Everyones a comedian.



EDIT: Why don't i get this many replies to my serious posts?

The Bismark doesnt float anymore.....

Titanic is another one.

The Lusitania (I think that's spelled right)

I was going to start "boats that don't float my guns" in response to the "float my boat" threads, but this is better.

1. Graf Spee
2. Yamato
3. Hiru
4. Soryu
5. Several other Japanese carriers.
6. Many U-boats

[url]www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=54623[/url]
[:D]

Any sub with screen doors.

were it not in drydock, the USS Cole.

also lets not forget the USS Arizona. and several other hunks of now scrap metal in the harbor.

The Andrea Gail of [b]The Perfect Storm[/b] fame...

The bass boat that I had before this one...fullclip

Howz about neutral buoyancy?

[img]http://www50.dt.navy.mil/gallery/submersibles/ssbn738.jpg[/img]

[url]http://lightspeed.bc.ca/sub/[/url]

the_survivalist,
The COLE is afloat at Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. I was there when she was put back into the water, roughly a year after she was attacked. This proud ship, named after a proud Marine, will return to strike back at the terrorists that crippled her.

Ok so I am not an American...hence no great sense of American Pride etc....

However I would take a little offence at haveing the Arizona termed a hunk of scrap metal......perhaps I am just a little sensitive???

... The ole' twin "V" on [b]Lake Powell[/b] several years ago.

... I heard the second owner ran her aground on [b]Lake Mead[/b] a short while after we sold it to him.

[img]http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL16/408600/423895/6478378.jpg[/img]

A military grave site would be a more appropriate description.

I had a Wellcraft Scarab that sank three times in two damn years, finally the insurance company got tired of it and totaled it out. Got pictures of it sunk somewhere, I'll try to dig them up and post.

... [b]Green_Furniture[/b], your posts so often sound like a lot of friends I grew up with.

... ROTFLMFAO

Screen door subs are what led to the downfall of the Polish Navy.

Ha! I crack myself up...

Or, from the previous World War, the numerous capital ships that were sunk when the German fleet and the British Grand Fleet met off the coast of Jutland.  

Nuclear attack submarine "Thresher", SSN-593. She sank during deep diving exercises 10 April 1963 taking 132 men to the bottom. May their souls rest in peace.

A moment of silence for the Indianapolis....

Thank you.

[b]Edmund Fitzgerald


The lake it is said never gives up her dead
when the skies of November turn gloomy

With a load of iron ore 26,000 tons more

than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty...."

"The ship was the pride of the American side

comin' back from some mill in Wisconsin

As the big freighters go it was bigger than most..."

"...and late that night when the ship' bell rang

could it be the north wind they'd bin feelin'."

"...At seven p.m. a main hatchway caved in

he said 'fellas it's bin good to know ya'

The captain wired in he had water comin' in

and the good ship and crew was in peril

and later that night when 'is lights went out of sight

came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

"...They might have split up or they might have capsized

they may have broke deep and took water...."

"Does anyone know where the love of God goes

when the waves turn the minutes to hours?


The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er"

They might have split up or they might have capsized they may have broke deep and took water

And all that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters

Lake Huron rolls Superior sings
in the rooms of her ice water mansion
Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams
the islands and bays are for sportsmen
and farther below Lake Ontario
takes in what Lake Erie can send her
and the Iron boats go as the mariners all know
with the gales of november remembered


In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed
in the maritime sailors' cathedral
the church bell chimed 'til it rang 29 times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald



The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior they said never gives up her dead
when the gales of november come early




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The ship went down in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 with 29 men on board.

sacong, you beat me to it.
the Eastland





Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
porous and yellow and absorbent is he.
If nautical nonsense be something you wish.
then drop on the deck and act like a fish!
SPONGE BOOOOOOOB SQUARE PAAAANTS!!

HMS HOOD, only three sailors survived her sinking. Sunk in North Atlantic.  By BISMARK.

HMS REPULSE.  Sunk in Singapore with Prince of Wales.

HMS PRINCE OF WALES. Sunk in Singapore.

BISMARK.  Sunk in North Atlantic.

GRAF SPEE.  Scuttled in the River Plate.

TIRPITZ.  Bombed in a Norweigian fiord.

SCHARNHORST.  Sunk in the North Cape.

HIEI. Sunk at Guadalcanal.

KIRISHIMA.  Sunk at Guadalcanal.

YAMATO.  Sunk in the Philippine Sea.

AKAGI, KAGA, HIRYU, SORYU.  All Japanese carriers sunk at Midway.

CHICAGO, QUINCY, ASTORIA, VINNCENNES, JUNO, ATLANTA.  All American cruisers sunk at Guadalcanal.

Gilligan says "The Minnow".

Not trying to be picky, but it the Navy, the only boats we have are submarines. Those big ones we call [b]ships.[/b] And we do a pretty good job of keeping  our surface to dive ratio right around 1.

The wreck of the [i]Hood[/i] was found and surveyed last year.

[img]http://www.hmshood.com/sitetools/wrecksite.gif[/img]

Hear is some up to date info in case you are interested...

[url]http://www.hmshood.com/sitetools/wreckdive.html[/url]

How about the Ehme Maru (sp?) that was sunk by the Greenville?  Small reparation for Pearl Harbor....

The Kursk.

[img]http://www.army.cz/noviny1/2001/kursk/kursk.jpg[/img]

Saw a license plate frame on a pickup in Novato.

There are two kinds of boats. Submarines and targets.