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Navy blacksmith Trivia
January 17, 2013
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Bruce Macmillan;17103 wrote: plenty of headroom aboard this ship....

A great photo. Engages the imagination, I wonder what he is reading, the funnies?
A top secret clevis sketch.

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Kenuto;17113 wrote: A great photo. Engages the imagination, I wonder what he is reading, the funnies?
A top secret clevis sketch.

There is something else that this pic brings to mind; note the x on the left (the Fox river) and the Y on the right just below two windows about 100 yds away and in between is an open grassy field.....About in the middle of this field is where 2 guys were firing and anvil using a Yater swage block as base and filled the holes with black powder. They set the anvil atop the block and let er rip....:bomb:....The blast tore a maybe 20 lb hunk of SB out of one corner and it landed in the Fox River about 100yds out with a big splash. The bleacher in the background was full of people and folks were all around as well. I believe this was the last straw for abana's tolerence on firing anvils..........

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January 17, 2013
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Bruce Macmillan;17103 wrote: plenty of headroom aboard this ship....

http://www.navsource.org/archi.....590159.jpg

Ex-USS Camden (AOE-02) moored forward of ex-USS Sacramento (AOE-01) at ESCO Marine during scrapping operations. USS Camden (AOE-2) has a fire on board while being cut up by the scrappers torches. Photo by © Michael Martin, Brownsville, TX.

Very sad to see a ship decommissioned and scrapped:skull:

OOps the wrong USS Camden... this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.....%28AS-6%29) is the right one

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