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OT: USS Shaw - 3/27/2007 9:55:00 PM

mlees

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Minesweeper inspired me to look up more PH photos at my favorite website, http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm

USS Shaw, 1937:

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RE: OT: USS Shaw - 3/27/2007 9:55:33 PM

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USS Shaw, 1942:

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RE: OT: USS Shaw - 3/27/2007 9:56:39 PM

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Notice how everthing forward of the mast is missing... eeesh.

And these men of iron sailed this thing from PH to Mare Island, too, to get fully repaired.

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RE: OT: USS Shaw - 3/27/2007 10:00:05 PM

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Pretty spectacular...

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RE: OT: USS Shaw - 3/27/2007 10:03:02 PM

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ORIGINAL: mlees

Notice how everthing forward of the mast is missing... eeesh.

And these men of iron sailed this thing from PH to Mare Island, too, to get fully repaired.

what hit it?

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RE: OT: USS Shaw - 3/27/2007 10:04:06 PM

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I sure hope that wasn't the con at the top of that mast! That must have been a very uncomfortable trip back to the west coast...

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RE: OT: USS Shaw - 3/27/2007 10:05:13 PM

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" what hit it?"

Remember those photos of the spectacular explosion? Those were of her magazine going off.

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RE: OT: USS Shaw - 3/27/2007 10:08:02 PM

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what hit it?

USS Shaw was in floating dry dock YFD-2 on the morning of December 7.

Bombs dropped during the second wave attack set off the Shaw's forward magazines: