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Originally Posted by Dreadnought
I just recently learned that the propeller that is displayed at the entrance of the park leading to the New Jersy pier is one of the Wiskey's 4 blade outboard props gien to them by PNSY.
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In the mid 1990's I had some work in the prop storage yard on the Mole of the Long Beach Naval Station. They had new and refurbished props from "SS 201 class" to BB's. Most of them had wooden "dog houses" built over them for protection.
Eventually they were sold off as scrap brass and the contractor who won the bid simply hired a large portable band saw and a flat bed truck and cut up the larger props on site and hauled away the pieces. Ah yes, good times.
At that time you could also drive by the side of building 53 (or was it 55) and watch the welders cutting up the spare 16" barrels.