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The Aircraft Carrier Saidor - Hull Number 117

USS Saidor was initially commissioned as the USS Saltery Bay and renamed on June 5, 1944. She was a Commencement Bay class escort aircraft carrier and launched in March of 1945.



The vessel was involved in shakedown operations off the West Coast of the United States before being sent to Pearl Harbour until March of 1946.


She then went to the East Coast for a brief stint at Norfolk, Virginia, and headed back to the West Coast once again.



The ship was sent to Bikini in April of 1946, where she was used as a photographic lab for atomic bomb testing, specifically Operation Crossroads.

Her job was to process film and document the destructiveness of various atomic weapons at various ranges. In August, she returned to San Diego in August of that year.


Saidor remained in San Diego until 1947 when she became inactive and was decommissioned. She became a member of the Pacific Reserve Fleet and was reclassified twice while in reserve.

She was reclassified as a CVHE-117 in June of 1955 and then as AKV-117 in May of 1959. In 1970, she was stricken from the Naval Register.
In October 1971, she was sold to the American Ship Dismantlers in Portland, Oregon and scrapped.

bWY39......A very interesting piece of history!

118....... days from now will be October 25, 2011.

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This is the number emblazoned on the side of the tender car for the mighty Central Pacific Jupiter steam locomotive replica at Golden Spike National Monument.

120

my weight :sidesplt: :sidesplt:

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This is the hull number of
USS FRESNO

FEB 1945


Keel Date: 12 FEB 1945 MAR 1946


Launch Date: 5 MAR 1946 NOV 1946


Commissioned: 27 NOV 1946 MAY 1949


Decommissioned: 17 MAY 1949

122

Still my weight ;) :D

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Is it my imagination or is "someone" getting heavier each post ?????

123 oh woe is me:p

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Looks like someone is a little late

1:25 pm the time it will be in Georgia in 26 minutes. Love the history lessons.

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Year 126 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lepidus and Orestes (or, less frequently, year 628 Ab urbe condita).

The denomination 126 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

127......I think it's still my weight :eek:

128...

129......pushing it......but still my weight :sidesplt:

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