if you want it. The declass'd bits, anyway.

[klr]

The USS Hornet, where my father served in Vietnam on a special task force reporting directly to the fleet admiral that had something to do with navigation and plotting air strikes - wish he had talked about it more, but he didn't seem interested in sharing the details.

CV-12, modernised Essex class. Named for the Hornet that helped win the Battle of Midway.

This Hornet also picked up the Apollo 11 astronauts after splashdown.

EDIT: And Apollo 12 as well.

[drl2]

The USS Hornet, where my father served in Vietnam on a special task force reporting directly to the fleet admiral that had something to do with navigation and plotting air strikes - wish he had talked about it more, but he didn't seem interested in sharing the details.

I can probably dig up that information if you want it. The declass'd bits, anyway.

Yeah, I'd be very interested in whatever you can find. Though I sometimes got the impression that his reluctance to talk about his experiences had less to do with classified information or bad war memories and more to do with it involving a lot of boring routine and paperwork.

(Overall he found it a positive experience though, despite being fired on in helicopters a few times (once believing he'd been hit because a reddish fluid from a ruptured line was leaking on him), getting attacked by rabid monkeys while eating what might have been monkey meat on a stick, and getting into some trouble over disobeying a direct order to drag a bound prisoner to the open side of a copter and throw him out...)

My grandfather on my mother's side was a Navy man also - though sadly if he ever did mention the names of the ships he served on in WWII, I've forgotten them. He was on board one of the tank transport boats that hit the beach on D-Day; somewhere around here I have a few old log books he kept that were full of minutae like what supplies were taken on at what ports, etc.

[drl2]

This Hornet also picked up the Apollo 11 astronauts after splashdown.

EDIT: And Apollo 12 as well.

Hmmm.... I may actually have an old NASA press photo around of that...

[Clinton Huxley]

Not much to look at but saw a bit of action.....

[klr]

And to think they had tried to sell her to the Aussies years before.


What did they do after Hermes had helped win the Falklands War? Continued trying to sell her to the Aussies, before finally selling her to India.

[devogue]

Sounds more like Herpes than Hermes.

[Clinton Huxley]

And to think they had tried to sell her to the Aussies years before.


What did they do after Hermes had helped win the Falklands War? Continued trying to sell her to the Aussies, before finally selling her to India.

More than helped - the operation would probably have been impossible without her.

[klr]

Battle Damage to Surface Ships

Now downloaded.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Battle Damage to Surface Ships

Now downloaded.

I'm currently doing a 342 page book on US bombs. PDF uploaded in 4-5 hours. Defeat of the Enemy... comes after that.

[devogue]

You wonder why they fucked about - they got it right with the Monitor.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You wonder why they fucked about - they got it right with the Monitor.

Ah, littoral warfare, the Navy's new mantra.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Bombs

U. S. NAVY BOMB DISPOSAL SCHOOL Washington 16, D. C.
1 September 1945
This document is Issued to graduates of a course in Bomb Disposal and/or Advanced Fuze and Explosive Ordnance by the Officer in Charge, U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School, under authority of Bureau of Ordnance letter F41-6(L) of 22 April 1944. It is for information and guidance only and is not a Bureau of Ordnance publication.
Requests for additional copies of this publication should be addressed to the Officer in Charge, U. S. Navy Bomb Disposal School, Massachusetts & Nebraska Aves., N.W., Washington, 16 D.C.
This publication contains both confidential and restricted information and should be handled in accordance with Article 76 of U. S. Navy Regulations, 1920. The Bomb Disposal School should be notified immediately in the event of loss or deliberate destruction of this document, on the attached form (facsimile if lost).

Still uploading at this time, 65.2 meg PDF file.

[Ian]

You wonder why they fucked about - they got it right with the Monitor.

I went for a ride on this thing near San Diego a few years ago. Amazingly fast.

[devogue]

You wonder why they fucked about - they got it right with the Monitor.

I went for a ride on this thing near San Diego a few years ago. Amazingly fast.

Aye, they have one of those catamaran jobs sailing between Scotland and Ireland - the power is unbelievable, quite unnerving at first.

There was a great programme (Superships?) that showed The Cat ferry sailing between Maine and Canada - it squirts out the equivalent of 80,000 cans of beer a second from its jets. That's the only bit I remember - what a waste.