Occasional Reader 12/7/2025 7:26:46 AM

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USS Arizona, in better days.

JCM 12/7/2025 8:33:04 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

USS Missouri, "Mighty Mo" was moored for years in Bremerton Naval Shipyard. It was open for deck tours a couple deck level compartments with artifacts. I've been on her a few times. After her decommissioning post Gulf War I she was moved to Hawaii, near USS Arizona. a fitting place, the "book ends" of the US involvement in World War II.

Kosh's Shadow 12/7/2025 9:53:10 AM

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Reply to JCM in 2:

And the Missouri was in the 2012 movie "Battleship", which really sounds like a bad movie, bad enough I haven't watched it.

It did have real veterans who served on the Missouri in the movie. The idea was they get the museum ship running to shoot alien craft.

Museum ships are generally not in condition to run, and certainly would not have live ammo on board.

But last place I worked, someone had been on board one of the operational destroyers also filmed, so in a group meeting, he started his presentation by showing a trailer for the movie - and people complained about how bad it looked.

If you want a GOOD movie set in more recent times and filmed on board a battleship, watch Under Seige.

Kosh's Shadow 12/7/2025 11:33:08 AM

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For anyone interested, WCRB is playing a Handel and Hayden Society's performance of Handel's Messiah tonight at 7:00 PM EST Recorded in 2023, this was their 170'th performance of Messiah. They did it even over COVID, with small groups in different places and the sound combined and streamed.

Handel and Hayden Society is the oldest continually performing classical orchestra in the US.

https://www.classicalwcrb.org/show/upcoming-in-concert-broadcasts/2023-11-30/hallelujah-handel-and-haydn-societys-messiah

(Don't connect too early or you will hear their begging)

JCM 12/7/2025 12:32:42 PM

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Reply to Kosh's Shadow in 3:

Battleship is stupid, unrealistic..... but entertaining.

Kosh's Shadow 12/7/2025 1:20:29 PM

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Reply to JCM in 5:

I'd rather watch Under Seige again. Steven Segal as a former SEAL, now cook, on IIRC the New Jersey, when it is hijacked by bad guys trying to steal the nuclear Tomahawk missiles. Fights them off singlehandedly.