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Beat me to it...here is picture of some USS Nimitz crewmen giving her a new coat of paint back in 2009...

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I was disappointed to learn that Mikasa was in Yoko a few days after leaving my only port call in Yoko. Oh well, just an excuse to go back to Japan some day.
 

brownshoe

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My pleasure...VA-44 though..Hornets, I assume A-4's? Very cool.
Yeah, A4's! Nam was heating up and as the east coast A4 RAG we had at times close to 100 planes in our squadron. BZB604 was an IP with us. Fun times at Cecil.:)
 

Randy Daytona

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The oldest steel warship still afloat, the protected cruiser USS Olympia.
Very interesting history:
- flagship of Commodore Dewey in the Spanish-American War ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.")
- a training ship during WW1
- supported American troops against the Red Army along the Northern Dvina River near Archangel in 1919
- brought back the remains of the Unknown Soldier from France in 1921.

Now a museum. http://www.phillyseaport.org/olympia/

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The oldest steel warship still afloat, the protected cruiser USS Olympia.
Very interesting history:
- flagship of Commodore Dewey in the Spanish-American War ("You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.")
- a training ship during WW1
- supported American troops against the Red Army along the Northern Dvina River near Archangel in 1919
- brought back the remains of the Unknown Soldier from France in 1921.

Now a museum. http://www.phillyseaport.org/olympia/

h02894.jpg


USS_Olympia.jpg
Too bad she's slowly sinking in to the mud of the Delaware. Right across from her in lovely Camden is USS New Jersey. And elsewhere on the Pennsy side of the river is the SS United States. I grew up outside of Philly and never realized Olympia was part of the water front until long after I had left.
 

nittany03

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Too bad she's slowly sinking in to the mud of the Delaware. Right across from her in lovely Camden is USS New Jersey. And elsewhere on the Pennsy side of the river is the SS United States. I grew up outside of Philly and never realized Olympia was part of the water front until long after I had left.
I was about to ask if anyone knew the latest on that saga. Seems to be a bunch of "will they/won't they" WRT whether anyone can secure funding.

That ship getting scrapped would be a flat-out crime and abomination.
 

Griz882

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Too bad she's slowly sinking in to the mud of the Delaware. Right across from her in lovely Camden is USS New Jersey. And elsewhere on the Pennsy side of the river is the SS United States. I grew up outside of Philly and never realized Olympia was part of the water front until long after I had left.
She got a nice big grant from the National Park Service Maritime Heritage program but is in serious need of some real dry dock time. A few years ago she was up for sale for about $20 million. I bought a lottery ticket but to no avail.
 

jmcquate

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Ins't she parked next to the Wisconsin in Norfolk? Otris that another weird French boat?
 

Randy Daytona

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