Locations of All-Gun Ships

[Boomhauer]

There's a story I must have missed.  What happened in South Cackalaxative?

Last year Scout came down and linked up with the APS Southern Contingent while he was visiting some Army buddies. His clutch *expletive deleted* the bed after towing his popup up the Godforsaken Mountain I was living on. This state also makes no sense to him and he didn't appreciate the local scenery of trailer parks 

[Hawkmoon]

Out of curiosity, how many of the late-model battleships were actually built, and where are they all now? Does anyone have a comprehensive list?

[EDIT TO ADD]I found a complete list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battleships_of_the_United_States_Navy.
 Now -- can someone tell me at what hull number we start considering them to be "modern" (or WW2-era) battleships? Then I'll start looking up to where they have been retired.

There's lots of fascinating info out there. I think I see how I'll be spending the weekend.

Battleship Cove is looking good. Did I say New Bedford? Wrong -- Fall River. (I knew that.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Cove

[kgbsquirrel]

Any of the Fast Battleships would be considered modern WW2. North Carolina, South Dakota and Iowa classes.

ETA:

Of the 10 fast battleships completed, the following still exist:

North Carolina BB-55 - Wilmington, NC
Massachusetts BB-59 - Battleship Cove, Fall River, MA
Alabama BB-60 - Mobile, AL
Iowa BB-61 - San Pedro, CA
New Jersey BB-62 - Camden, NJ
Missouri BB-63 - Pearl Harbor, HI
Wisconsin BB-64 - Norfolk, VA

Sadly, none of the two Alaska class survive today. Those were of the very rare designation of CB, or "Large Cruiser".

[Hawkmoon]

Here's the good info:

Aircraft-carrier museums

    USS Hornet Museum; Alameda, CA – USS Hornet (CV-12)
    Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum; New York City – USS Intrepid (CV-11)
    USS Lexington Museum on the Bay; Corpus Christi, Texas – USS Lexington (CV-16)
    USS Midway Museum; San Diego, California – USS Midway (CV-41)
    Patriots Point; Charleston, South Carolina – USS Yorktown (CV-10)

Battleship museums

    See also: USS Arizona Memorial, USS Maine, and USS South Dakota[3]

    Battleship Memorial Park – USS Alabama (BB-60)
    Pacific Battleship Center - USS Iowa (BB-61)
    Battleship Cove – USS Massachusetts (BB-59)
    Battleship Missouri Memorial – USS Missouri (BB-63)
    Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial – USS New Jersey (BB-62)
    USS North Carolina Battleship Memorial – USS North Carolina (BB-55)
    USS Texas (BB-35)
    USS Wisconsin (BB-64)

[kgbsquirrel]

Ooo, thanks wiki. Picture of the USS Alaska CB-1 next to the USS Missouri BB-63. Gives a good comparison between them. The Alaska's were armed with 12"/50 guns. Pretty fookin' big for a "cruiser".    Also visible at the bottom of the pic is a CVE pocket carrier and a couple destroyers, you know, for scale.

[Scout26]

That would appear to be USS Cowpens, CVL-25.


The Mighty Mo docked near The Mighty Moo. 

[Scout26]

I stand corrected, it's not the USS Cowpens CVL-25, but the USS Croatan CVE-25.




Be a better pic if it were the Cowpens.


 

[kgbsquirrel]

The Mighty Moo. 

And now for something a little different, another Navy vessel that carried the moniker "Mighty Mo".

Mighty Mo, SEAL Team ONE's heavily armed Mike boat (LCM) is ambushed in the Rung Sat Special Zone, a four hundred square mile mangrove swamp surrounding the main (Long Tau R.) and alternate (Soi Rap R.) shipping channels between Saigon and the South China Sea.

On Friday night, 7 OCT 66, Mighty Mo was on the upper Dong Tranh River. Also on the same river was a force in excess of 150 NVA reroute to attack the PBR base at Nha Be'. (This was revealed in documents captured in a later SEAL operation.) When the NVA heard Mighty Mo's engines they quickly set up an ambush on both sides of the narrow river. The first shot was a direct hit amidships with a motar round. The SEALs and crew of Mighty Mo responded with five .50 caliber machine guns, two .30 calibers, a mortar and a recoilless rifle. When the battle was over everyone aboard the Mike boat was wounded and fifty-eight enemy were dead.

And here we see the origins of SWCC boats. 

[Hutch]

A first shot bullseye on a moving target with a mortar.  Astonishing.

[Jocassee]

What the hell was Abe smoking/drinking when they told him SC had seceded and he said "Oh hell no, we need to get them back in the Union!!" ??

I have asked myself that same question, many many times. What could have been an amicable divorce turned into a domestic violence incident followed by spousal beatings and alimony payments.

[mgdavis]

Bremerton, WA has a really neat reserve fleet mothballed up there, with 3 Aircraft Carriers of Cold War vintage.  The Independence, Constellation, and Ranger.

We do have the Turner Joy, it is maintained as a floating museum.

We had the Missouri before she was sent to Hawaii; I was able to take a tour before she left. I actually have a friend who worked in the engine room before she was decommissioned post-Desert Storm.

Seattle has Fleet Week in August, I think they still do tours of a variety of active vessels.

[roo_ster]

Given the newer rail-gun-ish tech coming down the pike, I'd like to see some nuke-powered fast cruisers, at least.  Nukes for the juice, HEAVY for the projectile mass.

IIRC, some crazy engineers were trying to include guidance on the projectiles.  My assumption is cheap & easier GPS.  If they can manage some sort of active guidance, I wonder if a smaller version of the rail guns could be used as an anti-aircraft/anti-missile system?

[Doggy Daddy]

Last year Scout came down and linked up with the APS Southern Contingent while he was visiting some Army buddies. His clutch *expletive deleted* the bed after towing his popup up the Godforsaken Mountain I was living on. This state also makes no sense to him and he didn't appreciate the local scenery of trailer parks 

Hmm.  I'm sure he was the very picture of stoic, diplomatic, tolerance.   

[French G.]

I recommend the Wisconsin in Nawfak. You can hit Nauticus which is ok, Mariner's Museum in Newport News for some old school history such as seeing the Monitor remains, maybe get up to Baltimore and see the USS Constellation as well as a WWII sub. If it was a long trip hit Charleston Patriots park(No BBs, but a cool DD, WWII sub, and Aircraft carrier), and Wilmington. I could even possibly take you aboard the Naval station and see some of the modern gun-free stuff up close. (If I knew when you were coming)Probably hard to get a tour, not much general visitation, but not impossible.

If he likes big guns some of the coastal fortifications from the Spanish-American period are really neat.

[Doggy Daddy]

I recommend the Wisconsin in Nawfak.

If you would watch NCIS, you would know the proper pronunciation is "Norfuk".  They find any excuse they can to say that. 

[Strings]

Cue me cussing out Scout: coming to my town, and not letting me know. Bloody damn flatlanders!

[Scout26]

Cue me cussing out Scout: coming to my town, and not letting me know. Bloody damn flatlanders!

1)  I was escorting a herd of Cub Scouts to spend the night on USS Cobia.

2) I didn't know you lived there!!!!

[Jamisjockey]

1)  I was escorting a herd of Cub Scouts to spend the night on USS Cobia.

2) I didn't know you lived there!!!!

Ah, the art of cat herding!

The other parents give me odd looks when I bark things like "Eyeballs!"
Were I the full blown den leader, they'd be trained to respond correctly.

[Hawkmoon]

The other parents give me odd looks when I bark things like "Eyeballs!"
Were I the full blown den leader, they'd be trained to respond correctly.

You rang?

[Scout26]

Hmm.  I'm sure he was the very picture of stoic, diplomatic, tolerance.   

Precisely, I tried to re-start the Civil War.

 

[kgbsquirrel]

Precisely, I tried to re-start the Civil War.

 

Ha! Reminds me of a Yeoman Warder giving a tour at Buckingham. "Guy Fawkes is notable as the only man in history to enter Parliament with honest, noble intentions, a clear agenda, and the resources to see it through. As you may recall, he tried to blow the place up." 

[Strings]

>1)  I was escorting a herd of Cub Scouts to spend the night on USS Cobia.

2) I didn't know you lived there!!!!<

Psha! We could have smuggled you some Jack, at the least.

Sad part? We lived within an easy walk of the Cobia at the time...