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Jul 27^th, 2007 at 2:26pm

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Sitting in the middle of downtown.... Wink

The battleship Wisconsin sitting at Nauticus in Norfolk, Virginia (This is one I took).... Tongue

I was serious about it being literally in downtown Norfolk-

From the Nauticus website.

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Reply #1 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 2:56pm

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That is one big canoe Shocked

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Reply #2 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 3:06pm

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ozzy72 wrote on Jul 27^th, 2007 at 2:56pm:

That is one big canoe Shocked

I couldn't get over how odd it looked straight on-

I'm glad that I never had to serve as one of the slaves rowing this boat, ramming speed must have been a real ball buster....lmao

From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wisconsin_(BB-64)
Displacement: 45,000 tons
Length: 887.2 ft (270 m)
Beam: 108.2 ft (33 m)
Draft: 28.9 ft (8.8 m)
Speed: 33 knots (61 km/h)
Complement: 1,921 officers and men

Armament: 1943:
9 x 16 in (406 mm)
20 × 5 in (127 mm)
50 cal. Mark 7 guns
38 cal. Mark 12 guns
80 x 40 mm 56 cal. anti-aircraft guns
49 x 20 mm 70 cal. anti-aircraft guns

1983:
9 x 16 in (406 mm)
12 × 5 in (127 mm)
50 cal. Mark 7 guns
38 cal. Mark 12 guns
32 x BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles
16 x RGM-84 Harpoon Anti-Ship missiles
4 x 20 mm/76 cal. Phalanx CIWS

"I have a place where dreams are born, And time is never planned. It’s not on any chart, You must find it with your heart."

Albert Einstein - "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Martin Luther King Jr. - “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”

Mark Twain - “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

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Reply #3 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 3:12pm

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Great pics again Romulus, as have been all of your pics today, I've enjoyed them all.

I agree with you though, that ship looks bizarre from the bow, looks like it should fall over quite often. Shocked

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Reply #4 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 3:13pm

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I'm glad I'm not paddling a sampan around that bugger Shocked

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Reply #5 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 3:20pm

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ozzy72 wrote on Jul 27^th, 2007 at 3:13pm:

I'm glad I'm not paddling a sampan around that bugger Shocked

Heck, I got tired just walking around it on the docks.... Roll Eyes

"I have a place where dreams are born, And time is never planned. It’s not on any chart, You must find it with your heart."

Albert Einstein - "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Martin Luther King Jr. - “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”

Mark Twain - “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

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Reply #6 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 3:53pm

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They just don't make 'em like that anymore. I've always thought the RN needed a nice battleship again. Frigates and Destroyers just aren't as fun. And submarines spend too long being anti-social!

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Reply #7 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 4:29pm

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I agree, nothing looks more menacing on the waters than one of those big old battleships with her main guns pointing your direction Shocked

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Reply #8 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 5:08pm

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She's sitting abit high in the water isnt she? Undecided

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Reply #9 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 5:12pm

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AlphaBravo wrote on Jul 27^th, 2007 at 5:08pm:

She's sitting abit high in the water isnt she? Undecided

I was told by some guy at Nauticus that she was pushed into place by tugs and that there is supposedly only 4 feet from her keel to the bottom (at low tide) because of all the water she displaces. I have no idea if this is true or not (about the clearance to the bottom), but it sounds like a bit of BS to me. Undecided

"I have a place where dreams are born, And time is never planned. It’s not on any chart, You must find it with your heart."

Albert Einstein - "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Martin Luther King Jr. - “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.”

Mark Twain - “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”

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Reply #10 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 5:15pm

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AlphaBravo wrote on Jul 27^th, 2007 at 5:08pm:

She's sitting abit high in the water isnt she? Undecided

There's very little weight in her compared to when she was in service - no fuel, no ammo stocks, no food stocks, no crew... it all adds up.

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Reply #11 - Jul 27^th, 2007 at 5:24pm

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Romulus111VADT wrote on Jul 27^th, 2007 at 5:12pm:

AlphaBravo wrote on Jul 27^th, 2007 at 5:08pm:

She's sitting abit high in the water isnt she? Undecided

I was told by some guy at Nauticus that she was pushed into place by tugs and that there is supposedly only 4 feet from her keel to the bottom (at low tide) because of all the water she displaces. I have no idea if this is true or not (about the clearance to the bottom), but it sounds like a bit of BS to me. Undecided

Does sound like bs, however I did see a show on discovery or national geographic called boneyard and they were showing the mothballed ships and they had to move one of them and it's keel was sitting in like 10 feet of muck (give or take a few, i dont remember) under the water and they had to dredge it out, so he might be right? Huh

The ship was a museum and it's dock was getting tore up so they had to move it out of the way so they could rebuild the dock

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Reply #12 - Jul 29^th, 2007 at 2:24pm

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Great shots in all the posts, I really like the second one here, when you can compare the builds to the ship, it really shows how big those things are. Mark

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