Size matters — but the sailboat can move, and where they’re sitting none of those guns will train, and with a big enough power drill and patience they can put that battlewagon right on the bottom.
It would take a whole lot more power drill and a whole lot more patience than you could come up with in order to drill enough holes through the armor on that ship to sink her.
One or two Mark-48 ADCAP torpedoes would do it though.
"The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer tells their story. “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” Lt. Cdr. Robert W. Copeland of USS Samuel B. Roberts before the battle off Samar Island.
Size matters — but the sailboat can move, and where they’re sitting none of those guns will train, and with a big enough power drill and patience they can put that battlewagon right on the bottom.
ReplyDeleteExcept for the Marines on the main deck shooting down on them.
DeleteOr just dropping the anchor.
DeleteI don't think they have jarheads on museum ships. Could be wrong.
DeleteIt would take a whole lot more power drill and a whole lot more patience than you could come up with in order to drill enough holes through the armor on that ship to sink her.
DeleteOne or two Mark-48 ADCAP torpedoes would do it though.
Imagine being out fishing and turning around and seeing that coming at you. Man, that is an impressive shot
ReplyDeleteNice view of the Iowa.
ReplyDeleteNamed after an Indian tribe that was run out of Minnesota by the Dakota who'd been run out by the Ojibwe.
DeleteDrop anchor!
ReplyDeleteMy 1st thought too
DeleteJust what I was thinking. Why would you put your sailboat THERE?
DeleteStarboard!
ReplyDeleteThe right size matters.
ReplyDelete4 links of the anchor chain weighs as much as that plastic toy boat...
ReplyDeleteEach link is about 120 lbs. Redneck's everywhere want a chain like that for getting back on the road.
Delete"Size matters"
ReplyDeleteYou take that back! You take that back right now!
- USS Johnston, USS Samuel B. Roberts, USS Hoel
Where is Task Force 34? Where is Lee?
DeleteOne of the greatest last stands of all time in all of history. Bless You Taffy3!
"The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" by James D. Hornfischer tells their story.
ReplyDelete“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” Lt. Cdr. Robert W. Copeland of USS Samuel B. Roberts before the battle off Samar Island.