Eisboch wrote:
"Bert Robbins" wrote in message
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There were many types and configurations of destroyers and frigates at the
destroyer docks in Pearl Harbor in the late 60's and early 70's. I was
able to go on many tours of destroyers, frigates and submarines due to my
father being a CO and his USNA brotherhood.



Navy ships, particularly the smaller ones hold a certain facination on me.
Check out some of the new, "stealthy" frigate, destroyer and cruiser designs
being commissioned now-a-days. Beautiful and deadly looking.

Eisboch



Destroyer Escorts were like luxury cruise ships compared to the
Corvettes used by Canada in WW2. Those things rolled, pitched & yawed in
the least bit of swell and two of my uncles and the wife's father sailed
on them. In fact, the wife's father sailed on this one...
http://www.hmcssackville-cnmt.ns.ca/history.html