Haunting Pictures of Old Warships

August · 06-17-11, 07:02 PM

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.

magic452 · 06-17-11, 07:53 PM

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

Sledgehammer427 · 06-17-11, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by August

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.

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

August · 06-18-11, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427

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

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

Jimbuna · 06-18-11, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by August

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

Sounds wickedly interesting....pray tell

August · 06-18-11, 09:29 AM

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Sounds wickedly interesting....pray tell

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.

Jimbuna · 06-18-11, 01:59 PM

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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.

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

August · 06-18-11, 08:41 PM

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

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

06-17-11, 07:02 PM	#1
August Wayfaring Stranger Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 23,213 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ Flanked by life and the funeral pyre. Putting on a show for you to see.

06-17-11, 07:53 PM	#2
magic452 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Reno Nevada USA Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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 __________________ Reported lost 11 Feb. 1942 Signature by depthtok33l

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