Anyone had a go with the free google.earth software ? (
http://earth.google.com/ )
I was absolutely fascinated by it. I spent the best part of a day hunting down existing ship museum sites around the world. Most of them were in the US ( most of the preserved ships are in the US anyway, and most of the available high definition satellite data is also found in the US ).
Anyway, first stop was the location of USS Texas , which was one of the locations for the second annual International Subclub meeting in October 2004.( Look closely on the bow and you can see us all lined up and being photographed by Onkel Neal )
Second stop was Pearl Harbor …. as you’d expect looking very much like those aerial photos from films like Tora Tora Tora and Pearl Harbor . …… and yep , moored alongside Ford island was USS Missouri.
More poignantly , (and I wasn’t really expecting this) you can clearly see the sunken USS Arizona … preserved as a war grave and memorial
Number 3 … Just to wave the flag a bit I’ve included HMS Belfast (London and one of the locations for first Subclub meeting 2003 ) . This is not quite as clear as the other, maybe cos the light in the UK is often not so vivid as places like Galveston and Hawaii. ( or maybe the man in the satellite wobbled his camera a bit when he passed over London
)
I also snapped ( but not included here )
Armoured cruiser Averoff ( Greece ) …circa 1911
CL Little Rock
DD The Sullivans
BB Massachussets
BB New jersey
BB Alabama ( before Katrina displaced her somewhat )
BB Wisconsin
Philadelphia reserve basin ( numerous ships I haven’t yet identified )
USS Texas
USS Missouri
USS Arizona
HMS Belfast
