Boating advice….don’t hit an aircraft carrier

[Bouba]

Boat captain arrested after hit-and-run crash into USS Midway museum ship: police

 

[Bitter-End]

To be fair, those carriers can be hard to spot at times.

The Americans actually lost track of entire carrier fleet in the Pacific back when!

 

[Farmer Piles]

Quite, she is only about 75 000t. I have been on her, she is one massive lump of iron.

 

[ducked]

To be fair, those carriers can be hard to spot at times.

The Americans actually lost track of entire carrier fleet in the Pacific back when!

Probably a Japanese carrier group, them being Wily Orientals living in infamy all day, an all that

 

[ducked]

Boat captain arrested after hit-and-run crash into USS Midway museum ship: police

But if you ARE going to hit one, a museum ship is probably a better choice than an operational one.

Not so many guns, less radioactive, and probably thicker paint.

 

[Daydream believer]

I seem to recall that when one particular president of the USA was having a spat with Rocket Man he lost a carrier fleet. He did not have a clue where it had gone.

 

[stephen_h]

$100k to buff out a few scratches!!!!

 

[Bouba]

$100k to buff out a few scratches!!!!

It’s the lifting out of the water…you any idea of the crane size

 

[Blueboatman]

I thought grey paint was cheap?

Could happen to anyone and always has, surely?

Jupiter@ London Bridge c1984






And now, time for this one to be reeled out perhaps?
Ships radio exchange :

 

[Farmer Piles]

I thought grey paint was cheap?

Could happen to anyone and always has, surely?

Jupiter@ London Bridge c1984



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And now, time for this one to be reeled out perhaps?
Ships radio exchange :

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I seem to remember that the Captain of HMS Jupiter famously turned down the offer of a tug to assist him. The only thing more dented than his ship would have been his career.