Tag: Passageway
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USS Yorktown (CV-10)
Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum; Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina (September 2008) We wanted to make sure we visited the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV/CVS-10) while we stayed in Charleston. Our first glimpse came as we crossed the Arthur Ravenel Bridge over the Copper River, heading into Mount Pleasant. Even here, high upon the…
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Aircraft Carrier, Part 5 (Living Aboard)
The USS John C. Stennis felt like an otherworldly city, with some things strange and others more familiar. For example, the Internet did not exist there, at least not for us, and neither did mobile phones. Scarce satellite bandwidth had to be doled out. Sailors could check email every once in awhile; short-term visitors such…