Month: April 2020
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USS Kidd Arrives in San Diego to Treat COVID-19 Outbreak; First Cases Emerged More than A Month After Hawaii Port Visit
By: Sam LaGrone April 28, 2020 5:26 PM USS Kidd (DDG-100) arrives in San Diego on April 28, 2020. US Navy Photo The second deployed U.S. warship to suffer a COVID-19 outbreak pulled into San Diego on Tuesday to begin the process of offloading, testing, isolating and treating the crew and disinfecting the ship to prepare…
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USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: April 27, 2020
USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: April 27, 2020 April 27, 2020 12:46 PM • Updated: April 27, 2020 6:07 PM USNI News Graphic This post has been updated to include the Monday departure of USS Nimitz (CVN-68). These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world…
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Carrier USS Nimitz Underway for Final Rounds of Training Ahead of Deployment
By: Ben Werner April 27, 2020 4:25 PM • Updated: April 27, 2020 5:19 PM USS Nimitz (CVN 68) passes Mount Rainier while transiting Puget Sound on Feb. 22, 2020. U.S. Navy Photo This post was updated with a statement from U.S. 3rd Fleet. Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) departed Bremerton, Wash., on Monday for its final pre-deployment training event, in…
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US Navy hospital ship Comfort will LEAVE New York after treating only 179 COVID-19 patients in three weeks because it is no longer needed in the city’s fight against coronavirus
New York City is returning the US Navy’s hospital ship Comfort to its Norfolk Viriginia port after only 179 patients were treated The former oil tanker had arrived in the city on March 30 and scrambled to add hospital beds to prepare for a potentially catastrophic surge in COVID-19 cases However, demand for hospital beds…
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USS Eversole (DD-789) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant (junior grade) John T. Eversole (1915–1942), a naval aviator who was killed in the Battle of Midway. Eversole was launched on 8 January 1946 at the Tacoma Washington shipyard of Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Seattle, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. S. R. Eversole, mother of Lt. (j.g.) Eversole; and commissioned on 10 May 1946, Commander B. P. Ross in command. The Eversole was one of the final three ships built in Tacoma by Todd-Pacific before closure of the Tacoma yard.
USS Eversole – DD789 USS Eversole (DD-789) was a Gearing-class destroyer of the United States Navy, the second Navy ship named for Lieutenant (junior grade) John T. Eversole (1915–1942), a naval aviator who was killed in the Battle of Midway. Eversole was launched on 8 January 1946 at the Tacoma Washington shipyard of Todd-Pacific Shipyards,…
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