Onboard
today to do some polishing and visit the USS Winston Churchill (DDG-81)
which was tied up at Penn's Landing across the river. Below are a
bunch of photos from today's trip, I plan to be onboard next Saturday for
Armed Forces Day, hope to see you there!
USS
Winston Churchill tied up at Penn's Landing.
Ships
automatic 5" Deck Mount, vertical launch missile
tube doors are visible on the deck behind the gun mount.
There
were numerous emplacements like this on the main deck
and several more were visible on the upper decks too.
Some
of the ships crew shining up the bell,
after we teased them about it looking bad...
Shot
from the main deck amidship looking forward at the superstructure.
Note
the prominent Aegis Radar Panel visible in this photo, one of 4 on the
ship.
Another
shot along the Port side as we left the ship via the after brow.
One
more shot from dead astern as we boarded the ferry to cross the river.
Since
the weather has improved we've been working topside again trying
to clean up the many brass fixtures and plates found on the weather
decks.
We are stripping them down and reapplying lacquer to them.
Some
more fixtures we did today, and look at that porthole shining,
I lacquered all of them three years ago now, still looking pretty good!
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Last updated on June 25, 2007.