Who Likes Ships? We Have Aircraft and Trains.

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This is the 64-gun Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm, she is the most complete 17th-century warship that has ever been salvaged . . .

 

[65Bel]

USS Oriskany (CV-34) The last Essex-class carrier ever completed. She was sunk 25 miles south of Pensacola, Florida, becoming the largest ship ever used to create an artificial reef. She's now earned the nickname "The Great Carrier Reef" . . .

 

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Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano. Not yet completed, it was heading to Kure Navel Base for completion and outfitting when it was sunk in Nov. 1944. Never having been used in the war, at 872 feet long and 69,000 tons it is still the largest warship sunk by a submarine - the U.S. Navy 'Archerfish'.

Not intended for normal fleet duty, the Shinano was planned as a supply carrier to replenish aircraft and fuel to smaller regular aircraft carriers.

 

[65Bel]

A Japanese pilot's last vision. The Imprint of a Mitsubishi kamikaze Ki-51 'Sonia' two-seat light bomber, along the side of H.M.S Sussex. You can see the fixed undercarriage imprinted on 'Sussex's hull as well.

 

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Thomas W Lawson: Great Great(?) Grandfater was Captain during coal hauling days, left when converted to oil hauler, it sank.

 

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There is only 1 "REAL SHIP", they are submarines, the rest are TARGETS.

 

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[65Bel]

USS New Jersey (BB-62) transiting the Panama Canal, April 1984 . . .

 

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