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 DANFS — assembled ship by ship, dated and placed, and made searchable.
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
View record →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
View record →
Products
Everything is built from the same reviewed archive.
Deployment Records
A $29 PDF report on a single deployment of a single ship, built from its deck logs, command history, and the published federal record — every fact cited. Available beginning at launch.
About Deployment Records →Records Database
Subscription access to the structured archive itself — extracted deck-log entries, searchable by ship and date, each entry linked to its source. Not part of the launch: it opens once the archive holds enough ships to be worth subscribing to. No date is set.
About the Records Database →Records Concierge
A structured report of a veteran's service, built from their Official Military Personnel File and expert-reviewed before delivery — with recommendations for follow-on research, including which pertinent records this archive holds. The concierge service opens after the archive launches; it is not taking orders yet.
ForthcomingWhat 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.
About the founder →