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Lane Victory was built in Los Angeles by the California Shipbuilding Corporation and launched on May 31, 1945. On her first voyage, June 27, 1945, Lane Victory carried war supplies in the Pacific. The War Shipping Administration gave the operations of the ship to the American President Lines. United States Merchant Mariners operated the ship.
USS Los Angeles (SSN-688), lead ship of her class of submarines, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for Los Angeles, California.The contract to build her was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia on 8 January 1971 and her keel was laid down on 8 January 1972.
The Los Angeles class of submarines are nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in service with the United States Navy. Also known as the 688 class (pronounced "six-eighty-eight") after the hull number of lead vessel USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) , 62 were built from 1972 to 1996, the latter 23 to an improved 688i standard.
The boat was originally marketed by Red Eye Sails with the name Red Eye Solution, the hulls being manufactured by Ovington Boats. The boat was reviewed by Yachts and Yachting, [3] by Dinghy Magazine [4] and by Sail-World. [5] In 2008 the entire Solution operation was taken over by Ovington. The Red Eye fish logo was retained, and remains the ...
Cal Yachts (also known as Jensen Marine and Cal Boats) was a manufacturer of performance oriented fiberglass sailboats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Costa Mesa, California, headquartered company was founded in 1957, among the earliest of all-fiberglass, mass-production sailboat builders.
Launched on 27 April 2002, they were proclaimed as the "Official Tall Ship Ambassadors of the City of Los Angeles" by Mayor James Hahn and witnessed by one of their namesakes, Exy Johnson, before motoring out to a fitting-out berth where the interiors were finished and completed as their masts stepped, rigged and sails bent on.
Year Winner Age Driver Trainer Owner Distance Time Purse Track; 1954 Red Sails 6 Gene L. Sears Bob Walker Herbert T. King 1 3/16 m. 2:22 3/5 $30,375 Hol
Partly built hull was deconstructed, and melted down to make the smaller MV Britannic (1929) and MV Georgic (1931) R.M.M.V Oceanic: RMS Olympic: 1910 Scrapped in 1937 SS Orbita: 1914 Scrapped in 1950 SS Orcades: 1937 Torpedoed and sunk on October 10, 1942, by U-172: The S.S. Orcades berthed in Wellington Harbour, sometime in the 1940s: SS ...