Monthly Archives: July 2021

  HMS Antigua (K501) was a Colony-class frigate of the United Kingdom in commission from 1943 to 1945 [3] that served during World War II. She originally was ordered by the United States Navy as the Tacoma-class patrol frigate USS Hamond (PF-73)[1] and was transferred prior to completion. https://ift.tt/3iPtM91 from JC’s Naval, Maritime and MilitaryContinue reading “HMS Antigua (K501)”

USS Monadnock, Mare Island 1896 The second USS Monadnock was an iron‑hulled, twin‑screw, double‑turreted monitor of the Amphitrite class in the United States Navy which saw service in the Spanish–American War. On June 23, 1874 in response to the Virginius Incident President Ulysses S. Grant’s Secretary of Navy George M. Robeson ordered the Monadnock laidContinue reading “USS Monadnock, Mare Island 1896”

  Georgia underway, 1909 USS Georgia just after launch USS Georgia was a United States Navy Virginia-class battleship, the third of five ships of the class. She was built by the Bath Iron Works in Maine, with her keel laid in August 1901 and her launching in October 1904. The completed battleship was commissioned into the fleet inContinue reading “USS GEORGIA (BB-15) 1904 Launch of Battleship Georgia at Bath, Maine.”

  The U.S. Navy collier USS Jason (AC-12) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, T.H., with a deckload of Douglas DT-2 aircraft (of Torpedo Squadron Two), 18 July 1923. Note the radio towers in the background. Photographed circa 1919 by R.E. Wayne, probably in the Adriatic Sea area. Note the lighthouse in the left foreground. U.S. Naval History andContinue reading “USS Jason (Collier # 12)”

USS Henderson, USS Cimarron and USS  Leyte,  Korea 1950.   from JC’s Naval, Maritime and Military News https://ift.tt/3x544Cw via IFTTT