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britinusa
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Initially Posted - 04/29/2014 : 03:51:26

The Photo Gallery has a Search Option that also allows visitors to look for Albums that have been associated with a geographic area?

[url="https://www.catalina-capri-25s.net/cgi-local/MBR_gallery.cgi?Search+++"]Click here to try the Search function.[/url]

Use the Map to indicate your area of interest.

Paul

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redeye
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Response Posted - 04/29/2014 : 03:55:49

Sweet...

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britinusa
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Response Posted - 04/29/2014 : 19:12:23

I'm often surprised at the Galleries that members post. Not sure which is my fav.

[url="https://www.catalina-capri-25s.net/cgi-local/MBR_gallery.cgi?Album+2514+139"]But this one just appeals to me[/url]

Maybe because I first arrived in the US aboard HMS Ark Royal in 1986 for the re-dedication of the Statue Of Liberty.

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Response Posted - 04/29/2014 : 22:02:30

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by britinusa
 ...But this one just appeals to me...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Easily the most amazing city in the world, from Liberty Island (actually in NJ) to Chinatown, Wall Street and the financial district, the High Line, Little Italy, Greenwich Village, Times Square, Broadway, Rockefeller Center, Midtown, art museums, Central Park, Grand Central, Madison Square Garden, Hudson River, East River, Brooklyn Bridge, DUMBO, Park Slope, The Rockaways, Yankee Stadium........ and of course "The Love Boat" (that prison barge at Hunts Point).

After years of commuting to clients all over the city and having kids living in Manhattan and Brooklyn, I'm still fascinated by it--from a slight distance. Approaching LaGuardia at night always is amazing!

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Response Posted - 04/30/2014 : 07:51:22

Funny, I'm pretty sure that we, USS Oriskany, were in port in Hong Kong for R&R with the Ark in the mid sixties and shared a few Tigers with our fellow sailors. I think the Brits still had grog rations at that time. The Ark is now scrap and the "Mighty O" is an artificial reef off Pensacola. Getting old.

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Response Posted - 04/30/2014 : 10:32:55

They did scrap the Ark, but the last ship I was on, HMS Ark Royal was only launched around 1983/4 ish. And that was scraped too.

The new Flag ship of the R.N. is HMS Albion, recently launched, I think in 2013. As it happens, my first ship in the RN in 1969 was HMS Albion, then it was a Carrier. Now it's some funky looking support ship type of thing.

Arhhhh! Tiger Beer!

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Response Posted - 04/30/2014 : 11:00:09

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Dave5041
 Funny, I'm pretty sure that we, USS Oriskany, were in port in Hong Kong for R&R with the Ark in the mid sixties and shared a few Tigers with our fellow sailors. I think the Brits still had grog rations at that time. The Ark is now scrap and the "Mighty O" is an artificial reef off Pensacola. Getting old.
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A friend of mine when we were stationed together in the Azores, was the guy in charge of putting the "Mighty O" on the seafloor. He was an HT1 when I knew him, but I think he retired as an HTMC. There's a Discovery Channel special: [url="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047JFW94/ref=atv_feed_catalog?tag=imdb-amazonvideo-20"]Sinking an Aircraft Carrier[/url] on it and he was shown a bunch of times in it. Found his email address & told him how much I liked the show and offered "bravo zulu". Don Herring was his name, looks like maybe his son Ian was the writer for the show (that's a guess, uncommon last name both on the same project)...

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