Friday 6 March 2020

USS Intrepid & USS Growler

While in NYC in December we visited the USS Intrepid - a carrier - and it's smaller chum the submarine USS Growler.  You may also want to look again at Martin Rapier's post from November 2019 here.  I have more photos somewhere - I'll post 'em when they show up.
Luckily the Intrepid is decommissioned - as the bloke in charge looks like a bungling oaf!
On the hangar deck there is a nice model of the Intrepid - on closer inspection it turned out to be Lego!

Unusually (for a US carrier) the flight deck hosts a pair of MIGs  A 15 (above) and 21.

You can't go wrong with a Skyhawk.
Neatly folded Corsair
H-25 Army Mule helicopter

F-4J Fury, the navalised version of the F-86 Sabre
After a canter round the Intrepid it was off next door to the entertainingly named Growler.  Launched in 1958, this was the US Navy's first missile sub.  Think of it as basically a WW2 boat with a deck hangar holding four missiles.
Ah, the missiles.  Think V-1 with an ego.  I pity the poor buggers who had to fool around on deck preparing the things to launch.

6 comments:

Jim Duncan Wargamer said...

Been there, done that, Growler too.

They had a Concorde on a barge alongside too.

Tim Gow said...

Jim Duncan
The Concorde is still there - as is the Space Shuttle. They must have been buggers to land on that flight deck....

Wg Cdr Luddite said...

Mr Picky says that;s an FJ-4 Fury, not a Sabre.

Tim Gow said...

Wg Cdr Luddite
Well spotted - I knew you’d be unable to resist commenting!

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

Cool Holiday

Tim Gow said...

Geordie
Holiday? It was bloody hard work!