Haunting Pictures of Old Warships
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot...f-old-warships


When I was much younger, I was taken on a boat trip to see this fleet at anchor and it was indeed a haunting sight. It is always a bit sad to see once mighty ships that sailed the world's oceans and seas rusting away.

Rgr that.

Reminds me a little of the last subsim meet. We saw similar amounts of corrosion and decay aboard the USS Salem. I must say it was a lot more interesting than the sanitized and plexiglass sealed compartments aboard the Massachusetts and the others at Battleship cove.

A little bit of topic but there was a news story on the Reno news last night.
All the remaining 16" gun barrels from the WWII BBs were stored at the Ammunition Depot at Hawthorne Nevada.

They have just been sold as scrap and are being cut up. All but one #334?, I think it was, is being saved. It was one of the guns aboard BB-63 USS Missouri when she was at the surrender of Japan in 1945. It's one of the guns seen in all it famous pictures.

Another bit of WWII history gone.

Magic

Agreed. I really wanted to go up to the flying bridge.

Well you know what you have to do to get up there. :DL

Sounds wickedly interesting....pray tell :DL

Nah it's not so interesting or wicked. The path to the flying bridge involves volunteering for the ships preservation association scraping and painting detail. :DL

On the whole they do appear to be in better shape than their Japanese counterparts scattered across the Pacific.:D Not much left of the Kinugawa Maru beached on Guadalcanal in 1942.
http://guadalcanal.homestead.com/200...AWA_MARU_3.JPG

Here's me thinking of objects like a barrel, an apple, or a golden rivet somewhere :03:

You think they might make him kiss the gunners daughter? They don't do that stuff in the modern navy! :o

Reminds me of my early twenties when I was in the merchant navy and crossing the line/equator for the first time....had to hide in my cabin or down the engine room for nearly a full day :DL