Sunday, November 28, 2021

IT WAS CALLED THE BELKNAP MOD

This is for the earlier post. The men who fought that fire, were real sailors, like most of the rest of them. These things happen and we train to make it something you sail away from, lives intact.

3 comments:

  1. I wish we still made ships that well. To have that happen, and be repairable, is something unattainable, with an LCS.

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  2. Check this Out. One of my Great-Uncles was a Crewman on the Franklin, he survived it all. I never understood how bad it was until I saw this Navy Report.https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/w/war-damage-reports/uss-franklin-cv-13-war-damage-report-no-56.html

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  3. it had nice lines and a tough crew.

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