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Launching Of The USS Gurnard
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Posted on 03/10/2012 9:37:35 PM PST by WSGilcrest
Launching Of The USS Gurnard
While rummaging through my dad's attic, I came across this old tape of the launching of the Gurnard. I had to go to the Goodwill store and pick up an old VCR so I could transfer the tape to digital format. My pa was the Chief Naval Architect on Mare Island and I had the good fortune to witness several launchings.
TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: navy; submarine; ussgunard
To: Doohickey
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posted on
03/10/2012 9:38:42 PM PST
by
WSGilcrest
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To: WSGilcrest
Thanks it was appreciated...
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posted on
03/10/2012 9:54:34 PM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: WSGilcrest
Very interesting and neat. They certainly had those launchings down. Do they still use wood?
Thanks for sharing, WSGilcrest
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posted on
03/10/2012 9:59:25 PM PST
by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: unkus
This is how they launch now. Unceremonious launching of the USS Texas using a submersible barge.
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I remember pa explaining to me that if they got the speed wrong, the aft end of the boat would become buoyant before the fore end was off the ways and the boat could break in half.
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:17:01 PM PST
by
WSGilcrest
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To: WSGilcrest
Mare Island, Home of the Horse and Cow
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:23:46 PM PST
by
mylife
And the Mare Island Mud Puppy (USS Guitarro)
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:25:49 PM PST
by
mylife
To: mylife
OK. you asked for it...
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:28:53 PM PST
by
WSGilcrest
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To: WSGilcrest
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:29:15 PM PST
by
unkus
(After his discharge from the army he)
To: WSGilcrest
What a way to mix a drink.
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:32:24 PM PST
by
unkus
(After his discharge from the army he)
To: WSGilcrest
☺
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:37:50 PM PST
by
mylife
To: WSGilcrest
Nobody is gonna understand the dance of the flaming assholes LOL
I recall a drink called a nuclear waste.
They’d bust a cyalume light and strain it through cheese cloth, mix it up with rum or some thing like otto fuel and serve it up LoL
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:47:28 PM PST
by
mylife
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posted on
03/10/2012 10:56:32 PM PST
by
mylife
To: WSGilcrest
Why does this chowderhead call it the USS Gurnerd?
Is the GurnARD
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posted on
03/10/2012 11:19:32 PM PST
by
mylife
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