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[Fat Guy]

The latest San Antonio class ship USS Richard M. McCool Jr has a new radar and lacks the low-observable mast enclosures that gave the type its futuristic look.

[Wrangler]

Wasn't this done in preps of working on the 2nd Batch of the Class?  I thought it was for cost savings.

[I am Belch II]

I wonder why they did that??
I guess it didn't work as good as they wanted it to maybe?

[Giovanni Blasini]

I wonder why they did that??
I guess it didn't work as good as they wanted it to maybe?

Cost reductions.  The Flight II San Antonio class ships will have a number of cost reduction features, and the Richard M. McCool Jr is incorporatingsome of them.

[I am Belch II]

Cost reductions.  The Flight II San Antonio class ships will have a number of cost reduction features, and the Richard M. McCool Jr is incorporatingsome of them.

I can see that. The Burke's III, the new FFG and others, still use normal mast combos.

[Colt Ward]

Ironclad river gunboat USS Cairo - 1862 vs 2022.

She's the sole survivor of the fleet river gunboats built by the Union during the American Civil War.

Cairo was the first ship ever to be sunk by a mine remotely detonated by hand, then found and raised 100 years later, and now she serves as a museum ship in Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi, US.

Man, I wish I had known this was there . . . I used to travel through Vicksburg on I-20 a couple times a year when my folks lived in Atlanta and I was out past DFW.  Went to the riverside park even but did not know this was in the area.

[Wrangler]

They REALLY need put that indoors soon, I've read reports the wood remains is deteriorating faster.

[Colt Ward]

Battleships of the German Navy operating together during maneuvers in 1908.

The warships in the battle line that are closest to the camera are the Deutschland class pre-dreadnoughts. At this time, the Deutschland class was still the backbone of the German Navy. The succeeding class, the Nassau class dreadnoughts, were just coming into service at the time and were still working up.

[worktroll]

Some historical pictures from Vickers shipbuilders, in Barrow-in-Furness, England.



The launch of HMS Vanguard, 1909, a St Vincent-class dreadnought.



The launch of the Japanese battlecruiser Kongo at Vickers in 1912 - pre-Pagoda.



Winston Churchill, first lord of the Admiralty, at Vickers in 1915.

[Daryk]

That's an amazing picture of Churchill!

[Colt Ward]

For pucker potential . . .



USS Vermont (BB-20) in a storm in the Atlantic Ocean in December 1913 as taken by an observer on board USS Wyoming (BB-32).

[Fat Guy]

That looks like a painting that was scanned from a book, not a photo.

[Gorgon]

Or a still from a expressionist silent movie. The poor resolution produced by early photography really gives it surreal quality.

[Daryk]

I've been in that sea state (in a CVN)... it reminds you how small even BBs were back then...

[Gorgon]

I've been in that sea state (in a CVN)... it reminds you how small even BBs were back then...

No kidding, 456 feet / 139m in length, that's modern-day frigate dimensions! (Although the the Vermont had higher displacement, obviously)

[Daryk]

I can only guess what the sea state on the surface was, but I've also felt an SSBN MOVE at depth... that was more worrying than the waves breaking over the bow of the carrier!

[Wrangler]

The picture of the Vermont certainly does not strike me as a photo.  Especially, when you look at the water. The wire masts almost real.  That said, that must been hell of a ride for the crews manning crows nests.

[Giovanni Blasini]

No kidding, 456 feet / 139m in length, that's modern-day frigate dimensions! (Although the the Vermont had higher displacement, obviously)

Even then, the Vermont displaced a comparable amount to a modern Zumwalt class, while being 150 ft shorter.

[truetanker]

Those were real men back then, just boys fresh faced and no whiskers. You could grow sideburns but no whiskers, that was Officer Country there!

Only the Captain could have a full beard, everyone else had to cut theirs short. Later it became standard practice to trim and shave. Even today, a stash can be the most facial one can get to use, but even that has regulations.

TT

[Grognard]

In case you haven't heard Battleship New Jersey (BB62) is headed to drydock for maintenance.
First time since 1991.
Here is a pic of that fine Lady in 1982, when she was still an active warship.


https://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/drydock/

[truetanker]

I don't see "Rear" Admiral "Snookie" LaValle on the bridge?



TT

[ANS Kamas P81]

On the topic of high seas, here's the North Sea in all her fury:
https://twitter.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1757547952568983572

[Daryk]

And that's why "stowing for sea" is so important! ;D

[ANS Kamas P81]

Speaking of waves going over the decks, the Ukrainians just sank another major Russian ship.  Landing transport Cesar Kuznikov has joined the Moskva.

[Fat Guy]

Cesar Kunikov died on Valentine's Day 1943.

The ship named after him was sunk on Valentine's Day 2024.

Love is in the air.

[I am Belch II]

Cesar Kunikov died on Valentine's Day 1943.

The ship named after him was sunk on Valentine's Day 2024.

Love is in the air.

That is some cosmic level stars aligning

[Sabelkatten]

Either Death loved him, or Love hated him...

[Wrangler]

USS Lexington CV-2 in May 1942 while in Coral Sea prior to her loss.

[I am Belch II]

Lady Lex's smokestack is so unique.

[mikecj]

It looks so odd not being faired into the rest of the island like the Yorktown & Essex classes.