Posted on 12/12/2009 9:23:05 PM PST by darrellmaurina
GROTON, Conn. (Dec. 5, 2009) – Congressman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) spoke at the Dec. 5 christening of the USS Missouri (SSN 780), a Virginia class attack submarine and the fifth warship in American history to be named after the “Show-Me” State. “We in Missouri are proud of this ship, proud of this crew, and proud of the shipbuilders that are making her,” said Skelton. The last ship to bear the name USS Missouri, now a floating museum in Pearl Harbor, was commissioned in 1944 and earned the nickname “Mighty Mo” for the tremendous firepower of her 16-inch guns and her essentially continuous combat action, from arrival in the Pacific theater to hosting the Japanese surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay that ended World War II.
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He may be proud, and he may have voted for the cost of building her, but he doesn't know the difference between a ship and a boat.
Do you?
I shore do.
A sub is a boat not a ship.
I must disagree, since the definition I grew up with is:
You can carry a boat on a ship. You can’t do the other!
DSV Alvin in 1978, a year after first exploring hydrothermal vents.A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability. The term submarine most commonly refers to large crewed autonomous vessels; however, historically or more casually, submarine can also refer to medium sized or smaller vessels (midget submarines, wet subs), Remotely Operated Vehicles or robots. The word submarine was originally an adjective meaning "under the sea", and so consequently other uses such as "submarine engineering" or "submarine cable" may not actually refer to submarines at all. Submarine was shortened from the term "submarine boat", and is often further shortened to "sub". Experimental sub with hydrofoils in Monterey BaySubmarines are referred to as "boats", regardless of their size, for historical reasons because vessels deployed from a ship are referred to as boats.[citation needed] The first submarines were launched in such a manner. The English term U-boat for a German submarine comes from the German word for submarine, U-Boot, itself an abbreviation for Unterseeboot ("undersea boat").
You’re all wrong...and right...
All commissioned vessels in the U.S. Navy are called ships.
U.S.S.___________.
“Boats” is a vernacular term. A logo shibboleth that is used by Submariners and based on a historical reference to the first “U - boats”.
No bubblehead will call them anything but “boats”, but no senior officer or Navy Department personnel would refer to them other than as “ships”.
that is an easy definition....ships carry boats
Where is the battleship Missouri now? I know she was decommissioned, but I doubt she has been broken up or sunk.
She’s a museum ship in Pearl Harbor.
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