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Anchor Bridles & Snubbers
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Originally Posted by rgano
As a career weaponeer, I shudder at this idea thinking of the strain on the gearing, and I certainly refused to consider my 16-inch guns on USS Iowa for use as a crane to haul heavy glass panels of President Reagan's bullet-proof reviewing cage to the top of one of the turrets for his fleet review during the Statue of Liberty in NYC harbor in 1986.
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Now you’ve done it! You mentioned the Iowa—my favorite warship of all time—and forced me into thread drift.