The pictures don't really do the proportions justice: the superstructure looks like it was pulled off a much larger ship and just dropped down on the deck. It looked quite strange.
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Ship Photo of the Day
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GroundPounder
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Not that I will ever have to worry about it, but I would rather pull up somewhere in that, than a typical yacht and risk becoming a target.
China has just launched its first aircraft carrier with catapults: the Fujian.
Roughly 1,050 ft long and 80,000 tons.
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Roughly 1,050 ft long and 80,000 tons.
China launches Fujian, PLA Navy’s 3rd aircraft carrier
The Type 003 is China’s first carrier to use an advanced electromagnetic catapult system to launch planes from its deck.
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How does all the furniture stay put?
GroundPounder
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Either things are secured to the floor, and some items are brought out when the vessel is more or less going to be stationary.
A lot of the really big yachts are like a flat acting hotel, in that owners / renters meet them in port, and don't stay on board for transits. Obviously, there are exceptions.
As I say…building one is easy. Operating it in combat is a different thing entirely.China has just launched its first aircraft carrier with catapults: the Fujian.
Roughly 1,050 ft long and 80,000 tons.
China launches Fujian, PLA Navy’s 3rd aircraft carrier
The Type 003 is China’s first carrier to use an advanced electromagnetic catapult system to launch planes from its deck.
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Hell, operating at night is a completely different thing.
Not if you shipped your industrial base overseas and your Wall Street accountants optimized the supply chain for just in time - when national security dictates it should be just in case.
I know. It was a joke.
We really think we're going to beat China when they so brazenly copied SH-60s and E-2s like that?
As a native of the Palmetto State, I have this photo in my office of USS South Carolina BB-26 with the crew manning the rails. A contemporary of HMS Dreadnought, the South Carolina was the first “All Big Gun” battleship in the US Navy, with the important distinction of being the first battleship in the world to have superimposed turrets (4 twin gun turrets for an 8 gun broadside) which provided the same broadside as the less efficient Dreadnought (5 twin gun turrets but due to having wing turrets on the side, still only an 8 gun broadside.)
As an aside, I was at FedEx yesterday and noticed that they will print black and white photos up to 36x24 for only $5. So if there are photos you want of a particular ship, you can go to www.navsource.org, load the photos onto a thumb drive and have them print it on the spot.
April, 1921
As an aside, I was at FedEx yesterday and noticed that they will print black and white photos up to 36x24 for only $5. So if there are photos you want of a particular ship, you can go to www.navsource.org, load the photos onto a thumb drive and have them print it on the spot.
April, 1921
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Another piece of history found! The “Sammy B” (USS Samuel B Roberts, DE-413) from the fascinating Battle of Leyte Gulf - is now the deepest shipwreck ever discovered.
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SS Plunger was an early class of midget submarines, measuring 64 ft in length and 12 ft in beam. They generated interest from President Theodore Roosevelt who went aboard - and underwater - in this gasoline / battery powered submarine.
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It looks like they are headed out on a 3 hour tour - a 3 hour tour…
Plunger in 1902
Plunger-class submarine - Wikipedia
It looks like they are headed out on a 3 hour tour - a 3 hour tour…
Plunger in 1902
