Keywords: NAS Quonset Point NAN10-74.jpg Aerial view of the U S Naval Air Station Quonset Point Rhode Island USA There are three Essex-class aircraft carriers visible two with an angled deck in the lower center of the picture lower carrier is USS Essex CV-9 and the one above it dark deck is the USS Antietam and a straight deck carrier in the upper right part The straight deck carrier could be USS Lake Champlain CVS-39 which was decommissioned as the last U S Navy straight deck carrier in 1966 It was homeported in Quonset Point This would date the picture to the mid-1960s U S Navy Naval Aviation News October 1974 http //www history navy mil/nan/backissues/1970s/1974/oct74 pdf probably mid-1960s USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy The bottom ship is ESSEX CVS-9 Across the carrier pier is ANTIETAM CVS-36 The Carrier up at the SEABEE piers in Davisville is LAKE CHAMPLAIN CVS-39 Naval Air Station Quonset Point Rhode Island in the 1960s Aviation in the 1960s |