wow awesome pictures. as amazing as it still is to see large aircraft actually stay up in the sky, its just as amazing to see ships of that size stay afloat in the sea. all the electronics throughout those ships, the miles and miles of plumbing and wiring and everything else, truely an awesome display of hand made american machinery. the vettes look good too but im not a vette guy so the ship had my interest!!!
Marvelous pictures. Great destination, vetts sure looked great posed there as well. I used to call on Dahlgren Naval weapons station and they would fire those 16 & 18" guns off across Cheasapeak Bay into Box Cars stacked end to end filled with saw dust (they wanted to retrieve the shells). It would lift you right off the ground when they went off. I could only imagine what it would be like on board, guess you would be "sonic cleaned".
Great pics as always steve.
You lost a bunch of weight too !
Destroyer is crazy but those cannons serve very little use under todays modern weaponry.
BTW that mini gun is sick!!! Looks like they shot it a bit as well
Thanks for posting your tour of the vessel. Alot of interesting pics to see the machinery and imagining it at its former pristine conditon operational back in the day. It always is fun to got to musuems and such to see and take pictures, but nothing compares to actualy being there, smelling, and feeling the locked emotions and past memories locked into that machine like you guys were.
Thank you for sharing. And good picture taking. You got alot of good shots and clear shots of all the writing and murals i read each one.
They are also restoring other parts of the ship for the tour, the work gets done via donation and volunteers.
Yeah, when i first saw the cellar looking pics i wanted to walk around in there with my putty knife above head scraping the ceiling and sucking it up with a shop vac behind me. It just bothered my eye terribly. I was looking at the wooden deck too all dryrotted. I can imagine it was probably high gloss and smooth back in the day with a coat of polyurethane on it (well back in the day they probably used varnish or shellac?) to protect it.
Great pics Steve. I'm especially amused though by the communications shack with all the antiquated teletypes and the rather moden photocopy machine!