President Harry Truman advertising exercise and good health aboard the USS Missouri. He is leading the club’s Calisthenics class in the photo, 1947 (531x494)
The USS Nevada headed out on deployment — threading the Hood Canal Bridge — Dec. 16, the Navy confirmed today with this photo. It's one of the country's 14 nuclear missile-armed subs, should the president ever order such a strike; 8 of the 14 are based at Bangor.
The Israeli attack on the USS Liberty & the US Government cover up. “ “ Then President Lyndon Johnson repeated the recall order reportedly telling Geis that, “…he didn’t care if the ship sunk, he would not embarrass his allies” reddit.com/gallery/rujsob
The USS Nevada headed out on deployment — threading the Hood Canal Bridge — Dec. 16, the Navy confirmed today with this photo. It's one of the country's 14 nuclear missile-armed subs, should the president ever order such a strike; 8 of the 14 are based at Bangor.
Then-President Truman leading exercises on the USS Missouri in 1947
President Harry Truman advertising exercise and good health aboard the USS Missouri. He is leading the club’s Calisthenics class in the photo, 1947
Then-President Truman leading exercises on the USS Missouri
USS Texas (BB-35) carrying President and his party to Havanna Harbor to attend the Pan-American Congress, on January 15, 1928.
The aircraft carriers USS Midway (CV-41) and the USS Enterprise (CV-6) make their way to the post World War 2 Navy Day review by President Truman on October 27, 1945 in Manhattan. [1105x736]
President Richard M. Nixon speaks with the Apollo 11 astronauts inside the Mobile Quarantine Facility aboard USS Hornet (CVS-12) on July 24, 1969
Scuba diving the famous USS Spiegel Grove in Key Largo, Florida. She was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for Spiegel Grove, the home and estate in Fremont, Ohio of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States. youtube.com/watch?v=7E5bM…
Future President George H.W. Bush sits in the cockpit of his TBF Avenger looking over papers (likely maps) on the flight deck of the USS San Jacinto 1943.
TIL that in the War of 1812, the USS President mistook a ship named the HMS Little Belt to be the much larger frigate HMS Guerriere (the Little Belt affair). When the USS Constitution engaged the real HMS Guerriere a few months later, the words "Not The Little Belt" were painted on her topsail. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lit…
President George W. Bush celebrates Opposite Day on the USS Abraham Lincoln (January 25, 2003)
On Valentine’s Day 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Saudi King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud on the USS Quincy, in the Suez Canal. It was the dawn of what is now the longest and most arduous U.S. relationship with an Arab state. The US Ambassador residence is called the Quincy House.[11337x9185] reddit.com/gallery/q7z8yj
Bonus. Ex-General of the Army and 34th President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower "Ike" practicing his golf game while onboard USS Canberra (CAG 2) en route to Bermuda for a conference, 14 March 1957. (1738x1298)
President Kennedy touring the Ethan Allen-class submarine USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610) in Norfolk, VA (May 13, 1962)
75 Years ago on November 21 USS U-2513 traveled underwater at a depth of 130m with President Harry S. Truman, she was later sunk as target ship
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Research Ship Devoted To sail and do Research For the President And Other And This will Be Marked As Uss Research reddit.com/gallery/r2gi6p
(1080 x 534) USS Shangri-La (CV-38) Essex-class aircraft carrier. It's named after a fictional location, the name was chosen after President Franklin Roosevelt told reporters that the Doolittle Raid had been launched from Shangri-La the secret Tibetan paradise in the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon".
USS Houston (CA-30) , off San Diego, California, in October 1935, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on board. She is flying an admiral's four-star flag at her foremast peak, and the Presidential flag at her mainmast peak. [5634x4428]
[6074 x 4292]USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) in foreground and USS Indianapolis (CA-35) in background, as seen from the air, salute President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the fleet review of 31 May 1934.
TIL after the USS William D Porter accidentally fired a torpedo at the battleship carrying President Roosevelt to the Tehran Conference during WWII, other ships began greeting the Porter by signaling "Don't shoot, we're Republicans." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS…
(1640 × 1241) Since it's the launch day of USS Helena (CL-50), here she is nchored in President Roads, Boston, Massachusetts, 15 June 1940, taken from the USS Wasp (CV-7). NHHC photo NH 95815.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting with Kind Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, on board the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt. 14 February, 1945
President Richard M. Nixon speaks with the Apollo 11 astronauts inside the Mobile Quarantine Facility aboard USS Hornet (CVS-12) on July 24, 1969
Leaked recordings show CIA director George Tenet pressured Yemeni president to release Anwar al-Awlaki from prison, an al Qaeda leader who played a major role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and 9/11 realalexrubi.substack.com…
TIL The USS William D. Porter was the only vessel in US Navy history to have its entire crew placed under arrest after accidentally firing a live torpedo at a vessel carrying the President of the United States and the Secretary of State taskandpurpose.com/histor…
TIL There was a 'Second Korean War', aka The Korean DMZ Conflict, that ran from 1966 to 1969 that included an assassination attempt on the S Korean President by N Korean commandos, and the capture of the USS Pueblo along with its crew. youtube.com/watch?v=3hpFs…
The Gunnery officers of USS Monterey (CVL-26) in 1943. Second from the right in the first row is future President Gerald Ford.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting with Kind Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, on board the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt. 14 February, 1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting with Kind Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, on board the U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt. 14 February, 1945
TIL that in 1964, Elvis Presley bought President Franklin D Roosevelt's yacht, USS Potomac (AG-25) for $55,000. He later gave it to St Jude's Children Hospital for a fundraiser, and that hospital sold it for $65,000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS…
The bathtub on the USS Iowa (BB-61) installed for President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he crossed the Atlantic Ocean to Casablanca, Morocco on the first leg of the trip to Tehran, Iran to meet with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in 1943. (Picture taken in 1984) [2860x1910].
[1280x851] On this day in 1975, under a blue sky, first supercarrier USS Nimitz was commissioned in Norfolk in presence of then President Gerald Ford - source: Ford Library Museum
President Truman leading exercises on the USS Missouri in 1947
Since ships are often named for important historical figures, including presidents, there must be a USS Obama.
Future president Gerald Ford playing basketball on the elevator of the aircraft carrier USS Monterey in 1944.
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TIL that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is nicknamed "Big Stick" after the 26th President's Big Stick foreign policy: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. " en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS…
4 Aug 1942: [Photo] SS President Adams and USS Quincy off New Caledonia ww2db.com/image.php?image…
[968x768] USS William D Porter under construction 10 months before commissioning. She would go on to nearly torpedo the ship carrying President Roosevelt, shell an officer's front lawn, and successfully shoot down an inbound kamikaze only to then sail over the wreckage, sinking themselves.
President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev aboard the presidential yacht the USS Sequoia. June 19 1973. [3000X2012]
USS Iowa delivering President Franklin Roosevelt to Africa for transit on to the Tehran Conference, Mers El Kébir, Oran, Algeria, 20 Nov 1943.[2,376x1,741]
President Trump’s USS Alabama Rally Cancelled Just Days Before His July 3rd Speech — Park Commissioner Cancels the Event After 45th President Was Invited as Guest Speaker archive.is/9YK8n
TIL: The Princeton Disaster, where President John Tyler was almost killed when a gun on the USS Princeton exploded, when firing a salute, killing several members of his cabinet who had been attending a dinner party aboard, celebrating the annexation of Texas into the Union. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh…
[2048 x 1654]USS Houston (CA-30) passes through the Panama Canal with President Franklin D. Roosevelt standing on the ship's second level, 1934
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