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USN Cruisers of Yesteryear - World Naval Ships Forums Archive (Page 3)

USN Cruisers of Yesteryear (Page 3)

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USS Boston c1966...Regards Brian...
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USS Little Rock..Genoa c1970...Regards Brian..
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USS Columbus..Regards Brian..
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There are a whole bunch of wonderful cruiser photos in this thread, but it's beginning to bug me that "USN Crusiers of Yesteryear" has so many ships I sailed with when I was in the navy! :) Brooklyn, Baltimore, New York is fine. Albany, Columbus, Long Beach, etc. --- Waaaaa!:eek:

Don: Even the Long Beach has been finally scrapped-so she was from yesteryear as well. Age has a quality all its own-a quality that lacks many fine things! Brian

Yeah, you can see the remains of her hull at Bremerton still. She was a fine ship to see on the waves, big, solid, heavy cruiser with incredible speed. No other cruiser maneuvered like she could and she rode the seas "prouder" than many ships of her class I've seen.

Don: I thought Long Beach was sold for scrap a year ago and the hulk (the hull was stored without much superstructure) had started to be dismantled. Brian

May well be so, Brian..those Google Earth shots can be behind the times. That was the last place I saw any part of her, except the reactors which are in the trench at Hanford, neatly packaged for future generations to figure out what to do with.

A better shape Don?...USS Halsey Regards Brian
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USS Des Moines Regards Brian..
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[QUOTE=Brian Wentzell;10095402]Don: I thought Long Beach was sold for scrap a year ago and the hulk (the hull was stored without much superstructure) had started to be dismantled. Brian[/QUOTE] Brian: The last semi official information I had on Long Beach was that the "recycling" was to begin this month. Bill

[QUOTE=brian james;10095424]A better shape Don?...USS Halsey Regards Brian[/QUOTE] And beyond her Sterett ? Bill

Bill: Thanks for the update on the Long Beach scrapping. Brian

[QUOTE=WGVSr;10095672]And beyond her Sterett ? Bill[/QUOTE] [I]USS Decatur[/I] (DDG-31), no?

[QUOTE=Gwyrosydd;10095775][I]USS Decatur[/I] (DDG-31), no?[/QUOTE] I think you're correct. I'd forgotten she'd been converted to a DDG ca '65 or so with a single arm Mk 13 launcher aft. Bill

USS Trenton Pic taken in France, date unknown
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[QUOTE=setori;10109097]USS Trenton Pic taken in France, date unknown[/QUOTE] Possibly in early Sept, 1924 when she was bringing the remains of Vice Counsel Imbrie from Persia to Washington. She stopped at Villefranche on that voyage. The only other time I know she was in Europe was in mid-1939 when she spent a year with Squadron 40-T. Bill

[B][URL="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/04/02/historic-ship-uss-olympia-will-remain-in-philadelphia/"]USS OLYMPIA[/URL] [/B]She is staying where she is after all: [B][FONT="][URL="http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2014/04/cruiser-olympia-staying-in-philadelphia/"]Cruiser Olympia Staying in Philadelphia[/URL] [/FONT][/B] [FONT="]After a three year bidding process to attempt to find a new home for the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Olympia_%28C-6%29"]historic cruiser[/URL] [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Olympia_%28C-6%29"]Olympia[/URL],[/I] the [URL="http://www.phillyseaport.org/"]Independence Seaport Museum[/URL] has [URL="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/04/02/historic-ship-uss-olympia-will-remain-in-philadelphia/"]announced that it will keep the ship after all.[/URL][/FONT] [FONT="][URL="http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2011/05/four-groups-vie-for-uss-olympia-custody/"]Four groups originally bid[/URL] on taking over the ship but none were considered to be viable. The museum also noted that the ship was responsible for half of the museum’s 70,000 annual visitors. [URL="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2014/04/02/historic-ship-uss-olympia-will-remain-in-philadelphia/"]Museum president John Brady has announced a $20-million national fundraising campaign to support repairs to the cruiser.[/URL] The museum had previously claimed that it could not afford to keep the historic ship.[/FONT] [FONT="]Built in 1892, the cruiser [I]Olympia [/I]was Commodore George Dewey’s flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War in 1898 and is the oldest steel warship afloat. She has been a museum ship in Philadelphia since 1957. In February of 2010, the Independence Seaport Museum announced that it could not afford to keep the [I]Olympia. [/I]The [URL="http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2010/05/uss-olympia-to-be-sunk-as-artificial-reef/"]museum suggested that it might sink the ship[/URL] as an artificial reef. Fortuitously, the alternative was ruled out because the [URL="http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2010/03/update-ss-olympia-%E2%80%93-stuck-in-philadelphia-by-sandbars-and-scandal/"]museum lack the millions of dollars necessary to dredge around the ship[/URL] to allow her to be towed away.The[I] Olympia [/I]was last drydocked in 1945. In 2010, dredging to move the ship to a drydock was estimated to cost $10 million with another $10 million required to make necessary repairs. [/FONT] PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The search to find a new home for the historic steel cruiser, the [I]USS Olympia[/I], is over. Officials say the ship will stay docked at Penn’s Landing. For four years, the [URL="http://www.phillyseaport.org/"]Independence Seaport Museum[/URL] has been looking for a new home for the [I]Olympia,[/I] the steel warship from the Spanish-American War moored on the Delaware riverfront ([URL="http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/08/20/historic-philadelphia-warship-struggles-to-stay-afloat/"]see related story[/URL]). The rusting ship needed millions of dollars for maintenance — money the museum didn’t have. The search yielded candidates from California and South Carolina, but museum president John Brady says a review panel determined their offers weren’t viable. “At the same time as that process was going on, we were kind of, ‘Well, what’s Plan B?’ And [I]scrap[/I] or [I]sink[/I] wasn’t it. So we started looking at the ship as a venue” — a venue responsible for half of the museum’s 70,000 annual visitors. Now, Brady says, the museum will promote tours and new activities on the ship, while a $20-million national fundraising campaign gets underway.
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I would guess a coffer dam will be built around Olympia, then they will have to remove a large amount of silt from around and under her. Hopefully this may get done without inflicting any damage to her.

[quote=Surfgun;10111504]I would guess a coffer dam will be built around Olympia, then they will have to remove a large amount of silt from around and under her. Hopefully this may get done without inflicting any damage to her.[/quote] I am no expert in the preservation/maintenance of these old warships but anything that will allow Olympia to continue as a museum ship for the forseeable deserves to be supported.

A lot of heavily rusted plating needs to be replaced for sure!

[QUOTE=brian james;10095243]USS Columbus..Regards Brian..[/QUOTE] A few slightly more recent views of Columbus from the summer of '66. She was docked over around Fells Point as I remember in Baltimore harbor. Bill
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