Yofuri wrote:


About 50 years ago, "old hands" told me that Franklin would never sail
again because her keel was so badly warped that she wouldn't hold shaft
bearings or stern tubes. According to them, it was due to graving
damage, not battle damage.

I heard the same story about the Bunker Hill. She was supposedly
dropped off the blocks while in dry dock. I've never found any
verification for that story for either ship.

Scott Peterson

--
If you have ever seen the movie Night of the
Living Dead, you have a rough idea how
modern corporations and organizations
operate, with projects and proposals that
everybody thought were killed constantly
rising from their graves to stagger back into
meetings and eat the brains of the living.
(Dave Barry)

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