What "battleship" during WW2 was destroyed, all persons aboard killed, yet was not sunk? ++++++++++ 04-29-04, 12:25 PM Kwll OK, looks like everyone is stumped so a hint. The "battleship" was not made of steel.
05-03-04, 02:43 PM Jenny Roberts Completely stumped! An extra clue maybe?
05-03-04, 03:55 PM Kwll OK Jenny Smile The name of this "battleship" just happens to be shared with that of an Army Post in New York state.
05-10-04, 04:22 PM Kwll Ok time to answer this one. Fort Drum, the Philippines was also called the "concrete battleship" due to its construction material and unique battleship shape that included 14 inch gun turrets. Fort Drum was constructed to protect Manila Bay and was completed in 1919. During the US invasion of the Philippines in WW2, Fort Drum was loaded explosives and detonated killing all Japanese occupants. www.travelsmart.net
05-10-04, 11:29 PM mozart56 Good trivia,Kwll and interesting story. Cool
05-12-04, 03:36 PM Georgia85 I've been eagerly awaiting the answer to this question - a concrete battleship you say...I would have thought concrete would sink....
05-12-04, 06:20 PM coldfuse I don't think this one was meant to float!
But, by golly, a concrete boat is possible (though perhaps impractical). Remember that steel doesn't float, either!
05-12-04, 11:44 PM DorianGreyed The technology for spray-on concrete has been around for a long time, and I have seen articles about concrete boats bring made and raced.
Here is one begun during WW I as a tanker and completed in 1919, just after the end of the war. For the next ten years she lay anchored in various places in San Francisco Bay as she was bought and sold by speculators.
Here is one begun during WW I as a tanker and completed in 1919, just after the end of the war. For the next ten years she lay anchored in various places in San Francisco Bay as she was bought and sold by speculators.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Hamlet, I, v.
05-13-04, 07:20 AM Kwll MAybe I should have mentioned why I put battleship in quotes. It was really a fort built on El Fraile Island in Manila Bay. SO unless you could sink the island, this battleship would never sink. There are some good pictures out there and Fort Drum does indeed look just like a battleship complete with turrets and a ship shaped "hull".
05-13-04, 09:49 AM DorianGreyed I don't feel there was a need, Kwll; the punctuation was enough of a warning that something was different about the use of the word.
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