Sonar dome2 by danapommet
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Due to some site mails and Emails a second look at a sonar dome. This is the USS Essex, an aircraft carrier, modernized from her original World War II design. This photo taken while see was in dry dock, for upgrading in 1966. She was 872 feet (266 meters) long, 147.5 feet (45 meters) wide, had a crew of 2,600 officers/enlisted men and carried 90 to 100 aircraft and helicopters. She was decommissioned on June 30, 1969. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on June 1, 1973, and sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for scrapping on June 1, 1975. Once again I am using a US Navy camera, as was everybody else that day, and all cameras were returned to the ships photo department, I can not be 100% sure that I actually took this specific shot, thus the snapshot label.
Thanks for stopping by, taking a look and for all your previous favs and comments.
They are very much appreciated.
Dana
Comments (23)
Cool capture, Dana!
What a super angle to capture this large ship. Excellent.
Thats a spectacular view and we can't see this view normaly :) Giant Sea Monster ;-)
hope you too this as the design the ship makes on the image is wonderful
Impressive just at the scale of proportions this gives...Nice Dana!..Thanks!
~Awesome capture and great info!~
Excellent capture! That's a view you don't often see. :)
WOW....Gorgeous capture Dana, fabulous POV! Well done!
Great shot and colour toning Dana.
So very interesting! She was elegant even in her underparts!
Fantastic capture & info:)
impressive shot!
Thanks Dana, understand it a bit better now :o)
It looks like a space ship sitting there in drydock. Great shot. An incredible machine and I love the old photo look too. It adds to the beauty greatly.
Awesome POV on this big guy in dry dock, Dana. I hate to see aircraft carriers decommissioned.
Not something you see everyday...even less so now.A fascinating image, of an historic ship.
Guess we can't keep them all but I hate to hear "scrapped". Neat snapshot indeed.
Interesting capture and info , Dana !
Great capture and info, Dana! :o)
cool history and a most magnificent shot Dana,,steve
Good job!! (we'll give you the credit!)
interesting shot and story
Very interesting.