Warspite remembered

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

Actually, you can go now to dive the Bikini Atoll fleet:

http://www.bikiniatoll.com/divetour.html

I forget whether it was on History Channel of Travel Channel that I first learned that people are now loowed to dive there.

Sara's flight deck has rotted away exposing the hanger deck....chock full of live ordinance. Knowing my luck i'd touch one off. (News article: 3rd Mushroom cloud over Bikini harbor brings back fond memories)

[Terminus]

Okay, I'm officially starting the Let's Give Nikboy An Adventure Holiday To Bikini Pledge Drive![:'(] Please give generously!

[hawker]

I just toured the North Carolina in Wilmington, NC. She served in every major action in the war from I think mid-'42 on and lost--get this--like 11 guys the whole time.

I think the Enterprise was sold in 1958. Miserable dogs.

Sold for scrap 1958 (july),scrapped at Kearny 09/58 to 03/60.
Great loss for naval history.Idiots scrapped her[:(]

[Philodraco]

Warspite is the greatest Battleship in the emtire 20 century!

[hawker]

Warspite is the greatest Battleship in the emtire 20 century!

Everyone has some ideas which ship is greatest.
For me,list is:
1.Bismarck (most famous ship of all)
2.Yamato (biggest,brutal)
3.Hood (most beautifull ship of all time)

[adamc6]

The Warspite certainly deserved a better fate -- she and the Enterprise are pretty much equivalent in the shame incurred by their scrapping. I (even as a Yank) would have to give the nod to the Warspite though, service through both wars, and heavy action at that -- damn shame.

However, all you can do is to make sure that 50 years from now someone is not saying the same thing about military hardware from today -- support efforts to preserve the gear that the soldiers, sailors and airmen of today are fighting with.

BTW, the WWI German Goeben was still around as late as like 1970 in Turkey -- not that glamorous a history (more infamous, dragging the Turks into the war) -- but would have been a great old ship to preserve, but anti-militarism in Germany nixed any hope of that. Scrapped in like 1973.

[adamc6]

Here's the lady you speak of:

[anarchyintheuk]

A truly sad sight. I should probably go drinking now.

[Nikademus]

I would have been in that rowboat in a heartbeat...camera on hand, along with a flashlight.

[Fornadan]

Any Japanese ships left exept Mikasa?