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More striking pictures of American battlewagons
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“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.” -
USS WisconsinAttached Files“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.” -
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USS Wisconsin at rest in NorfolkAttached Files“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”Comment
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USS Wisconsin gets a passing visitorAttached Files“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”Comment
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USS IowaAttached Files“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”Comment
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And now for some shameless vanity pictureAttached Files“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”Comment
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YES!
Awesome pix bro. :)Comment
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What ship is that, the USS Wisconsin?Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Abusing Yellow is meant to be a labor of love, not something you sell to the highest bidder.Comment
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That's USS Alabama (BB-60). If you look at the Firearms forum you'll see me on USS Edson (at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space museum, which you've been to :)). Scroll down a bit further and you'll see my father manning a twin 20mm mount on the 'bama.“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”Comment
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Yeah, I saw those. What armament did the BB-60 have? I assume it was different than the BB-61 Iowa calss.Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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Yes, to a certain extant her armament was different, though superficially looked the same.
The Iowas had the 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 which GlobalSecurity describes it this way: "The IOWA class are the only battleships to mount this weapon which is a considerable improvement over the 16in/45cal guns mounted in the North Carolina and South Dakota classes."
The secondary armament on the Iowas and the Alabama was identical in type and number specifically 20 of the Mk 28 - 5-inch / 38 caliber guns mounted 2 guns X 10 mounts. The 5-inch/38 was used on virtually all US warships of destroyer size and larger. (Alabama's sistership South Dakota was outfitted as a flagship and so carried only 16 5-inchers.)
The number of 20mm and 40mm AA guns carried by each ship varied even amongst ships in the same class, but generally speaking, an Iowa-class carried more of both owing to it's larger size.Last edited by TopHatter; 16 Sep 03,, 22:22.“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”Comment
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Just because i know BR is going to ask, the difference between a 16"/50 and a 16"/45 is barrel length.
The '50' refers to a barrel length 50x the bore of the gun.
So a 16"/45's barrel is 80" shorter than a 16"/50.Comment
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Thankx, M21. Longer barrel length means more accuracy as opposed to less range, right? I know that's how it works in guns...Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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Speaking of 16-inch guns, if you look at the picture of the Iowa firing her main battery, you'll see several of the 16-inch guns in the process of recoil.
On persistant myth or urban legend (whatever you prefer) is that the battleship is kicked back several feet or several dozen feet (depending on the story) whenever she fires her main guns. This story is exacerbated by the water around the ship being "boiled-up" for lack of a better expression, by the muzzle blast giving the appearance of a wake.
It is so annoying that some people persist in that rumor without stopping to think for just a mintue or 3 about what they are saying.
Guy Derdall's site has an excellent article on this. For some reason though, Warships1.com has been down for some time.Last edited by TopHatter; 17 Sep 03,, 15:49.“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”Comment
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Here is a link to a photo gallery of the USS Alabama park. I have to say that these pictures look even better than when I was there and saw everything with my own eyes. They are simply amazing in my opinon and well worth the time to check them out.
http://www.faraway-soclose.org/photos/al01.html“He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”Comment
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