[NCC-1701]

The USS Drum has been moved to an area on land on the port side aft of the USS Alabama. Saw it on Google Earth. I heard someone on the radio ask about the 'Bama and how it would fare. They stated it was sitting on/in a mud deck and it would take something a lot bigger than Katrina to refloat it. I'm wondering about the aircraft on static display near the 'Bama. There is a B-52 that looks like it could have taken wing with the winds that were available. Hope everything's safe there and the other affected areas.

Godspeed to those in harms way.

[Jemian]

Thank you so much for the report on those ships.

[sonofatpatcher2]

From http://www.ussalabama.com/ Looks like they have added a lot since I was there in 1975...

THE MIGHTY BATTLESHIP USS ALABAMA (BB-60)
SUBMARINE USS DRUM (SS-228)
AIR-CONDITIONED AIRCRAFT PAVILION
FLIGHT SIMULATOR RIDE
STIRRING HISTORICAL VIDEOS
MILITARY BOMBERS AND FIGHTER PLANES
B-52D “CALAMITY JANE”
A-12 BLACKBIRD SPYPLANE
VIETNAM PBR RIVER PATROL BOAT
TUSKEGEE AIRMEN’S P-51D MUSTANG
TANKS AND ARTILLERY

Hope it all survived...

[Moose4]

For what it's worth...when Hugo came through Charleston in 1989, it picked up the aircraft carrier Yorktown, moored at Patriot's Point, out of the mud and moved it five feet forward and five feet left. That's what somebody at Patriot's Point told me when I went and visited in 1991.

The power of these things is just unimaginable.

}:-)4