John Hall in my Back Yard

Thought ya might like to see what goes through MY back yard

Well, guess either you guys changed the rules, or photobucket did, or I just plain dummied out on puttin' on pics. Oh, well

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Welllll, ya still got a pretty good avatar!

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Go back to Photobucket, find your pic, click on it to maximize, copy the address in the "direct link" window, paste it in the URL window in the image download link, here. Make sure you maximize the photo though, as it sometimes doesn't work if the photo is in the minimized mode.

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Thanks, Jay

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Awesome!

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Nice Pics.


John Hall Trivia

Ordered: 23 January 1978
Laid down: 5 January 1981
Launched: 24 July 1981
Commissioned: 26 June 1982
Homeport: Mayport, Florida
Motto: Semper Victores (Always Victorious)
Nickname: "The Johnny"
Fate: Active in service as of 2008
General characteristics
Displacement: 4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load
Length: 453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam: 45 ft (13.7 m)
Draught: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion: 2 ? General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller; 2 x Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (.25 MW) retractable electric azipods for maneuvering and docking.
Speed: 29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range: 5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Sensors and
processing systems: AN/SPS-49 air-search radar
AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar
CAS and STIR fire-control radar
AN/SQS-56 sonar.
Electronic warfare
and decoys: AN/SLQ-32
Armament: As built:
One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine)
two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes
one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Aircraft carried: 2 ? SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters
USS John L. Hall (FFG-32), twenty-fourth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Admiral John L. Hall, Jr. (1891?1978).

Ordered from Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME on 23 January 1978 as part of the FY78 program, John L. Hall was laid down on 5 January 1981, launched on 24 July 1981, and commissioned on 26 June 1982.

On August 28, 2005, she sailed from her home port, NS Pascagoula, Mississippi, along with sister ship Stephen W. Groves under threat from Hurricane Katrina.

As of 2007, she remains active, commanded by Commander Augustus P. Bennet, assigned to Destroyer Squadron 14, and homeported at NAVSTA Mayport, Florida.

John L. Hall (FFG-32) is the first ship of that name in the US Navy.

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Glad you got the pic thing sorted out Hoss......................awesome sight

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How sweet to get pic right overthe top of your house. Absolutely awesome!

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You must live up near Bath Iron Works or at least on the way.
As a kid I loved it up there when the rest of the family could not wait to get back to the island at Sabasco.
Sometimes I really do miss it up there until every time I talk to my brother over the winter. About every phone call ends with, "I have to go shovel or plow some snow."

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...And, yes, it will pull a skier.

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Bass Man Bruce said:

How sweet to get pic right overthe top of your house. Absolutely awesome!

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Yeah, told my wife what I wanted for a pic, sent her up the hill to get it. Got her trained pretty good, huh?

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f_inscreenname said:

You must live up near Bath Iron Works or at least on the way.
As a kid I loved it up there when the rest of the family could not wait to get back to the island at Sabasco.
Sometimes I really do miss it up there until every time I talk to my brother over the winter. About every phone call ends with, "I have to go shovel or plow some snow."

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About 100 miles "Down East" of Bath. And yeah, I'd have a longer reply, but I gotta go plow some snow.

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Bob_VT said:

Nice Pics.


John Hall Trivia

Ordered: 23 January 1978
Laid down: 5 January 1981
Launched: 24 July 1981
Commissioned: 26 June 1982
Homeport: Mayport, Florida
Motto: Semper Victores (Always Victorious)
Nickname: "The Johnny"
Fate: Active in service as of 2008
General characteristics
Displacement: 4,100 tons (4,170 t) full load
Length: 453 ft (138.1 m), overall
Beam: 45 ft (13.7 m)
Draught: 22 ft (6.7 m)
Propulsion: 2 ? General Electric LM2500-30 gas turbines generating 41,000 shp (31 MW) through a single shaft and variable pitch propeller; 2 x Auxiliary Propulsion Units, 350 hp (.25 MW) retractable electric azipods for maneuvering and docking.
Speed: 29+ knots (54+ km/h)
Range: 5,000 nm (9,300 km) at 18 knots (33 km/h)
Complement: 15 officers and 190 enlisted, plus SH-60 LAMPS detachment of roughly six officer pilots and 15 enlisted maintainers
Sensors and
processing systems: AN/SPS-49 air-search radar
AN/SPS-55 surface-search radar
CAS and STIR fire-control radar
AN/SQS-56 sonar.
Electronic warfare
and decoys: AN/SLQ-32
Armament: As built:
One OTO Melara Mk 75 76 mm/62 caliber naval gun
one Mk 13 Mod 4 single-arm launcher for Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/air missiles (40 round magazine)
two Mk 32 triple-tube (324 mm) launchers for Mark 46 torpedoes
one Vulcan Phalanx CIWS; four .50-cal (12.7 mm) machine guns.
Aircraft carried: 2 ? SH-60 LAMPS III helicopters
USS John L. Hall (FFG-32), twenty-fourth ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of guided-missile frigates, was named for Admiral John L. Hall, Jr. (1891?1978).

Ordered from Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME on 23 January 1978 as part of the FY78 program, John L. Hall was laid down on 5 January 1981, launched on 24 July 1981, and commissioned on 26 June 1982.

On August 28, 2005, she sailed from her home port, NS Pascagoula, Mississippi, along with sister ship Stephen W. Groves under threat from Hurricane Katrina.

As of 2007, she remains active, commanded by Commander Augustus P. Bennet, assigned to Destroyer Squadron 14, and homeported at NAVSTA Mayport, Florida.

John L. Hall (FFG-32) is the first ship of that name in the US Navy.

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Ya didn't mention that she was built by UNION labor. Proudly.

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Hoss the Hermit said:

And yeah, I'd have a longer reply, but I gotta go plow some snow.

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