STOP! DELETE! DELETE!
Damn this old age memory losses.
That CAN NOT be a rivet hole. It IS the Forepeak tank BUT, that portion of the ship is all WELDED. Their are NO rivets there.
So what caused that hole is a mystery for now. It could be a crack in a weld joint. If I could afford to, I'd go over there and inspect it myself as I worked on a lot of deteriorated or damaged shell plating in my 10 years as a shipfitter and 29 years as a structural designer.
The last time Missouri was in dry dock at LBNSY we (including myself) did a pretty good inspection of the shell and it was in pretty good shape.
The only shell damage she has are the two dents in the starboard side below the main deck where that Zeke Kamikaze bounced off. I was given a job order to replace those dents when we reactivated her. I destroyed that order. Fortunately it was just a joke sent down to me from one of the Estimators.
Damn this old age memory losses.
That CAN NOT be a rivet hole. It IS the Forepeak tank BUT, that portion of the ship is all WELDED. Their are NO rivets there.
So what caused that hole is a mystery for now. It could be a crack in a weld joint. If I could afford to, I'd go over there and inspect it myself as I worked on a lot of deteriorated or damaged shell plating in my 10 years as a shipfitter and 29 years as a structural designer.
The last time Missouri was in dry dock at LBNSY we (including myself) did a pretty good inspection of the shell and it was in pretty good shape.
The only shell damage she has are the two dents in the starboard side below the main deck where that Zeke Kamikaze bounced off. I was given a job order to replace those dents when we reactivated her. I destroyed that order. Fortunately it was just a joke sent down to me from one of the Estimators.
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