My pleasure...VA-44 though..Hornets, I assume A-4's? Very cool.Butthead!(Man, I'm getting old...Turned 70 on Sunday.)
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Ship Photo of the Day
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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I was disappointed to learn that Mikasa was in Yoko a few days after leaving my only port call in Yoko. Oh well, just an excuse to go back to Japan some day.Beat me to it...here is picture of some USS Nimitz crewmen giving her a new coat of paint back in 2009...
The Yamato class had the biggest shell, but the British Lord Clive Monitor class of WWI had the heaviest shell - over 3,300 pounds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Clive-class_monitor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Clive-class_monitor
Yeah, A4's! Nam was heating up and as the east coast A4 RAG we had at times close to 100 planes in our squadron. BZB604 was an IP with us. Fun times at Cecil.
I got to land a TH-57 on it and years later a Blackhawk in the national guard.So, is my old buddy the Baylander still around?
The oldest steel warship still afloat, the protected cruiser USS Olympia.
Very interesting history:
- flagship of Commodore Dewey in the Spanish-American War ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.")
- a training ship during WW1
- supported American troops against the Red Army along the Northern Dvina River near Archangel in 1919
- brought back the remains of the Unknown Soldier from France in 1921.
Now a museum. http://www.phillyseaport.org/olympia/
Very interesting history:
- flagship of Commodore Dewey in the Spanish-American War ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.")
- a training ship during WW1
- supported American troops against the Red Army along the Northern Dvina River near Archangel in 1919
- brought back the remains of the Unknown Soldier from France in 1921.
Now a museum. http://www.phillyseaport.org/olympia/
Too bad she's slowly sinking in to the mud of the Delaware. Right across from her in lovely Camden is USS New Jersey. And elsewhere on the Pennsy side of the river is the SS United States. I grew up outside of Philly and never realized Olympia was part of the water front until long after I had left.The oldest steel warship still afloat, the protected cruiser USS Olympia.
Very interesting history:
- flagship of Commodore Dewey in the Spanish-American War ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.")
- a training ship during WW1
- supported American troops against the Red Army along the Northern Dvina River near Archangel in 1919
- brought back the remains of the Unknown Soldier from France in 1921.
Now a museum. http://www.phillyseaport.org/olympia/
I was about to ask if anyone knew the latest on that saga. Seems to be a bunch of "will they/won't they" WRT whether anyone can secure funding.
That ship getting scrapped would be a flat-out crime and abomination.
She got a nice big grant from the National Park Service Maritime Heritage program but is in serious need of some real dry dock time. A few years ago she was up for sale for about $20 million. I bought a lottery ticket but to no avail.
I always wondered what happened to her. I grew up seeing her lying at the western piers in Norfolk.
One of the biggest submarines built until after WW2: the French submarine Surcouf. Most of the subs had a deck gun - but nothing like this. Twin 8" cannons - not a very successful design... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Surcouf
Uncle Sam really got this one right: the Fletcher Class destroyer. Four ships have been preserved as museum ships, although only Kidd was never modernized and retains her World War II configuration:
![usskidd[1]_375.jpg](/community/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.subsim.com%2Fradioroom%2Fdownloads%2Fusskidd%5B1%5D_375.jpg&hash=afddf4fb5ef02c9127682374e5cb603f)
- USS Cassin Young, in Boston, Massachusetts
- USS The Sullivans, in Buffalo, New York
- USS Kidd, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- A/T Velos (of Hellenic Navy, former USS Charrette), in Palaio Faliro, Greece