dusty3030
SWCA Member
Another vote for boat. Swabbies live on boats. Their mascot is a goat because it rhymes with boat. Trust me.
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S&W pre model 10 2"
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Leave it to a Leather Neck to come up with that!
Just remember, the best Marine is a Submarine! LOL!
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tenntex32
Member
We actually had a decent sized boat setting on the flight deck of the USS Wasp (LHD-1) on one of our deployments that could be set over the side and used for going ashore, or for other various purposes. It weren't no teeny-tiny boat mind you, but a boat none-the-less.................or so the Navy fellas would point out when I called the Wasp a boat instead of a ship!
(Purely accidental of course.)
tenntex32
Member
Leave it to a Leather Neck to come up with that!
Just remember, the best Marine is a Submarine! LOL!
I seem to remember a really good joke about submarines..........and Seamen. Probably best not to tell it here!
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To a submariner, my ship is a boat. Anything floating on the surface is a target.
tenntex32
Member
How right you are.
While were on deployment, underway to some undisclosed location, the decision was made to take an aerial photo of all the vessels that were part of our group.
For the briefest of moments the submarines attached to our group surfaced just long enough for the pics to be taken and then slipped silently away.
It was rather eerie to watch happen, but fortunately enough we were given a quick heads-up by the Navy as to what to look for.
It was rather comforting to know they were out there watching our 12 and our 6.........as well as our 3 and 9.
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They didn't call us The Silent Service for nothing. Check YouTube for the TV series.
Guy
Guy
If I can guess I'd say late 1952
I have that habit too........ and all ships are boats to me.... (I might have done the ship/boat thing just to annoy the Navy folk while on "boat" deployment.)
I know, there's simply no hope for me now.
Did you thank them for the ride?
tenntex32
Member
Of course, just as we always politely thanked our taxi drivers........
We Marines aren't a bunch of brutes ya know. Nothin' but the upper crust of society to say the least.
We Marines aren't a bunch of brutes ya know. Nothin' but the upper crust of society to say the least.
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One of my favorites, along with every submarine flick ever produced, anywhere...I once stopped off at Muskogee War Memorial Park in Oklahoma to visit the USS Batfish...From their website:
I was also unable to board, but for a different reason...I had paid the fare for my tour of the boat, but when it came time to descend the ladder into the depths I couldn't make my feet move while looking down into the below decks area...It seems a long-suppressed fear of tiny places had surfaced in my brain, and there was no way I was going down there...The volunteer crew offered to refund my ticket fee, but I told them to just keep it as a donation...My landlubber's hat is off to anyone who ever served in those cramped quarters...
At the Nimitz War Museum (now the National Museum of the Pacific War) I was amazed at the tiny size of the captured Japanese midget submarine on display there...They would have had to shoot me and carry my lifeless body aboard to get me in there...
...Ben
Never make the mistake of calling it a boat in the presence of the Skipper, heard more than one CO say, loud and sarcastic,
”Let’s call it a ship, shall we”!
Go to sea, drink coffee, deploy Marines...Repeat.
I’m vertically challenged, tried to join the Coast Guard but they told me I had to be 6’ tall, in case my ship sank I could wade back to shore without getting my hair wet.
”Let’s call it a ship, shall we”!
Go to sea, drink coffee, deploy Marines...Repeat.
I’m vertically challenged, tried to join the Coast Guard but they told me I had to be 6’ tall, in case my ship sank I could wade back to shore without getting my hair wet.
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With all due respect, that place in Groton CT isn't called Electric Ship. Every sailor I've ever spoken with all refer to all the subs as "boats". I'm a Plank Owner on USS Springfield. At the commissioning, in New London, CT, the Admiral referred to it as a boat.Never make the mistake of calling it a boat in the presence of the Skipper, heard more than one CO say, loud and sarcastic,
”Let’s call it a ship, shall we”!
Go to sea, drink coffee, deploy Marines...Repeat.
I’m vertically challenged, tried to join the Coast Guard but they told me I had to be 6’ tall, in case my ship sank I could wade back to shore without getting my hair wet.
Don, the surface sailors are sensitive about terminology. Vessels on the surface are ships and under water they're boats.
Vessels on the surface are ships and under water they're boats.
Absolutely, no argument there, Submarines are Boats.
Maybe because there is something inherently wrong with a Ship that’s designed to sink?
Absalom
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
Sheesh. Talk about thread drift. I had to to read the whole old thread to discover where it stopped being about a 2“ M&P.
But while you guys debate the terminology of iron coffins versus floating bathtubs, I think I‘ll just dig myself a nice foxhole
But while you guys debate the terminology of iron coffins versus floating bathtubs, I think I‘ll just dig myself a nice foxhole
Targets Guy
US Veteran
I paid $422 for my Model 10 ND in 2019. It shipped 9/59.
Would the 2" barrel of the topic of this thread be ideal in the confined passageways of a submersible boat? Now that were back on topic, shouldn't its stocks be flat bottom high horn Magnas?
Oh, I paid a little over $300 for my excellent condition 1950 2" M&P. So what? We don't have a time machine. The further back in time you go the smaller the percentage of production got 2" barrels. Consequently, the price difference between an early 1950s snub and the same year 4" should be greater than the difference between 1960s or 1970s PISTOLS.
Oh, I paid a little over $300 for my excellent condition 1950 2" M&P. So what? We don't have a time machine. The further back in time you go the smaller the percentage of production got 2" barrels. Consequently, the price difference between an early 1950s snub and the same year 4" should be greater than the difference between 1960s or 1970s PISTOLS.
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If you are referring to Mike's Model 10 snubby, no. High horn magnas were never put on M&P's. If you mean "sharp shouldered magnas," again, no. The sharp shouldered magnas were phased out around 1953 or so for the more rounded horn. PC magnas were also introduced around that time that also had rounded bottoms for less interference with clothing.
