Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/19/2019 at 08:10 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Launch of the Great Lakes bulk steamer !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in 1905.

functionoverfashion > ttyymmnn 07/19/2019 at 09:20

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LOOK AT THAT RUDDER

Also, how about the guys riding on deck, peering over the edge? 

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 07/19/2019 at 09:42

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A typically long life for a laker, too. Sank en route to the scrapyard at the age of 56.

user314 > ttyymmnn 07/19/2019 at 11:40

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Back in ‘09, Rick Sebak, a documentary maker for our local PBS station, released a special titled ‘ Right Beside the River ’, which visited interesting and historic places and items in and around the Three Rivers. One of them was the shipyards of Dravo and Ambridge where LSTs were built during the war. One of the tidbits they mentioned was that an LST being launched down a slipway was actually faster than it was under its own power. Granted, it was only by a knot, but still...

ttyymmnn > user314 07/19/2019 at 12:53

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They certainly weren’t built for speed.

gmctavish needs more space > ttyymmnn 07/19/2019 at 22:31

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That’s a hell of a photo 

ttyymmnn > gmctavish needs more space 07/19/2019 at 23:33

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And he had one chance to snap that shutter.