Monday, December 11, 2006

Where is it this time?

Name the city. It's that simple. Bigger view if you click the pic.

3 comments:

Joseph-Dolores Poliakon said...

This sailor-technologist put his seaman's eye on your sea gull's view thumbnail and immediately recognized it was the "Mothball Fleet" Berths Area at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania in the USA.

I'm guessing that the ship with #12 painted on the flight deck is the USS Inchon (MCS-12) which was decommissioned on 20 JUN 1970. The other large ship across from her, with all the big guns, appears to be an Iowa Class Battleship. There only were six Iowa Class ships built and only four remain in existance.

USS Iowa (BB 61) DECOMMISSIONED 26 Oct 1990. Now at the Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square (HSMPS), Naval Shipyard, Mare Island, Vallejo, California.
USS New Jersey (BB 62) DECOMMISSIONED 08 Feb 1991. Now the Battleship New Jersey Museum located in Camden, New Jersey.
USS Missouri (BB 63) DECOMMISSIONED 31 Mar 1992. Now the Battleship Missouri Museum at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
USS Wisconsin (BB 64) DECOMMISSIONED 30 Sep 1991. Now part of Nauticus: The National Maritime Center in Norfolk, Virginia.
USS Illinois (BB 65) CANCELLED PRIOR TO COMPLETION & SCRAPPED 12 Aug 1945.
USS Kentucky (BB 66) DECOMMISSIONED 31 Oct 1958 & SCRAPPED.

I'm quessing the old "Battlewagon" tied up there is the USS New Jersey (BB 62), and that the overhead photo is five years old and taken back in 2001 before the USS New Jersey was moved from Philadelphia Navy Yard to Camden, NJ.

Karl Plesz said...

Well, that was quick...........

Philadelphia it is.

I got to go on the deck of the USS Iowa while she was still in this naval yard back in the early to mid 70's. It had already been mothballed at that point.

Anonymous said...

WOW, that is impressive. We figured someone with a military background would have to get that one. well done!