Photos of World War II Ships | World War II Database

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Aerial view of the Reserve Fleet Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 19 May 1955	USS Sterlet off US Territory of Hawaii, 19 May 1955	USS Cassin Young (DD-793) in Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, United States, 9 Jun 1955, seen during commissioning ceremony of USS Vital	Lieutenant Commander R. A. Harris assuming command of USS Charr, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 30 Jun 1955

Trials Cruiser HMS Cumberland off Malta in pre-wetting experiments designed to keep radioactive fallout particles from adhering to a ship’s surfaces, Sep 1955.	Crew of USS Segundo hearing an address during her change of command at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 18 Oct 1955	Haskell-class attack transport USS Bexar underway, Nov 1955	USS Segundo underway off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 28 Nov 1955

USS Charr departing Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 29 Nov 1955	An AJ Savage aircraft landing on Yorktown (Essex-class), 6 Dec 1955	A3D-1 Skywarrior aircraft piloted by Dick Davidson of VAH-1 squadron launching from USS Shangri-La, 1956	Oregon being scrapped at Kawasaki, Japan, 1956

Port side view of USS Croaker, circa mid-1950s	USS Conecuh, 1953-1956	USS Conecuh, 1953-1956	USS Ticonderoga in a drydock, mid-1950s; seen in Jan 1956 edition of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

USS Ticonderoga, circa 1956	USS Shangri-La underway, Pacific Ocean, Jan-Jun 1956; seen in US Navy publication Air Task Group 3 1956 cruise book	USS Shangri-La launching F9F-8 Cougar aircraft of VF-53 squadron, Pacific Ocean, 10 Jan 1956	USS Yorktown underway, 1 May 1956