"John R. Carroll" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:
"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"Robert Swinney" wrote in message
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My favorite was several years back when the battleship magazine
exploded with black powder.

That's the kind of powder you'll find in battleship magazines, Bob.
Those 16-inch guns are charged with sacks of black powder. They
couldn't take the pressure of anything else. That's why old photos
of the New Jersey, the Ohio...

That should be "Iowa," not Ohio.

Thank God Ed.
You had me wondering when out ballistic missile submarine fleet had
switched
over to black powder.
I had heard they were moving to whale oil and put a little money on it G

I think the battleship Ohio was decommissioned sometime around WWI. No doubt
it charged its big guns with black powder, but I think the example is not
very useful. g

I'll bet she was lubed with whale oil, too...

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Ed Huntress