USS Arizona and the Brooklyn Bridge...

The Arizona must have been an older ship with those tall towers.
I don't remember seeing them before and Wikipedia tells me they are "lattice masts,"phased out before WWII.

USS Arizona
So it was probably designed around 1912.

That's $402 million 2019 dollars.

Big bada boom:

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Ship-sized ship on the left, for size comparison.

Maybe a perspective thing. Maybe.

Oh, ship!

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Almost capsized.
Gotta hate it when that happens.
I can't find another photo of that event.

French liner Normandie seized by the US, caught fire while being converted to the USS Lafayette, then capsized.

Half capsized.
Amazing story here:

http://www.americasfireboat.org/ss-normandie-fire/

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Honk the horn, honk the horn. :haha:

:lol2:

And the photographer just happened to be passing by and snapped this picture, luckily he was holding his phone horizontal. :rolleyes:

This Day in History - Ships Edition
 

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from Wiki

Shipacide.

I liked the drawring.

Shhh, be very quiet, the Captain's sleeping...

...and infamy for ol' Capt. Joe.

And they gave him another ship.

USS Shangri-La, circa 1962...

Evidently the Great Lakes are hard on ships, especially overloaded ships.

And capsizing?

ohshitherewego

Yes, and capsizing. Don't worry Griff, it's too buried here to matter. :yesnod:

Call it Boats Don't Bend.
The Edmund Fitzgerald found that out along with the likelihood of an over-bold
captain.

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html

And if it hadn't....

....we wouldn't have that awesome song.

Without death life has no context, no meaning. Gordon Lightfoot gets it.

That's why life can be enhanced by doing risky things like saying, No dear.

Two Carnival cruise liners recently collided, a tiny bit. I'm unarseable to Google it, but you could..

It's been posted, Gravdigr I think.

Wai-who--Gravwhutnow?

Not lately. I think he prolly meant something fairly recent.

Whaddya know, Bruce was right.



That was two ships in close proximity, but, don't forget the third ship, the one the video was shot from.

Couldn't remember where... :smack:

Now you blow the horn!

Watching the big boats crash is like slow motion disaster...

Got one.

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Look what the wind blew in...

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'Ghost ship' washes ashore in Ireland after Storm Dennis

Also, the vid I posted in post #211 was most likely shot from the dock mentioned in the vid title, and not from another ship.

I mention this cuz I can't believe Sexobon didn't correct me. He must be slipping.

That picture in post #215 is very impressive. I must have seen it on my phone when I saw it the first time, and it didn't do it justice.

Kinda reminds me of the opening scene from the original Star Wars.

Nope, the camera was bouncing around like it was on a ship and just before the end it shows what sure looks like a ship. Some asshole a thousand miles away wrote that over the top.

And some asshole in KY bought it.:smack:

Apologies to Sexobon.

It was likely in the port just not at the dock. Although come to think of it, the camera ship might have been docked on the other side. But three of those monster ships playing musical chairs is scary.

Smugglers' worst nightmare:

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