On Sale, Stored, or Stricken Sunday

The photo immediately below was taken in July 2011, just before I published this post from Mayport.

At that time, I’d no idea that some 40 months later I’d cross paths with the same vessel, FFG 42 Klakring here.

Here is NISMF . . . aka

. .  the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in the Philadelphia Navy Yard,

where in addition to FFGs (frigates) like Klakring, there are DDs (destroyers) as shown in photo #4 and LPDs (amphibious transport docks) like USS Shreveport above and below foreground.

guided missile cruisers and

amphibious cargo ships like USS El Paso,

LKA-117.  Click here for info on one of her former captains.

Last vessel for today is T-AGOR-16, USS Hayes, an oceanographic research ship.

All photos by Will Van Dorp, who suggests that if you’re in Philly, take a ride to the end of Broad Street and visit the huge business campus still known as the Navy Yard.  There’s no better place to walk around!