You can see where the turrets were mounted. I don't recognize the two forward and two aft configuration though. Maybe its too small to be a battleship. Definitely four large guns though.
You can see where the turrets were mounted. I don't recognize the two forward and two aft configuration though. Maybe its too small to be a battleship. Definitely four large guns though.
There is even the story about the Brazillian Battleship Rio de Janeiro that suffered structural difficulties due to the size and depth of its seven turret wells.
It's not just the turrets but the magazines, ammo handling rooms, and equipment to rotate and power the turrets.
Anonymous
@ 2006-04-01 16:29:07
I do believe that it is the repair ship Ajax sold for scrap in 1997 since the bow and stern are pointy. This was common to U.S. Navy repair ships of the 1930,s .
I think this may be a cable laying ship. The round wells are where they stored the cable. It has about the same LOA and Beam as the one shown in this link.
There also appears to be what could be a fitting to feed the cable over the stern.
Thanks to Pdunn's Viscount post for getting me in the Brownsville neighborhood. That's a plane I flew on several times as a kid.
Anonymous
@ 2008-01-02 21:32:19
That is not a battleship. Just north of that across the channel appears to be a Salem class Heavy Cruiser from WW2, and as you can tell is much bigger.
Anonymous
@ 2023-04-08 14:40:00
Appears the ship is gone. This is a scrapping yard, I wish the picture was saved as viewable thing. Brownsville is worse place find current ship meeting it's end. Side Note, USS Salem CA-139 was NOT scrapped, she still in Quincy , Massachusetts. The ship picture was exUSS Des Moines CA-134, she was scrapped unfortunately precisely when this was reported.
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I wonder if it's the USS Cabot, partially disassembled.
You can find a picture of the mostly cut up Cabot here: http://www.usscabot.com/june52002.htm and here: http://www.usscabot.com/cabot42101.htm
This whole area seems to be part of International Shipbreaking Limited's operations. There's a list of ships they've hacked up here:
http://www.shiprecycling.com/cutshp.html
That should help to narrow things down.
My bad. International Shipbreaking's slips are on the north side of the channel, along with ESCO Marine.
These slips belong to Transforma Marine. Google Earth says the shot dates from Feb. 17, 2004.
and
http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/cutaway/ture.jpg
There is even the story about the Brazillian Battleship Rio de Janeiro that suffered structural difficulties due to the size and depth of its seven turret wells.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashita/riodej_f.htm
There also appears to be what could be a fitting to feed the cable over the stern.
Thanks to Pdunn's Viscount post for getting me in the Brownsville neighborhood. That's a plane I flew on several times as a kid.
The picture is still available on Google Earth.