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                        Anchor of the "Mighty O"

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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Anchor of the "Mighty O"
                        Posted by MikeV on Monday, April 7, 2008 4:26 PM

                        I rode my motorcycle to Jack London Square in Oakland, CA today (About 20 miles) and took some pictures of the USS Oriskany anchor on display there to show my brother Tom.

                        Tom was on the Oriskany during Vietnam and has a lot of memories of it and is kind of sad that it was sunk as an artificial reef recently. Anyhow here is the anchor, all 30,000 pounds of it. Big Smile [:D]

                         

                         

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        mikepowers
                        • Member since
                          January 2005
                        • From: Ohio
                        Posted by mikepowers on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 8:55 AM

                        My uncle served on the big O but he never talked about it.

                        Thats a big chunck of metal.

                        At todays prices that has to be worth some big My 2 cents [2c]

                        Mike

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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 10:12 AM
                        The anchors on modern carriers weigh 60,000 lbs and each chain link is 360 lbs. Wow! Shock [:O]

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        subfixer
                        • Member since
                          March 2004
                        • From: Spartanburg, SC
                        Posted by subfixer on Friday, April 11, 2008 7:57 PM
                        The "Mighty O"?? We used to call her the "Toasty O" after all the fires she had.

                        I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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                        RALPH G WILLIAMS
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by RALPH G WILLIAMS on Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:24 PM

                        Thanks for showing.

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                        AJB93
                        • Member since
                          June 2006
                        • From: Waiting for a 1/350 USS Salt Lake City....
                        Posted by AJB93 on Sunday, April 13, 2008 9:53 PM

                        I'm building Oriskany from the Trumpy Essex. To be more accurate about 80% of the hull is Trumpy and the rest is scratchbuilt....just about everything from the hangar up and all of the bow....

                        Neat to see the anchor, and I'm glad they saved it from her before she was sunk. I'd love to dive her someday.

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