Old Aircraft Carrier
 

G,Day

Appears this one is sailing backwards
Can anyone identify this aircraft carrier, year, where :confused:

http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/im...2010/32205.png


Cheers
Deadlydaring :)

I'll do some looking and thinking and asking...

Thanks BlueHawk for your reply
bit confusing as it appears to be sailing backwards
Could be british but I do believe its a US ship somewhere in the pacific theatre
I have trolled through hundreds of photo's but up til' now to no avail

Cheers
Deadlydaring

Ahoy!
 

Deadly

Not only steaming backerds, but there's an TBM/TBF aircraft landing on the LAUNCH deck with other ones stashed at the stern... but I am determined (I hope) to solve it! :p

I've got some old salts looking for me, so maybe between us noggins we can come up with it.

We are thinking maybe this is a ca. 1930-40 Essex Class vessel which did, I am told, have the ability to land on both ends, with arresting cables situated accordingly.

I'll get back here as soon as I get some more word, but maybe the above will help?

Great photo!

More hints...
 

"Are you able to zoom in on the photo at all? Depending on the timeframe, you may be able to tell which flattop it is if the tails of the air wing are painted. If it's a late war photo, there should be geometric images painted on the vertical stabs..."

"A hunch - USS Intrepid"

Are those of any help?

No more hints and thankyou BLUEHAWK for your replies

It is the Yorktown, steaming full astern to land a TBF Avenger over the bow, July 1943. She transited the Panama Canal on 11 July and departed Balboa, Panama, on July 12. The warship arrived in Pearl Harbor on July 24 and began a month of exercises in the Hawaiian Islands. Though provision for over-the-bow landing was a design requirement, it was rarely practiced and the bow arresting gear was soon eliminated." USN Source
http://www.patriotfiles.com/forum/im...2010/32212.png


Cheers
Deadlydaring

Confirmed:
 

"I have two books listing the same picture as USS Yorktown CV-10 on her shakedown (workup) cruise. Radar suite is correct for her at that time. Before she sailed for the Pacific (July 1, 1943) she did the carrier qualification tests for the "new" SB2C Helldivers and acquired her shakedown overhaul refits. (added two starboard quarter aft 40MM mounts and moved SG radar from mainmast to pole mount near the portside 36 searchlight platform). Although many Essex class ships carried arresting gear setups both for stern landing and bow landing as well as a hanger deck catapult, they were not used and were removed on these ships at their next overhauls. Yorktown was one of the most photographs ships of WWII so I would say that it is 99% sure that the photo posted is of Yorktown on her shakedown late April through June 1943."

Found this...