A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[J. S. Bach]

Hard to tell but that may be a player piano.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hard to tell but that may be a player piano.

I think you may be correct - appears to be piano rolls on top of it! Good eyes!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[J. S. Bach]

That looks like a neat house, maybe the front view will show up someday.
Mt. Storm, WV? I have driven through Hurricane, Nitro, and near Tornado, WV. Interesting town names there in WV.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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[healey36]

Interesting, a couple of USN predreadnoughts, Kentucky and Kearsarge, almost certainly at their launch in March, 1898, at Newport News. You smoked me out with a couple of ship pictures

Kearsarge was later converted to a crane ship (1920). Here's a pic of her passing through the Panama Canal sometime shortly thereafter:



She remained in service until 1955 when she was stricken from the Register and sent to Baltimore for scrapping. Kentucky was scrapped in 1921 as a condition of the Washington Naval Treaty.

Sorry for the drift...couldn't help myself.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Interesting, a couple of USN predreadnoughts, Kentucky and Kearsarge, almost certainly at their launch in March, 1898, at Newport News. You smoked me out with a couple of ship pictures

Sorry for the drift...couldn't help myself.

No, no, no.....that was good info and all. Yes - 1898!

Stay tuned - there will be more over the next couple of days,

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

We sure do build some imposing stuff.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

We sure do build some imposing stuff.

Well, the Wickes was launched over 100 years ago.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

We sure do build some imposing stuff.

Well, the Wickes was launched over 100 years ago.

Yup, we’ve been excellent at it for quite some time.

[healey36]

I've heard of USS Rathburne; suffered the ignominy of having been named for John Peck Rathbun, but they misspelled his name. She was commissioned in June, 1918, going on to a long career including activity in both WWI and WWII. She was converted to an APD (high-speed transport) in May, 1944, and went on to participate in a number of landing operations, including those at Leyte. On the evening of April 27, 1945, she was struck by a Kamikaze while operating off Hagushi. Amazingly, she suffered no casualties, but damaged such that she required a return to San Diego for repairs. She was decommissioned in November, 1945, and sold for scrap a year later. A pretty good career for one of the old flush-deck destroyers of the USN.

Haven't read much about Wickes. She was one of the old flush-deck DDs that went over to the Brits (renamed HMS Montgomery) as part of Lend-Lease in 1940. I'll have to look her up.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Haven't read much about Wickes. She was one of the old flush-deck DDs that went over to the Brits (renamed HMS Montgomery) as part of Lend-Lease in 1940. I'll have to look her up.

She apparently was a victim of a hit & run