U.S. Navy destroyers; great photo of a formation

[Louis of PA]

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[Roadawg]

Nice picture, but I was hoping for some Flush Deck 4 Pipers of which there are none left! BB

[Cecil]

I do miss the thrill. This is the USS San Bernardino LST-1189

[Louis of PA]

Nice picture, but I was hoping for some Flush Deck 4 Pipers of which there are none left! BB

The razor blades you use might be where those four-stackers ended up.

[Louis of PA]

I do miss the thrill. This is the USS San Bernardino LST-1189

I only am familiar with thumbnails; how did you do it?

[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:

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.

[7.62 NATO]

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 of PA]

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]

When the dialog box comes up paste your code line in the box. Remember to remove


Test copy beneath photo. test test

[7.62 NATO]

[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

[Cecil]

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: