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A few days ago, I visited the Navy Yard in DC and their museum.

Alas, the Cold War Gallery seems to be only open with an appointment. :evil:

But the up to WW2 gallery is still open to walk ins.

As you enter the museum via a walkbridge after you park in a parking garage, you run across this:

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The Plaque says:
SWIFT BOAT PCF-1

Dedicated on 23 April 1998
By Senator John F. Kerry
and Wade Sanders of the
Swift Boat Sailors Association, Inc

In recognition of those who served
and in memory of lost comrades
As you continue further down, you find the Museum in a white building:

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The plates on the two anchors read (left to right)
ANCHOR
FROM STEAM SLOOP-OF-WAR
USS HARTFORD

BUILT IN BOSTON
NAVY YARD, 1858

ADMIRAL FARRAGUT'S
FLAGSHIP
AT BATTLES OF NEW ORLEANS
AND MOBILE BAY

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SIX-TON STARBOARD ANCHOR
FROM
USS ANZIO CVHE 57

BUILT AT
VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON 1943

ORIGINALLY NAMED
USS CORAL SEA
RENAMED OCTOBER 1944
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Closeup of the plaque on the building. It used to be a naval gun factory.

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Outside, they have a lot of old weapons -- this is one of them. The plaque on it's stand reads:
CONFEDERATE BROOKE 6.4-INCH DOUBLE-BANDED
RIFLE FROM CSS TENNESSEE
When you enter the museum, this is what it looks like:

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Near the front, in a little annex, they have a Submarine room, with Periscopes you can look through (it was my favorite part of the museum as a Kid)

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BTW, the flag at the upper left is the War Flag from the USS Louisana from the Gulf War.

As you continue further down; you run across this fighting top:

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It was removed from the USS Constitution during a restoration in the 1960s or 1970s.

They have a lot of certainly interesting civil war artifacts in the place:

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The plaque in the case reads:
Blah blah blah....

Rear Admiral David D. Porter obtained a few Gatlings, including
this one, for his Mississippi Flotilla. Although its use in naval engagements
is unknown, the gun was probably used during the last 18 months of the Civil
War in river patrols against Confederate Guerillas.
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That's the wheel of the Steam Sloop of war USS Hartford; Farragut's flagship at New Orleans.

As you continue down, they have some nice models of the New Steam Navy

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Until it segues into the WWII Gallery after some WWI stuff.

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The prop you can see at the top of that image is from a F4U which hangs from the ceiling.

BTW, the plate on that gantry crane is:

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So onto the WWII Stuff:

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Slate gray working uniform, USN. Offered better camouflage, etc; but was wildly unpopular, replaced with Khakis again in 1945.

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Cutaway model of an Allen M Sumner class DD for engineering classes to show how a ship is laid out.

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Essex Model.

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Iowa Model

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Detailed cutaway model of a LCI (i think). The pictures do not do justice to how fucking HUGE this thing is.

At the very end of the museum, they have some exhibits devoted to underwater exploration

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I think this is just the exterior shell and perhaps the old Steel Sphere from when the Alvin was rebuilt in the early 80s.

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Bathyscape Trieste. Placed here when the Trieste II entered service in USN.

After I finished the museum, I went out to Willard Park, where there are some artifacts:

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Reason that sphere is so shiny? It's Titanitium. It's the prototype that was built when
Alvin's Sphere was replaced in the 1980s with another titanitium one.

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18" gun built for the South Dakota Class BBs in the 1920s

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REMEMBER THE MAINE!

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ARMOR PLATE

This 26-inch armor plate was intended for use in Japanese YAMATO class battleships.
Found in the Kure Naval Base shortly after the end of World War II, it was shipped to
the Naval Proving Ground at Dahlgren, Virginia, for ballistics tests. The damage to this
particular section was inflicted by the impact of a standard US Navy 16-inch armor piercing
projectile.
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Then it was time to wander over to the Museum Ship Barry:

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As you climb onto the stern, you see the new Nationals Stadium on the otherside of the river:

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If you are lucky, you will see Naval personnel doing VITAL WORK

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I bet lonestar misses those days :lol:

As you wander through the ship, you find random interesting things:

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GREEN! My Favorite Color!

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ATOM-BOMB and RADIO-ACTIVITY!

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Yes, that's some nice standard equipment.

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Don't tread on me jack flying at bow.

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Behold the great 1970s deco of the Wardroom!

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And this is in the smithsonian Air and Space's basement....the actual shooting model from
TOS of the Enterprise.
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It's been ages since I've been to that museum. I really should go back some time soon. Shep, you wouldn't happen to know if they've put any new exhibits in there in say, the last 5-10 years or so? Or is it the same as you remember from back in the day?
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I am Envious of you here Shep, Getting to see all that navy stuff while i have never been able to do so.

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Shep, did you happen to take pictures of other battleship models?
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So, how did the internal quality of the Barry compare to the Turner Joy, Shep, based on my extensive photos and descriptions of the later?


They both seem in damned fine shape.
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Did you see Special Agent Gibbs of NCIS going in to work? :D
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RogueIce wrote:Did you see Special Agent Gibbs of NCIS going in to work? :D
Ha!

That actually reminds me of a story from the NCIS Special Features from Season 2 I think it was. Mark Harmon was invited to attend a meeting at the NCIS HQ in LA (or was it San Diego?) where he even participated a bit, the higher-ups present apparently not even realizing he wasn't an actual NCIS agent but just an actor who plays one.
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First boat picture is fantastic, as is the first picture of the battleship.

You have the right idea about interesting angles (the second photos of each ship, and the cannon for example) but you need to work at it. (Try going lower/further/closer and practicing with slight variants).

Your museum shots are MUCH better now without the constant shake and flash your old shots had. (All your photos are pretty good really, you might have a future as a liberal artsy pantsy pinko wishy washy, well, you get the gist ;))
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Wait... Did my eyes deceive me, or was it possible for you to actually walk right up to and touch Trieste? The only manned vehicle to have been to the bottom of the ocean?

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I like the wardroom pictures.

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How does that explain the After Burner style helm stations? Which I loved.
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Steve wrote:
RogueIce wrote:Did you see Special Agent Gibbs of NCIS going in to work? :D
Ha!

That actually reminds me of a story from the NCIS Special Features from Season 2 I think it was. Mark Harmon was invited to attend a meeting at the NCIS HQ in LA (or was it San Diego?) where he even participated a bit, the higher-ups present apparently not even realizing he wasn't an actual NCIS agent but just an actor who plays one.
San Diego I think it was. Apparently he was asked to give a presentation or something.
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That gray uniform looks positively bitching. Other than its uncanny similarity to a Nazi uniform, I don't get why it was unpopular among the seamen and officers.
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tim31 wrote:How does that explain the After Burner style helm stations? Which I loved.

Very hi-tech Winnebago.

We called those the 'cobra' seats.
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Pew-pew!

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I notice that Shep didn't put in any of the pictures of me.... :cry:
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Also:

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I notice that Shep didn't put in any of the pictures of me.... :cry:
I went there by myself! How was I supposed to take pictures of you? Magic?
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MKSheppard wrote:
I went there by myself! How was I supposed to take pictures of you? Magic?
Is that the way it's going to be?

Fine.
Alas, the Cold War Gallery seems to be only open with an appointment.
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Lonestar wrote:Is that the way it's going to be?
Silly lonestar, the foliage in your pictures is from a WINTER shot, while mine is summer. :D
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MKSheppard wrote:
Lonestar wrote:Is that the way it's going to be?
Silly lonestar, the foliage in your pictures is from a WINTER shot, while mine is summer. :D
Fuck, iy was pretty goddam Cold this weekend.

Beside, if it was WINTER Foliage, would it look like this?

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Stop confusing the poor people by mixing shots of the Navy Yard in DC with one of another museum! :P
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Shep is right. I AM confused. I must confess that I thought the Swift Boats were a lot larger.
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I have to agree I'm digging the grey uniforms.
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Zed Snardbody wrote:I have to agree I'm digging the grey uniforms.
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Very nice, Shep. Is that Destroyer the same class as the Turner Joy?

I'm so jealous. The more so that the one time I got to very briefly visit the tank museum at Latrun, I had no camera. How can I compete?

I must go back.
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