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Old 05-05-10, 11:29 AM   #8
Frying Tiger
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I've been on (partial list, as best I can remember...)

All the ships at Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA (Lionfish, Massachusetts, Joseph Kennedy, etc)
USS Pampanito, San Francisco, CA
HMS Victory, Portsmouth UK
Frigate "Rose", Newport RI
Sloop "Providence" (got to go out for a day cruise)
Barkentine "Regina Maris" (day cruise... had the helm while coming about)
Juliette 484, Providence, RI (only a few months before it sank)
USS Nautilus (not at sea)
USS Intrepid
USS Cassin Young, Boston, MA
USCGC Eagle

Before 9-11 we used to get a lot of ship visits and tours when I lived in Boston:
USS Simpson (FFG)
USS Biddle (CG)
USS Guam
USS Saipan
USS Bunker Hill
HMS Ark Royal (they had a wonderful napkin folding exhibit)
USS Fulton
A Mackenzie class DDH (HMCS SASKATCHEWAN I think)
USS Aylwin (or another Knox-class FF... they let me play with aiming the ASROC launcher)
USS McCloy
USS Kennedy (CV-67) (took me two tries, the line was 6 hours long the first time!)

And thanks to my Dad working on some historical research with Captain Tyrone Martin, I got a chance to go out on one of the turnaround cruises of the USS Constitution. That was a real high point!

And most recently, I just got a tour of the USS Virginia. Seriously cool submarine.
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