Travel Photography > Photos tagged as ships
This was through a hatch (door) on the Bridge.
A view of the F14 from the Bridge as the Captain would have seen it.
This is now used as the main entrance to the hanger deck, where the museum is located.
This was from the Captains Chair on the main Bridge
The bridge is open to tour at your own pace. You can sit in the Captains Chair, turn the wheel, etc.
This is where the Captain would normally sit when on the bridge (or officer of the day)
This is the view of the bridge from the dock. The bow is to the right.
The ship isn't actually floating, but sits in the mud in some shallow water, so the effect is good.
I liked this view of the bow, the bridge and some wetlands.
The State of South Carolina maintains this retired naval aircraft carrier as part of it's Patriots Landing park. Several sections of the ship are open for self paced touring.
The Executive Officer was the second in command on a ship, a very high ranking officer for a ship. Yet on a submarine, even the XO has crampted quarters.
These levers controled the submarines batteries and motors.
If you want to tour this submarine, you must climb through several of these hatches, like others we've toured.
Like all other space on the submarine, the galley is very cramped
This is the forward torpedo room. Sixteen crew lived in this cramped space.
The submarine had to make it's own fresh water out of sea water, which this machine did.
The Clamagore was built in 1945 and decommissioned in 1975, one of the last diesel powered submarines in the US Fleet when she retired.
You can't actually look through the periscope on this submarine. Instead they have a display showing what you would see if you looked through the periscope. Odd.
Compared to the XO Qtrs on the submarine, this is quite luxurious.
After touring the submarine, the hatches on the Coast Guard Cutter seem quite large and spaceous
This US Coast Guard Cutter was built in 1934 and remained in service until 1988. She received two Presidential Unit Citations, the only Coast Guard vessel to do so.
This is a list of what ships and other displays are located across the bridge from historic Charleston.
The USS Laffey is a Destroyer that took part in D-Day and Okinawa. In the latter, she survived 5 Kamikazi and 3 bomb hits in a 90 minute time span.
This was on the hanger deck museum portion of the USS Yorktown. I didn't read the sign carefully enough, I believe it is only a replica (?) of John Glenn's spacecraft, the original is in Washington D.C. He was the first person to Orbit the earth from Space.