A submarine for Arkansas!

[gofaster]

The good folks in Arkansas had enough sense to do the right thing and bring a piece of US history back to the states.

For those in New Orleans, be sure to catch a glimpse as she goes by.

What am I blabbering about, you ask? This.

There aren't many left.  The few we had were left to a slow rotting death.  Only recently have they started to garner some attention.  One of these days, someone is going to make a movie out of the novel "Thunder Below!"

[Jester]

Yea, will be good to see the U.S.S. RAZORBACK come home. I don't live far from the Arkansas River, going to try and go see her when she passes by.

[Rafe35]

That's great!

But Have any idea where is USS Arkansas (Cruiser or Destroyer) that saw actions on WWII from D-Day to Iwo Jima(?)?

[Reschke]

That one probably got made into something else like pipe, razor blades, steel beams, etc... in the time between WW2 and the Korean War ending. I remember my Dad telling me about the school kids in the early '60s here in Alabama all donating lunch money for a long time to have the USS Alabama brought to Mobile Bay.

[DiabloTX]

Originally posted by Rafe35
That's great!

But Have any idea where is USS Arkansas (Cruiser or Destroyer) that saw actions on WWII from D-Day to Iwo Jima(?)?

It was actually a BB.  Very old by the time of WWII.

BB-33 USS ARKANSAS
CLASS - WYOMING As Built
Displacement 26,000 Tons, Dimensions, 562' (oa) x 93' 3" x 29' 7" (Max)
Armament 12 x 12"/50 21 x 5"/51, 2 x 21" tt.
Armor, 11" Belt, 12" Turrets, 3" Decks, 11 1/2" Conning Tower.
Machinery, 28,000 SHP; Direct Drive Turbines, 4 screws
Speed, 20.5 Knots, Crew 1063.

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Operational and Building Data
Laid down by New York, Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ., January 25, 1910.
Launched January 14, 1911.
Commissioned September 17, 1912.
Decommissioned July 29, 1946.
Stricken August 15, 1946.
Fate: Sunk July 25, 1946, During Atomic Bomb Test "Baker" Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.

[Reschke]

USS Arkansas CGN-41

I wouldn't want to go rooting around pulling out pies and such in them for scrapping/disposal.

[Chairboy]

Pies?  On a plus note, the pies would bake themselves.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Reschke
USS Arkansas CGN-41

I wouldn't want to go rooting around pulling out pies and such in them for scrapping/disposal.

Heh, I toured that one when I was in the Navy. Figured this thread would be about Arkansas getting a Virginia Class SSN, and thought how appropriate, since the CNG was a Virginia class (IIRC).

-Sik

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Chairboy
Pies?  On a plus note, the pies would bake themselves.

Bikini is open for diving now.



http://www.bikiniatoll.com/

[Reschke]

Its called "Monday DA" here at the office where you get overloaded with new charts and crap. That should have been pipes not pies.

[Rafe35]

Man, That suck that USS Arkansas was sunk by Atomic bomb  

[Chairboy]

I imagine it must be an amazing place to dive if it's safe, all those wrecks so close to each other in tropical water sounds pretty incredible.

[Sikboy]

Originally posted by Chairboy
I imagine it must be an amazing place to dive if it's safe, all those wrecks so close to each other in tropical water sounds pretty incredible.

until you get eaten by a ****ing mutant shark!

I've seen the movies man.

-Sik

[Shuckins]

Shark numbers have dropped rapidly in the waters around Bikini atoll, due to the phosphorescent carnivorous coral.

[AKcurly]

Originally posted by Rafe35
That's great!

But Have any idea where is USS Arkansas (Cruiser or Destroyer) that saw actions on WWII from D-Day to Iwo Jima(?)?

USS Arkansas should be a battleship.  Battleships are named after states, cruisers after cities & etc.

curly