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AR67GTX said:
Those last ones are some interesting war ships. Circa 1900 maybe??
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post civil war up to around 1910-ish. After that you got stuff like USS Texas.

I am always amazed at what men could do, accomplish, the WORK involved.... those behemoths ran on coal. The amount of work to load the ship, then shovel it all into the boilers to move those monsters. Ships like Texas started life as coal and got converted to oil. There are some really cool exploratory videos about Texas on her youtube channel, filmed during her drydock recently. Couple talk about the way they turned little nooks into oil tanks and ran pipes and valves all over the ship for it.
 
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USS Berkeley (DDG 15) was an Adams Class Destroyer. My brother and I were stationed on her during the 1965-66 Viet Nam campaign where we provided shore bombardment in the Golf of Tonkin for our troops fighting in the jungles of North Viet Nam. We returned to California in 66 and my brother got out and I got transferred to another ship headed back to the South China Seas.
The second ship I was stationed on is the USS Long Beach (CGN-9) The only Nuclear powered Cruiser in the Navy fleet. I spent two years on her during the 1966-67 Viet Nam tour and was released from duty in March of 1968. Some pictures of Long Beach leading USS Enterprise and a host of destroyers and destroyer escorts. Pic of our Talos missile system. A pic of Enterprise, Long Beach and Bainbridge (all three nuclear powered) She was well known as "The Gray lady with the big box". Both ships are near and dear to me but neither one exists anymore.

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Sixpactogo said:
USS Berkeley (DDG 15) was an Adams Class Destroyer. My brother and I were stationed on her during the 1965-66 Viet Nam campaign where we provided shore bombardment in the Golf of Tonkin for our troops fighting in the jungles of North Viet Nam. We returned to California in 66 and my brother got out and I got transferred to another ship headed back to the South China Seas.
The second ship I was stationed on is the USS Long Beach (CGN-9) The only Nuclear powered Cruiser in the Navy fleet. I spent two years on her during the 1966-67 Viet Nam tour and was released from duty in March of 1968. Some pictures of Long Beach leading USS Enterprise and a host of destroyers and destroyer escorts. Pic of our Talos missile system. A pic of Enterprise, Long Beach and Bainbridge (all three nuclear powered) She was well known as "The Gray lady with the big box". Both ships are near and dear to me but neither one exists anymore.

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A friend spent a lot of time on the Berkeley in the 70s as fire control director.
She was sold to the Greek navy and was later scrapped.
 
Slap Stick said:
A friend spent a lot of time on the Berkeley in the 70s as fire control director.
She was sold to the Greek navy and was later scrapped.
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Yes. I knew about the sale to Greece. She was renamed the HMS Themistoklis and was used for coastline drug runner patrols for 10 years or so then scrapped in 2004.
Long Beach suffered a similar fate. She was de-commissioned in 94 and stripped of her superstructure and Nukes after 33 years of service. She sat In Bremerton WA at a pier until sold for scrap in 2012. She was well protected though. I was in Tacoma in 2010 for a wedding and tried to visit and take some pictures. I was told at the front gate that if I got within 200 yards of the pier she was at, I would be arrested and dealt with harshly or something to that effect. We can't protect our borders but we keep a good eye on our scrap. That said, it is not hard to figure out why our country is in the shape it is.
 
And then the Enterprise. My son was stationed aboard her during its last major overhaul and drydock, and subsequent cruise. He transferred to a helo squadron and then retired while Enterprise had its last maintenance procedure and then it went on its final cruise. We spent tons of money on her before she was scrapped.
 
Originally serving for a couple of decades as a frigate in the Dutch Royal Navy, this ship was turned into a 141 meter long yacht.
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Meanwhile, the current largest yacht is the Azzam, built in Germany ten years ago.
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Twin waterjet propulsion enables her 476 feet length to attain a top speed of just over 36 mph.
 
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