Posted on 08/13/2004 11:19:13 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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ROFLMAO!!
Hi Ya Sam, good pic..
LOL. That's a BIG stick.
One of my all-time favorite FR post was about big sticks.
Big navy sticks. Big air force sticks. Big army sticks.
I wish I had bookmarked it.
I remember that thread!
I'd guess the writer was trying to clarify it by saying basically.
Thanks for your input.
Good one again today.
Hiya feather. Sam and I went out early to feed the local ducks and then get a flag-o-gram picture for PE's Friday Foxhole FReeper posting. Stopped at the grocery along the way, filled up the tank and now it's time to catch up on posts and mail and then settle in to watch a movie! ;-)
Excellent choice! Love those big guns.
Good morning Mayor. Nice day today in Oregon. Cool and mostly sun.
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I found it!
Cool. Thanks Samwise.
Great pictures.
Even so, it is somewhat off of the mark. It is almost long enough, but far smaller in width and tonnage.
The Jupiter was roughly a contemporary with the Texas BB-35.
Jupiter:
dp. 19,360; l. 542'; b. 65'; d. 27'8; s. 15 k.;
Texas
displacement. 27,000 (n.); length. 573'0; beam. 95'2 1/2; (waterline.); draft. 29'7; (f.); speed. 21.05 k. (trial.);
At the time of its conversion, a contemporary battleship would have been even larger, and the Langley surprisingly smaller in displacement.
Langley
dp. 11,500 length. 542 beam. 65 extreme width (of flight deck). 65; draft. 18'11" speed. 15 k.
West Virginia BB 48
displacement. 33,590; length. 624'0; beam. 97' 3 1/2; draft. 30'6; (mean)
Kerry is emerging like the other Vietnam resume embellisher's exposed in Stolen Valor. Really scary to think someone like that could end up in the White House.
Even this landlubber can tell a battleship from a collier.
Latest I heard John Fraud Kerry is claiming he wasn't there at Christmas but some other time on "black" ops. Yeah, right. Gunga Kerry in his magic cap doing black ops when he couldn't even shoot a grenade launcher without hurting himself.
LOL! Ain't that the truth.
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