Sea Classics June 2023

ON THE COVER:

A group of US Navy WAVES making some sailors happy aboard the USS Missouri in this 1945 Kodachrome photograph. (USN)

 

 

FEATURES:

THE WARRIOR FROM PEARL HARBOR

Part One in the detailed history of the heroic light cruiser USS

Phoenix / by Mark L. Evans

 

VANDERBILT AND THE LEXINGTON DISASTER

How Cornelius Vanderbilt created his fleet of steamships with the focus on the loss of the Lexington / by Colin Ridley

 

MEMORIES OF A DEPLOYMENT

The 1988 cruise of the USS Forrestal / by Charles H. Bogart

 

DEVASTATOR VERSUS KATE

Examination of two WWII torpedo bombers /

by Joe May and others

 

THEIR GUNS WERE ALWAYS READY

The third installment in the photographic history of the USS New Jersey / by James Thompson

 

 

 

DEPARTMENTS:

 

MUSEUM NEWS
Recalling the horror of the Halifax Explosion

INTEL FILE
Lake Huron reveals the wreck of the Ironton

 

LOST AT SEA
Ships that fell victim to fire at sea / by Susan Duprey

 

YOUR NAVY

More top images from the Navy’s best photojournalists / by Howard Carter

 

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