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US Carrier List

Pretty cool. Lists all US Aircraft carries and what happened to them. I used the info from this site to view the Bremerton, WA ship yards on googlemaps. They have 3 carriers in dock at the time of the last Googlemaps update for that area and several subs and other ships. Pretty cool to see. I would love to be give permission to explore those ships.

You might have to zoom. Googl Map of Bremerton, WA

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Neat list and site altho personally I'm interested in the submarine list. And an East coast sailor at one time.

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Speaking of subs, if you find the carriers on the map At linked too, look to the east. There are a dozen or so subs moored up there. It would be cool to get to check out those old ships.

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I feel like such a spy lol

Looks really cool. I'm not going to comment on what we see as I can identify items that non submariners or non navy people normally wouldn't. And besides I already know what's inside them http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Watch Shrapnelcommunity.com get shut down by NavInt... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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When I was a kid, there used to be some WW2 aircraft carriers and the battleship Missouri (and others) there, and you could go aboard the Missouri as an exhibit. They might even still have some ships available for tours regularly. There are often warships available for exploring a few times a year in Seattle - often a nuclear aircraft carrier like one of those, like around the 4th of July or the Seafair weekend or whatever.

We had a Soviet nuclear sub for tours for several years, too.

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The subs in drydock are pretty neat to see in the Google images, too.

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Ya, we are all now on the NSA watch list and will be visited by men in black very soon. I wonder what my cell will look like down in Cuba? Will they give me an SE V manual to read since SE is my religion. (J/K)

I do bet they put this discussion through the ringer though. LOL

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We have the Blue Bill (The sub that jumped out of the water in the Hunt For Red October) on display at OMSI in Portland. They give tours daily and its quite cool. (Although the tours are very limited and way to short.)

I would like to go to one of the Naval museums to tour a carrier.

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There are some fairly large ships tied up next to the carriers. Last I was aware, no other warships currently operated by the Navy were near as large as a carrier. Are there missile cruisers in service that approach 3/4 the length of a carrier? Or are those some type of auxiliary ships next to the carriers?

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Well, the slightly smaller ship east of the third carrier is I think a CG (missile cruiser) perhaps like USS San Jacinto ( http://www.sanjacinto.navy.mil/ ), which seems to be the largest ship in many of the recent carrier strike groups assembled (also a couple of missile frigates (FFG) and several destroyers. I wonder if the bigger ships aren't some sort of maintenance ships... I'll keep looking...

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Ok, I think the larger ships are probably Fast Combat Support Ships like USNS Rainier ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Rainier_(T-AOE-7) ). In Space Empires terms, a fast hull & engines plus a bunch of Supply Storage components. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif