A structured archive of Vietnam-era US Navy ship records.
Deck logs, command histories, and ship histories from the National Archives, the Naval History and Heritage Command, and the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) — assembled ship by ship, dated and placed, and cited to their sources.
Ship Records
Vietnam-era carriers, added one ship at a time. Each page fills in as its records are processed.
USS SHANGRI-LA
CVS-38 · Essex-class aircraft carrier
Western Pacific / Vietnam War Deployment
5 March – 17 December 1970
Available at LaunchView Record Sample (PDF, opens in a new tab)USS ORISKANY
CVA-34 · Essex-class aircraft carrier — the lead ship completed to the SCB-27A modernization (sometimes designated Oriskany-class)
Western Pacific / Vietnam War Deployment
26 May – 16 November 1966
Deployment Records
What This Is
Hekkova Ships assembles and structures the records a ship generated — where it was, what it did, and the events and personnel its logs recorded — drawn from federal archives and presented with their sources.
Every record is transcribed from the original, checked against its primary source, and published with citations.
Not affiliated with the U.S. Navy, the National Archives, or the Naval History and Heritage Command. Not a memorial site.
Built by a retired Navy Commander who spent twenty years producing and managing operational records of this kind.
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