Sailing, Navy, & Boats Calendars

The Navy calendar is a tribute to the men and women who have fought to protect our nation, to deter aggression, and to maintain freedom of the seas. Navy and Marine Corps action over the past 248 years is represented here in full-color paintings. Significant events in naval history are listed in every month. Sales of the calendar benefit the Naval Order of the United States. Anchor’s aweigh!

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Images featured in this edition include:
≈ The destroyer Hawkins (DD 873) transits the waters between Corsica and Sardinia during one of a series of Mediterranean deployments with the Sixth Fleet. Destroyer Sailors think of their ships as “workhorses of the Fleet,” and Hawkins’ thirty-plus years of service across the Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Mediterranean give evidence of this proud claim.
≈ A Los Angeles-class attack submarine of Submarine Group Seven at sea, with a Mystic-class rescue submersible stowed in a cradle on her deck. Armed with Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles as well as antisubmarine torpedoes, newer Los Angeles-class submarines can also lay mines. Retractable bowmounted diving planes let them operate under ice.
≈ An embarked combat artist shares his impression of an enemy ship torpedoed and sunk by a surfaced submarine in a night attack. Since radar was only making its first appearances during World War II, this “boat” is being directed by the eyes and optics of her crew.
≈ Many artists in the Far East made a good living painting pictures of naval and merchant ships for sale. An unknown artist did this likeness of Olympia during her 1895-1898 service as flagship of the Asiatic Fleet. In 1898 she flew the flag of Commodore George Dewey during the battle of Manila Bay, and is preserved as a memorial at Philadelphia. U.S. Navy ships were painted white with buff upperworks from the 1890s through 1908 to make crew spaces a bit more livable in those days before air conditioning.
≈ Explosions, flares, and tracers light up the night in the crisscrossing channels of the Rung Sat swamp, the strategic area in Vietnam between Saigon and the South China Sea. An inshore patrol craft (PCF), popularly known as a “Swift boat,” engages Viet Cong ambushers with machine guns, small arms, and an 81mm mortar.
≈ A trick of the atmosphere makes gunfire-support destroyers appear to be blowing smoke rings over the bitterly-contested landing beaches at Peleliu during the Pacific campaign of World War II. Ships’ gunfire and carrier planes backed up assault landings and lent powerful artillery support to troops fighting ashore.
≈ The ammunition ship Firedrake (AE 14) replenishes an aircraft carrier of Task Force 77 in the icy waters off North Korea. Mobile logistics lessons earned during World War II would reemphasize their value off Korea and, later, off Vietnam.
≈ A CH-53 heavy-lift helicopter stands ready aboard USS Dubuque (LPD 8) as plans are formulated for Operation End Sweep, the clearance of mines from North Vietnamese waters after the signing of the Paris accords. Designed as amphibious troop carriers, the size and power of the CH-53 suited it for the new task of airborne minesweeping.
≈ A French fleet, under Admiral Comte de Grasse, defeats Admiral Thomas Graves’ British fleet attempting to relieve Lord Charles Cornwallis’ besieged army at Yorktown near the end of the Revolutionary War. Cut off from reinforcement and supplies, Cornwallis surrenders to the American- French army under General George Washington and General Comte de Rochambeau. De Grasse’s success made Cornwallis’ surrender, and American independence, inevitable.
≈ For more than a quarter-century the A-4 Skyhawk, affectionately called “Heinemann’s hot rod” in tribute to its principal designer, played a key role in Navy and Marine Corps aviation. The Skyhawk proved its worth in Southeast Asia, carrying a major share of combat operations in North and South Vietnam. Nearly three thousand Skyhawks were produced, serving in both U.S. and foreign air forces. Forrestal (CVA 59), the first “super carrier” was not only
the first aircraft carrier built after World War II, it was also the first built specifically to operate jet aircraft.
≈ The double-turreted monitor Onondaga saw Civil War service in the James River, where she supported Federal troops advancing on Richmond. Laid up after Appomattox, she was sold to her builder who, in turn, sold her to the French Navy. This artist’s rendition illustrates the vulnerability of Civil War monitors. With freeboard measured in inches, they worked well on rivers and in coastal waters but were poorly suited to blue-water operations.
≈ The artist portrays a timeless scene: a sailor stands his watch in the hours before morning with moonlight his only company. Perhaps his thoughts turn to loved ones at home as he looks out across the expanse of ocean and listens to the sighing of the wind.

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Classic Sail features sail boats ranging from traditional working vessels and cruising sailboats, to exciting 15 Meter Class contenders of the past. Kathy Mansfield, whose work is found in nautical magazines, including WoodenBoat, Classic Boat, and Water Craft, brings together American and European boats in this very enjoyable pan-Atlantic collection of classic sail.

This 2024 monthly wall calendar features: Large blocks for notes | Superb printing quality | Heavy 100-pound paper | Deluxe 11- by 14-inch size

Sailboats featured in this edition include:
≈ The 50’ Kismet was built in the Fife yard in Scotland in 1898 but later spent five decades in the mud in the east of England. After a four year restoration she is racing keenly in British and French regattas. She has a larch hull, mahogany topsides and interior, and oak and iroko frames.
≈ The 67’ yawl Black Watch was built at the famous Nevins Boatyard in 1938, designed by Olin Stephens of Sparkman & Stephens. She is double planked of cedar and mahogany with white oak frames, and still wins many races as here at the Castine Classics Regatta, followed by the Camden and Eggemoggin Reach Regattas.
≈ Dorothy is a 33’ Thames rater designed in 1894 by Linton Hope, built of teak planking on oak frames. She has a waterline length of 22’, narrow beam of 7’7” and draft of 3’11”. She sails here in the British Classic Yacht Regatta at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in England.
≈ Shenandoah of Sark is a steel 180’ three masted schooner that has circumnavigated the world many times, travelled 500 miles up the Amazon, explored the Niger and Congo rivers, and here sails at the Voiles de St Tropez in France. She was designed by Theodore Ferris, the only one of his designs still sailing, and built near Staten Island at the Townsend & Downey yard.
≈ Saskia is an 8 Meter class boat designed and built by William Fife in 1930. She won many regattas during her long life in Britain, another 50 years in Australia, and more recently back in Britain.
≈ Eleanora is a 162’ replica of the famous Herreshoff 1910 schooner Westward, built at the van de Graff shipyard in the Netherlands in 2000. Sadly she was sunk in 2022 by an offshore supply vessel in Port Tarragona, Spain when its engines got stuck in reverse. She has now been lifted and is being restored.
≈ Designed by Clinton Crane in 1937, Gleam is built of mahogany and cedar planking on oak for his own personal yacht. She was influential in the development of the 12 Meter Class, eventually becoming the America’s Cup class in 1958. Gleam has been well maintained throughout her life and here sails under new ownership at the Castine Classics Regatta in Maine.
≈ Bijou II is a 30 Square Meter class boat designed by Knut Reimers and built in Bodensee, Germany. She’s lean and low, 40’9” long but just 29’ on the waterline and with a beam of only 7’. She’s wet but she’s fast!
≈ This 45’ Sparkman & Stephens ketch, Mermaid, was launched in 1957 at Paul Luke & Sons in East Boothbay, Maine. She’s rather like a cruising version of an Olin Stephens New York 32, strongly built with a double planked hull, mahogany over cedar.
≈ These two P Class gaff sloops have been restored by John Anderson in Maine and are sailing in the Mediterranean regattas. Corinthian was designed by Nat Herreshoof in 1911 and Olympian was designed by William Gardner in 1913
≈ Scud is a Bar Harbor 31, one of 13 sloops built by Herreshoff in 1903 and recently restored by Federico Nardi at the Argentario boatyard in Italy. These yachts are double planked with diagonal bronze strapping
≈ The 94’ Sumurun was designed and built by William Fife in 1914, originally a gaff rigged yawl but later converted to a Bermudan ketch. Her hull is teak above the waterline, elm below on oak frames with a teak deck. Based for many years in Maine, she is now sailing in Mediterranean regattas.
≈ Tuiga was designed by William Fife in 1909, 92’ long with a beam of 14’, the first of the new 15 Meter class which were favoured by the most prominent sailors of the time. She is the flagship of the Yacht Club of Monaco and one of four 15 Metres still sailing, a magnificent sight.

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