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Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 6:25:24 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 6:28:45 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 6:29:20 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 6:33:49 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 6:36:30 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 6:43:25 PM   
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The victim is Kinugawa Maru.

That photo just too well known.

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 6:47:52 PM   
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Which of the many we'll never guess

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 8:52:09 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 9:15:53 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 9:18:05 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 9:25:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		A ship rearing back on its hind legs, so it can jump over the line of surf, get up on the beach and lay eggs and rear its young.

One hardly ever gets a photo of this, however. Ships generally only do this in the dark of the moon on deserted beaches.

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 9:42:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Cocos nucifera L. The "L" was one of the late war variants with improved trunk length, improved glacis thickness and slope, a superior cluster geometry and improved husk armour. These were often employed in the beach defence role. Though obsolescent now, many remain in Vanuatu and the Soloman Islands defence organizations.

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 11:21:51 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/19/2004 11:26:26 PM   
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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/20/2004 12:56:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		This shot was also used as background in SSI's Greatest Naval Battles 2 Which focused on the Solomons and was a GREAT game, think great grandfather to UV.

BTW is the ship still there or has it been scraped?

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/20/2004 1:11:10 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Rendova

This shot was also used as background in SSI's Greatest Naval Battles 2 Which focused on the Solomons and was a GREAT game, think great grandfather to UV.

BTW is the ship still there or has it been scraped?


http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/maru/kinugawa_maru.html

Gives a decent description of what it is now...as well as other wrecks if you surf around the site.

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/20/2004 2:03:22 AM   
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It's Ron's floating house boat after a binge drinking nite.



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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/20/2004 6:57:50 AM   
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(Before he got a job with Exxon, he worked for the Japanese Fleet)

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/20/2004 8:46:13 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

Your all WRONG.

It's Ron's floating house boat after a binge drinking nite.




Damned if I'm not getting a reputation! Can ya tell from some of my posts? Kinda blunt and perhaps rude! Should be running a tea room.

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/21/2004 6:16:34 AM   
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Gudacanal, it is

Circa 1943.


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It is well known to be shure but when I used this photo on other forums I do this on nobody got the ship name right, this is the first time anyone has done that.

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RE: Name This...(130) - 7/21/2004 6:53:57 AM   
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