To: Freeport
Must have been successful. Illustrious is sitting at a pier at Naval Station Norfolk right now.
Man, is it small for a carrier. One of the Nimitz class carriers is at the next pier.
9 posted on
07/12/2007 12:04:18 PM PDT by
fredhead
(Teach a man to fish.......and he'll fish for a lifetime.)
To: fredhead
Man, is it small for a carrier. One of the Nimitz class carriers is at the next pier. I'd think that anything would look small sitting next to a Nimitz-class carrier. :=)
13 posted on
07/12/2007 12:12:41 PM PDT by
Bob
To: fredhead
“Man, is it small for a carrier. One of the Nimitz class carriers is at the next pier.”
IIRC it wasn’t built as a carrier, but as a “through-deck cruiser”
30 posted on
07/12/2007 1:44:39 PM PDT by
Hiryusan
To: fredhead
My sister said the same thing after getting back from San Diego last month, where she saw the Midway and the Ronald Reagan just across the channel from each other. She said that the Midway was huge, but the Reagan almost made it look like a toy.
42 posted on
07/12/2007 9:45:14 PM PDT by
Stonewall Jackson
(The Hunt for FRed November. 11/04/08)
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