Over the Panama Canal |
From the first day; August 15, 1914 with the SS Ancon making the first official transit the Panama Canal has been important to both commercial as well as military traffic. In the next picture we see the USS Ohio in the cut... the year was 1915. |
The USS Missouri BB-63 at Miraflores Locks.Some lock throughs are very tight. |
Mules are used to control and imaintain ships while in the lock chamber |
USS New Jersey BB-62 in the Cut the year was 1984 |
Home is the sailor, home from the sea and the hunter home from the hills. --- Robert Louis Stevenson |
USS Ohio in cut - Circa 1915 |