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The United States battleships Indiana (BB-58), Massachusetts (BB-59) and Alabama (BB-60) form a line ahead during target practice as seen from the South Dakota (BB-57)
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Happy Birthday to USS Yorktown (CV-5)! This is her during her shakedown cruise, January 1938. Official NHHD photo 80-G-466153
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USS Missouri
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The New Orleans-class cruiser: USS Minneapolis (CA-36), with a collapsed bow after taking two torpedo hits during the Battle of Tassafaronga (1942)
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The Imperial Russian battleship Rostislav -part of the Black Sea Fleet- in formation, dated between 1907 and 1916.
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American battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives home after The War. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, on 29 September 1945.
That's funny!!
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April 7th, 1945 Yamato would be attack by carriers forces from TF58 and sunk later that day marking the end of the battleship Era
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USS Oklahoma (BB-37), undergoing the parbuckle (righting) process, eight months after being capsized during the Pearl Harbor attack.
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IJN Yamato under attack by planes from TF 58, April 7th, 1945 Official NHHD Photo L42-09.06.05
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07 December 1941, ca. 09:30 am. Left to right: US Navy battleships California (BB-44), Maryland (BB-46), West Virginia (BB-48), Oklahoma (BB-37) sustain various amount of damage with 637 lives lost (combined) as a result of a recent Japanese aircraft attack
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View from battleship Musashi's bow in 1942.
USS Cairo, one of the "city-class" Ironclads, Mississippi River, 1862. Precursors of all the "heavy metal" boats to come. Sunk by a mine in 1862 its remains are on display today at the Vicksburg National Military Park
source: USS Cairo - Wikipedia
Tonnage: 512
Length: 175 ft (53 m)
Beam: 51 ft 2 in (15.60 m)
Draught: 6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion:
Steam engine with 22 inches (560 mm) cylinder and stroke of 6 feet (1.8 m), fed by five fire-tube boilers at 140 psi (970 kPa)
paddle wheel-propelled
Speed: 4 knots (7.4 km/h)
source: USS Cairo - Wikipedia
Tonnage: 512
Length: 175 ft (53 m)
Beam: 51 ft 2 in (15.60 m)
Draught: 6 ft (1.8 m)
Propulsion:
Steam engine with 22 inches (560 mm) cylinder and stroke of 6 feet (1.8 m), fed by five fire-tube boilers at 140 psi (970 kPa)
paddle wheel-propelled
Speed: 4 knots (7.4 km/h)
Different take on "heavy metal". Volcano in Barbados blowing off a bunch of ash. I thought "ash" was like what you get when you burn wood or paper.
Naw, this stuff is pulverized rock and glass falls like snow but its heavy like rocks.
1991 Mt. Pinatubo in Philippines with ashfall on a parked DC-10 -- it fell on the engine, horizontal and vertical stabilizers, etc, and tipped the plane on its can.
source: File:DC-10-30 resting on its tail due to Pinatubo ashfall.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
Naw, this stuff is pulverized rock and glass falls like snow but its heavy like rocks.
1991 Mt. Pinatubo in Philippines with ashfall on a parked DC-10 -- it fell on the engine, horizontal and vertical stabilizers, etc, and tipped the plane on its can.
source: File:DC-10-30 resting on its tail due to Pinatubo ashfall.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
March 9, 1862. Battle of Hampton Roads during Civil War. The ironclads CSS Virginia vs. the USS Monitor -- and the world (no hyperbole) has never been the same.
A dramatization below if you have 15 mins of interest in this event.
Mt Pinatubo was a nasty one. We were involved in evacuating the Air Station personnel's dependents.
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30 January 1924, Boston Navy Yard. The first American dreadnought-type battleship USS Delaware (BB-28) is being dismantled.
anybody know what brand this big honkin' thing is at the Boston Yards helping salvage the Delaware in 1924? Probably a Bucyrus (a few of those are sprinkled through this thread)
Stationed aboard USS Long Beach, CGN-9 deployed to West-Pac. We were fairly close and were one of several ships that made a couple runs loaded to the gills with Air Force dependents living at Clark Air Base which was immediately next to Pinatubo. It was an evacuation but you'd be amazed at the amount of stuff they can pack up quickly and stash on the main deck of a warship. Emptied out a few berthing compartments (mine included) of sailors (had to hot bunk with others) and filled 'em up with wives, kids, babies, etc... but at least they made the pets stay on the main deck. I don't remember where we took them, (engineering puke so we seldom knew where we were) but it was about a 2 day trip one way, then back for another load. Subic harbor was so full of ash we had to open and clean each turbine's condenser (that operated) once we left port so we had our hands full in the engine room. Ash piled up feet deep on the roofs of the buildings if the roof was still intact. No fun. I think I still have a vial or two of ash somewhere......any context on that one chief?
