Fleet Week Tapestries

Description: Fleet Week is the celebration of the sea services (U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard) in the United States. These two sailors are enjoying Fleet Week at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey

Description: United States Coast Guard Cutter Pike out on the waters of San Francisco Bay. In the Back Ground a Pave Hawk HH-60 of the USAF in the middle of a recovery demonstration. The Pave Hawk is some way behind Pike and so the winch cable you see is not actually dropping to the cutter's deck. Sony DSC-HX1 !http://ih1.redbubble.net/work.9522539.1.flat,550x550,070,f.jpg!

Description: Usually based at Station 16 on Greenwich Street, Engine 16 is seen here basking in the sun near Marina Green, during San Francisco's Fleet Week Sony DSC-HX1

Description: The original Lady Washington was built in the 1750's in Massachusetts. This is a full scale replica of the brigantine and was launched in 1989. You may have seen her in Pirates of the Carribean as HMS Interceptor. Whilst she has sailed Transatlantic, she is seen here, from the Municipal Pier, on a millpond like San Francisco Bay, California.