7 Comments Posted by Dunny

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Yeah, that was probably the Holder. She was an Edsall class DE (DE-401) that caught a torpedo from a german plane in 1944. They transplanted her stern to the USS Menges (DE-320) and sold the bow to Witte in 1947. I was just curious because I saw her in some old undated aerial photos of the yard. Thanks, Jim!
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Nevermind. Nothing beats the aerial views that Live Search has.
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by that I mean, was she finally scrapped or moved or ?
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Jim, do you know when and what happened to the bow of the USS Holder that used to be in the yard?
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Hey Motts, any chance you got some shots of the steamer that's just the other side of this ferry? That one's called the New Bedford and she's got a fascinating history of service in WW2.
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My grandmother used to press records at Decca. I still have her collection of 78 albums of theirs from the 1940s and 45s through the 1960s. I didn't know they made players too.
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If anyone's interested, you can get nicely detailed satellite view of the boatyard here:

http://maps.google.com...497&t=h&om=1

be sure to click satellite)
For those of us who'll never make it in person, it helps to picture the scene when you can pick them out from above.