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October 17, 2011
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USS Impervious (449) laid down in 1951 and commissioned in 1954. USS Fortify (446) and USS Engage (433). These were Agressive class minesweepers and had all been scrapped roughly from 2000-2002. The USS Impervious saw action in the Persian Gulf war.
Posted by: bailey | October 19, 2011 at 08:11 AM
A classic case of masculinist overcompensation through phallic objects of patriarchal dominance and oppression. Images like this further the impression of an imperial, colonizing nationstate mobilizing its hateforces across the globe.
Posted by: Autumn Rae Bamberg | October 19, 2011 at 10:12 AM
OMG!! Back off Autumn Rae Bamberg. Bailey was only stating the facts.
Posted by: Suzanne | October 19, 2011 at 10:39 AM
many the young lad whos inspiration of ships, men and a life at sea would start at the portland seawall....
or as the Nav likes to put it; "Men belong on Ships and Ships belong at Sea"
Posted by: F. loren | October 25, 2011 at 09:21 PM