Incredible machine hurled a car sized shell

[Guest001]

Originally Posted by stompem

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I have been on the Missouri, when it visited Sydney Harbor Australia in the mid 1980's
I also had some fights with the sailors from one of it's escort ships, think it was a destroyer or frigate accompanying the Missouri. Remember a huge MP/SP Sargent coming in and cleaning them all out of the pub. Lucky, things were getting a little rough!
No hard feelings though, it was all about them stealing our gal's.

This incredible machine hurled a car sized shell 20km for a demonstration then fired all guns port side and you could see that the stabilizers kept it upright while the whole ship moved at least 10 meters across the path of it's wake...WOW!!!

"car sized shell" - quoted as equivalent to the weight of a Volkswagen Sedan

[Lakie]

nice, Ive experienced nothing like that but some of my favorite memories of childhood was going down to the port during the school holidays when one of the navy ships or subs were in and open to the public, id always try to go off the beaten path exploring and I would never get very far...

[SilentTrigger]

Same here mike, walked around a Swedish "battleship" and a sub in Gothenburg as a kid and I loved it, I did try to go off the pathways they had put in place but everything was locked down haha. It was a ship and sub that had been taken out of service.

I put battleship within " because it wasn't one, but it had guns and so for me as a kid I classed it as a battleship haha.

Saw Visby Corvette (a swedish stelth ship) once and I thought that was big, but that has a displacement of 600 ton, the Missouri has a displacement of 45 000 tons haha, a slight length difference of 200 meters

Would love to see the Missouri and other big battleships, especially firing their guns!

[Guest001]

Sadly I think the Missouri has finally been decommissioned, does anyone know for sure?

[Lakie]

Was maintained as a museum if its any consolation....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Missouri_%28BB-63%29

[Guest001]

In Pearl Harbor she rests.
The Mighty Mo, so we don't forget it's symbolic meaning...
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