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the best of the best!: $75 million to restore.
my first serious ship model: CUTTY SARK being restored after fire damage.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...andscaping.JPGBringin' home the tea!http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/...-Back--004.jpgThis one was a PhD in 'learning the ropes'! At 17.5 knots she could out run a Uboat! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...91.250-164.jpgcirca 1880. Now at Greenwich England.
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USS BRINKLEY BASS DD-887 Gearing up for action.:salute:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...yBassDD887.jpg
USS OKLAHOMA CITY CLG-5(1960) CG-5(1975) My brother was helmsman aboard her. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...erway_1974.jpg |
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During sea trials near norway:
http://www.marine.de/resource/resour...w/U_33_640.jpg The commanding officer (Lieutenant Commander Kay Brand) is wearing his white visor cap. |
5/6/ 1962: year of decision! this very DAY
USS ETHAN ALLEN SSBN 608: The USS Ethan Allen, (SSBN-608) operating in the Pacific as a unit of Joint Task Force 8 Operation Frigate-Bird," fired the only nuclear-armed POLARIS missile ever launched on 6 May 1962. A POLARIS A1 missile was launched from the USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) while submerged in the Pacific, and its nuclear warhead was detonated over the South Pacific at the end of its programmed flight. The shot was made during the 1962 atomic tests and hit "right in the pickle barrel." The captain of the 608 was Paul Lacy, and ADM Levering Smith was aboard. To date, this is the only complete proof test of a U.S. strategic missile. With the ban on atmospheric testing, the chances of another similar test are remote. http://www.navy.mil/navydata/cno/n87/usw/issue_24/frigate_bird2.htm http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...enSSBN-608.jpg
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