Whilst in US service she was assigned the radio call sign "Robin" and was informally known as "USS Robin" tongue-in-cheek. [49] [unreliable source?] After crossing the Atlantic from Greenock, via the Royal Naval Dockyard on the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda, to refit in the United States at the Norfolk Navy Yard during January, 1943.

Jun 25, 2024 · In autumn 1942, Admiral Ernest J. King, the Chief of Naval Operations and Commander-in-Chief U.S. Fleet, faced a dilemma: The battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, and the still-ongoing Guadalcanal...

USS Robin may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Robin (AM-3) (later ATO-140), laid down 4 March 1918 by the Todd Shipyard Corp., New York. This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

Jan 26, 2022 · Beginning two days earlier and 300 miles offshore in the Coral Sea, aircraft carrier-based fighter planes flew combat air patrols from the USS Robin in order to intercept any Japanese carrier groups that might oppose the landings.

May 5, 2021 · Victorious becomes USS Robin. Victorious new call sign in U.S. livery was Robin. Some wags thought the name was a reference to the famous bandit who lived in Sherwood Forest. However, the U.S. Navy was careful never to refer to the ship by its original name in official message traffic.

USS Robin: It’s the US aircraft carrier that never was. It’s also the closest the USN really got to the mythical “Project Rainbow”, where experimentation with teleportation was supposed to have made ships 'vanish into thin air' before reappearing somewhere else.

Jul 20, 2018 · Victorious departed Norfolk on Feb. 3 en route to the Panama Canal and assigned the U.S. Navy two-syllable call sign "Robin."

Jul 20, 2018 · In autumn 1942, Adm. Ernest J. King, the Chief of Naval Operations, faced a dilemma: The battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, and the still-ongoing Guadalcanal campaign had severely weakened the U.S. Navy's fleet carrier presence in the Pacific.

Her official call sign, “Robin,” became the unofficial name applied to her by American and eventually British sailors while she served the U.S. Navy. The Avengers proved just as troublesome in flight as on deck, with two fatal accidents claiming British aircrew.

In 1943, a British aircraft carrier was sent to the Pacific to plug a desperate gap in the United States Navy's carrier fleet. She was dubbed "USS Robin", an...