#USS Lake Champlain

[lonestarflight]

"U.S.S. Lake Champlain Navy frogmen place the floatation collar around the Gemini Titan 2 spacecraft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the spacecraft from Cape Kennedy, Jan. 19, 1965 at 9:03 and it was recovered by the recovery forces aboard the U.S.S. Lake Champlain some 2100 miles downrange at 10:45 a.m. Flight time was 19:03 minutes. Actual landing was 16 miles short of the programmed landing area. Quoted from the original caption released by NASA with this photograph. Lake Champlain (CVS-39) is in the background. One of her SH-3 helicopters is hovering over the spacecraft."

Date: January 19, 1965

Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 97442

[unreformedcarrots]

The Fletcher class destroyer USS Remey (DD-688) taking on fuel from the carrier USS Lake Champlain (CV-39). The photo was taken in the North Atlantic in April of 1962.

[clove-pinks]

September 11th, and every USAmerican is thinking about the anniversary of the Battle of Lake Champlain: September 11, 1814. At the same time U.S. Navy Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough defeated the British fleet, the U.S. Army triumphed at the Battle of Plattsburgh.

M'donough's Victory on Lake Champlain, 1846 lithograph (Naval History and Heritage Command).

Enemy fire eventually silenced all of the guns on one side of the Saratoga. At this point, Macdonough performed the masterstroke that turned the tide in the battle, winding his flagship around so that he could bring fresh guns to bear on the British ships. Lieutenant James Robertson, who had taken command of the Confiance after Downie’s death, tried to bring his flagship around by employing the same maneuver, but without advance preparation his lines became fouled and his ship immobilized. The Saratoga relentlessly pounded the British ship with broadside after broadside. The fire was so intense that a British marine who had been at Trafalgar claimed that “that was a mere flea-bite in comparison with this.”

— Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict

USS Saratoga in 1814: a Vermont-built corvette (Wikimedia Commons).

[usaac-official]

Sailors clean the 20mm guns on an AD-4 Skyraider of VC-33 aboard USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39)

[moonwatchuniverse]

May 7, 1961 post-flight MR-3 "Freedom 7" 63 years ago, Mercury 7 astronauts US Navy Lt Scott Carpenter, US Marine Corps LtCol John Glenn and US Navy LtCmdr Alan Shepard still discussed the suborbital Mercury-Redstone 3 flight "Freedom 7" which made Shepard the first NASA astronaut in space. Two days earliern after 15 minutes 22 seconds, Alan Shepard splashed down 110 kilometers northeast of the Abaco islands in the Bahamas - Atlantic Ocean. Recovery was performed by US Navy aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain after which Shepard and a few Mercury 7 colleagues spent two days of debriefings at Grand Bahama island. Since the summer of 1959, the Mercury 7 astronauts were wearing a bespoke LeCoultre "astronaut" watch with black 24 hours dial as NASA STG decided a military-inspired 24 hours time awareness was optimal for manned spacecraft. A 33.5 mm stainless steel wrist watch on lightweight Jacoby Bender bracelet, they wore during training & special events between September 1959 and October 1963. (Photo: NASA)

[judgemark45]

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39) underway in February 1965. Aircraft of Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 54 (CVSG-54) are visible on deck.USN Image/NARA

[preblesboys]

I really wish there was more posts on tumblr related to 1812 commodores that I didn’t post. I want to learn more but I guess I gotta do the research myself. And find historical sites to visit.

Makes me want to go on another road trip/field trip but don’t know what the destination will be.

No brainer that USS Constitution is one but I need a trail to follow. As in might as well hit Lake Champlain in New York since I’d be in the northeast.

I’m subconsciously trying to talk myself into visiting the Keys since David Porter and Lesser known Lewis Warrington were down there but I literally have no interest in Florida at all. And feel like if I head down there, I’d need a real good reason and enjoy it.

[usafphantom2]

Three F9F-5s of VF-111 are seen on board the USS Philippine Sea (CVA-47) on 31 March 1953. The third Korean war deployment of VF-111 was on the USS Boxer (CVA-21) which began on 30 March 1953. The squadron was cross-decked to the USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39) on 30 June 1953. Over 80 mission marks can be seen on the side of 127191 in the foreground and on 127173 to the right. The marked up fuselage and right wing of the third unidentified panther can be seen in the background.

[berenices-commas]

USS Wasp - 1813-1814

Warship

This next American Wasp was very short-lived, being a civilian ship (probably a small schooner) acquired by the Navy to pad out its fleet following the outbreak of the War of 1812. Given a light armament of two 12-pounder guns, she was deployed to Lake Champlain, where she might be able to act as a nimble harasser of any British fleet moving down the St Lawrence. But Wasp proved to be insufficiently agile for the Navy’s needs, and was relegated to carrying messages and supplies. In early 1814 she was retired altogether, and thus missed the actual confrontation with the British fleet on the lake later that year.

[defensenow]

USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) Decommissioning Ceremony

[lonestarflight]

Escorting Gemini V to USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN (CV-39).

Date: August 29, 1965

Painting by Luis Llorente, 1965.

Naval History and Heritage Command: 88-162-CO

[captainfreelance1]

The Flight of Freedom 7

Launched from Cape Canaveral 62 years ago today Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American in Space, during a fifteen minute suborbital flight aboard the Mercury Redstone 4 capsule Freedom 7. After a successful mission Shepard's capsule splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean and was recovered aboard a waiting Aircraft Carrier the USS Lake Champlain; Taking America's earliest steps in the Space Race which would eventually led to American Astronauts walking on the moon eight years later.

[usaac-official]

An FJ-3 Fury of VF-33 aboard USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39), 1954-1955

[humanoidhistory]

August 29, 1965 -- The Gemini 5 space capsule is brought aboard the recovery ship, USS Lake Champlain, after splashing down in the Atlantic.

(NASA)

[preblesboys]

Bainbridge’s Achievement pt. 5

Panel 1: William Bainbridge: I’m fine, didn’t expect a formidable foe.

Panel 2: Bainbridge: Just a temporary setback.

Panel 3,4: *ship wheel flies overhead* Panel 5: Bainbridge: CAN ANYTHING GOOD HAPPEN TO ME FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE???

conclusion

I’m going to need a live action reenactment of this battle because like, what?

I don’t believe it to be the same level of wild as Lake Champlain but anyway.

Captain Henry Lambert’s crew of the HMS Java originally gave the USS Constitution a run for their money in the beginning of the battle. William Bainbridge tried to be crafty maneuvering the Constitution but, Lambert got wise to Bainbridge’s tactics and when they were side by side giving broadsides, Lambert did a fake out pretending to sail ahead but unexpectedly turned putting the Constitution in a weird position.

Constitution’s ship wheel got blown out almost immediately in the beginning of the battle and the Americans were getting bombarded so badly that had Lambert knew how much damage he was doing, the Americans could have lost this battle.

William Bainbridge being exceptionally experienced in bad situations (my own interpretation) knew how to manage a ship with a missing wheel. Leaning on a midshipman, he started barking orders to manually sail the ship. (I know Jack shit about sailing so plz do your own research how he pulled this off.)

He knew he didn’t have a prayer winning this fight unless he ordered his crew to try boarding their opponent. So he lured the HMS Java within close range for his men to board and Java unwittingly complied. After a combination of hand to hand combat and Java close enough for the (heavily damaged) Constitution’s guns to wreck her, in the end the Americans prevailed after a rough start.

[dragoni]

Is Trump Jinxed? There have been 4 Navy ship collisions / accidents since he took office.

“That’s too bad” was Trump’s response to the USS John S. McCain collision and 10 missing sailors #TrumpUnfit

Is the US Navy as demoralized as Americans?

1. USS John S. McCain (DDG-56)

Collided with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while the destroyer was making its way to a port in Singapore.  The “cost is estimated at around $1.5 billion including both the ship and the weaponry.”

2. USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) 

Collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan in June, resulting in the deaths of seven US sailors. Repair costs are expected to surpass the $250 million.

3. USS Lake Champlain (CV-39)

In May, a South Korean fishing boat struck the USS Lake Champlain, while the Navy warship was conducting operations in international waters near the Korean Peninsula

4.  USS Antietam (CG-54)

In late January, the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam ran aground while trying to anchor in Tokyo Bay. The cruiser costs roughly $1 billion.