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Archive - 2001 - Part 2

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August 22 - USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) arrives in the UK. The new guided missile destroyer is in the UK as part of a goodwill tour. The RN frigate Monmouth met Churchill at sea on August 22nd and escorted her into Portsmouth for the International Festival of the Sea.
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August 22 - USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) arrives in the UK. The US ship is seen steaming behind the RN frigate Monmouth as they arrived at Portsmouth.
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August 22 - USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) arrives in the UK. Churchill is seen with MTB 102, a WWII torpedo boat used by Churchill to inspect the D-Day invasion fleet in 1944. The tall ship Sea Cloud II is in the background.
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August 22 - USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) arrives in the UK. A WWII Spitfire fighter also met Churchill off Portsmouth and conducted a flyby.
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August 22 - USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) arrives in the UK. A low-level view of Churchill with the Spitfire overhead and Sea Cloud II beyond.
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August 8 - Kamehameha deactivated at Pearl Harbor. After nearly 36 years of service to the fleet, the former ballistic missile submarine was deactivated at Pearl. At the conclusion of her ballistic missile career, she had been converted to transport and support SEALs.
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August 1 - Seattle Seafair 2001. The annual Seattle Seafair fleet cruise from Everett to Seattle included six ships. In this view from the carrier John C. Stennis (CVN 74) the ships are, from left, Lassen (DDG 82), Lake Champlain (CG 57), Coronado (AGF 11), Paul F. Foster (DD 964), and Milius (DDG 69). Our west coast photographer, Roy McBride, was aboard Stennis for the cruise, and more of his photos will be featured in an upcoming photo feature on Seafair 2001.
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August 1 - Seattle Seafair 2001. The carrier John C. Stennis was the largest ship participating in Seafair 2001. Her towering island superstructure is seen in a view from the forward aircraft elevator.
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August 1 - Seattle Seafair 2001. The 3rd Fleet flagship, Coronado, is a frequent visitor to Seafair. She is seen here mooring along the Seattle waterfront at the conclusion of the fleet cruise.
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August 1 - Seattle Seafair 2001. The guided missile cruiser Lake Champlain getting underway from Naval Station Everett at the start of the cruise.
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August 1 - Seattle Seafair 2001. Lake Champlain along the Seattle waterfront at the end of the cruise.
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August 1 - Seattle Seafair 2001. The new guided missile destroyer Lassen moored at Everett just prior to the cruise.
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July 10 - La Moure County (LST 1194) sunk as a target. The LST had been damaged beyond repair in a grounding along the Chilean coast on 12 September 2000. Following lengthy temporary repairs near the grounding site, she was towed to a Chilean port, decommissioned, and stripped. As part of the annual UNITAS exercise she was towed offshore and expended as a target. She is seen here during the first phase of the SINKEX, a gunfire exercise.

July 10 - La Moure County (LST 1194) sunk as a target. This overhead view shows the ship later in the exercise, burning after several missile hits. She was eventually finished off by submarine-launched torpedoes.

June 23 - Last traditional launch at Bath Iron Works. Mason (DDG 87) closed the era of traditional ship launches at Bath Iron Works, becoming the last ship to slide down the inclined ways into the Kennebec River. Future ships will be launched from the modern Land Level Transfer Facility, via a floating drydock. Mason is seen here on the ways a few hours before the launch, "ready to slide". See our related photo feature, Launching Mason, for more photos.

June 23 - Last traditional launch at Bath Iron Works. The morning of the launch, BIW workers and guests "rallied on the wedges" for the last time, driving wedges to push the launch cradle against the hull, beginning the transfer of the ship's weight from keel blocks to the sliding cradle. The wedges are driven in eight three-minute rallies, with three to five people on each 80-pound ram.

June 23 - Last traditional launch at Bath Iron Works. The morning of the launch, the ship towers over the freshly-greased ways at low tide, as the first keel blocks are removed from beneath the hull.

June 23 - Last traditional launch at Bath Iron Works. At slack high water, 3:25 PM, Senator Olympia Snowe christened Mason and the ship was launched into the Kennebec. This view shows the propellers and rudders just entering the water and pushing up a wave.

June 23 - Last traditional launch at Bath Iron Works. A few seconds later the ship is nearly afloat, with the bow about to drop off the end of the ways.

June 23 - Last traditional launch at Bath Iron Works. With the ship afloat and free of the launch cradle, tugs move into position to take the ship in tow.

June 23 - Last traditional launch at Bath Iron Works. As the tugs come alongside, the ship is turned and moved downstream, towards the outfitting pier.

June 23 - Last traditional launch at Bath Iron Works. With the ship safely afloat, the ways stand empty as the bow poppet and cradle are recovered from the river.

June 7 - "HMS" Bounty arrives at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, for major repairs. After several years in declining condition, Bounty will be hauled out at Samples Shipyard in Boothbay for extensive work on her hull. She is seen pierside at the yard on 26 June, partially derigged, awaiting her turn on the marine railway. She is now in poor condition, and must be constantly pumped to remain afloat.

Naval News Photos 2001 Archive Continued

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