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wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 2:15:34 AM

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by this i mean memorials and museums to all the brave guys that saved r butts, except for U505, they didnt exactly save me lol

ive been on

the USS COD in cleveland, back in 97

and U-505 a few years ago, and in 2001

and i think thats all

on the 505 my 6'6 brother in law hit his head

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 2:36:31 AM

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USS Arizona
USS Nautilus
USS Intrepid (and the DD and SS moored alongside - forget their names)
USS Kitty Hawk (She was in port in San Diego)
USCGC Eagle (Coast Guard Academy training ship)
USCGC Escanaba (Port call in New London, CT)

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 2:45:55 AM

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What about service aboard a ship?

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 2:52:04 AM

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HMCS Haida (Tribal), HMCS Sackville (Flower Class Corvette), HMCS Huron (DDG-rebuilt 280 DDH), HMCS St. John's (City Class FFG), HMS Belfast (Edinburgh Class CL)...basically not enough. Wish they managed to keep USS Enterprise CV-6 as a museum, what a waste. British dreadnought like Warspite or Iron Duke would have been something. Saw the armoured cruiser Georgios Averoff from my window seat leaving Athens...had no idea she was there or even existed! Freaked me out seeing that old cruiser. Ships just don't look like ships much anymore.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 2:57:17 AM

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What about service aboard a ship?

I regret not having served in the navy. Missed my other true calling.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 2:57:48 AM

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i went to visit my brother who was in the USAF in the canal zone. we were lucky the IOWA was passing thru the locks and we were able to go on board. looked inside of one of the gun turrets.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:06:09 AM

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Being an mature Coastie I visitied or served or in one case made use of many the old warhorse: USCGCs BIBB, CAMPBELL, DUANE, INGHAM, SPENCER, TANEY (327' Secretary Class - WPGs in WWII), USCGC TAMAROA (fleet tug of a different name in WWII), USCGCs HUMBOLDT, CASTLE ROCK, UNIMAK and CHINCOTEAGUE (think they had same names in WWII serving as small seaplane tenders (AVPs?), USCGC WEST WIND (icebreaker - can't remember but this one might have been lend-leased to the Russkis during WWII). The most useful ship was USS MASSACHUSETTS (BB) from which USCGC BIBBs GMC managed to unofficially procure spare parts for BIBBs main battery (5"/38 cal) - spare parts which were necessary to restore the main battery to some semblance of operational utility and which at the time were unavailable in the USN supply system. MASSACHUSETTS is moored in Fall River, MA for anyone interested and is the centerpiece for nice naval museum which includes a WWII era DD (Sumner class I think), a WWII fleet sub, and a PT Boat Museum with at least one of the boats fully restored. Great place to visit for kids and old kids. I've also been on the USS INTREPID, USS BOSTON, a WWII era CL of the CLEVELAND class who's name I can't recall, whatever WWII fleet boat is moored in Groton, CT at the Submariners Museum. Oh yeah, I was also on the USCGC EAGLE (aka HORST WESSEL) which trained many of those German sailors who engaged those 327' Treasury Class I mentioned before in convoy battles in the North Atlantic. 'OLDER SHIPS HAVE BETTER SAILORS' - motto of the USCGC BIBB (WHEC-31).

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:10:51 AM

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One 6 month deployment aboard USS John F. Kennedy (Afghanistan). Just got back from the USS George Washington (Iraq).

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:18:35 AM

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Never had the privledge of service on board ship as I was too tall to join the navy (6'9"), but I did get the chance to see the USS Alabama (BB60) and the small sub moored beside her in Mobile Bay. Both VERY impressive.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:19:03 AM

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The battleship Missouri when she was moored in Bremerton. The Cold War destroyer Turner Joy. Plus the Russian Foxtrot-class submarine B-39that is on permanent display in Seattle

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:20:43 AM

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What about service aboard a ship?

Did 16 years in the RN. Visited HMS Eagle and Ark Royal (the CVL version), Cavalier. Served at sea on HMS Galatea (F18) and did the rest of my time on SSBNs. Did sea time on Revenge, Resolution and Repulse. Also visited the Illustrious and worked on some O Boats and Valiant class.

Visited (as a tourist) Victory and Mary Rose and Belfast. Haven't yet visited Warrior.

Based, at various times, at Portsmouth, Plymouth, Faslane and Rosyth. Refitting Reso at Rosyth we has an old LST, Lofoton, as a workship ship. We were in a dry dock built for battleships pre-WW1 and the Reso was lost up at one end.

It's cool now looking at photos of dreadnoughts docked down in the same dry dock we were in. If anyone has read "The Man Who Bought A Navy" we were in the same dry-dock as Seydlitz was docked in upside-down bt Cox & Danks.

After I left the RN I moved to the Orkney and spent 4 years sorrounded by RN history. Scapa Flow is there with it's sad wreck bouy marking the last resting place of the Royal Oak, still leaking oil. Some of the block ships still lay there. slowly rusting away, left there even after the Churchill barriers were built. The outline of the mail naval base is still on Hoy. There are gun emplacements still all over the place and even a Martello Tower from the Napoleonic Wars when the Baltic convoys formed up there.

Anyway, got to go, wife wants to use PC...

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:29:22 AM

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More than I can List

Some of the more interesting
USS Olympia
USS Constitution
USS IOWA (BB-61)
USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS ALABAMA (BB 60)
USS DRUM (SS 228)
USS Becuna (SS-319)
USS Coral Sea (CV-43)
USS Constellation (CV 64)
USS Stark (FFG-31)
USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16)
USCGC Eagle
USS Arizona (Memorial)
USS Kitty Hawk - Saw her launched in 1961 and 25 years later worked on her SLEP refit
USS R Regan (CVN 73)
USS Eisenhower (CVN 69)

I work at the Phila Navy. right now there's 2 AP's and 2 AK's and the USS Iwo Jima right out side my office window, plus there's an old three piper from WWI (don't know her name) on backside of the basin

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:29:29 AM

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Wow...more then I care to count...I was a navy photographer for 5 years...so I have seen them all (except subs...couldnt get me underwater :P). My primary ship was USS Ranger a carrier out of San Diego, but I would say that I spent time on every escort vessel to sail with her. I shot or sailed with 3 of the 4 active battlewagons (none of them of course are currently active). I also go to go aboard a French carrier (can't think of the name) a Japanese destroyer and a few other foreign national ships.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:41:22 AM

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In 1981 My parents sent me to England for the summer, I stayed with my Grandparents. It was the best time of my life. I was 11 years old. My Grandfather and I went all over the southern half of the Isle. I was able to tour the HMS Victory ( by the way I'm distantly related to Nelson) I also have pictures of the HMS Shefield before she was sunk in the Falklands.

In 1996 went to San Francisco on a trip and toured the WW2 Fleet sub they have there along with various Clipper Ships they have at the Docks. Great Time!

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 3:49:04 AM

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More than I can List

Some of the more interesting
USS Olympia
USS Constitution
USS IOWA (BB-61)
USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS ALABAMA (BB 60)
USS DRUM (SS 228)
USS Becuna (SS-319)
USS Coral Sea (CV-43)
USS Constellation (CV 64)
USS Stark (FFG-31)
USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16)
USCGC Eagle
USS Arizona (Memorial)
USS Kitty Hawk - Saw her launched in 1961 and 25 years later worked on her SLEP refit
USS R Regan (CVN 73)
USS Eisenhower (CVN 69)

I work at the Phila Navy. right now there's 2 AP's and 2 AK's and the USS Iwo Jima right out side my office window, plus there's an old three piper from WWI (don't know her name) on backside of the basin

What three piper? Are you saying a Flush Decker is still in existence?!!!!

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 4:09:11 AM

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What three piper? Are you saying a Flush Decker is still in existence?!!!!

Yea flush deck, althrough I wouldn't really say still in existence, she's floating but she's all cut to hell, could never find out what they where doing with her, those NAVSEA guys think thier engineering sh_t doesn't stink.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 4:20:03 AM

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ORIGINAL: Point Luck

More than I can List

Some of the more interesting
USS Olympia
USS Constitution
USS IOWA (BB-61)
USS New Jersey (BB-62)
USS ALABAMA (BB 60)
USS DRUM (SS 228)
USS Becuna (SS-319)
USS Coral Sea (CV-43)
USS Constellation (CV 64)
USS Stark (FFG-31)
USS Clifton Sprague (FFG-16)
USCGC Eagle
USS Arizona (Memorial)
USS Kitty Hawk - Saw her launched in 1961 and 25 years later worked on her SLEP refit
USS R Regan (CVN 73)
USS Eisenhower (CVN 69)

I work at the Phila Navy. right now there's 2 AP's and 2 AK's and the USS Iwo Jima right out side my office window, plus there's an old three piper from WWI (don't know her name) on backside of the basin

any of the new san antonios outside ur windows?

san antonio class assault ships

really futuristic lookin

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 4:21:22 AM

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15 replies already

wow

this is sumthin :P

to everyone u served in the USNm coast guard and other us military forces - Thank you

~S~

i salute u

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 4:24:25 AM

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HMCS Haida (Tribal), HMCS Sackville (Flower Class Corvette), HMCS Huron (DDG-rebuilt 280 DDH), HMCS St. John's (City Class FFG), HMS Belfast (Edinburgh Class CL)...basically not enough. Wish they managed to keep USS Enterprise CV-6 as a museum, what a waste. British dreadnought like Warspite or Iron Duke would have been something. Saw the armoured cruiser Georgios Averoff from my window seat leaving Athens...had no idea she was there or even existed! Freaked me out seeing that old cruiser. Ships just don't look like ships much anymore.

i agree on the enterprise

we owe that proud old ship alot

i would loved to have been able to see halseys flagship

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 4:26:33 AM

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USS Arizona
USS Nautilus
USS Intrepid (and the DD and SS moored alongside - forget their names)
USS Kitty Hawk (She was in port in San Diego)
USCGC Eagle (Coast Guard Academy training ship)
USCGC Escanaba (Port call in New London, CT)

the sub u went aboard was prolly the growler

only fleet missile sub open to the public

she did have abulge on her foredeck right?

if so, then she was the growler

the dd may have been a frigate, the bainbridge

i know they have the growler and the bainbridge, the lightship nantucket and a couple other ships there

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:07:37 AM

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was in San Diego the last week of May, missed getting on the Midway as it wasn't going to open for another week. Darn shame, I'll probably never get back there.

others:
U505
Arizona memorial
Alabama and the SS with her
Yorktown and the ships at the museum there (Laffey et al)

here is the Midway in San Diego just before she opened to the public.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:08:27 AM

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was in San Diego the last week of May, missed getting on the Midway as it wasn't going to open for another week. Darn shame, I'll probably never get back there.

others:
U505
Arizona memorial
Alabama and the SS with her
Yorktown and the ships at the museum there (Laffey et al)

here is the Midway in San Diego just before she opened to the public.

Is she a museum now?

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:10:19 AM

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any of the new san antonios outside ur windows?

Naw Philly's pretty much a junk yard now, It's a ghost of what it used to be as far as a Navy Yard. But still a lot of history there. About 30 ships different kinds, 1/4 REPO's

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:10:55 AM

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What three piper? Are you saying a Flush Decker is still in existence?!!!!

Yea flush deck, althrough I wouldn't really say still in existence, she's floating but she's all cut to hell, could never find out what they where doing with her, those NAVSEA guys think thier engineering sh_t doesn't stink.

Damn! This kind of crap is depressing. Memorialize many insignificant duplicate ships of a class but a ship like this is not. Peeves me off. Like Cabot/Dedalo and Hoga. Any chance you can use your luch hour and find out what her identity is? I'm finding it hard to believe that a four stacker is still around and have not heard of it. The "Flush Deck Sailors" should hear about this if it is a 4 Piper.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:11:02 AM

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one more view, closer up from the pier behind her.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:13:50 AM

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Is she a museum now?

Yup. Opened on June 8.

Link to Midway Museum Site

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:25:46 AM

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Any chance you can use your luch hour and find out what her identity is?

Yea I'll take walk over see what I can find out, There's supposed to be a real old CA in the yard too

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:29:04 AM

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arizona memorial in hawaii
missouri in hawaii
uss hurricane (pg-3) now with the dea in cabo san lucas (port stop)
uss frederick (lst) (open house in san francisco)
uss stetham (ddg-51 class) (open house in san diego)
wisconsin in newport news
alabama in mobile
massachusetts in massachusetts
joseph p kennedy (dd) in massachusetts
foxtrot submarine sydney maritime museum (now replaced by an oberon (ss))
hmas ? at sydney maritime museum (dd)
pampanito (ss) in san francisco
nautilus (ssn) in groton
bowfin (ss) in hawaii
lionfish (ss) in massachusetts
u-505 in chicago
torsk (ss) in baltimore
fleet sub in battleship cove, MA (?)
usf constellation in baltimore
usf constitution in boston
cassin young (dd) in boston
uscgc taney in baltimore
hope to hit louisianna (kidd (dd)) and galveston (texas, cavalla (ss) and stewart (de)) this fall

and i never served in the navy spent my time in the army

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 5:43:50 AM

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Any chance you can use your luch hour and find out what her identity is?

Yea I'll take walk over see what I can find out, There's supposed to be a real old CA in the yard too

Thanks alot. Real old CA? Hmmm, wonder which one. I'd love to find a site which has old mothball photos. Philly NY had some of the most interesting ships laid up there in the fifties.

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RE: wat ships have u been aboard - 6/21/2004 6:13:42 AM

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One's I've served on (1990 - present)

HMCS Gatineau (Improved Restigouche)
HMCS Kootenay (Improved Restigouche)
HMCS Ottawa (Halifax Class CPF)
HMCS Algonquin (DDH 280 Iroquois Class)

One's that I've visited as current museums

USS Arizona (Memorial) - Pearl Harbor
USS Missouri - Pearl Harbor
USS Bowfin - Pearl Harbor
USS Pampanito - San Francisco
HMAS Onslow - Sydney
HMAS Vampire - Sydney
HMS Warrior - Portsmouth
HMS Victory - Portsmouth
HMCS Sackville - Halifax
I look forward to seeing the USS Midway on my next visit to San Diego.

Ron - too bad you didn't serve in the Navy we get hot meals to eat and dry racks to sleep in.

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