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Hey tankerbuilder!
Posted by subfixer on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:31 AM

I found a picture of your old tincan and mine tied up next to each other. Right click X and select "open link in new window", it comes up.

The USS Theodore E. Chandler DD-717 (mine) and the USS Ozbourn DD-846. The USS Edson (DD-946) is on the left.

 Just thought I'd share this with you.

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Posted by davros on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:16 AM
I don't think you are allowed to direct-link to Navsource images. It may appear to work, when you preview on your computer, but that is, I think, because you will have the image cached somewhere (after looking at it) on your computer. Everybody else just gets the little red X, as I did.
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Posted by subfixer on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:09 AM
You are correct, davros, but if you right click and select "open link in new window", it comes up.

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Posted by tucchase on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:16 AM

 subfixer wrote:
You are correct, davros, but if you right click and select "open link in new window", it comes up.

This works.  I just looked at the picture.

PS - Now that I have looked at the picture once, it is now showing for me in the original post.  Don't know why, but its there!

PPS - OK, if I leave the thread and then re-open it, the link is back to a little red X.

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Posted by Tracy White on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:25 PM

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Posted by subfixer on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 4:39 PM
Thank you, Tracy. Now we just need tankerbuilder.

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Posted by tankerbuilder on Friday, November 13, 2009 7:47 PM
 Gosh, it,s nice to be needed. Hi,everyone. Yep that certainly is the old "OZZIE".That ship was the only one I knew of that could "no lie", go in a complete circle with rudder midships(locked) and both shafts keyed in turns. She was a good old ship though and I would,ve liked it if she had lived on, even under a foreign flag, instead of the ignominous end she did get.I think PFC.OZBOURN deserves another named after him. I say this because I have heard two ships die a ships death, and, you,ll know it,s a sound you never forget.To die under a torch is sad but life must go on. I remember seeing some FORREST SHERMAN types tied upin SAN FRANCISCO being stripped of all above deck hardware and deckhouses and under conversion to OFFSHORE power plants. Geez whatta way to go. We, here in the good old U.S.A. don,t seem to value the history our coasts would bestow on us. We were once respected on the high seas in both merchant and NAVAL power.Lets let our models remember these times for us. I,m gonna.    tankerbuilder
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Posted by subfixer on Friday, November 13, 2009 11:30 PM
The steel in those old ships is of a lot higher quality than the steel being mass produced today. Those hulks are worth big bucks. That's why they scrap them.

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