 | | Launch of HMAS Ballarat —Ross Crawford
| | | | Well, yesterday I went to the launch of HMAS Ballarat, the 8th ANZAC frigate launched at the Tenix shipyards. This leaves just 2 more to be launched from the contract for 10, worth around AU$6 billion. The ballarat will now be fitted out & trialed (...) (22 years ago, 26-May-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Launch of HMAS Ballarat —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | (...) Neat! Thanks for sharing these. Now THAT is a flared bow, yessirree. It's nice that you folks get to actually see your launchings--they won't let us very close to ours; we had a nice AEGIS destroyer go into the water last year--the last "real" (...) (22 years ago, 26-May-02, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.boats)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Launch of HMAS Ballarat —Ross Crawford
| | | | | (...) Yep, It looks really strange from underneath! (...) Well, I think Tenix like to have as many people hanging around at the launch as they can, for the TV cameras. If you know when it is, you can generally get in - they don't do any security (...) (22 years ago, 26-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Launch of HMAS Ballarat —Lindsay Frederick Braun
| | | | | (...) Sort of like a giant duck bill! Wait until they start building "stealth" destroyers (the DD21 program here in the USA)--those have some really, really, really funky lines. (...) I've seen trucks that match that description--I wouldn't be (...) (22 years ago, 27-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Launch of HMAS Ballarat —Ross Crawford
| | | | | (...) restricted (...) They've got 12 individually steerable / liftable axles, 6 on each side, each axle has 4 wheels. They lower the truck, drive it in underneath the module, then lift it up & drive away. ROSCO (22 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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