[C19fan]

The Prinz Eugen accompanied the Bismarck on the Bismarck's only sortie including participating int he Battle of the Denmark Strait where the HMS Hood was destroyed. After the war, the Eugen was part of the "fleet" of 95 ships assembled to be blasted by a nuclear weapons test in Operation Crossroads in 1946.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Mathews]

Meh... we hot tap piping around here at least two to three times a year. Not a big deal unless you loose the button...

[nikos1121]

I can’t imagine how a little radioactive oil could contaminate the whole damn oceans of the world. I would think it would dissipate. In fact, there are some scientists who have said dumping our radioactive waste in the ocean is safe.

[rlmorel]

Handsome ship. I will say, I was generally not a fan of german aviation for the most part (FW-190 and ME-262 were good looking planes) but the Bismark and Prince Eugen were very nice looking naval vessels.

And capable. By all accounts, they had some of the best optical fire control systems out there (probably Zeiss...:)

[TexasGator]

” (The cruiser was fueled up for the tests in order to simulate the effects of an a-bomb on a fully loaded, combat-ready warship.)”

Why not use water?

[adorno]

Poop-ular mechanics had advertising on the site for Sony’s Aibo, a mechanical dog with some AI.

That was more interesting than the German ship story. Still, a $3,000 dog? I got my real dog for nothing, and it does a lot more than Aibo.

Sorry for the tangent... carry on.

[Conan the Librarian]

Actually, the Brits captured the Prinz Eugen and gave it to the Americans.

The Americans re-christened the ship as the USS Prinz Eugen and it was taken to Bikini for the test. it was nuked twice, survived, but, turned turtle and sank on it’s way back to Seattle for breaking.

One of my life’s goals is for us to sail to Kwajalein and get some close up (but not too close) pictures of the stern sticking up out of the water. It’s not QUITE on the way to Australia, but, we can try.

[abb]

Operation Cereberus (The Channel Dash) was an interesting operation in which the Prinz Eugen participated.

[aumrl]

Beautiful ship

[Lockbox]

So under President Trump’s ‘Leave No Oil Behind’ program, we will slant drill the ship to recover the valuable oil!

[Moltke]

Nuked twice and didn’t even spring an oil leak. That’s some solid engineering. Now, my neighbors old Jaguar on the other hand (not even nuked once)...

[Ouderkirk]

Isn’t this fuel “Bunker C Oil” aka #6 fuel oil and will need to be heated in order to make it viscous enough to be drawn off?