Battleship Envy

 

1. That is so neat.

   I love battleships.  One of my goals in life is to visit a Iowa Class Battleship.  I’m hoping to go see the USS Alabama.  Although it’s not an Iowa Class, she’s close enough.

   Posted by BobF       05/29/2007  at  06:25 AM  



2. BobF,
   If you’re ever in the New England area we have a great display right up your alley. At Battleship Cove in Fall River, Ma. we have the (S. Dakota class battleship) U.S.S. Massachusetts, cruiser Fall River, destroyer Joseph Kennedy, submarine Lionfish, a couple of PT boats, a higgins made landing craft, and an East German Navy Corvette, the Hiddensee.
   It’s a loooong day or a weekend trip. The battleship is filled with museums and berths where they host overnight trips by Scouts and other organizations.
   There, I’ve done my part for the Mass. Tourism Council!

   Posted by mojoe       05/29/2007  at  08:51 AM  



3. Very cool! Did he carve the gun crews too? That guy should be working in Hollyweird.

   Posted by DaToad       05/29/2007  at  08:59 AM  



4. Wow .... that is one heck of a model.  DaToad is right ... that guy should go pro.

   Posted by Zebster       05/29/2007  at  09:15 AM  



5. He might have taken his attention to detail too far ... looks like the gun crew is loading the cannons with real .30-30 ammo!

   Posted by Drew458       05/29/2007  at  10:00 AM  



6. Drew 458,
   What fun is tooling around the lake if you can’t deliver the occasional broadside?

   Posted by mojoe       05/29/2007  at  12:38 PM  



7. BobF—a couple of other places to tour would be the USS Yorktown (an Essex class carrier) and associated ships in Charleston, SC, and the USS Texas (a New York class battleship—the only surviving, intact WWI battleship left in the world, it saw action in WWII as well) at the San Jacinto battleground in Deer Park, Tx.

   For actual Iowa class battleships, there’s the USS North Carolina in Wilmington, NC, The USS Missouri is at Pearl Harbor, HI, USS New Jersey is in Camden, NJ, USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, VA and then there’s the class ship USS Iowa at Mare Island, Vallejo, CA.

   Posted by gb_in_ga       05/29/2007  at  01:01 PM  



8. Thanks guys for the information.  My wife has been wanting to visit Alabama, so that’s why my wish to see the USS Alabama but one of my close friends just retired from the Navy at Norfolk and the USS Wisconsin gives me another reason to take a trip to Virgina.  Mojoe, that must be great all those warships in one place. 

   I’ve spent 26 years in the Air Force but I have a love for Battleships and and large warships.  Maybe that’s why I spent my career working only the heavies: B-52, KC-135, C-141, and B-2.  If it ain’t big, it ain’t worth messing with.

   Posted by BobF       05/29/2007  at  05:24 PM  



9. So far I haven’t actually boarded any of them (had an invite from a buddy on the Wisconsin but no time) but I’ve got photos I took of the Missouri and New Jersey firing broadsides (from about a mile away off their starboard bows - along with the Long Beach and several other combatants) and pics of both the MO and the Wisconsin during Desert Storm.

   The Wisconsin pics are of us abeam of them getting gassed (unrepping dfm - that’s marine diesel fuel for you landlubbers) up in the Northern Gulf at around 20 knots.

   Posted by babylonandon       05/29/2007  at  06:23 PM  

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