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.
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6 comments:

  1. Jim Duncan Wargamer6 March 2020 at 16:39

    Been there, done that, Growler too.

    They had a Concorde on a barge alongside too.

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  2. Tim Gow6 March 2020 at 17:02

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

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  3. Wg Cdr Luddite7 March 2020 at 19:21

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

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  4. Tim Gow7 March 2020 at 22:13

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

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  5. Geordie an Exiled FoG8 March 2020 at 00:38

    Cool Holiday

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  6. Tim Gow8 March 2020 at 11:04

    Geordie
    Holiday? It was bloody hard work!

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