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Message no. 1
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Bring Out Your Battleships
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 15:29:16 +0100
For a plot I'm working up to, I'd like to use, then sink, a battleship:
specifically the USS Iowa. In the absence of any FASA word to the
contrary, my take is that the BBs were saved once again from scrapping,
wandered in and out of reserve for decades, then finally went to the
breakers: Missouri preserved as a museum ship, the others on their way
to becoming razor blades.

But, living near a Navy base and Pounds' scrapyard, I know ships
languish a long time waiting their turn under the cutting torches, and
I'd like to have the near-hulk of the Iowa be briefly used one last
time.

It'll be a while before anything of significance starts, so there's time
to talk it through if necessary. Comments, objections, protests?

--
"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 2
From: Jeffrey Jacob Mach <mach@****.caltech.edu>
Subject: Re: Bring Out Your Battleships
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 23:16:47 -0700 (PDT)
Sounds roughly ok to me...be interested to hear just how you plan do to that.

As long as ya ain't sinking the "Mighty Mo" =).

--Jeff
Aeronautisist
abashed military junkie
and snappy dresser
Message no. 3
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Bring Out Your Battleships
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:08:59 +0100
In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.960720231347.2358A-100000@*****.ugcs.caltech.e
du>, Jeffrey Jacob Mach <mach@****.caltech.edu> writes
>Sounds roughly ok to me...be interested to hear just how you plan do to that.

Watch and see. (Email me if you really want to know.)

>As long as ya ain't sinking the "Mighty Mo" =).

No, it's the Iowa I want.

Shame Freddy Frypp's dead, the original idea grew out of a Japanese firm
buying the Missouri to scrap her in Tokyo Bay :) But that wouldn't have
worked so well or been anywhere near as much fun. Then about eight nasty
ideas fell into place and I had a plot :)

--
"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 4
From: Craigtw1@***.com
Subject: Re: Bring Out Your Battleships
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 12:23:02 -0400
Hmmm...Why the Iowa?

Heck, I got to see the Wisconsin AND the JFK from a bus, while on my high
school senior class trip to Norfolk. We were getting a guided bus tour of
the Norfolk Naval base.

Tom
Message no. 5
From: NIGHTFOX <djwa@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bring Out Your Battleships
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 09:50:44 -0700 (MST)
I see no problem doing this.

There's even a good possibility that the military lost a battleship or two
between 2011 and 2033.


In fact - if I remember correctly - the dragon Tirandor owned an old
military ship (Intrepid) and used it for his headquarters.


Nightfox
Message no. 6
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Bring Out Your Battleships
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:56:40 +0100
In message <960722122259_439315113@*******.mail.aol.com>,
Craigtw1@***.com writes
>Hmmm...Why the Iowa?

>Heck, I got to see the Wisconsin AND the JFK from a bus, while on my high
>school senior class trip to Norfolk. We were getting a guided bus tour of
>the Norfolk Naval base.

I've been on the Iowa. She made a courtesy call to Portsmouth in 1989
and I got aboard, talked to some of the crew, had a good afternoon of
it. Sort of sentimental attachment.

--
"There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy."
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 7
From: "Mark A. Imbriaco" <mark@******.net>
Subject: Re: Bring Out Your Battleships
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 12:10:10 -0400 (EDT)
> Hmmm...Why the Iowa?
>
> Heck, I got to see the Wisconsin AND the JFK from a bus, while on my high
> school senior class trip to Norfolk. We were getting a guided bus tour of
> the Norfolk Naval base.
>
> Tom

Cool. I'm less than 10 minutes from that base right now.. :-)

-mark

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