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Submarine takes to the water again after flash flooding in OK refloats the historic vessel (TR)
UK Daily Mail ^
| 05/24/2019
| Rod Ardehali
Posted on 05/24/2019 10:35:36 AM PDT by DFG
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posted on
05/24/2019 10:35:36 AM PDT
by
DFG
To: DFG
Still has Hull integrity hope they reposition it before the waters subside
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posted on
05/24/2019 10:37:38 AM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: DFG
The USS Batfish is a sister ship to the USS Bowfin in Pearl Harbor.
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posted on
05/24/2019 10:49:04 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: DFG
The story (as I heard it) was that some wealthy gentleman had bought her surplus and was going to have her brought up the river to (somewhere), but due to the river becoming shallow and narrow, she only made it to Muskogee and there she stays.
Now might be a good time to finish the journey.
(Although, I’m sure the fellow is long gone by now)
Glad she’s still floating and not sitting flooded out in the silt.
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posted on
05/24/2019 10:53:55 AM PDT
by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: DFG
I have a friend who served on the newer USS Batfish (SSN-681). Attack sub, decommissioned in 1999.
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posted on
05/24/2019 10:57:13 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
To: DFG; dfwgator
“Balao-class!!” - Kelsey Grammar
Nice-looking boat.
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posted on
05/24/2019 10:57:17 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: HANG THE EXPENSE
The local fire department was called in to fill the empty ballast tanks!
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posted on
05/24/2019 10:58:26 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: Kommodor
We were living in Tulsa when the first ocean going ship made it to the port of Catoosa.
It was a German ship and the captain and crew were surprised by the welcome. In an interview, the captain said they originally had some problems as the river buoys, navigation directions etc. were the very opposite of European rivers.
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posted on
05/24/2019 10:58:47 AM PDT
by
yarddog
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posted on
05/24/2019 11:05:31 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
https://warmemorialpark.org/about/u-s-s-batfish/
[snip] The famed submarine was a powerful U.S. weapon during World War II. Named for a ferocious West Indian fish, the Batfish sank 15 Japanese vessels during the war, among them three submarines in just 76 hours. The latter accomplishment has not since been matched and U.S.S. Batfish to this day remains the most successful submarine killing sub in history [/snip]
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posted on
05/24/2019 11:06:35 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: DFG
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posted on
05/24/2019 11:19:51 AM PDT
by
moovova
Comment #12 Removed by Moderator
To: SunkenCiv
[the Batfish sank 15 Japanese vessels during the war, among them three submarines in just 76 hours]
Wow
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posted on
05/24/2019 11:21:38 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: DFG
They have taken good care of that old girl. She’ll be just fine. Served on board a Balao class boat that had a GUPPY III conversion during the cold war. DBF!!!
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posted on
05/24/2019 11:23:31 AM PDT
by
SubVet72
To: DFG
Been there, seen that, and it is well worth the trip.
To: DFG
"Oklahoma"
Cuz where else would you display a submarine?
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posted on
05/24/2019 11:30:19 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: G Larry
Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport - Batfish would look good moored in the lagoon.
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posted on
05/24/2019 11:45:12 AM PDT
by
RitchieAprile
(available monkeys looking for the change..)
To: SaveFerris; DFG; dfwgator; Rebelbase; Gamecock; PROCON
Good duty for a Coast Guard submarine land guy.
To: stylecouncilor
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posted on
05/24/2019 11:58:24 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Larry Lucido
[Maybe I could be a land guy]
Somebody’s gotta unhook the boat from the thing when it leaves the place!!!
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posted on
05/24/2019 12:07:06 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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