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To: microgood
"That is when I found out it was the fastest ship in the fleet because of her excess steam capacity."

50 knots easy.

She can move at freeway speeds and no other capital ship in the world can keep up with her.

19 posted on 03/10/2012 4:41:18 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
That is when I found out it was the fastest ship in the fleet because of her excess steam capacity.

50 knots easy.

She can move at freeway speeds and no other capital ship in the world can keep up with her.

Holy smokes!

From looking up her stats the flight deck is about the size of some mid-town Manhattan city blocks. Don't know how high above the water line the deck is but the image that comes to my mind (NYC escapee) is;

A whole friggin' block of NYC buildings passing me in the left lane of the NY Thruway!

And being swept away to hell and gone by the bow wave!

33 posted on 03/10/2012 5:01:41 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Mariner

Many stories of her rooster tail ing high speed runs at night to avoid soviet satellite recon. “Clear the bridge”


70 posted on 03/10/2012 7:16:40 PM PST by Broker (Talaga!)
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To: Mariner
50 knots easy.

Had an Operations Specialist on my first ship that says he tracked that sucker going 60.

112 posted on 03/12/2012 12:23:40 AM PDT by Doofer (Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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