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Nice picture, but I was hoping for some Flush Deck 4 Pipers of which there are none left!:( BB
I do miss the thrill. This is the USS San Bernardino LST-1189
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The razor blades you use might be where those four-stackers ended up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roadawg
I only am familiar with thumbnails; how did you do it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cecil
Louis go to Photbucket.com. Once you post the photo on their site you have four options. I use the "[IMG] code line". Just highlight the line, copy it and move over to the Jouster Forum. Write your response in the block hit enter a couple times, then click the photo icon: https://www.milsurps.com/images/editor/insertimage.gif
When the dialog box comes up paste your code line in the box. Remember to remove [IMG] from each end, then click OK and your good to go.
As a Tin Can Sailor, I can tell you those might be called Destroyers in the New Navy. But not to us who rode the true Greyhounds.... The Fletcher class. My goodness they are as large as Light Cruisers of World War Two.
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Louis go to Photbucket.com. Once you post the photo on their site you have four options. I use the "[IMG] code line". Just highlight the line, copy it and move over to the Jouster Forum. Write your response in the block hit enter a couple times, then click the photo icon: [/SIZE]https://www.milsurps.com/images/editor/insertimage.gif
When the dialog box comes up paste your code line in the box. Remember to remove https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/deleted.gif
Test copy beneath photo. test test
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[QUOTE=Cecil;21986]I do miss the thrill. This is the USS San Bernardino LST-1189
I recall watching those LST's being built in San Diego. Kept wondering when they were going to remove what I thought to be construction cranes up on the bow.
Wonder if there was a forward lookout up there ducking the waves? On the DD's we were allowed to hide behind Mount 51 when it got a little inclement and the blue water crashed over the signal bridge.....how kind the Navy
I watched them being built at National Steel next to 32nd Street. Over the course of my career I rode all but 5 of the 20 constructed on multiple occasions. Including 9 WestPac's in 8 years. Sometimes in fair weather and in the Gulf a lookout was posted on the arms. Just depended on the occasion. When I was on board with PhibCB-1 they looked like this:
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They are operating underway in company together, but I am not sure they are in formation in the formal sense. None of the three ships is flying Gulf as the guide. They may be in a column open order.
Nonetheless - it is a great Surface Warfare "Stiffy" photo
Now this a formation - all Four IOWAS in Formation in 1954 :
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Did a lot of DivTacs as OOD during my 8 years of Sea Duty. Most of the time though you are slicing holes in the water out in your screen sector with the other DDs and FFs in outer ASW screen of the CVBG - it was better than being an FFG/DDG doing inner screen AAW or worse lifeguard duty trailing the CV. Best of all was being on Spruance with Harpoons and later TASMs doing passive ASUW 50-100 nm from the CVBG
Based on the angle on the bow of the second destroyer it appears to me they are maneuvering into a Form 1 (single column) from an open column. Photo could have been taken from the guide
You could be right - the photograph could be taken from a fourth ship acting as guide. I agree that the second ship could going from Column Open Order to Form 1; the third ship on the starboard quarter doe not appear to have any left rudder manuvering into the Form 1 - my experience is that you have you rudder on as soon as you receive execute. They don't appear to doing this with Flag Hoists.
I hate to tell you, but any ship today, with the missile technology available in the world, is nothing but a slow moving target.
I am pretty sure that most us who have been in the military understand the vulnerabilities of the various platforms that we are assigned including fighters, helos, tanks, humvees, subs, surface ships and a set of the highly reliable Mark 1 Mod 0 "boots on the ground" utilized by all of us but the primary system utilized by our ground forces. As much as I and other others would like deflectors, personal shields, phasers, and particle beam weapons - most of us will never be issued them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nubber
The point of the thread was to admire ships "steaming" (a misnomer since those ships have gas turbine propulsion) in formation and maneuvering together. It is a holdover from a past naval era when we had "Ships of the Line" and naval battles utilized naval guns. Most Surface Warfare Officers enjoy the opportunity to maneuver in formation - when executed properly it is beautiful thing as you watch ships move quickly and precisely into the their assigned stations.
Or you can post any picture hosted on the web, even hot linking from another website by using the image tags, https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/deleted.gif
Dan
Roadawg,
My Dad served on a Flush Deck 4 Pipe, USS Semmes, from '37 to '40. He then went to Naval Avation and made a career of it. Time goes on but I have the memories of the stories he told me.
Cheers, Don
Bonaker,
Great memories I'm sure! Did he ever mention the disaster at "The Honda"? Love to hear whatever you can remember, email me direct if you'd like. BB
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