The ballistic missile submarine crews who made Kings Bay their home became more insular after one of their number followed Federal orders to fire on America before being immediately sunk. They had always been a bit squirrelly by the metrics[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kings Bay in Georgia had been a ballistic missile submarine base for over half a century when the Second Great Depression began. The crews were famous for remaining underwater, acting like holes in the ocean, for months on end. Always[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There were three American submarine bases on the East Coast when the Second Great Depression began. New London in Connecticut, Kings Bay in Georgia, and Norfolk in Virginia. The sinking of USS Georgia after it fired nuclear missiles on Virginia[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This has been a long week. Starting with Memorial Day and going on to the anniversary of the D-Day landing that started the end of the Third Reich. There is a lot of sacrifice we remember this week. Lives ended[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Kings Bay submarine base in Georgia had a difficult Second Great Depression. The entire United States Navy ballistic and cruise missile submarine force was homeported at Kings Bay. It was a powerful force, capable of devastating any nation on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Wilmington, North Carolina had long been home to various Coast Guard cutters, usually named Diligence, long before the Second Great Depression began. The last of them had departed for Florida decades before due to the changing nature of the Coast[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charleston, South Carolina was a major Coast Guard base when the Second Great Depression began. They supplied naval fleets from Charleston, and a half-dozen deep-water Coast Guard cutters kept their homeport there. South Carolina was quick to “nationalize” them into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The USS Iwo Jima was homeported as part of the Mayport reserve when the Second Great Depression began. She was an old amphibious assault ship the size of a World War II carrier that had long since been placed on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Commonwealth of Virginia maintained Norfolk as its primary naval base for the decades and centuries that followed. They leased much of the yards to the Federal Navy, but they held onto enough to support their own fleet. The other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Norfolk remained the largest and most capable naval base in the world when the Second Great Depression began. That left it in a unique position when the Convention of States reorganized the Federal government. Most of the United States Navy’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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