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Pic of the USS San Francisco

Posted on 01/25/2005 2:29:55 PM PST by submarinerswife

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bubbleheads; looksjustlikearedx; squid; usn; usssanfrancisco
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To: rawhide
Are you sure this photo was unclassified?

Absolutely...100%
81 posted on 01/25/2005 4:11:25 PM PST by submarinerswife
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To: rawhide
Are you sure this photo was unclassified?

Absolutely...100%
82 posted on 01/25/2005 4:11:50 PM PST by submarinerswife
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To: keithtoo

uh-oh...


83 posted on 01/25/2005 4:14:00 PM PST by dakine
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To: Truth666

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


84 posted on 01/25/2005 4:14:32 PM PST by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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To: keithtoo

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


85 posted on 01/25/2005 4:20:02 PM PST by El Gran Salseron ( The replies by this poster are meant for self-amusement only. Read at your own risk. :-))
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To: keithtoo

Nice, jackass.


86 posted on 01/25/2005 4:24:01 PM PST by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
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To: Ready4Freddy

Yes, it was in a couple of different threads.


87 posted on 01/25/2005 4:25:02 PM PST by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
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To: msdrby; SAMWolf; Darksheare; Valin; alfa6; Iris7

Check the pics in #53. Durn!


88 posted on 01/25/2005 4:29:39 PM PST by Professional Engineer (The number exactly halfway between +1 and -1 is not "OH".)
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To: keithtoo

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


89 posted on 01/25/2005 4:31:42 PM PST by Professional Engineer (The number exactly halfway between +1 and -1 is not "OH".)
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To: submarinerswife; Sub-Driver
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)

90 posted on 01/25/2005 4:33:24 PM PST by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Professional Engineer; msdrby; SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; Valin; alfa6; Iris7

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


91 posted on 01/25/2005 4:34:11 PM PST by Darksheare (Trolls beware, the icy hands of the forum wraith are behind you!)
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To: keithtoo

A real class act, aren't you?

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


92 posted on 01/25/2005 4:34:35 PM PST by fastattacksailor (This tagline under serious consideration!)
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To: datura
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.

93 posted on 01/25/2005 4:40:51 PM PST by Zebra
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To: ross_poldark

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 :-).


94 posted on 01/25/2005 4:41:02 PM PST by Josef1235 (My blog: http://josef-a-k.blogspot.com)
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To: Truth666

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


95 posted on 01/25/2005 4:50:05 PM PST by DBeers
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To: Bob; fastattacksailor
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.

96 posted on 01/25/2005 4:54:10 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: finnman69; Doohickey
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.
97 posted on 01/25/2005 5:08:15 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Kerry's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: AntiBurr
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.

98 posted on 01/25/2005 5:14:11 PM PST by COEXERJ145
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

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.


99 posted on 01/25/2005 5:19:41 PM PST by fastattacksailor (We interrupt your jihad to bring you a Crusade)
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To: AntiBurr

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


100 posted on 01/25/2005 5:26:06 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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