U.S. Pacific Fleet maneuvers including Colorado, New Mexico and Tennessee class battleships during Fleet Problem XIX. Several battleships underway in a line. Two battleships with various classes of heavy cruisers in the background. Lines of warships proceeding at sunset and in daylight. Four battleships and a heavy cruiser.The aircraft carriers, USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3), behind a line of U.S. warships. Several U.S. battleships headed by a Colorado class battleship. View of triple 14 inch guns on a New Mexico or Tennessee class battleship.
United States Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina seaplanes flying in loose formation over calm waters off the coast of Hawaii, during U.S. Navy Fleet Problem XIX, in 1938.
Line of U.S. battleships, including 1917 class (New Mexico class) such as the USS Idaho, USS Mississippi, USS New Mexico. Image of U.S. Capitol in Washington seen. U.S. Navy sailors parading in Washington, DC. Crowd gathered at Washington monument. Sailors on signal bridge of a U.S. warship, hoisting signals. Ships in distance. U.S. Navy sailors, aboard a destroyer, launching depth charges which explode and produce upsurge of water, behind the vessel. Sailors hurrying to their battle stations.
Officers aboard U.S. Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1). View of the Langley passing through the Gaillard Cut in the Panama Canal, her deck filled with airplanes, en route to join the Pacific Fleet. Activities aboard the Langley as U.S. Navy works to refine carrier operations. Numerous views of Landing mishaps, including landing hook problems, nose-overs, wings striking deck, power-on stalls, and even a VE-7 ditching in water between the Langley and a U.S. Destroyer.
"Crossing the Line" initiation ceremony on a cruise ship. Shipboard ceremony marking the equator crossing. Passengers who have never crossed the equator before are "pollywogs" and initiated into the Kingdom of Neptune, by being messed up and tossed into the ship's pool, by members of "Neptune's Court" who wear masks and costumes and make fun of the whole event. A woman and a man are seen being dunked in the pool. Men play instruments.
View of a Soviet submarine cruising at high speed on the water surface. Interior of the sub control room with two sailors and a commanding officer. View of a sailor pressing a button. Exterior view on water surface of a ballistic missile emerging from a submerged submarine and heading up into the sky.
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