It may look like Photoshop was involved in the picture, but since it is available from a naval history site that managed to swing a .mil address (http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/bb39.htm) I suspect any fakery in that picture probably predates personal computers. Personally, I think it's genuine. Not sure what prompted theweaselking's title, though.
i think it's the perspective that makes this picture look wrong. we're not good at judging distance in static images.
perhaps the title was suggested by the fact this is the uss arizona ... of pearl harbour. or that the sheer size of the ship becomes apparent in the photo?
This is a disadvantage of growing up down the street from the world's largest naval base perhaps, but I look at that and think 'how quaint'. The Missouri class battleships that replaced those WWI era ships are bigger by quite a bit, and modern aircraft carrier make even those look a bit skimpy.
Yep. When I was working in downtown Norfolk (VA, not .uk), the GW was being towed to the naval shipyard down the Elizabeth river from us. The thing blotted out the sun. From the waterline to the flight deck is ten stories, and they're incredibly long.
*nod* The lack of wake is a bit shoopspicious, especially with the foam along her bows. Could be legit, though: according to Wikipedia, she was in the neighborhood at the time.
NAh, its probably being pushed/pulled by all the tugs, that would explain the lack of wake. Actually, from looking at the line of splashes from the pumps off the bow, was it going backward?
Yep. The USS Arizona, which would later be sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor, was launched in 1915 and commissioned in 1916. So this is entirely plausible.
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Date: 2009-12-06 07:20 am (UTC)Personally, I think it's genuine. Not sure what prompted theweaselking's title, though.
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Date: 2009-12-07 01:42 am (UTC)daguerreotyped? ;)
them battleships were (are?) *huge*.
Date: 2009-12-06 08:12 am (UTC)perhaps the title was suggested by the fact this is the uss arizona ... of pearl harbour. or that the sheer size of the ship becomes apparent in the photo?
Re: them battleships were (are?) *huge*.
Date: 2009-12-06 04:51 pm (UTC)Well, my reaction to the photo was also "Holy shit!", because, holy shit, it's HUGE. So that's likely.
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Date: 2009-12-06 06:15 pm (UTC)Re: them battleships were (are?) *huge*.
Date: 2009-12-07 12:04 am (UTC)Re: them battleships were (are?) *huge*.
Date: 2009-12-07 01:38 am (UTC)Re: them battleships were (are?) *huge*.
Date: 2009-12-07 01:37 am (UTC)some of those aircraft carriers ... !!
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Date: 2009-12-07 01:51 am (UTC)Re: them battleships were (are?) *huge*.
Date: 2009-12-07 02:17 am (UTC)Re: them battleships were (are?) *huge*.
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Date: 2009-12-06 02:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-07 02:19 am (UTC)*shrugs*
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Date: 2009-12-06 08:17 am (UTC)