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A vessel like this that goes back to the nineteenth
century was involved in a lot of major events

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and locations that are quite important to
our national history and to our heritage.

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So it means something for vessels like this
that represent a powerful nation, a powerful

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navy.

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Baltimore is of course, a iron hulled riveted
ship, launched in the late eighteen hundreds.

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And there will be some distinctive things
that we just no longer see at all.

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It has a ram bow, you can see the edge of
the bow it actually projects forward.

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It harkens back to a really old nautical tradition
style of, as a last ditch effort, if a ship

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had to it could ram another vessel and poke
a hole in the hull and sink the enemy vessel.

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The auxiliary sails and masts that only recently
vanished from steam ships, the Baltimore had

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more powerful steam engines, horizontal steam
engines.

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I think she was converted to mine laying,
in like nineteen thirteen nineteen fourteen.

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Well the Baltimore set a record for laying
nine hundred mines at night when she was training

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sailers.

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Note to ship: when I went to the sea floor
was seventy three years ago last Friday.

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The old vessel just kind of stuck around Pearl
Harbor for a long time because they didn't

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want to let her go.

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It was kind of with a little sadness the seabees
finally took the hull out there put her into

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Davey Jones locker.

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May be this broadcast maybe if there is any
seabees still living today that were part

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of the demolition team, would be great to
interview them.