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Old 06-18-11, 11:03 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by vienna View Post
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 sea once mighty ships that sailed the world's oceans and seas rusting away.
On the whole they do appear to be in better shape than their Japanese counterparts scattered across the Pacific. Not much left of the Kinugawa Maru beached on Guadalcanal in 1942.
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