Museum Ships
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I've always wondered how they deal with old but important ships. While the Phoenix was small enough to fit in a museum, this would be rather difficult with any Starfleet ship because they're pretty big. I'm not even sure they could all be landed. So, I guess they are in orbit somewhere but this would be impractical for them to become museum ships before the transporter was more accepted. Taking tourists in a shuttle so they can visit seems to be a bit too draining on resources.
I wonder what they did with the NX-01. They brought the ship back in one piece in TATV and it was implied it was to be decomissioned shortly afterwards. It's Earth's first Warp 5 ship so I don't think they would just scrap it.
I wonder what they did with the NX-01. They brought the ship back in one piece in TATV and it was implied it was to be decomissioned shortly afterwards. It's Earth's first Warp 5 ship so I don't think they would just scrap it.
The E in the TOS-TMP and later eras was never identified as the Federation's flagship. She was simply a ship of the line. That flagship idea started with TNG.
Well, let's see, I've been to the following:
USS Intrepid
The following are part of Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA:
USS Massachusetts
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
USS Lionfish - Submarine
USS Constitution
and a missile corvette designed by the Soviets. She was acquired after East Germany merged with West Germany
There was a liberty ship I visited in San Francisco as well as a submarine
The cool thing about the USS Constitution is that she's still an active Navy Ship. She's the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. The only warship that is older than the Constitution is the HMS Victory, but she's no afloat, she's been dry docked.
I'd agree, the USS Massachusetts is nothing to sneeze at; she's quite the impressive ship.
USS Intrepid
The following are part of Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA:
USS Massachusetts
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
USS Lionfish - Submarine
USS Constitution
and a missile corvette designed by the Soviets. She was acquired after East Germany merged with West Germany
There was a liberty ship I visited in San Francisco as well as a submarine
The cool thing about the USS Constitution is that she's still an active Navy Ship. She's the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. The only warship that is older than the Constitution is the HMS Victory, but she's no afloat, she's been dry docked.
I'd agree, the USS Massachusetts is nothing to sneeze at; she's quite the impressive ship.
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Commodore
Not Missouri class its Iowa class. Easy mistake to make because Missouri was the most famous of them all.
They were slated to be converted into missile ships like some of the heavy cruisers that survived the war but they were deemed way too slow for "modern" operations. The Iowas were slated for conversion due to their impressive speed (30+ knots) but were mothballed instead... only to be reactivated and converted in the 80's.
I've been aboard the USS Alabama, but I spent most of my naval museum time aboard the USS Kidd, a WWII era destroyer that survived a kamikaze attack. She's berthed on the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge.
I was a tour guide for a while, and slept on board during overnight trips. Sleeping in officer country on that ship, in a bunk belonging to a guy who died in a kamikaze attack...it was peaceful and spooky at the same time.
I was a tour guide for a while, and slept on board during overnight trips. Sleeping in officer country on that ship, in a bunk belonging to a guy who died in a kamikaze attack...it was peaceful and spooky at the same time.
Me too. I was there in the mid 80s. Saw the Yorktown, Destroyer Laffy, Submarine Clamagore and the SS Savannah - the first nuclear powered passenger ship.
In Chicago's Science and Industry Museum I went through U-505.
Also visited the wooden sailing ship "Star of India" on display in San Diego.
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I use to go down to the Toronto waterfront at Ontario Place as a kid to see the HMCS Haida an old WW II era destroyer, the ship has since been relocated to the city of Hamilton about an hours' drive from Toronto.
HMCS HAIDA
She is the last remaining example of the 27 Tribal Class destroyers built for the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy between 1937 and 1945. During World War 2, the Tribals saw considerable action. In the fall of 1943, HAIDA operated out of Scapa Flow with the Royal Navy to assist with convoy escorting duties to North Russia on the Murmansk run. On Dec 26, 1943 she was present at the Battle of North Cape when the German battle cruiser SCHARNHORST was sunk by the British Home Fleet. Early in 1944, HAIDA joined the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla operating out of Plymouth England. The objective of this mixed force of British, Canadian and Polish warships was to clear enemy shipping off the coast of France in anticipation of the D-Day landings. During this period, HAIDA achieved great fame by destroying more enemy vessels than any other ship in the R.C.N. It was also during this period that her sister ship H.M.C.S. Athabaskan was sunk with the loss of 128 lives.
Hamilton Harbour, Ontario
HMCS HAIDA
She is the last remaining example of the 27 Tribal Class destroyers built for the Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Navy and the Royal Australian Navy between 1937 and 1945. During World War 2, the Tribals saw considerable action. In the fall of 1943, HAIDA operated out of Scapa Flow with the Royal Navy to assist with convoy escorting duties to North Russia on the Murmansk run. On Dec 26, 1943 she was present at the Battle of North Cape when the German battle cruiser SCHARNHORST was sunk by the British Home Fleet. Early in 1944, HAIDA joined the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla operating out of Plymouth England. The objective of this mixed force of British, Canadian and Polish warships was to clear enemy shipping off the coast of France in anticipation of the D-Day landings. During this period, HAIDA achieved great fame by destroying more enemy vessels than any other ship in the R.C.N. It was also during this period that her sister ship H.M.C.S. Athabaskan was sunk with the loss of 128 lives.
Hamilton Harbour, Ontario
I've been to see the USS The Sullivans, USS Little Rock, and USS Croaker in the Buffalo Naval Park. Interesting ships. Next time I head to Philadelphia, I want to see the USS Olympic, which, if I'm not mistaqken, was Adm. Dewey's flagship during the Spanish American War.
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