Photos Taken in Atlantic Ocean | World War II Database

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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.	USS Bergall underway in the Atlantic Ocean, 1953

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 Wasp's crew spelling out Dakar on the flight deck, off Dakar, Senegal, 29 Jul 1960; seen in US Navy publication USS Wasp 1960 Cruise Book

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

USS Ticonderoga receiving fuel from USS Manatee off of the western coast of the United States, 15 Jul 1965	Ammunition ship USS Mount Baker replenishing carrier USS Ticonderoga, off California, United States, 2 Sep 1965

Project Gemini Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford aboard USS Wasp, 6 Jun 1966	USS Wasp underway in the Atlantic Ocean, circa 1970; seen in the USS Wasp 1970 Cruise Book

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