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Lee
I'm a spy now. Spies are cool.
Member # 393

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Well, given one of the significant ships of Star Trek - the Excelsior-class USS Hood, Will Riker's posting previous to the Enterprise - is named for her, I thought people might be interested in a current project being run by UK's Channel 4 TV station to locate the wreck of HMS Hood:

http://www.channel4.com/hood/

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Siegfried
Fullmetal Pompatus
Member # 29

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Oh, cool. I love shows like this.

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Da_bang80
A few sectors short of an Empire
Member # 528

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i think that someone should try to raise a few of the crashed aircraft from WW2 they'd make great museum pieces.

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colin
Active Member
Member # 217

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They need lots of luck to find the HMS Hood. She was vaporized by a single shell from the German battleship Bismarck.

I just read the site. God was with them. The ship was found, with her bow missing. HMS Hood may not have been vaporized; however, she was shawed. (FYI-there was a famous photo from the attack on Pearl Harbor. Toward the end of the air raid, as USS Nevada was hauling ass out of Pearl, a Japanese bomb missed the battleship and hit the destroyer Shaw. The Shaw's bow exploded, leaving only her aft sections intact.)

These are images of the USS Shaw. [Changed to links by management, for reason: They were huge!]

USS Shaw, late 1930's

USS Shaw, exploding on Dec. 7, 1941

USS Shaw, Dec. 8, 1941

USS Shaw, in 1945 and after final modifications

[Please refrain from posting eleventy billion huge images in one thread.]

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MaGiC
tutis per veneficus
Member # 59

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I watched some of the show last night. they called the last surviving crew member to tell him the ship had been found.

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