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From: tcs!sparcplug!markk@uunet.UU.NET (Mark Kromer)
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Subject: Re: Battleships: where are they now?
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From: tcs!sparcplug!markk@uunet.UU.NET (Mark Kromer)

In article <1990Oct2.234743.22650@cbnews.att.com>, boulder!boulder!scottmi@ncar (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:


>From: boulder!boulder!scottmi@ncar.UCAR.EDU (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)

>  There is talk of raising and renovating USS Monitor; she capsized during a
>storm off Cape Hatteras, N.C.  Salvage operations will be complicated by the
>poor condition of the iron hull (which rests upside-down) and the fact that
>the ship's sinking was facilitated by the partial separation of the upper and
>lower hull sections.

I understand that the monitor was also reqeatedly depth-charged during
WW2 after its sonar image was mistaken for that of a submarine.

[..other stuff deleted..]

>  --don't like snow, miss Deirdre, and wish I was still in Santa Cruz.

hmm... a fellow former slug perhaps?

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