USS California (BB-44), commissioned on 10 August 1921, was moored by itself at the southern end of Battleship Row on 7 December 1941. She was hit by two torpedoes and a bomb, which caused the ship to settle in the mud. Only her superstructure remained
US Navy Fighter/Attack F/A-18A Hornet of VFA-192 escorting an Airborne Early Warning Aircraft E-2C Hawkeye of VAW-115; both squadrons are assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CVA-41), June 1989.
The USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750) is shown early in 2008 making a turn during speed trials. The first of the Legend Class 418 foot long National Security Cutters is due to be commissioned in Alameda, California this weekend.
'I never can understand how anyone can not smoke-it deprives a man of the best part of life...with a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him-literally.' (Thomas Mann, 1875-1955)//
Two sailors on board the USS Olymp