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mlees -> OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 9:55:00 PM)
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: [image]local://upfiles/10157/93816AE4F322430AAF86D979B4BCDB68.jpg[/image]

mlees -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 9:55:33 PM)
USS Shaw, 1942: [image]local://upfiles/10157/A5D8DD6123B04719BD1D170F3DF749AB.jpg[/image]

mlees -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 9:56:39 PM)
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.

Terminus -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 10:00:05 PM)
Pretty spectacular...

castor troy -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 10:03:02 PM)
quote: 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?

bradfordkay -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 10:04:06 PM)
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...

bradfordkay -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 10:05:13 PM)
" what hit it?" Remember those photos of the spectacular explosion? Those were of her magazine going off.

mlees -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 10:08:02 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: castor troy 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: [image]local://upfiles/10157/C88AC35637B44F15BC00E172FC808981.jpg[/image]

mlees -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 10:08:57 PM)
USS Shaw after fires extinguished: [image]local://upfiles/10157/9ACAE01ABFF74749948C878C3AE4DB1C.jpg[/image]

Terminus -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 10:09:52 PM)
I'm surprised that they salvaged her, considering how badly smashed she was...

mlees -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/27/2007 10:13:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus I'm surprised that they salvaged her, considering how badly smashed she was... I forget the build time of a DD pre-war. (My books are at home.) Here is USS Shaw after repair (finished June, '42): [image]local://upfiles/10157/FDDE25EACD83492FBFE3B5C779D614CC.jpg[/image]

MineSweeper -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/28/2007 12:04:35 AM)
Cool pics mlees.....It's a wonder that they got that ship repaired.

Tiornu -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/28/2007 2:03:28 AM)
Don't skip my favorite one: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h50000/h50007.jpg

MineSweeper -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/28/2007 3:50:37 AM)
Very cool Tiornu........[:)]

mlees -> RE: OT: USS Shaw (3/28/2007 8:18:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Tiornu Don't skip my favorite one: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h50000/h50007.jpg Yup. While I didnt mention those trials, I couldn't help but think "Those guys have balls of stainless steel."

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