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Ship Photo of the Day
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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I’m sure many of you have driven over the Woodrow Wilson Bridge near DC on I-95. Did you know, however, that at base of the Virginia side was the location of the Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation? Created during WWI, the Emergency Fleet Corporation, developed to oversee a vast merchant fleet expansion, was put under the control of businessman Charles A. Schwab. The corporation would increase American merchant tonnage from a production of only 250,000 tons per year to a fleet that measured over 9 million tons.
At the Alexandria yard they built the Design 1015 vessel. With 402 feet of waterline and a 53 foot beam, the steel hulled ships were generally called the “Moore & Scott type.
A ship coming off the ways.
After the war most of the ships ended up as a ghost fleet in Mallows Bay, Maryland, just across the Potomac from MCAS Quantico.
At the base of the bridge you can see an outline of the type (part of the U.S. National Park site at Jones Point, Alexandria, VA.
At the Alexandria yard they built the Design 1015 vessel. With 402 feet of waterline and a 53 foot beam, the steel hulled ships were generally called the “Moore & Scott type.
A ship coming off the ways.
After the war most of the ships ended up as a ghost fleet in Mallows Bay, Maryland, just across the Potomac from MCAS Quantico.
At the base of the bridge you can see an outline of the type (part of the U.S. National Park site at Jones Point, Alexandria, VA.
Where is the peak of that? I'm having trouble finding it.
Not sure how you are trying to locate it. If using an online map find the WW bridge and zoom in on the Virginia (south) side of the bridge and look immediately to the north side of the bridge…you’ll see it there.
If you are driving, get to Old Town Alexandria, get to Duke Street, head east (toward the Potomac), take a right onto S. Royal St and follow it to the end…it turns into Jones Point Road under the bridge. Follow it to the left, park wherever you want, and take the path directly to the river…you can’t miss it. If you look you can find an old rudder from one of these ships on display just outside the bathrooms that you’ll see under the bridge to your right. Bonus side trip…walk over to the light house, go into the “front” (river side) yard and look for the old DC/Virginia boundary stone right at the edge of the river. Take the time to enjoy a nice meal on King Street!
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Here's hoping they keep getting biggerEvolution of the Battleship.
Comparison between battleships USS New Jersey (top, as in 1944) and Yamato (bottom, as in October 1944).
Even though the Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest battleships ever built, they were shorter in length than the Iowa-class. Much of Yamato’s weight came from her armor and armaments. Each of Yamato’s 18 in turrets weighed around 2700 tons, about the weight of an Akizuki-class destroyer.