"How an aircraft carrier saved Christmas in Tacoma" Topic
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Tango01  | 20 Feb 2025 4:01 p.m. PST |
"Aircraft carriers are massive, floating airports that host thousands of personnel. Equipped with barber shops, post offices and convenience stores, flattops can be likened to miniature cities on the water. They even carry their own plumbing systems, water treatment facilities and electric generators. In fact, one of America's first aircraft carriers used its generators to save Christmas.
USS Lexington (CV-2) was originally designed as a battlecruiser. However, the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 effectively terminated all battleship and battlecruiser production. Instead, the ship was completed as an aircraft carrier and entered service in 1929. Upon delivery to the Navy, Lexington was assigned to the Pacific Fleet and sailed from Massachusetts to California…"
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| Tango01 | 20 Feb 2025 4:02 p.m. PST |
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| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 20 Feb 2025 5:22 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 21 Feb 2025 2:57 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my good friend…
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 John the OFM | 21 Feb 2025 3:37 p.m. PST |
When we have no more wars, our aircraft carriers and submarines can serve as portable emergency electric generators. |
 etotheipi  | 21 Feb 2025 4:04 p.m. PST |
The largest plant, on the GW class carrier, could sustain a small metropolitan area … ~1000MW for ~1M people. The Typhoon class could handle about 50K people at ~80MW. Fortunately, the precedent condition is unlikely in … well, anyone's lifetime. |
| ConnaughtRanger | 22 Feb 2025 12:54 p.m. PST |
Did I miss the figure with very few clothes on? |
| Tango01 | 22 Feb 2025 3:10 p.m. PST |
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