WEBVTT 00:00:06.510 --> 00:00:12.670 A vessel like this that goes back to the nineteenth century was involved in a lot of major events 00:00:12.670 --> 00:00:19.540 and locations that are quite important to our national history and to our heritage. 00:00:19.540 --> 00:00:24.860 So it means something for vessels like this that represent a powerful nation, a powerful 00:00:24.860 --> 00:00:27.580 navy. 00:00:32.500 --> 00:00:38.510 Baltimore is of course, a iron hulled riveted ship, launched in the late eighteen hundreds. 00:00:38.510 --> 00:00:42.300 And there will be some distinctive things that we just no longer see at all. 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:48.590 It has a ram bow, you can see the edge of the bow it actually projects forward. 00:00:48.590 --> 00:00:56.140 It harkens back to a really old nautical tradition style of, as a last ditch effort, if a ship 00:00:56.140 --> 00:01:03.040 had to it could ram another vessel and poke a hole in the hull and sink the enemy vessel. 00:01:06.440 --> 00:01:13.220 The auxiliary sails and masts that only recently vanished from steam ships, the Baltimore had 00:01:13.220 --> 00:01:16.670 more powerful steam engines, horizontal steam engines. 00:01:20.020 --> 00:01:26.040 I think she was converted to mine laying, in like nineteen thirteen nineteen fourteen. 00:01:26.660 --> 00:01:31.380 Well the Baltimore set a record for laying nine hundred mines at night when she was training 00:01:31.380 --> 00:01:32.380 sailers. 00:01:35.240 --> 00:01:41.740 Note to ship: when I went to the sea floor was seventy three years ago last Friday. 00:01:45.440 --> 00:01:49.160 The old vessel just kind of stuck around Pearl Harbor for a long time because they didn't 00:01:49.170 --> 00:01:50.540 want to let her go. 00:01:50.540 --> 00:01:55.970 It was kind of with a little sadness the seabees finally took the hull out there put her into 00:01:55.970 --> 00:02:02.070 Davey Jones locker. 00:02:02.070 --> 00:02:07.030 May be this broadcast maybe if there is any seabees still living today that were part 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:09.729 of the demolition team, would be great to interview them.