Pic of the USS San Francisco

[submarinerswife]

Are you sure this photo was unclassified?

Absolutely...100%

[submarinerswife]

Are you sure this photo was unclassified?

Absolutely...100%

[dakine]

uh-oh...

[EricT.]

She's toast, scrap metal, totalled, old-broken, unseaworthy. Too bad, too. I understand she recently was refueled.

[El Gran Salseron]

wiseass. take your humor somewhere else. it is not wanted on this thread.

[Doohickey]

Nice, jackass.

[Doohickey]

Yes, it was in a couple of different threads.

[Professional Engineer]

Check the pics in #53. Durn!

[Professional Engineer]

I'm sure your poking fun at the crew is much appreciated somewhere. Somewhere is not here.

[LonePalm]

So much for the BQQ-5.

Prayers for the sailors.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Darksheare]

Yikes.
That's a huge portion of the bow gone.

[fastattacksailor]

A real class act, aren't you?

Care to say that to them in person---after they have buried a shipmate?

[Zebra]

Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf were the real naval battles of history. Too bad so few people know anything about them today.

Read up on the Battle of Jutland. Incredible engagement. It makes my top two.

[Josef1235]

I'm a disabled young civilian and my father's a Vietnam Navy vet. I also am interested in Navy history, too. Got a model aircraft carrier (MicroMachines) in my room w/ F/A-18s and an F-14 :-).

[DBeers]

wow -'damage' is an understatement -ripped apart is more like it...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Actually, the picture was taken from the bow (the pointy thingy at the front) looking toward the stern (the other end, the one with the fan). Looking forward from aboard the boat, the far side in the picture is the port side (they call it that because that's the side they always tie to the pier).

My apologies for the technical jargon; nautical terminology can be confusing at times. :=)

At the risk of being picky..... 8<)

On boats (subs for you surface type swimmers!) the pointy end of a boat IS the stern.

The rounded end IS the bow.

Starboard side is a derivative of the medieval term "steerboard" side - because the old tillers (before rudders were invented) were mounted to the right hand side of the ship - right hand defined, as you pointed out, looking forward.

through most of history (past the Napoleonic times, the opposite was the "larboard" side, but it became "port" side to reduce confusion in storms between "larboard + starboard" when giving voice orders.

[Robert A Cook PE]

In the closeup, what you are looking at is FROM the starboard side of the ship, looking aft towards the port side - which is severely crushed and bent away. Little damage on the upper part of the stbd main ballast tanks at this elevation (28 feet above the keel). Even the paint is unscarred. Underneath?

But the port side? This is where they must have hit vertical wall or spike shaped cliff - it destroyed the port side, but not the stbd steel as bad.

Completely bend and torn away in MBT1B. The are 6 MBT's forwards - each of the three "circular sections is divided in the middle into a port B and and stbd A tank. These MBT's BEGIN immediately after the circular dividing plate (frame) that is visible. Somebody pointed out the "holes" where the plastic (fiberglass, about 1" thick) sonar dome is attached. Those are the "little" black "circles", but each bolt is about 3/4" in diameter, and the bolt head (what's visible) is about 1-1/2" across.

The whole sonar dome is ripped off.

The sonar sphere is a watertight (until the boat hit the bottom!) sphere attached to this plate. It goes forward and holds 4 large electronics racks of transducer connection and wires.

The rectangular hatch is an access opening into these tanks I used all the time when the boat was in drydock or for maintenance.

[COEXERJ145]

All of the BB's had names of States.

Not all. BB-5 was named U.S.S. Kearsarge, the only U.S. battleship not to be named for a state. As a side note, Montana was the only state during the days of battleship building to never have an active duty battleship named for it. One was scrapped under the WNT before completion and the other was the lead ship of a class that was canceled in 1943.

[fastattacksailor]

As I remember they did not change the way the wheel was rigged until about the 1920's right?

I had a Great Uncle that had said that when he was in the RN in WW1, the ships used the tiller method.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Right. I was referring to the picture of the battle wagon.