Years ago a gentleman named Joe had a Roma. What a beautiful ship. I can still hear Joe saying, "Someone just shot off one of my lifeboats. Can I go out and get it?" Great times.
Not me I dont get mad [!] or in his case sad [] I get even [] And I have just the secret weapon for the job now these are classified top secret pictures so if you don’t have clearance please don’t look []
Very nice work. It'll be awesome to see her on the water! A battlecruiser she ain't though, only a heavy cruiser My grandfather served on her sister the Pittsburgh during WW2, interesting ships.
[:I] Oops I got a little over zealous with my story I didn’t mean to put the word battle in there good catch. Was your grandfather on her when she got her nose out of place during a typhoon? What a testament to the ship and her crew to pull that off. Than between repairs I believe making her the longest ship in the navy with her bow in Guam and her stern in Washington at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard that must have been some trip.
Yep he sure was. When she was in Puget Sound he met my Grandmother. One could say I owe my life to Bill Halsey and his typhoon!
That is awesome I hope he has passed on some of his history to you if he did you most have some great stuff [8D]
He didn't talk about it much. I know that he served as a gunner on a merchant ship in the Atlantic during the first have of the war facing Hitler's U-boats, then transferred over to the Pittsburgh and went to the Pacific just in time to face the Kamikazes as 20mm (I think, he wouldn't even talk about what he did...my dad told me he was a gunner) gunner. I think he might have worked in an 8" turret at surface battle stations but I am not sure. While I don't have my Grandpa's old ship, I DO have the hull for the ship my Dad and Uncle served on...USS Burton Island, an ice breaker. It'll be a good ship to put on the water. The Wind class icebreakers might be worth looking at for your son to run. There's an excellent hull for them made in Canada, and you should be able to fit a half unit pump and half unit gun in (I think they are 1.0 units in the IRCWCC, not sure. In treaty I get 1.5 units for it so .5 unit pump and 50 round gun). You could run it on a single prop/rudder, and it's short and fat so should turn really well. The first 4 "winds" I believe had 4 5"/38 guns in 2 twin turrets (one forward, one aft) but the one I plan on building has only a single 5"/38 up forward. I think one of the first group of 4 can be used as a Soviet ship as well, because it was lend leased to them.
[:0] Why on earth would I want to blow a hole clean thru another allied ship maybe a sea cow or two? [B)]
Maybe you should pay a little more attention in school particularly history ah I don’t know how to tell you this but axis lost []
Look at the bright side. The Allies were good enough to preserve all those Axis ships at the bottom of the ocean for all eternity!
Who knew they where such nature activist what wonderful reefs they have created oh and here is the mighty Bismarck now []
hahaha I used that painting myself once! A bismarck driver emailed me a pic of the Invincible blowing up; that was my reply!
