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From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:16:35 -0400
Right. I've seen a few of those down at BIW. Like the destroyers, only on 
steroids.

When in Charleston, SC, years ago, I visited the riverside park where they have 
an old diesel submarine, a WWII destroyer and a WWII aircraft carrier. I'm too 
lazy to look up their names. The destroyer was famous for having taken the 
greatest number of kamikaze hits in the Pacific, and I was blown away (oops!) 
by how small it was. When the sailors called them tin cans, they weren't 
kidding. Don't know how it could have taken one hit and stayed afloat, much 
less multiple.

One of my favorite books growing up was Alistair Maclean's HMS Ulysses. Can't 
recall it it was a destroyer or a cruiser, though.

--Bob



On May 26, 2011, at 2:23 AM, Chris Barker wrote:

> But there again, perhaps this is what I meant.  It certainly has the radar 
> that I was shown around:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticonderoga_class_cruiser

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