Monthly Archives: January 2023

Photos of before and after on my Blog – USS Lafayette (AP-23), the erstwhile Normandie, pride of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, is towed down the Hudson in September 1943. She would eventually be sold for scrap in 1946.

  During the Second World War, Normandie was seized by U.S. authorities at New York and renamed USS Lafayette. In 1942, while being converted to a troopship, the liner caught fire and capsized onto her port side and came to rest, half submerged, on the bottom of the Hudson River at Pier 88 (the site of the current New York Passenger Ship Terminal). Although salvaged atContinue reading “Photos of before and after on my Blog – USS Lafayette (AP-23), the erstwhile Normandie, pride of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, is towed down the Hudson in September 1943. She would eventually be sold for scrap in 1946.”

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60) with her crew manning the rail on the flight deck, as she arrives in Barcelona, Spain, 12 February 1965.

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County-class cruiser HMAS Australia, October 1937.

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USS Missouri transiting the Panama Canal, with 8 inches of clearance on either side

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Carrier USS George H. W. Bush in Eastern Mediterranean in Joint U.S.-Israel Exercise Juniper Oak

Israel Juniper Oak • 42USNI News by Mallory Shelbourne / January 26, 2023 at 11:01AM The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group sails in formation with the Israeli Navy during exercise Juniper Oak 2023-2, Jan. 24, 2023 in the Mediterranean Sea. U.S. Navy Photo Aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN-77) is participating in the Juniper Oak, joint drillsContinue reading “Carrier USS George H. W. Bush in Eastern Mediterranean in Joint U.S.-Israel Exercise Juniper Oak”