Meeting the Fleet 2023

Is that really USS Cole (DDG 67)?

I’ve not seen it mentioned much in media coverage today.

Ocean survey vessel HMS Scott (H131) and why the 

penguin?  Answer follows.

 

USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), a dock landing ship is named after a former president’s residence!

ITS Virginio Fasan (F 591) is an Italian frigate.  Click here for the namesake.

USCGC Warren Deyampert (WPC-1151) has a quite interesting namesake story.

Deyampert and Ollis meet. 

HMCS Glace Bay (MM 701) is a Canadian coastal defence vessel, as spelled in Canadian English.

 USS Wasp (LHD-1) history can be read here.

Is that a Harrier AV-8B?

 

USNS Newport (T-EPF-12) can transport over 300 troops at almost 50 mph.

I’d love to tour it.

 

All photos this morning, WVD.

OK, H131 is named for RF Scott, the explorer.

Random Ships 62

An unlikely duo, and now separated . . .

Feng Huang Ao had no intention of being here . . . .

but it experienced an engine room fire over a month ago and was towed here for repairs.  Don’t those look like scorch marks?

LSD-51 aka Oak Hill has since left for missions unadvertised.

Ypapanti is a fairly new crude tanker . . .  .

Read this in case you wondered about the name . . .   “presentation of Christ.”  This angle here reminds me of the sentry boxes in San Juan.

Here’s a satellite grab of vessels waiting to be scrapped in Aliaga, Turkey.  See the three self-unloaders?

Ocean Delta is soon to arrive in Aliaga with a soon-to-be scrapped laker . . .

in tow, Manitoba, launched in 1966 in Collingwood ON, seen here a year ago at the Molson plant in Montreal. We in the US associate Molson with beer, but John Molson was the Robert Fulton of Canada.

I wonder if Ocean Delta herself will return . . . from Turkey, given that she flies the Jamaican flag.

At this same moment, Stephen B. Roman is heading under her own power to the breaking yards,

in Spain.  Later today she’ll be passing Gaspe.  What must this last ride be like?

A year ago I got this photo of the 1965-launch entering Oswego NY to discharge cement.

I always loved that logo!!  Here are previous Roman posts.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.