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After 95 years, a Navy ship lost at sea with all hands is finally discovered
WaPo ^
| 03-23-2016
| Michael E. Ruane
Posted on 03/23/2016 1:25:55 PM PDT by NRx
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Wow. Read it all.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:25:55 PM PDT
by
NRx
To: NRx
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:26:40 PM PDT
by
NRx
(Ceterum censeo Trump delendum esse.)
To: NRx
Poor b*stards didn’t get very far.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:30:12 PM PDT
by
Jack Hammer
(uff said.)
To: NRx
Buncha youths on the upper deck.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:30:17 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Jack Hammer
Captain wired in he had water comin in......
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:35:36 PM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
To: NRx
Sobering loss. “Peacetime” deaths are always with us though against the seas.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:38:23 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: NRx
Three miles offshore of the Farallons seems swimmable, but unfortunately it’s a breeding ground for great white sharks.
To: NRx
Interesting story that it was out in the ocean.
It says it was a tug boat, do tug boats usually go out that far?
I’m not a Navy guy, only time I spent on a boat was getting to the SE Asia theatre (and hated every damn bit of it), so am kind of curious what Navy Tugs were used for? The same as here to bring big ships into harbor?
Just curious, seems like there are quite a few Navy folks on FR.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:41:18 PM PDT
by
Bubba Gump Shrimp
(if God wanted Cruz to be president, he'd have been born in America)
To: The KG9 Kid
Open water, cold, waves. Even an expert swimmer wouldn’t have much of a chance.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:42:43 PM PDT
by
balch3
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:42:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
An ocean going tug would be used for towing duties.
To: NRx
What a shame and thanks for the photo
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:43:45 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
They do if they’re bound for Pearl Harbor.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:45:39 PM PDT
by
AF_Blue
("America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad ass speed." - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936)
To: NRx
WAPO keeps pulling i have watched my limit BS
No way am i subscribing so oh well...
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:47:52 PM PDT
by
mowowie
(`)
To: NRx
No one recognized that the vessel was missing until more than a month had passed and it failed to show up at Pearl Harbor.
Soooo, the USS Indianapolis' demise wasn't unique.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:49:01 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: balch3
Yeah, it's hard enough to swim from the Marina to Alcatraz.
-PJ
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:49:07 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: mowowie
Pasting the article title into Google used to allow you to bypass the paywall, however the WP has closed that loophole. However, the google search often turns up the same article republished in another newspaper that doesn’t have a paywall.
To: Bubba Gump Shrimp
It says it was a tug boat, do tug boats usually go out that far? The USS Conestoga was an "ocean-going tug". The USN requires such vessels because large ships (naval and civilian) can become disabled at sea and require towing.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:54:04 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
To: centurion316; mowowie
Deleting the cookies from your computer solves the “limited stories” problem.
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posted on
03/23/2016 1:58:10 PM PDT
by
NRx
(Ceterum censeo Trump delendum esse.)
To: okie01
Prolly got caught in the infamous “Potato Patch”, shallow bottom around the Faralones, mostly between them and the shore. Pleasure sailors know to steer clear in stormy weather and at low tide when a short, steep breaking swell will separate the sheep from the dead.
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