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Since I baffled a former Navy Surface Warfare Officer with this pic...

By The Armorer on March 28, 2007 | | Comments (20)

I think I'll try it out on you guys.

As a Whatziss.

So, Whatziss?

Okay! Nope. Try again.

There, your first instinct or google-result has been discarded. Keep working on it.

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By Trias on March 28, 2007 5:34 AM
It's not a ship? Well bugger me you got me good this time.
 
By BillT on March 28, 2007 5:38 AM
A crabber's view of a mobile seaweed plantation. One with a waterline armor belt.
 
By JimD on March 28, 2007 6:55 AM
Ok, You said the first guess doesn't count. But it still looks like BB64 - USS Wisconsin.
 
By HH on March 28, 2007 7:12 AM
Bow on view of a battleship. Scrolling down on your own site indicates there are apartments to the right side of dock area, outside of camera shot, and that you would live there if a broadside view met you each morning. USS Wisconsin.
 
By BillT on March 28, 2007 7:16 AM
Proof positive that Maggie will be charging down to the waterfront with her everriculum spread. *grrrrrrrr-ar-ar-ararar-snap!* Hey, hey! Down, PG-17c, you idiot! It's a trawl net...
 
By ry on March 28, 2007 7:42 AM
Actually, I think it's the stern and John's just being mean to y'all. ;)
 
By BillT on March 28, 2007 8:12 AM
By Neddie Jingoes, I think you've got it, ry. The Wisconsin was famous for being the only BB with 64 painted on the sides of her going-away side. Riiiiiiight.
 
By Barb on March 28, 2007 8:41 AM
I think it is the Wisconsin, and it is definitely the bow. Compare with this picture.
 
By BillT on March 28, 2007 8:50 AM
Dunno, Brab. The water looks totally different...
 
By Moose on March 28, 2007 8:57 AM
USS Kentucky, which was grafted onto the Wisconsin after the collision with a destroyer in the 50's?
 
By BloodSpite on March 28, 2007 9:16 AM
Well it ain't the Hue City although it could be the Kentucky but we'd need to check against the Camden and the Sacramento to be sure with some metallurgical analysis :) We know for dang sure it's not the Enterprise (one of my Dad's old Ships) It could have been the Pasadena but she was sold for scrap in 1972. I toyed with the idea that it might be the USS Hampton (my cousin's old boat. He's part of the deactivation crew for the Rickover now. ) and that I was losing my only-1-cup-of-coffee-fogged mind, but it's definitely not a sub. Left with no other options I'm stuck saying the Wisconsin as well.
 
By BillT on March 28, 2007 9:31 AM
Could just be the resolution, but it looks like the Tomahawk mast has had its spokes removed.
 
By Barb on March 28, 2007 9:52 AM
Yeah, the mast looks kinda bare. But even in this shot, it's hard to see the spokes.
 
By Gwedd on March 28, 2007 10:03 AM
Comrades, It's the brow of an Iowa-Class BB. That section you see spead out above her bow once held a pair of quad 40mm AAA mounts. There's an anchor to port and another to starboard, and that "hole" you see in her bow, topside, is for a tow line to be hauled through. Respects,
 
By Gwedd on March 28, 2007 10:10 AM
Comrades, John, are you talking about the Jack Staff on the bow? If so, my question there is why she has a small National Colour hoisted, rather than her Jack? For those outside the naughtical loop, a Jack is a flag usually made up of only the canton of a Nation's National Colour, and flwon when in port. For the USA, it's a solid blue field with a single white star for each state. Respects,
 
By John of Argghhh! on March 28, 2007 10:45 AM
Moose! We have a winnah! It is the brow of the Wisconsin. Except that particular part is a replacement - from the never-completed Kentucky. When you are forward on the main deck, there is a sign that says... "Welcome to the USS Kentucky." Interestingly enough - the Kentucky sails on - Kentucky's engines remain in service powering the fast combat support ships USS Sacramento (AOE-1)and USS Camden (AOE-2) (at least as of April 2002).
 
By BloodSpite on March 28, 2007 11:03 AM
Hence my bad joke regarding metallurgy;)
 
By BillT on March 28, 2007 11:11 AM
Interestingly enough - the Kentucky sails on... Nope. Sacramento was decommissioned on 1 Oct 2004 and Camden went exactly one year later.
 
By sandman6actual on March 28, 2007 2:10 PM
I was gonna guess the WI, but looks like I've been beaten to the punch.....interesting tidbit about the Kentucky, never would have known that.....they say you learn something new every day.
 
By Old Fat Sailor on March 28, 2007 6:32 PM
Its the pointy end of a BB ya landlubbers
 
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