Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/USS Essex (CV-9) - January 1960

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Mar 2015 at 00:52:24 (UTC)

Reason: Large, dramatic photo showing USS Essex (CV-9) in heavy seas after its modernization with an angled flight deck
Articles in which this image appears: USS Essex (CV-9), Timeline for aircraft carrier service, Essex-class aircraft carrier
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Water
Creator: United States Navy, uploaded by User:Cobatfor, modified by User:Julian Herzog

Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 00:52, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Valuable and irreplaceable, as the ship was sold for scrap. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:46, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Cool capture, big file for B/W. (Besides, my Uncle Bob was chief electrician on the Essex during WWII. He was also welterweight boxing champion of the Pacific Fleet!) Caption/text should include 1960. Sca (talk) 14:17, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - CorinneSD (talk) 22:27, 11 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - like said above, an incredibly valuable image. Good quality for the time period, too. --The one that forgot (talk) 05:58, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Very good, but there's a very obvious hair at the top of the image, a bit right of the mast. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:26, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support The last of the battle-carrier classes, the Essex-class ships were outfitted with 5 in 38 caliber gun turrets and a collection of 20 and 40 mm guns for use against the IJN, but these were stripped off the ships during there modernizations. A before and after picture here would be good to illustrate that fact, but this ship does a good job of showing off the new and removed hardware. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:52, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is an arresting photo with good EV, as it clearly depicts the ship and her ability to operate aircraft in bad weather Nick-D (talk) 23:50, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:USS Essex (CVA-9) underway in heavy seas, 12 January 1960 (NH 98517).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 01:56, 21 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]