Nor'easter XXIII Mar 21-24, 2019: Battleship Cove update

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Battleship Cove update:

On Wednesday, 3/20/19 this year, we have a special treat where the Nor'easter will pick up the tab of admission for any pre-registered, paid Nor'easter attendees to visit the Battleship Massachusetts in Battleship Cove Fall River. Attendees will still be responsible for food or any other incidentals arising from the visit. Please indicate your intention to join us at Battleship Cove when you signup and contact Carl Nogueira so that the meetup can be smoothly arranged and contact information can be exchanged in case of a sudden change of plans by the attendee. For our part, we will be there, and the Battleship certainly will be.

We have capped this at 16 people and we have 4 slots left. If you have already signed up for the Nor'easter but did not indicate you wish to attend the Battleship Cove trip, you may either update your entry on https://www.yankeegamers.org/noreaster/noreaster2019.php or contact Carl Nogueira directly via email.

Note: you need to pre-register for Nor'easter 2019 to be able to attend the Batt
leship Cove trip so if you have not pre-registered, please do so now at https://www.yankeegamers.org/noreaster/noreaster2019.php.

You can see details on Battleship Cove here: Battleship Cove Website (http://battleshipcove.org/)

The Massachusetts is a South Dakota Class WW2 Battleship, sporting 9 16-inch Guns. It saw action at the Torch Landings in 1942 and supported several amphibious invasions in the Pacific. Also, at Battleship Cove, indoors, are an Elco and Higgins PT Boat the PTs 617 and 796 respectively. A East German Cold War Era Corvette the Hiddensee, the Joseph P Kennedy Jr, a post-WW2 Gearing C lass Destroyer that participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis and finally a Balao Class Submarine the Lionfish, of late WW2 intage which also saw a couple of patrols. All in all, it is a great day of history and great way to set the mood for the coming long weekend.
 

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Was there in 2009... Despite the bad weather it was worth the trip ?
That's not bad weather. Bad weather is sixty-foot seas in the North Atlantic on your way to Murmansk. That's just a normal summer day in Boston.

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Battleship Cove is a great museum. National PT Boat museum, SS Lionfish, all kinds a cool PTO stuff

I love the scratches that the USS Massachusetts bears, painted red so you can see them, from where French shells bounced off her during the Op Torch landings
Actually, that shell penetrated the deck and went off in a vacant crew cabin below. The red paint was all the shrapnel that would have torn the crew apart had they been berthed instead of at battle stations.
 
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