"Jagvar" (Jagvar)
05/19/2017 at 10:58 • Filed to: boatlopnik
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"Jagvar" (Jagvar)
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Visited Philly last weekend and went aboard the cruiser Olympia. Launched in 1892, Olympia is the oldest steel warship afloat in the world. And I got to play with the deck guns, which date to 1917. Pretty sweet.
Next to her is the submarine Becuna (SS-319), which was built in 1944 and completed five wartime patrols in the Pacific Ocean. I got to tour her too. Due to the crappy weather, I was the only one aboard, which was surreal. Awesome, but surreal.
kgman
> Jagvar
05/19/2017 at 12:10 |
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That looks really cool. What is the distinction that makes Olympia the oldest rather than HMS Warrior?
Slant6
> Jagvar
05/19/2017 at 12:54 |
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I go there almost every time I visit Philly. Great fun to just walk around the old ships. Maritime museum was cool too, I think they build wood boats there.
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Jagvar
> Slant6
05/19/2017 at 13:56 |
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Yep, they do!
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Jagvar
05/19/2017 at 21:33 |
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Halifax (which is an hour from me) has the only surviving Canadian Corvette from the Canadian fleet in World War II - HMCS Sackville. The Corvettes protected the Merchant Marine shipping US and Canadian supplies to Europe through the swarms of U-boats.
Surreal being on her as they were essentially a converted whaling ship design, so small and the sailors had to have balls of Unobtainium to do what they managed to do with the old girl and her siblings! I try to visit her whenever I can!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Sackville_(K181)
