Friday Reading

Fullbore Friday at CDR Salamander featues the cruiser St. Paul (you know you are getting old when you had shipmates who served in her) - but what a fine ship!

And Steeljaw Scribe salutes them that keeps 'em flying at Flightdeck Friday.

UPDATE:
Surface Warfare ship driving, sometimes referred to (by me) as "Death in Slow Motion" has its looonnngg moments, an example of which is described in a post at Chaotic Synaptic Activity. Some of the gray hairs on my head are from waiting for a merchant ship to "do the right thing."