News
Happy Veterans Day to all veterans! As a special treat to vets, today in San Diego the University of North Carolina Tar Heels face the Michigan State Spartans in a basketball game to be held on the...
News
[/caption] Over 374 music lovers came out to hear the songwriter/singers perform at Patriots Point and Awendaw Green's first ever Homegrown Music Festival at Patriots Point under the trees on Sunday...
News
Notice the two catapult tracks on the flight deck of USS Enterprise. On 15 November 1934, the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics established plans to install hydraulic, flush-deck catapults on the USS...
News
Have you ever wondered what it was like to be involved in something greater than one's self? Have you ever wanted to climb into a Navy cockpit and imagine being a Naval Aviator and flying at Top Gun or landing on an aircraft carrier at sea? Sunday, 04 December, is your chance to fulfill a dream!
News
On 17 November 1924, USS Langley (CV-1) reported for duty with the United States Navy's Battle Fleet after two years in experimental status, thus becoming the Navy's first operational aircraft carrier...
News
The keel of the Navy's future high tech destroyer, USS Zumwalt DDG-1000, was laid down yesterday at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. DDG-1000 will be named in honor of former Chief of Naval Operations...
News
On 28 November 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin and Prime Minister Winston Churchill met for a series of talks at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran. The Tehran Conference...
Collection Object
Navy officers and sailors enjoying Schlitz beers at a picnic while on shore leave. The caption underneath the photograph reads, "Cotton Our Yeoman."
News
In 1928, Edsel Ford donated a Ford Tri-Motor airplane to Commander Richard E. Byrd, polar explorer and naval aviator, which would be used to attempt the first flight over the South Pole. Ford had...
News
Next Wednesday marks the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the United States into World War II. Just recently, historian Craig Shirley in his new book, December 1941...
News
[/caption] Today seventy years ago, the keel of the USS Yorktown was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding, not far from the battle site of Yorktown, Virginia. The mighty Fighting Lady (nickname given by...
News
[/caption] One day after the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Governor Rick Perry of Texas came aboard USS Yorktown in his fight to gain the Republican nomination for President...
News
[/caption] The Town of Mount Pleasant Recreation Department and Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum’s Institute of History and Science are partnering to host an exciting new day camp for local...
News
On 13 December 1960 an A-3J Vigilante crewed by naval aviator Commander Leroy Heath and bombardier-navigator Lieutenant Henry Monroe ascended to an altitude of 91,450.8 feet with a payload of 1,000...
News
[/caption] The McDonnell F-4 Phantom (eventually became McDonnell-Douglas and then bought by Boeing) was a tandem-seat fighter-bomber designed to fill the U.S. Navy's fleet defense fighter role. The...
News
[/caption] On 19 December 1962, an E-2A Hawkeye, flown by naval aviator Lieutenant Commander Lee Ramsey was catapulted from the flightdeck of the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) during the first at sea test...
News
On 03 January 1944, Commander Frank Erickson, United States Coast Guard, flew his Sikorsky HNS-1 Hoverfly helicopter in history's first mercy flight. After an explosion sank the destroyer USS Turner...
News
We will be taking a look at a few old Laffey posts as we near her successful return to Patriots Point the week of 22-27 January 2012. Today we'll look at the post of Laffey's departure 0n 19 August...
Collection Object
While enjoying liberty on the island of Leyte, a group of pilots from Air Group Twelve of the USS Randolph (CV-15) break out in song.
News
As we prepare for Laffey's return in two weeks...lets take a look back at Laffey's visit and repair work at Deteyen's Shipyard back in 2009. Below are images of Laffey being worked on in drydock...