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Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-01-26 11:52||
2013-01-26 11:52||
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#2 That 1/4 Squadron of Teredos got 'em!
I can say no more, I must clam up.
Posted by Shipman 2013-01-26 12:08||
2013-01-26 12:08||
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#3 You started this, Shipman. Don't try to worm out of it.
Posted by SteveS 2013-01-26 12:31||
2013-01-26 12:31||
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#4 Remember the Trinidad!
It does tend to focus the meaning of the phrase "race to the bottom".
Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2013-01-26 12:35||
2013-01-26 12:35||
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#5 Putting a positive spin on this: it does make it easier to clean the barnacles from the hull and also the prop.......
Posted by USN,Ret. 2013-01-26 12:38||
2013-01-26 12:38||
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#6 "We're done with this side, sir! Flip 'er over!"
Posted by Steve White 2013-01-26 13:26||
2013-01-26 13:26||
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#7 USN Ret - True dat, but only on the starboard side. As Dr Steve says, the challenge comes when you want to do the port side.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2013-01-26 13:35||
2013-01-26 13:35||
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#8 HA-HA!
Posted by DarthVader 2013-01-26 14:12||
2013-01-26 14:12||
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#9 If they were robbing the destroyer of spare parts, someone may have been robbing a seacock......just speculating......
Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-01-26 14:37||
2013-01-26 14:37||
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#10 The orange oil spill boom does not look very useful, hanging up in the air like that.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-01-26 14:38||
2013-01-26 14:38||
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#11 Only Belgrano and the submarines moved against the British. Rest of fleet was in the harbour.
Posted by Phaith Grique4599 2013-01-26 14:59||
2013-01-26 14:59||
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#12 Yeah, but they couldn't sell tours of the Belgrano. They could of the destroyer.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-01-26 15:08||
2013-01-26 15:08||
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#13 Coming soon to a Sequestration near you...
Posted by Pappy 2013-01-26 15:25||
2013-01-26 15:25||
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#14 gonna need to extend that gangway
Posted by Frank G 2013-01-26 15:28||
2013-01-26 15:28||
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#15 Hey, look on the bright side: at least it doesn't have a big-ass boulder embedded in it's backside. Plus, it's close to the dock, so it's easy to work on.
Two years, tops, until it's right as rain again.
Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-01-26 16:16||
2013-01-26 16:16||
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#16 It was completely unmanned, unsecured. Pretty much abandoned. COrroded sea valve and no one watching until the moment of thrill happened.
/I got yur metacentric heigh rite here buddy
Posted by Shipman 2013-01-26 16:17||
2013-01-26 16:17||
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#17 C'mon Rambler; quit interjectng logic into it; the lowbrow masses were happier until then....
Posted by USN,Ret. 2013-01-26 19:13||
2013-01-26 19:13||
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#18 Inclining experiment gone bad.
Posted by KBK 2013-01-26 20:26||
2013-01-26 20:26||
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#19 Just me, but I don't think you are supposed to use the hull plating for spare parts
Posted by Cheaderhead 2013-01-26 21:12||
2013-01-26 21:12||
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#20 It's like Angles and Dangles but with a destroyer rather than a submarine. And while still dockside.
Posted by SteveS 2013-01-26 21:15||
2013-01-26 21:15||
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