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Name that ship..

BTW, wouldn't the USS Bill Clinton be a submarine...or at least a submarine tender?

It's GOTTA be involved with something that goes down...
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
BTW, wouldn't the USS Bill Clinton be a submarine...or at least a submarine tender?

It's GOTTA be involved with something that is cigar shaped and goes down...
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In the entire time I was in the Navy we never once named a barge or a tug.
Our ships dont have "US NAVY" painted on them. They have the name painted on the stern and the hull number painted on the bow.
US NAVY means "property of".
Think of it as a really large stapler, because thats about all the value we give it.
 
I dunno...it COULD be a photoshopped pic.

It's definitely the SF Bay area. You can see the Sutro Tower in the background on the left.

It looks like one of Westar Marine's tugs...they have the red/white/black color scheme going on.


FWIW, we had 4-5 old Navy barges that we used as material barges on the last couple of jobs I was on. They all still said "U.S. Navy" on the bows. Since the Navy no longer has a presence in the SF Bay area, either this pic is VERY old, or it's photoshopped.

(Alameda NAS is gone, Mare Island is closed, etc.)

I remember working in the bay and seeing submarines headed upstream to the Navy docs at Mare Island. Sometimes, they'd be fully submerged and all you'd see is the bulge of water and periscope....other times, they'd be on top, for the whole world to see.
 
It's an F-14. Those were retired in 2006. It could be one on the way to some air museum or something like that.

It could be this link plane on the way to the USS Hornet Museum in Alameda.

Perhaps someone who is familiar with the area can tell if that looks right based on the photo.
 
As far as the 'real' USS Clinton.

My understanding is that due to budget cuts they can't afford to build him a new ship from scratch, so they are just going to rename the USS Blowfish after him 🙂
 
I havn't been on the Hornet since 2000, but it certainly could be.
My union has done most of the heavy lifting for the Hornet restoration project, and quite a few of our guys donated their time to hoist some aircraft onto the deck a few years back.
 
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