cant see any of those pics


mornin errybody

 

Nope, I saw one of them but not the other. Nice try, though. Mornin' Patrick. You're up late this morning.

 

i dont think i can see pics from albums (public or private) because im not a member


ken are you sure im up late? maybe im just posting late?

 

is it time to go yet?


do i really have to wait 33 more days?

 

It didn't take that long to load this forum, did it?

 

 

 

USS Antietam (CV-36, later CVA-36 & CVS-36), 1945-1974

USS Antietam, a 27,100 ton Ticonderoga class aircraft carrier built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in January 1945. She transited the Panama Canal to the Pacific in June and was en route to the Western Pacific war zone when Japan capitulated in August 1945. Antietam operated in Far Eastern waters during the first years of the post-war era, returning to the United States in 1949, when she was decommissioned and placed in the Reserve Fleet. Recommissioned in January 1951, in response to Korean War requirements, the carrier made one combat deployment, between September 1951 and March 1952.

In September-December 1952, after joining the Atlantic Fleet, Antietam was modified to receive the U.S. Navy's first angled flight deck. During the next few years, she served as the test platform for this feature, which was to revolutionize carrier flight operations. After being rated as an attack aircraft carrier (CVA-36) from October 1952 to August 1953, she was thereafter classified as an antisubmarine support aircraft carrier, with the hull number CVS-36. In that role, Antietam made Sixth Fleet cruises in the Mediterranean Sea in 1955 and in 1956-57. She was then assigned to carrier flight training duty, generally operating in waters near Pensacola, Florida. Relieved as training carrier in October 1962, she was decommissioned for the last time in May 1963. Following a decade in the Reserve Fleet, USS Antietam was sold for scrapping in February 1974.

 

USS Patterson (Destroyer # 36, later DD-36), 1911-1934.
Renamed DD-36 in 1933.

USS Patterson, a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer, was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was commissioned in October 1911 and spent the next five and a half years taking part in exercises and training along the Atlantic coast and in the Caribbean area. After the United States entered the First World War in April 1917 Patterson was employed on patrol duties from New England to Newfoundland and, in May, crossed the Atlantic to Queenstown, refueling at sea from the oiler Maumee en route. For the next year the destroyer escorted convoys and conducted anti-submarine patrols in the vicinity of the British Isles, engaging German U-Boats on at least two occasions. Patterson returned to the U.S. in June 1918 for overhaul and from August to the war's end in November carried out ASW patrols off the East Coast. Laid up in 1919, she again saw active service enforcing the Prohibition laws as the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Patterson (CG-16) from the spring of 1924 until October 1930. At the beginning of July 1933, her name was cancelled to allow its use on a new destroyer. Known thereafter simply as DD-36, she was sold for scrapping in May 1934.

USS Patterson was named in honor of Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson (1786-1839), who performed distinguished service at New Orleans during the War of 1812.

 

USS Nevada (Battleship # 36, later BB-36), 1916-1948

USS Nevada, first of a class of two 27,500-ton battleships, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts. She was commissioned in March 1916 and operated in the western Atlantic and the Caribbean until mid-1918, when she went to the British Isles for World War I service. Following that conflict, Nevada was active in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific. Cruises to Brazil in 1922 and to Australia in 1925 punctuated a decade of regular fleet exercises and drills.

Nevada was modernized in 1927-30, exchanging her "basket" masts for tripods. The update work also included the installation of a new superstructure, relocation of her five-inch secondary battery, new anti-aircraft guns and significant improvements to her firepower and protection. She then returned to duty with the U.S. Battle Fleet, mainly operating in the Pacific over the next eleven years.

The only battleship able to get underway during the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor Raid, Nevada was the object of intense attacks by Japanese aircraft. Left in a sinking condition after receiving one torpedo and several bomb hits, she had to be beached. Vigorous salvage work and temporary repairs enabled her to steam to the U.S. west coast in April 1942. She spent the rest of the year receiving permanent repairs and improvements, including a greatly enhanced anti-aircraft gun battery.

Nevada returned to combat during the Attu landings in May 1943. Transferred to the Atlantic in mid-1943, her 14" and 5" guns were actively employed during the Normandy Invasion in June 1944 and the Southern France operation in August and September. The battleship then returned to the Pacific, where she assisted with the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. Though damaged by a suicide plane on 27 March and by an artillery shell on 5 April, Nevada remained in action off Okinawa until June 1945. She spent the remaining months of World War II in the Western Pacific, preparing for the invasion of Japan.

With the coming of peace, Nevada steamed back to Hawaii. She was too old for retention in the post-war fleet, and was assigned to serve as a target during the July 1946 atomic bomb tests at Bikini, in the Marshall Islands. That experience left her damaged and radioactive, and she was formally decommissioned in August 1946. After two years of inactivity, USS Nevada was towed to sea off the Hawaiian islands and sunk by gunfire and torpedos.