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Apr 24, 2022 11:08 PM
iceage2012
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Onlyonerowing
Go home, Navy. You're drunk.
putcleverusernamehere
Were the radar operators sleeping?
oepix9000
Flextape
l33thack0r
Looks like the front fell off.
bloxxing
and then radar was invented...
DustyMcKnuckles
EATONDDEEES NUUUTZZ
5knotcans
You should see the other guy.
RoyDMercer
That'll buff right out.
LovelyMover
Fog...sure step ship
zHurk777
Battleship USS Maryland. Bow damage from torpedo hit.
Grimmrog
meanwhile below ukrainian sealevel ...
3rdattemptaaaaaanditsgone
Foehammer262
https://youtu.be/DSQBWOCfxeQ
CrisprCAS
USS Wisconsin to USS Eaton
Yupurineutah
Ha!
SpamYarBlockers
Genius.
DarkSock
Crocadiah
Imagine that creeping out of the fog
q2grapple
Imagine waking up next to it after a night of shore leave
FischersFritzX
*ehem* From the mist, a shape, a ship is taking form. And the silence of the sea is about to drift into a storm..
CorneliusTunt
Quite menacing..
Prinzka
revenantape
U ISS Eaton D's nuts
GpaSags
What are you doing step-battleship?
charondaboatman
Monkeynutsjoe
Daddy shark...
jebstat59365
When the bough breaks...
commentisrelevant
Is this the ship where the front fell off?
Zickezacke
The real surprise here is that the Eaton did not sink.
TeleportingDonkeys
Thatll buff out
AtaSeaParks
The front fell off... Well a wave hit it. Chance of that happening? In the ocean? One in a million!
mixelpixx
Same thing happened with US & Russian subs -- follow each other so close that one would call all stop --an smash. Both would go to same port
ThatGermanBlackDude
Icebergs don't sink steel ships!
olgreenteeth365
USS Eaton's damage
zarathon
the other guy
JuevesIsForLovers
This looks much worse…
stefansd
need to see the other ship
Pgtwlf
You can’t! She in the fog!
CorneliusTunt
th3guy
SerialChickenLover
This seems to have went better than when the Queen Mary just cut a fucking destroyer in half
zenoshogun
Or the HMAS Melbourne which ran over two different destroyers, cutting both of them in half.
DeepFriedAndSanctified
She's now permanently docked in Norfolk, VA https://imgur.com/PxHZN3N.jpg
servingmytimeinusersub
Tried our for an acting job on there once. The didn't hire me because I looked to young.
Iamyourcaptainnow
Will see action again when pesky Aliens show up
BluePlanet514
Wow, what a beauty!!
SkeletorXD
They have movie nights at the Stern in the summer.
ToasterDent
Well, until WW IV drags on for a few years and all sides start running out of ships and the ability to make more
gottakeepgoing
Maybe it's just the angle but she looks like she put on some weight.
HilariousUserNameWasTaken
They really go overboard with lights at Christmas, it's a lot of fun.
zenoshogun
The rear turrets have direct line of sight on the PETA offices, does anyone have any cordite bags and functional 16" shells for them?
scuuubasteve
Wow that is amazing. I would love to go see that in person.
Brhino
Fortunately they had a spare battleship bow sitting around so they slapped it on there. No, I'm not joking.
jamesCosmosBaron
True story!
Dissipo
Apparently it’s supposedly haunted
DoctaJones
USS Whisky was the nickname after the bow replacement
myotheralt
Keeping in tradition with the state namesake, drunk driving.
ToasterDent
True, but technically because the bow was from the partially built but cancelled USS Kentucky: WISconsin kentucKY
imsam77
Well sheet.
Santorrr
That's cool
spaghettiThunderbolt
Putting the "WI" in "OWI" since 1848! (Not very) fun fact: Only state in the US where your first OWI (generally) isn't even a misdemeanor.
myotheralt
I saw a headline a while ago about a guy getting DUI 19.
spaghettiThunderbolt
Yeah, sounds about right, we're way too soft on it. Highest I've personally seen is 10 priors, was amazed he'd never hurt/killed anyone.
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Mechman13
She had an uncompleted sister ship who'd been cancelled during construction. From the parts arriving, it only took 16 days to graft the bow
Mechman13
Collision was may 6th. They removed the bow, shipped the new one, and spliced it on and iwas ready to put to sea June 28th
Darkwell
The crew used the downtime to discover several new and exciting STDs in port.
bippityboppitybuttsex
TBH, the bow is almost completely unarmored...
CRAAAAAAIIIIIIIIG
It's one of the more lightly armoured parts, but still had likely at least 30 mm of steel.
bippityboppitybuttsex
Compared to the Conning Tower it is basically coated in tissue paper...
CleverGroom
Time was, the bow would've been purpose-built for ramming anyhow.
criggie
No - ram bows were not a thing in navy ship builds after the French ironclad Hoche in 1886. They turned out to be less useful as 1/3
criggie
gunnery ranges increased, and were more dangerous to friendly vessels while manoevering. The ram bow did accidentally help in 2/3
criggie
hydrodynamics, so the bulbous bow replicates that function in modern vessels, adding 12-15% to fuel economy at the same speed. 3/3
QuartzPoker
That's an Iowa. They don't ram.
CleverGroom
No, time was more like the 16th century and earlier. Though I believe some ironclads were designed with rams and submarines still HATE it.
IAmTheBadW01f
There was a brief period of time in the 1860s and 70s right after ironclads became a thing when it was the only way they could find 1/
QuartzPoker
Yes. Any ship can ram but none have been built for it in 120 years.