Are the shells rocket propelled?
They (the U.S.S. Iowa / Missouri) did during
the VN war (late 60s..IIRC :)
Posted on 10/18/2013 6:07:36 AM PDT by artichokegrower
Due to the U.S. government shutdown over the past few weeks, the christening of the U.S. Navy and General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works’ latest creation – DDG 1000 (soon to be USS Zumwalt) was unfortunately put on hold.
The good news is, Bath Iron Works shipyard, located in the great state of Maine – home of lobsters, pine trees, and Shipyard Ale, released the following images of this incredible ship, with lines that probably haven’t been seen on a ship since the 19th century.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
“Masses” -— WTF??? The word you’re needing is “mast” or “masts” and a closer look will reveal the signal flags flying for communication among the ships of the fleet, especially in the days before widespread use of radio/wireless. In addition, at the top of the mast, there was usually a spotter location for adjusting the fire of the gun batteries.
I was in under Zummy - what a joke he was. An ugly ship seems apropos.
And to think: that tax money could have gone to hire slaves to work on Michelle’s plantation.
‘Course, rotten tomatos for her is also apropos.
A 155 with a range of 83 nautical miles? Are the shells rocket propelled?
That’s what I was thinking...
I was thinking that you could slice cheese with it buy hey, I'm from Wisconsin and that's what we do.
Sheboygan ?
Not too far. De Pere, which is a “suburb” of Green Bay
I spent a fair amount of time at Ingalls while they were putting the Iowa together, back in the mid 80’s. Dirty, dirty work... :-D
I was a chipper for about a year, 1975-76, so would you mind typing larger so I can hear you.
Chippers elbow still gets me every now and then.
Shipyard work isn’t for a candy ass is it, and not just the dirty part, and it is dirty work.
Even the women that worked there weren’t candy asses for the most part.
Needle guns were the absolute WORST. I hated those things.
As a Sailor, I won’t say I had the highest opinion of “yard birds” at the time, but looking back, those people (and you) were skilled craftsmen.
Sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between the men and the women, because everyone dressed the same (basically walmart chic) and because men and women did the same jobs. Man or woman, they were there to do their job, and they did, quickly. I don’t think I ever saw a woman ask a man for help with something.
When I first arrived on the Iowa, it was 47,000 tons of nonworking rusted junk. When we left the shipyard (and loaded up on ammo) she was 58,000 tons of floating justice.
I thank you and respect you for all you’ve done to keep our Navy the best in the world. :)
Cool. I served aboard USS Deyo DD989 in the middle 80’s.
Thanks
I would have loved to work on a battleship, now that’s a ship.
I watched the Wisconsin came through Aransas Pass ship channel.
I’m still amazed how a ship that size could cut through the water like a knife and cause such a little wake.
Everyone watching just stopped talking and were standing in silent amazement. All you could hear from people watching was the click of the cameras.
She barely made a sound cutting through the water, it was almost silent.
I envy you for the experience of serving on a ship like that.
Thanks for your service.
When I was there I don’t know if they had even started on DD989.
I worked on the east side of the river were completion was done. The hulls and superstructures were mainly laid out and built on the west bank and then towed over to the east bank for completion..
A friend of mine was a welder on the west bank, so he may have worked on it.
It didn’t sink did it?
Just kidding, but he was much better with a cutting torch than welding.
IIRC, somewhere around the DD970’s they had already started upgrading and changing the plans so on our side of the river we would get a ship and then they would have to take a cutting torch to it and change some things.
They figured it was cheaper to just keep building all of them the same then take a torch to it and change it, than it was to redo the plans.
One idiot working on DD963 lost all 4 fingers on his right hand working on one of the auto loaders.
The welder he was working with hid one somewhere hoping one day a sailor would find it.
Who knows, it might still be there.
After the guy got his fingers cut off they put me down there working with the welder.
He told me if I got a finger cut off he would hide it too.
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