Meeting the Fleet 2015

Here’s the fleet arrival extravaganza from three years ago.  And here are installments 1  2 and 3 of the arrival of a special vessel of the LPD set.

I got my spot early, and had some surprises . . . like this medium endurance cutter heading OUT to meet the fleet.

WMEC 905 Spencer

There were also these four yard patrol craft doing the same,

Training vessels from Annapolis

YP 705

and this tropical architecture (!!?) under the palm-tree grove over by Fort Wadsworth.  What’s going on?  It’s Cuba at the Narrows.  

Just before 10 a.m. the fleet was in sight coming up the Ambrose.

The YPs 704, 705, 707, and 708 led the fleet in,

DDG-55 Stout the first larger vessel in,

followed by DDG-52 Barry and

foreground vessel is former WPB-82362 Point Brown, now  Lady B

LPD-17 San Antonio.

Here’s a schedule of events for the public and the fleet this week.

Enjoy your stay, all.