Question for rusty

[RAL's_pal?]

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Im sure that you have much better memories then that.

Not really, have more garbage memories. I guess it's more the people associated with the ships who were the real culprits. I'd say there are about a half dozen people who were the real schmucks back then.

[Dreadnought]

Originally Posted by RAL's_pal?

Not really, have more garbage memories. I guess it's more the people associated with the ships who were the real culprits. I'd say there are about a half dozen people who were the real schmucks back then.

Pal, You know as well as I do they are unavoidable anywhere you go theres atleast 1. When it gets too much head for the nose bleed section.

[RustyBattleship]

Defecating on a ship. Hah! That brought back a funny memory. While I was still a shipfitter and working on swing shift, one of our welders came back in from a ship early. He went down into a tank on a ship to do the production welding of some repairs and found somebody got there before him and left a pile right at the bottom of the ladder.

He came back into the shop to clean his boots and report why he was not going to do the assigned job. The welder leading man, Walker, agreed and sat down to write an official report.

But he ran into a problem. He wanted to use the fancy words of defecating and feces, but didn't know how to spell them. So he's walking all around the shop asking, "How do you spell sh*t? But in a nice way."

[RAL's_pal?]

Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

Defecating on a ship. Hah! That brought back a funny memory. While I was still a shipfitter and working on swing shift, one of our welders came back in from a ship early. He went down into a tank on a ship to do the production welding of some repairs and found somebody got there before him and left a pile right at the bottom of the ladder.

You must have heard about it on the BB's, it was pretty common. Some sicko smeared it on the rungs of a ladder leading to a tank and some poor pipefitter found out while he was climbing down. Good old Swan didn't even blink when he saw it around ships. I was working in a stateroom on the Leahy, and some friends were working in the stateroom on the other side of the passageway. They went out for material and when the came back there was a pile in the middle of their dropcloth. Swan just happen to wander by, took a rag and picked up the mess and walked off. One hell of a Project Manager.

[Dreadnought]

Something of interest.

This past sunday I met a rather interesting gentleman who just happened to be the Russian Naval Attache to Washington D.C.. We spoke for sometime about the Iowas and their performance through out the years in service and he relayed to me how much they were admired far and wide in the Russian Naval districts and how he had dreamed of stepping aboard one since he was a child. He had also mentioned about the banner that was released not long ago for their national holiday bearing the Iowa as the naval representative on the banner in which made its debut here on the WAB. In jest I assumed it was supposed to be a Kirov class on the banner. The gentlemen relayed to me that it was a last minute disbaraging prank from some unhappy inparticular people with an axe to grind. Hope he enjoyed his time aboard.

[RustyBattleship]

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Something of interest.

This past sunday I met a rather interesting gentleman who just happened to be the Russian Naval Attache to Washington D.C.. We spoke for sometime about the Iowas and their performance through out the years in service and he relayed to me how much they were admired far and wide in the Russian Naval districts and how he had dreamed of stepping aboard one since he was a child. He had also mentioned about the banner that was released not long ago for their national holiday bearing the Iowa as the naval representative on the banner in which made its debut here on the WAB. In jest I assumed it was supposed to be a Kirov class on the banner. The gentlemen relayed to me that it was a last minute disbaraging prank from some unhappy inparticular people with an axe to grind. Hope he enjoyed his time aboard.

THAT is VERY interesting. I love myth busting and this cleared up the whole mystery. I just copied and sent this to Mike Weidenbach, the curator of the Missouri Museum in Hawaii.

Thanks a bunch.

[Dreadnought]

Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

THAT is VERY interesting. I love myth busting and this cleared up the whole mystery. I just copied and sent this to Mike Weidenbach, the curator of the Missouri Museum in Hawaii.

Thanks a bunch.

Not sure what I did for you Mr. L. but if it helps you out..Anytime.

[Dreadnought]

Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

THAT is VERY interesting. I love myth busting and this cleared up the whole mystery. I just copied and sent this to Mike Weidenbach, the curator of the Missouri Museum in Hawaii.

Thanks a bunch.

Mr. L., any update as of yet about Mo's plumbing?

[GAU-8]

Go easy on me. I'm an Airedale after all. I'm putting together a trip to see the U.S.S. Olympia. It will be part of a rambling history vacation including Gettysburg, D.C. and the Smithsonian Air Museum Annex outside of Dulles.

Worth the trip? Was she considered a battleship in her time or a cruiser?

From this link, it seems they are scrambling for funds for her upkeep.
Intro

[RustyBattleship]

Originally Posted by GAU-8

Go easy on me. I'm an Airedale after all. I'm putting together a trip to see the U.S.S. Olympia. It will be part of a rambling history vacation including Gettysburg, D.C. and the Smithsonian Air Museum Annex outside of Dulles.

Worth the trip? Was she considered a battleship in her time or a cruiser?

From this link, it seems they are scrambling for funds for her upkeep.
Intro

They are most definitely scrambling for funds to SAVE the ship and not just buy paint. The ship was almost sold for scrap a few years ago when one of the sea scouts working on it slipped on some ice on the brow, fell overboard and drowned. The family sued the hell out of the ship association and it took them a long time to recover financially.

Now it is in dire need of drydocking and hull repair. If they can get a dry dock, Philadelphia Resins will probably kick in repair coatings as they did with the Texas.

It is an interesting ship. Though the casement guns are imitations, they still look good. One of the turrets is actually a sheet metal copy of the original and it's very hard to tell the difference just by looking at it.

She's painted out in her original suntan shade which I happen to personally like.

An interesting thing of her design: The lead design engineer was a very religious man. So he designed the hull a certain scale equivelant of 300 cubits by 50 cubits by 30 cubits. Now you know what his model was (though the original builder wasn't around to offer any advice). Normally we accept a cubit as 18 inches or the length of our forearm from elbow to finger tip. But modern forearms are much longer than those of 4,500 years ago.

And it actually turned out to be very stable.

Enjoy your trip. Society Square is actually walking distance and you definitly should take a tour of Independence Hall. Ask the guide where the Maryland delegation sat and take a picture of it for me. A shirt tail ancestor of mine named Carrol was one of the signers.

[RustyBattleship]

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Something of interest.

This past sunday I met a rather interesting gentleman who just happened to be the Russian Naval Attache to Washington D.C.. We spoke for sometime about the Iowas and their performance through out the years in service and he relayed to me how much they were admired far and wide in the Russian Naval districts and how he had dreamed of stepping aboard one since he was a child. He had also mentioned about the banner that was released not long ago for their national holiday bearing the Iowa as the naval representative on the banner in which made its debut here on the WAB. In jest I assumed it was supposed to be a Kirov class on the banner. The gentlemen relayed to me that it was a last minute disbaraging prank from some unhappy inparticular people with an axe to grind. Hope he enjoyed his time aboard.

Okay you guys. I need some help. Or rather Mike Weidenbach of the USS Missouri Museum does. I forwarded the above information to him and he responded that he has only seen that poster on the Internet and it's too small to copy.

He needs a full size poster to mount in a frame aboard the ship.

If any of you can get a hold of one, you can either send it to me (and I will forward it) or to the MMA in Pearl Harbor.

[Dreadnought]

Originally Posted by GAU-8

Go easy on me. I'm an Airedale after all. I'm putting together a trip to see the U.S.S. Olympia. It will be part of a rambling history vacation including Gettysburg, D.C. and the Smithsonian Air Museum Annex outside of Dulles.

Worth the trip? Was she considered a battleship in her time or a cruiser?

From this link, it seems they are scrambling for funds for her upkeep.
Intro

A short sum about Olympia:

*Last of the armored cruisers and a very close cousin to the battleships that circumnavigated the globe in Teddy Roosevelts "Great White Fleet".

*Admiral Dewey's Flagship (Spanish American War) the last of its kind in existence.

* Triple expansion engines (Perk to ANY machinehead)

* Last orders in service to journey to Europe and return to the U.S. the remains of the unknown soldier and deliver them to Arlington National Cemetary where they rest to this day.

If you take the Engineering tour it is certainly well worth it for anybody in mechanics especially to get a look at those engines. They are in excellent condition. The interior of the ship will amaze you with how well the parlors etc are kept and the woodwork is outstanding.

Also: SS319 (I believe) Becuna (Guppy Class submarine) is there moored starboard side of the Olympia.

Definately worth a stop.

[Dreadnought]

Originally Posted by RustyBattleship

Okay you guys. I need some help. Or rather Mike Weidenbach of the USS Missouri Museum does. I forwarded the above information to him and he responded that he has only seen that poster on the Internet and it's too small to copy.

He needs a full size poster to mount in a frame aboard the ship.

If any of you can get a hold of one, you can either send it to me (and I will forward it) or to the MMA in Pearl Harbor.

Mr. L. Here is the link.
Google Image Result for http://englishrussia.com/images/russian_military_ads/3.jpg

Oh and by the way my mistake (since havent looked recently) Mo adourns the banner not Iowa.

[GAU-8]

Thanks for the info guys. It's a go.

[RustyBattleship]

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Mr. L. Here is the link.

Oh and by the way my mistake (since havent looked recently) Mo adourns the banner not Iowa.

Thanks, but what Mike wants is an original poster. He has written to official agencies requesting one, but the Russian agencies ignore him. (That's a no brainer).

Is there someone on this board (one of our Russian members perhaps?) who can get a hold of one of the real posters?

You can send it directly to Mike Weidenbach or to me and I will forward it to him (after making a copy for myself).