Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
One of USS New Jersey's original gun barrels from 1943 to 1954 now sits on the northwest corner of the Marine Parade Grounds alongside Broad Street and Intrepid Avenue in Philadelphia. Another original gun barrel is located in Camden, next to USS New Jersey, and a third is on display in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. A propeller is on display in ...
USS New Jersey (SSN-796), a Block IV Virginia-class submarine, is the third United States Navy vessel named for the state of New Jersey. The first two New Jerseys were battleships BB-16 and BB-62. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the name for the third New Jersey on 25 May 2015, at a ceremony in Jersey City, New Jersey. [5] [6] [7]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
A Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher, BuNo 5767, of VS-34, from Naval Air Station New York, Floyd Bennett Field, crashes 7 miles S of Little Egg Inlet, near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Two survivors, pilot William K. Stevens, and radio operator-gunner Frank W. Talley, [ 136 ] are picked up by Coast Guard 83-foot Wooden Patrol Boat WPB-83340.
A triple 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 gun turret aboard USS New Jersey. Mark 28 5-inch/38-caliber gun mount: Gun mount used against all targets [15] Mark 15 20 mm Phalanx: Gun mount used against missile attacks [15] BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles: Contained 32 missiles [15] RGM-84 Harpoon cruise missiles: Missiles used against ships [15]
The new USS New Jersey is prepared to continue the legacy of the ships with the same name that preceded it, being now the most complex warfare machine ever built in the U.S. said the vessel's ...
As the battleship was leaving Camden, a crowd had already gathered on Gloucester City's waterfront, which offered a view of the New Jersey passing beneath the Walt Whitman Bridge from 1 to 1:30 p.m.
Position of USS Iowa's Turret Two. On 19 April 1989, an explosion occurred within the Number Two 16-inch gun turret of the United States Navy battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) during a fleet exercise in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. [1] The explosion in the center gun room killed 47 of the turret's crewmen and severely damaged the gun turret ...