We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:37:21 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:06:51 -0600 Its the pointy end of a BB ya landlubbers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58417 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58417 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:32:47 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58410 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58410 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:10:55 -0600 Interestingly enough - the Kentucky sails on... Nope. Sacramento was decommissioned on 1 Oct 2004 and Camden went exactly one year later.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58395 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58395 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:11:33 -0600 Hence my bad joke regarding metallurgy;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58394 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58394 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:03:49 -0600 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).]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58391 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58391 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:45:38 -0600 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, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58388 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58388 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:10:38 -0600 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, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58386 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58386 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:03:06 -0600 this shot, it's hard to see the spokes.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58384 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58384 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:52:01 -0600 Could just be the resolution, but it looks like the Tomahawk mast has had its spokes removed. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58380 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58380 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:31:31 -0600 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. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58379 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58379 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:16:38 -0600 USS Kentucky, which was grafted onto the Wisconsin after the collision with a destroyer in the 50's? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58374 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58374 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:57:51 -0600 Dunno, Brab. The water looks totally different... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58373 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58373 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:50:55 -0600 this picture.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58369 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58369 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:41:43 -0600 Wisconsin was famous for being the only BB with 64 painted on the sides of her going-away side. Riiiiiiight.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58363 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58363 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:12:03 -0600 Actually, I think it's the stern and John's just being mean to y'all. ;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58359 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58359 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:42:03 -0600 everriculum spread. *grrrrrrrr-ar-ar-ararar-snap!* Hey, hey! Down, PG-17c, you idiot! It's a trawl net...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58357 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58357 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:16:39 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58356 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58356 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:12:03 -0600 Ok, You said the first guess doesn't count. But it still looks like BB64 - USS Wisconsin. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58354 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58354 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:55:43 -0600 A crabber's view of a mobile seaweed plantation. One with a waterline armor belt. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58351 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58351 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:38:22 -0600 It's not a ship? Well bugger me you got me good this time. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58350 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/since_i_baffled.html#comment-58350 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:34:34 -0600