Rob's Navy Photos

Photos of U.S. Navy Ships - From my personal collection and other sources   Check out my other blog: robswarphotos

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USS Severn AO-61

Class: Cimarron

Commissioned: July 1944

Decommissioned: July 1974

Fate: Scrapped in 1975

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USS Long Beach CGN-9

Class: Albany

Commissioned: September 1961

Decommissioned: May 1995

Fate: Sold for scrap. Part of her hull and reactor components remain at the Puget Sound Shipyard

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USS Manley DD-940

Class: Forrest-Sherman

Commissioned: February 1957

Decommissioned: March 1983

Fate: Sold for scrap in 1982

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USS Johnston DD-821

Class: Gearing

Commissioned: August 1946

Decomm'd: February 1982

Fate: Transferred to China in 1981. Sunk as target in 2006

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USS Eugene A. Greene DD-711

Class: Gearing

Commissioned: June 1945

Decomm'd: August 1972

Fate: Purchased by Spain in 1972. Sunk as target in 1991

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USS Vesole DD-878

Bow coming out of the water.

Commissioned: April 1945

Decomm'd: December 1976

Fate: Sunk as target in 1983

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The crew of the USS Princeton CV-37 in 1947.

Commissioned: 18 NOV 45

Reclassed LPH-5 in 1959

Decomm'd : 1970

Fate: Scrapped

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LCI(L)-772 Landing Craft Infantry at Astoria, OR 1944

Commissioned: July 1944

Fate: Transferred to Maritime Commission for disposal 1947

2 Battle Stars for Iwo Jima and Okinawa

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Early 20th C. Connecticut Naval Militia Insignia

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F-14 Tomcat

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USS Osborne DD-295

Clemson Class destroyer

Commissioned: May 1920

Decomm'd: May 1930 sold to a Fruit Company

Fate: Converted into an inter-island cargo ship in 1941. Burned in her berth in Sydney Australia in 1942. Scuttled off Sydney in 1947

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USRC Gresham (U.S. Revenue Cutter)

Commissioned: May 1897

Decomm'd: April 1944

Patrolled Lake Michigan and then the Atlantic Coast

Served as a convoy escort in WW1

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LCI-772 (Landing Craft Infantry) with Camo Paint

Commissioned: July 1944

Redesignated LCI(R) Landing Craft Infantry, Rocket in 1945

Earned 2 Battle Stars in the Pacific Theater during WW2 for Iwo Jima and Okinawa

Fate: Unknown

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ABSD-4 (Advance Base Sectional Dock 4)

Final Construction: 1943

Redisignated in 1946: AFDB-4 (Auxiliary Floating Dock Big 4)

Stricken: 1989

Fate: Sunk in Place at Lombrum Naval Base New Guinea

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USS Frederick Funston APA-89

Commissioned: April 1943

Earned 6 battle stars in WW2 and 1 in Korea

Fate: Scrapped in 1969

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The bridge or bridge wing of the USS Preston DD-327 in Panama, 1923.

The Preston was Clemson-class destroyer

Commissioned in April 1921

Decommissioned: May 1930

Sold for Scrap