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Oriskany showing angled flight deck and hurricane bow. Oriskany returned to San Francisco on 13 August 1956, and entered the shipyard to undergo the SCB-125A modernization program on 1 October. She was decommissioned there on 2 January 1957. Oriskany received a new angled flight deck, aft deck edge elevator, enlarged forward elevator, and ...
The 1966 USS Oriskany fire was a major fire that broke out aboard the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Oriskany on the morning of 26 October 1966. The fire broke out after a lit flare was locked in a flare locker. The fire killed 44 people, mostly air crew, and injured 156 more.
USS Intrepid showing her SCB-27C configuration.. The two sub-types of SCB-27 modifications were primarily a result of changes in catapult technology in the early-1950s. SCB-27A vessels used a pair of H 8 slotted-tube hydraulic catapults, while the later SCB-27C vessels were fitted with a pair of C 11 steam catapults, a British innovation (in fact the first four installed, on Hancock and ...
"Mighty O" – USS Oriskany "Mighty T" – USS Texas (BB-35) "Mighty Y" – USCGC Yakutat "Mighty Mo" – USS Missouri "Mighty Moo" – USS Cowpens "Mobile Chernobyl" – USS Enterprise "Moskvitch" – Finnish navy Tuima class missile boats. Soviet-built Moskvitch cars had notoriously poor reputation in Finland.
VA-113 A-7E on deck of USS Ranger 1970–71. The assault formation approached from the southwest using the clutter returns of the mountains to mask them from radar detection, while U.S. Navy aircraft launched at 01:00 21 November [61] from the aircraft carriers USS Oriskany [n 31] and Ranger [n 32] in the largest carrier night operation of the ...
“When the Coast Guard moved in to clear the demonstrators, hundreds of sailors on the deck of the America jeered and pelted the cutters with garbage; in a clear show of support for the protesters.” [4]: 114–115 Also in June, but at Alameda, civilians were protesting the pending departure of the USS Oriskany. “When the ship left, on June ...
The smoke plume from the burning USS Forrestal, as photographed from USS Oriskany. The explosions tore seven holes in the flight deck. About 40,000 US gallons (150,000 L; 33,000 imp gal) of burning jet fuel from ruptured aircraft tanks poured across the deck and through the holes in the deck into the aft hangar bay and berthing compartments.
USS Bon Homme Richard displaying the hurricane bow and angled deck of the SCB-125 conversion. Top views of USS Intrepid after SCB-27C (left) and SCB-125 (right).. SCB-125 was the United States Navy designation for a series of upgrades to the Essex class of aircraft carriers planned by the Ship Characteristics Board and conducted between 1954 and 1959.