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Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 12:52:08 AM)
Duck and cover came later. [image]local://upfiles/11853/C2D282C5B0A741BF8714E6D41E42F00E.jpg[/image]

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 1:30:43 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: AW1Steve quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo More... [image]local://upfiles/11853/06FAFEE640A7422DB8C17A44487FB28F.jpg[/image] CA145 USS Roanoke... I think so, but the booby at the archives labeled it as a "battleship".

Chickenboy -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 1:36:12 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo Words fail me. Wow! Something that makes the Japanese microtanks / coffins look like KV2s by comparison. What a laughable POS.

pmelheck1 -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 1:59:08 AM)
Boy I'm going to have to sit down over a cup of coffee over these... [image]local://upfiles/8904/F305F546F0A6415BAC62384BAA698D82.jpg[/image]

bradfordkay -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 2:11:49 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mullk Boy I'm going to have to sit down over a cup of coffee over these... [image]local://upfiles/8904/F305F546F0A6415BAC62384BAA698D82.jpg[/image] Officer's wardroom in a WW2 sub. I'll leave it to someone more knowledgable to tell you what class or boat. [:'(]

Terminus -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 12:59:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo I bet even you grognards wont be able to identify this one....no the one the photographer is standing on, wiseguys. [:-] [image]local://upfiles/11853/4B557973E82444C7BD0C323B9198A481.jpg[/image] Yeah, the huge "240" on her side makes that really difficult.

Terminus -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 1:00:47 PM)
Ta-Da! [image]local://upfiles/16369/BAD9F16127124E6FA044AC9298AB6F3C.jpg[/image] And the destroyer is USS Sturtevant.

Terminus -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 1:02:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo Words fail me. [image]local://upfiles/11853/CE5098318C6442B0934FDF1EEF557B38.jpg[/image] Hmm, the vehicle is superimposed on the background. Guess they couldn't get it to run.

crsutton -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 4:12:12 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus Yeah, USS Prairie State (IX-15) is my final answer: [image]local://upfiles/16369/7BFFB0FD5BE746C7B825A072853B1CFA.jpg[/image] She was stricken at the end of 1956. If we only had her at the 1st Battle of Guadacanal....The outcome would have been changed forever...[;)]

crsutton -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 4:13:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo Considering that even I was able to figure this one out you guys get...7 and a half minutes. [:D] [image]local://upfiles/11853/0A54C78C79CB4DC990847B0EC9F15B2D.jpg[/image] This one is interesting and sad. What ship is it? I wonder what they were doing with the timbers that they were stripping off of here. Pretty stout stuff...

Chickenboy -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 5:47:26 PM)
Onime, Couldn't find the wooden ship that looks like it's being scrapped at the moorings either. Interesting image. Have you seen the Staten Island ship graveyard website? Some interesting pictures here too: http://www.opacity.us/site55_staten_island_boat_graveyard.htm

Terminus -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 7:06:13 PM)
Well, the name-plate on the wooden ship says (almost sure of it) "United States", one of the original frigates. She was being scrapped at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1865, after the Union had reclaimed the place from the Confederates. The picture could be from then.

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 7:37:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mullk Boy I'm going to have to sit down over a cup of coffee over these... Thats a fancy dining room. Dont forget to tuck a napkin in. [:D]

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:02:29 PM)
Double post.

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:03:14 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus Ta-Da! [image]local://upfiles/16369/BAD9F16127124E6FA044AC9298AB6F3C.jpg[/image] And the destroyer is USS Sturtevant. You guys never cease to amaze me. [&o]

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:03:38 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo Words fail me. Hmm, the vehicle is superimposed on the background. Guess they couldn't get it to run. Looks too darn clean as well. [:-]

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:09:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: crsutton quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo Considering that even I was able to figure this one out you guys get...7 and a half minutes. [:D] This one is interesting and sad. What ship is it? I wonder what they were doing with the timbers that they were stripping off of here. Pretty stout stuff... USS New Hampshire (renamed USS Granite State by that time and serving as a receiving ship). Beautiful square rigged 74 which was roughly treated by people and time. Evidently she was destroyed by fire not once, but twice. During the episode pictured here, she caught fire while tied up to the receiving pier in NY due to the quantity of oil which had accumulated around her from a leaking oil pipe nearby and was ignited by a motor launch engine backfire. She caught fire again while being towed to the breakers in Mass. and her hull was beached and abandoned. Very sad.

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:12:38 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Chickenboy Onime, Couldn't find the wooden ship that looks like it's being scrapped at the moorings either.� Interesting image. Have you seen the Staten Island�ship graveyard�website?� Some interesting pictures here too: http://www.opacity.us/site55_staten_island_boat_graveyard.htm Yes I have. The guys that put that together are artists, not historians, regrettably. I am much more interested in the history of the boats there than the post-industrial/modernist/apocalyptic beauty of rust.

AW1Steve -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:30:18 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo The closer one is definitely a Northampton. The farther one is an Omaha? [&:] [image]local://upfiles/11853/D6F56E742F334354BB56106DC94AEEB6.jpg[/image] There was no Atlantic fleet at the time. There was a US fleet (that travelled, but was based on the west coast at San Pedro) , the Asiatic fleet, and the Atlantic squadron.

AW1Steve -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:33:15 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bradfordkay quote: ORIGINAL: mullk Boy I'm going to have to sit down over a cup of coffee over these... [image]local://upfiles/8904/F305F546F0A6415BAC62384BAA698D82.jpg[/image] Since there are no remaining S-boats , I'll guess a Gato. Officer's wardroom in a WW2 sub. I'll leave it to someone more knowledgable to tell you what class or boat. [:'(]

crsutton -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:41:46 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus Well, the name-plate on the wooden ship says (almost sure of it) "United States", one of the original frigates. She was being scrapped at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1865, after the Union had reclaimed the place from the Confederates. The picture could be from then. Yes, I now see the United States on the stern but way too many decks and gun ports for a frigate. Perhaps a later ship of the line. But I could not find a reference.

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:44:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: AW1Steve quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo The closer one is definitely a Northampton. The farther one is an Omaha? [&:] There was no Atlantic fleet at the time. There was a US fleet (that travelled, but was based on the west coast at San Pedro) , the Asiatic fleet, and the Atlantic squadron. I think you meant the pic with the line of BBs. But i take your point. Imagine the pomp and circumstance with the entire battle line arriving in NY. [X(]

Onime No Kyo -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 8:44:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: crsutton quote: ORIGINAL: Terminus Well, the name-plate on the wooden ship says (almost sure of it) "United States", one of the original frigates. She was being scrapped at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1865, after the Union had reclaimed the place from the Confederates. The picture could be from then. Yes, I now see the United States on the stern but way too many decks and gun ports for a frigate. Perhaps a later ship of the line. But I could not find a reference. See my post above. USS New Hampshire.

pmelheck1 -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 9:00:46 PM)
U.S.S. Cod - Gato Class Another pic. [image]local://upfiles/8904/33DB95EDD4584EBDB257F0FEDB79FA9A.jpg[/image]

pmelheck1 -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 9:09:13 PM)
another pic [image]local://upfiles/8904/A6F049421F384446A58FA2F366EE0026.jpg[/image]

pmelheck1 -> RE: Cool Picture (6/7/2012 9:16:26 PM)
and yet another pic [image]local://upfiles/8904/2F1DD063ABD24A9586F1FBC1C86BB956.jpg[/image]

crsutton -> RE: Cool Picture (6/8/2012 5:33:30 PM)
Here is a good reference for the USS New Hampshire. http://www.mass.gov/czm/buar/shipwrecks/ua-hampshire.htm Apparently the writing on the stern says Granite State. Amazing is that she was originally laid down in "1818" as a 74 gun ship of the line! She laid partiallty completed in dry dock until she was finished in 1864 but was already obsolete so never saw duty as a warship.

crsutton -> RE: Cool Picture (6/8/2012 5:50:03 PM)
One more pic of the New Hampshire. Apparently she was fully armed at one time. [image]local://upfiles/8095/CF78300FBEC64CFEBF0FB9DF4C5A939F.jpg[/image]

Blackhorse -> RE: Cool Picture (6/9/2012 11:49:07 AM)
I'm particularly impressed by the holes in the tank treads -- presumably to reduce drag, and improve aerodynamics in flight. [8\|] quote: ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo Words fail me. [image]local://upfiles/11853/CE5098318C6442B0934FDF1EEF557B38.jpg[/image]

Dixie -> RE: Cool Picture (6/9/2012 2:12:03 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Blackhorse I'm particularly impressed by the holes in the tank treads -- presumably to reduce drag, and improve aerodynamics in flight. [8\|] Speed holes.

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