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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:03:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Starboard side looking aft. Three guys are part of crew working midships.




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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:06:26 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:07:09 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:09:37 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:10:43 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:11:23 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:18:37 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:24:15 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 5:42:21 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:11:44 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:12:34 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:13:18 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:17:52 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:18:27 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:19:15 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:20:20 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:21:13 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:23:03 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:23:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Great photos!!!! I have been there many times since my family goes to Oak Island on vacation which is only 30-45 min away. Its been a few years since the last time and glad to see they are maintaining her so well!

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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:24:13 PM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 6:26:41 PM   
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Status: offline 		This is the best wide shot. Because of heavy rains and flooding, there was no way to get a nice shot from land. Oh well, thats all folks............terry




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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 7:04:12 PM   
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Status: offline 		Fantastic shots, Terry!  Thanks for sharing!

I visited the Alabama in Mobile 12 years ago.  I've now lived in NC for 7.5 years and have yet to visit USS NC.  I need to take my son, soon!


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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/26/2009 9:05:06 PM   
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Status: offline 		OK, that is just awesome! Thank you for taking the time to post those up. Simply amazing.

Anyone know of a listing of ships on display like this? I'd like to find out if there are any within a couple hours drive from me here in Florida.

I'm off to Google I guess


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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/27/2009 2:39:47 AM   
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Status: offline 		Many thanks Mark, for posting these pictures! It's good to see that they are taking care of her. I visited her 2 years ago and was very impressed at how well she has been preserved ( I hadn't been there since I was a kid)! I bought a piece of the original teak deck to display with my Trumpy NC.

Here's a pic of me back in the mid '70's at the NC. This is back when they had stands where you could watch a night show of the battle and see flames shoot out of the main gun barrels. When the torpedo hit the NC, there would be a big water splash near the bow. Gosh - I wish we had video recorders back then!!!! This exhibition has long since ended, but they do have picutures of the event on the BB herself.

Obviously, they have changed the paint scheme on the kingfisher and the Showboat since this pic was taken!

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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/27/2009 2:51:31 AM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/27/2009 3:02:21 AM   
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Here's a pic of me back in the mid '70's at the NC.






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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/27/2009 3:05:34 AM   
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Gators were mentioned which was one of the reasons why I was not interested in wading through shallow flood water to get a wide shot from the land just off the bow.

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At least Charlie (I think that is his name) was still there when I was there 2 years ago. He was also there in the 70's when the above pic was taken.








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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/27/2009 4:00:07 AM   
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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/27/2009 6:48:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Great pics!  A shame her sister isn't in the same condition in Puget Sound somewhere. 

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RE: BB North Carolina - 9/27/2009 9:15:43 AM   
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Status: offline 		Very nice photos and it is good to see her in such well-maintained condition.  I was on the Alabama in Mobile Bay back in the early '80's and she was in pretty decent condition then - wonder how she is now?  The Navy had actually just stripped out one of the 16" mechanical/analog fire control computers on the Alabama to be shipped to one of the then reactivating Iowas, so the Alabama, at least, was being used as a spare parts locker of sorts.   I think their 16" guns were of a different mark than those on the Iowas, but apparently they could modify the computer to compensate.  IIRC it was the size of a pool table but it was made of a solid steel outer casing and inside was filled with a horrendous collection of brass gears and shafts.  Later, I got to see one of the Iowas when it visited Subic Bay in the Philippines; I think it was the New Jersey but I don't recall after all this time.  Anyway, I was just up the road at Cubi Point at the time and it was a worthwhile visit.  She was in much the same condition within as is the North Carolina now...not bad, considering.

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