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  • DubiousDan

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    I'd like to know the story behind the ship. At first I thought it was a carrier until I took a closer look.
    That's the HMS Boxer, an anti-submarine frigate that launched in the 1980s for a Cold War mission that simply disappeared after the USSR fell apart. With nothing to do, the Brits tried to sell it off and nobody wanted it. Eventually, it was used for target practice in 1999.

    The picture shows the aftermath of two hits with Harpoon missiles.

    ETA - Additional views of the same ship:

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    I know it was still functional around Christmas of 98. It and an American Destroyer escorted our minesweepers down a river in Iraq, keeping the gun boats off of us. Maybe I’ve got a touch of the old timers disease but I can’t remember the name of the American Destroyer.
     

    DubiousDan

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    That's the HMS Boxer, an anti-submarine frigate that launched in the 1980s for a Cold War mission that simply disappeared after the USSR fell apart. With nothing to do, the Brits tried to sell it off and nobody wanted it. Eventually, it was used for target practice in 1999.

    The picture shows the aftermath of two hits with Harpoon missiles.

    ETA - Additional views of the same ship:

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    I think that's it. Thanks. Here's a before shot that shows the black "Mast" (?) visable in the pic I posted.
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    DubiousDan

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    In 2005, the nuclear attack submarine USS San Francisco suddenly stopped dead in its tracks. The ship's crew were thrown about, some over distances of 20 feet, and the majority of the 137-member crew suffered one injury or another—including one that would later prove fatal. Further inspection would explain what happened, and reveal that the submarine's bow looked like a crushed soda can. USS San Francisco had run into an undersea mountain.
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    The incredible thing about the incident: despite running into an immovable object at more than 30 miles an hour, at depth of 525 feet, the San Francisco didn't sink, nor did it experience a reactor malfunction. Even more incredibly, the submarine was able to move under its own power back to port on the island of Guam. [...]
     

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    In 2005, the nuclear attack submarine USS San Francisco suddenly stopped dead in its tracks. The ship's crew were thrown about, some over distances of 20 feet, and the majority of the 137-member crew suffered one injury or another—including one that would later prove fatal. Further inspection would explain what happened, and reveal that the submarine's bow looked like a crushed soda can. USS San Francisco had run into an undersea mountain.
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    The incredible thing about the incident: despite running into an immovable object at more than 30 miles an hour, at depth of 525 feet, the San Francisco didn't sink, nor did it experience a reactor malfunction. Even more incredibly, the submarine was able to move under its own power back to port on the island of Guam. [...]
    That was also the end of it's active duty, it's now a moored training ship.
     
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