While I was aboard the USS Intrepid, we made it all the way up the Bosporus to Istanbul ... near the entrance to the Black Sea. Upon leaving Istanbul, the constant current from the Black Sea had us pointed in that direction ... so we pulled up anchor in a special way:
Several AD's on the flight deck were lined up fore and aft, tied down while facing - respectively - port and starboard. When the anchor came up, the AD's revved their engines up and beautifully turned the Intrepid around in midstream.
“Several AD’s on the flight deck were lined up fore and aft, tied down while facing - respectively - port and starboard. When the anchor came up, the AD’s revved their engines up and beautifully turned the Intrepid around in midstream.”
Didn’t the carrier in “The Bridges of Toko Ri” do something similar (ie. use aircraft thrust to vector the ship)? I think that those were also Skyraiders if I’m not mistaken.