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Home Front: WoT
With pride, sadness USS New York comes 'to life'
2009-11-08
Shortly after noon Saturday, a command rang out at Pier 86 in Manhattan: "Bring the ship to life."

With that, crew members in dress blues ran to stand at attention at the rails, radar antennas on the America's newest warship began to turn, black smoke poured from three funnels, sirens rang and the horn blared. And the USS New York - docked across the water at Pier 88 - became part of the active U.S. Navy fleet.

It was a ceremony evoking emotion, pride and patriotism and full of references to Sept. 11 - hardly surprising given that the 684-foot amphibious assault vessel's bow incorporates 7.5 tons of the steel skeletons of the World Trade Center towers.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  some people call it a Kaiser Blade. I call it a Slingblade

/Uhmhmhuh
Posted by: Frank G   2009-11-08 18:22  

#4  Thanks for setting the record straight.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2009-11-08 17:55  

#3  The word is plow SHARE, that's the part of the plow that hsa a sharp steel edge to cut the soil and grass cover, so the Moldboard can turn the soil upside down.
It's a curved steel blade much like a Scimitar, but with the sharp edge on the inside of the curve instead of the outside curve, easily removed and bent straight, and whaddya know, a straight sword, just add a handle, or in an emergency wrap about 6 inches in tough leather.
Quick and easy to convert either way.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2009-11-08 12:10  

#2  I've long been uncomfortable with this idea. Sailors are a superstitious lot at times, the fickle sea tends to do that, and it is impossible to sway their opinions about the "luck" of a particular ship once they make it.

Of course, this works both ways. If a crew thinks their ship, Captain or other crew mates are "lucky", they can be shot all to heck and still be all smiles.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-11-08 08:55  

#1  Bending plow sheers into swords! Send it to the East!
Posted by: 49 Pan   2009-11-08 08:32  

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