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Battleship to become L.A.'s newest museum [USS Iowa]
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| 21 June 2012
| Gary A. Warner
Posted on 06/22/2012 11:48:52 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
Also, very nearby is a 16” barrel from the USS Wisconsin. The barrel is located by the San Pedro Maritime Museum at the intersection of Sixth Street and Harbor Boulevard. It is on display right by the sidewalk and a couple of naval memorials. (They put metal crossbars in the barrel so that kids could not crawl in and get caught inside!)
To: 17th Miss Regt
There is also a Liberty ship you can take a tour on and you can also see the prow of the USS San Pedro (outside the museum).
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:11:03 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: 17th Miss Regt
I have seen that 16” gun. It is an astounding piece of metal!
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:11:03 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(A conservative, a liberal and a moderate walk into a bar. Bartender says "what'll it be, Mitt?")
To: smokingfrog
To: smokingfrog
Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:14:43 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
To: 17th Miss Regt
“...very nearby is a 16 barrel from the USS Wisconsin.”
Depending on who was in charge of placing that thing, it might be fun to calculate the trajectory of a hypothetical shell that might be fired from it, and see if there’s any particular point of interest at what would be the target.
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:27:59 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(The patient is bleeding to death! Apply more leeches!)
To: moonshot925
IMHO the most beautiful warship ever created.
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:29:25 PM PDT
by
diverteach
(If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
To: smokingfrog
I took my little 18 ft Chapparel out to see her when they towed her into LA harbor. She looks great. The volunteers did a great job, in very short order, to tidy her up.
I can post a few pictures this afternoon.
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:29:46 PM PDT
by
catbertz
To: catbertz
I should know how to spell the name of my boat lol. Chaparral!
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:33:44 PM PDT
by
catbertz
To: moonshot925
Anyone seeing the photo of that broadside..here’s what always fascinated me. At “battlespeed”, a broadside of those 16” rifles actually pushed that gigantic steel monster a few feet in the opposite direction.
I asked a Fire Control Chief once as to the accuracy of those giant guns. His serious reply..
“If you are in a rubber raft 9 miles away, give them a free shot at you. Before they reload and re-fire.....learn to fly.”
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:39:09 PM PDT
by
CaptainAmiigaf
( NY Times: We print the news as it fits our views.)
To: diverteach
I will never forget sitting out on the forcastle after work, listenin to tunes. It was the best of times. Watchin dolphins swimming two feet in front of the ship was pretty cool too.
I took one very good pic of the guns firing, but I never have figured out how to post pics here.
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:42:01 PM PDT
by
Sporke
(USS-Iowa BB-61)
To: ConorMacNessa
Is it just me or is the force of all the main guns going off pushing the ship to port?(notice wake at bow)
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:44:08 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
(Men who will not suffer to self govern, will suffer under the governance of lesser men.)
To: ConorMacNessa
Chuckling, and shaking my head as I see the powerful recoil effect in the sideways wake of the vessel. I see they are shooting to port, and the ship is leaving “wake” as it is recoiling to the port.
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:44:44 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: smokingfrog
Having the U. S. S. Iowa will be great, but I would have loved it more if it were the U. S. S. Missouri.
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:47:04 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Remove all Democrats from the Republican party, and we won't have much Left, just a lot of Right.)
To: rockinqsranch
Actually, they are shooting to the starboard side.
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:50:22 PM PDT
by
jettester
(I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
To: Sporke
Posting pics isn't that difficult. First thing is that they need to be loaded onto the web. You can do this many ways but the easiest is to create a account with photobucket.com or use a facebook account. Once they are on the web, or pictures that are already on the web you'll need the web address of where that picture is at. What I do is simply place my mouse cursor directly on the picture and right click on it and you'll see an option to "copy image location" select that. In a FR post box you would type
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:58:35 PM PDT
by
diverteach
(If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
To: DoughtyOne
Missouri is on display at Pearl Harbor and they probably won't let you have it.
They put the Missouri next to the Arizona, the two ships representing the beginning and end of WWII (Arizona was sunk in the sneak attack which began the war, the surrender that ended the war was signed on the deck of the Missouri).
Which begs the question: where are Wisconsin and New Jersey, the other two battleships? Scrapped?
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:59:19 PM PDT
by
ZOOKER
( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
To: catbertz
I can post a few pictures this afternoon. Would love to see some pictures of your Chapparel. Post some pictures of the Iowa too while your at it. ;)
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posted on
06/22/2012 12:59:58 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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