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Originally Posted by tmccarthy

A-1 Skyraiders on the USS Ranger (CV-61)

Sailors are very creative ... can you imagine finding this in a rice patty in North Vietnam?





http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/Humor/Toilet_bomb.html

Yes, this really happened. Once again history is stranger then fiction, and a lot funnier.

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TYPE 45 ROYAL NAVY DESTROYER

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Richelieu

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HMS OCEAN

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Countermeasure Anti-Torpedo (CAT) launched by a US Carrier

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HMS BELFAST

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USS Enterprise (CV-6)

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HMS KENT

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Battleship USS Iowa at high speed - 1985

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HMS VANGUARD

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Originally Posted by tmccarthy

Battleship USS Iowa at high speed - 1985

5/27/2012: the last BB ever to clear the Golden Gate
...very slowly and a kaleun was there! 10 seconds later:Hey talk about 'straddling the target BBY!"

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USS Iowa (BB-61)

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1954: The only occasion all 4 Iowa class BB's were in formation:https://www.flickr.com/photos/konabish/6497548649/ <to enlarge) All four Iowa-class battleships steaming together (1954). Ship closest to the camera is USS Iowa (BB-61). The others are (from near to far): USS Wisconsin (BB-64), USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS New Jersey (BB-62). This was the only occasion that all four Iowa Class BB's were steaming in formation. Arguably; two years later...the most powerful surface armada the world ever saw. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2419375&postcount=39

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USS Virginia (SSN-774)

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USS MINNESOTA SSN 783 UNFORTUNATELY: https://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2016/03/27/minnesota-two-years-in-the-yards-virginia-class-attack-sub/81600432/ Speed of construction is offset by shoddy pipe welds.

The Minnesota, the 10th Virginia-class attack boat, was delivered 11 months ahead of schedule. But it has been in the shipyards at Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut for two years — more than twice as long as a normal post-shakedown availability. It still has months to go. The plankowner crew has spent only a handful of days at sea since joining the fleet and experts say they're likely to forfeit their whole deployment cycle, forcing fleet bosses to make tough decisions about whether to extend deployments or withhold forces from missions overseas.
News of the lousy parts first emerged in August, a month after the Minnesota was to have finished its overhaul. Since then, a Justice Department-led investigation is examining the quality control issues that led the shoddy part to be installed in the $2.7-billion sub.
The same shoddy elbow joints were installed aboard attack subs North Dakota and John Warner, forcing the Navy to spend millions of dollars and many more months to repair them. If these pipes ruptured, they would leak steam and force the submarine to take emergency measures that would impair its combat effectiveness.