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    Default Ship building at Bath Me

    One thing I did with my quick visit to the hospital was watch TV, something I rarely do.
    There was an interesting show on the Discovery Channel about building an Arleigh Burke destroyer at Bath Iron works.
    They have a dvd of the show http://shopping.discovery.com/product-57037.html
    TALLY HO
    Ken

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    Isn't it sad when you see the most movies when flying, and the most TV when in hospital?

    ;0 )

    We don't watch TV at all, don't miss it at all == except when we hear about the great shows that sometime surface in all the other cr*p...

    Glad to have you back among the active posters!
    "The enemies of reason have a certain blind look."
    Doctor Jacquin to Lieutenant D'Hubert, in Ridley Scott's first major film _The Duellists_.

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    Just drove past one yesterday: loading or unloading at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station. Here is an excellent site by a German fellow on U.S. Navy ships:

    http://navysite.de/ddg.htm#ddg51

    The link is to the Arleigh Burke class, but the home page is linked at the bottom.
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    And I thought this was going to be a post updating us on the "Virginia" - or maybe my Rescue Minor (tentatively named "Bingey")

    Lots of boatbuilding, in "the city of ships"

    Sal's Dad

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