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polywideblock said:
Sydney to Hobart yacht race
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and the worst, in the ensuing days, six sailors died, five yachts sank, more than 60 yachts retired, and 55 participants had to be rescued by helicopter
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Ha, I'll admit that in the first couple of pictures, I thought they were shark fins.
 
I remember that race! That and the Fastnet force 10 were gnarly.
 
This is an excelent 3 part video from a man that spent 4 years on the "Fitz" as 3rd mate, eventually working his way up to Captain, retiring after 8 years as Master on the Columbian Star, one of the 13, 1,000 footers on the great lakes. It's the first time I've heard how bad of shape the ship was in.
You have to watch it on youtube.
 
I just finished the recent book about the Edmund Fitzgerald called "The Gales of November".
It is an excellent read about the fitz and a couple other ships.
 
Here are a couple pix from Hawaii, Ford Island. The Missouri and the Utah.
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Collis P Huntington,
Founder of Newport News Shipbuilding.
 
Richard Cranium said:
With that pose and today's standards, he's a NAZI. :rolleyes:
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However, facts might get in the way of making that case, being:

1. Huntington died in 1900

2. "Huntington is largely credited with vision and the combination of developments which created and built a vibrant and progressive community. The 15 years of rapid growth and development led to the incorporation of Newport News, Virginia as a new independent city in 1896. It is one of only two independent cities in Virginia that were so formed without developing first as an incorporated town.

Near the tracks of the C&O's Hampton Branch was a normal school, dedicated in its earliest years to training teachers to educate the South's many African-American freedmen after the Civil War and abolition of slavery. Both adults and children were eager to learn. Most southern blacks had been denied opportunities for education literacy before the Civil War. " Wiki
 
Richard Cranium said:
On it's way to becoming an artificial reef?
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My guess, based on the above picture, is on its way to post #556, Mobile, Alabama to be prepared for becoming an artificial reef off the Florida Panhandle, unless they relocated her in Mobile Harbor.
 
One of my old Chiefs, now retired, served as a purser on the S.S. United States when he was in college. It’s a beautiful ship, too bad that it’s in such poor repair. Here is a picture of a large loaded oil tanker from years ago.

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