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To: Stonewall Jackson
So are they just going to do up a new bow for the Honolulu
49 posted on 12/15/2007 11:45:03 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (No buy China!!)
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To: VeniVidiVici
Nope. She heads to the shipbreakers after they take what parts they need from her to repair the San Francisco.

They did the same thing with a couple of battleships back in 1956. The Wisconsin shattered her bow in a collision with the destroyer-escort Eaton, so the Navy took the bow from the incomplete Kentucky and welded it onto the Wisconsin. A new bow was constructed for the Kentucky, as they were considering turning her into a massive missile ship, but they ended up scrapping her two years later.

Wisconsin after collision with Eaton.

51 posted on 12/15/2007 11:57:42 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson (The Hunt for FRed November. 11/04/08)
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