Photos Taken in Atlantic Ocean | World War II Database

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PT-601 “Termites Delight,” an Elco 80-footer that later served with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 41 (MTBRon 41), is seen here on a shakedown run off Bayonne, New Jersey, United States during Jun 1945.	US President Harry Truman, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Captain James Foskett aboard USS Augusta, 11 Jul 1945

Canadian troops aboard RMS Queen Elizabeth in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec 1945	Canadian troops aboard RMS Queen Elizabeth in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec 1945; note large waves in background

Destroyer USS Saufley performing rescue operations in the Atlantic 275 miles east of Florida. A Curtiss Commando airliner flying from Puerto Rico lost an engine and went down. Saufley picked up 37 survivors.	Destroyer escort USS Tabberer in the mid-1950s during her second commissioning, Atlantic Ocean.

USS Bennington underway in the Atlantic with jet aircraft on deck, 1954 after her first modernization. Note the removal of the four 5-inch gun turrets and the addition of 40mm gun tubs, most notably on the bow.	USS Iowa (foreground) and sister-ship USS New Jersey on maneuvers in the Atlantic, mid-1950s.

USS Hornet en route to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10 Jan 1954	USS Kyne underway in the Atlantic Ocean, 1 Apr 1953; photograph taken from an aircraft from Naval Air Station New York

USS Shangri-La underway off Mayport, Florida, United States, Aug 1960; note F8U-1, F4D-1, A4D-2, and AD-6 aircraft	USS Wasp recovering Gemini IV space capsule in the Atlantic Ocean 400 miles east of Cape Kennedy, Florida, United States, at 1212 hours on 7 Jun 1965

Project Gemini Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford aboard USS Wasp, 6 Jun 1966	USS Shangri-La underway in the Caribbean Sea toward Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, 11 Feb 1970

United States Coast Guard Cutter Spencer underway in the Atlantic in a more familiar Coast Guard paint scheme, 1971.	Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sinking after being torpedoed by HMS Conqueror, off Falkland Islands, 2 May 1982