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And in the very drydock she was built in too boot

Looks like Battleship New Jersey will be given a much needed drydocking next year or so due to her namesake state coughing up roughly half the total needed funds

the real question would be could the poles get her back to base?

Points to the Chancellorvile. Yeah good thing she's being decommissioned soon that girl just got all the bad luck. But fair enough on the Clinton thing.

Well given the Clinton administration renamed the ship that became the Truman at the last second they bloody well could have changed it.

And yet the Clinton administration decided a carrier was worth naming after him vs any of the WWII carriers that had open name slots?

Albeit given the world we live in I doubt another ship will be named after him due to the whole him being racist AF

Also have the newest class of oilers which is uhhh....yeah of the listed names for the first eight only 1 served and no traditional river names at all. A Obama/Biden era decision. The last Trump secnav got some awesome name picks though

I mean if you look at the RN's own documents the dido class was kind of meant to do every one of those roles and it was largely using a modified artheusa hull

Having been Salem, Olympia, and Belfast I can safely say that they all have their charm and Damm good looks

and yet la arentina was smaller than the leander class but had 1 more gun.

especially since they're leaving port. its not like they've been at sea for a month or three

Geez thats a lot of rust for a ship leaving port

That would be have been the bigger engines needed to reach 32 vs 30 knots. Mind you if the RN hadn't not worked very hard on engine R&D they could have likely had their cake and eaten it. Then again the La Argentina had over twice the range of the arthethusas at just 1 knot lower cruising speed

aka what the arethusa and leander class ships should have been built as. sans the also a training ship for cadets bit and a tad faster.

Got to say takes a lot more balls to do that in the RNs and Germany navy's backyard. Of course in a just world that would mean they'd just have died faster

Pre 1945 steel. It's useful for various things due to not being messed with by trace nuclear contamination. Still means that if I was running the RN that salvage ship would eat a wild spearfish.

something something shore bombardment of russian positions

or send the iowa sisters....

the QE had excessive leaks on its shafts for several months so it did have some