What was done with old ship armor?
It seems like it would be useful stuff even off of ships considered obsolete.I would think it could be used to armor important buildings, maybe stood up to protect certain areas for incoming fire.Was...
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. At a slight tangent, armour from the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious (removed during modernisation) was used in various British carbon dating apparatus as it was manufactured pre-atmospheric...
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Armour not mounted on battleship rebuild as carreier Eagle, was used to armour HMS Repeir and HMS Refit
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Well you could always make very bad razor blades out of it.
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They used a lot of it for explosives testing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300 when I worked there back in the late 1990s. Had big slabs of it stored in the stock yard. They used it...
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Hmmm, any idea what age it was? I quite like the idea of people in one part of the world merrily blasting U into pre atomic steel while over in Scapa Flow other folk are happily salvaging the stuff...
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I know parts of the belt armor of a few US battleships were used with atomic experiments and some the German ships scuttled at Scapa Flow were brought up in the early 1960's to donate their armor for...
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One of the reasons that Warspite went to the breakers (reluctantly) relatively quickly was that the quality of her armour was higher than other WW1 ships and hence she raised more money.
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How so? A deliberate experiment in building (or rebuilding) or just a quirk of fate? I'd not looked closely but thought she just got sold off as soon as there were no more enemies she could be towed...
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I know armor from several usn ships was used for shielding at Argonne Nat'l Lab and at Fermilab in Illinois. According to my father, who was involved in the project, armor from USS Kentucky was used...
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Not old, but never completed, armor from (1st) South Dakota class battleships cancelled after the Washington Naval Treaty was said to have been used to protect spillway gates of the Panama Canal dams....
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There is (or was) a significant market for steel salvaged from ships sunk before the end of WWII.
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WarshipAdmin wrote:Well you could always make very bad razor blades out of it.That would qualify as recycling.
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Maciej wrote:Armour not mounted on battleship rebuild as carreier Eagle, was used to armour HMS Repeir and HMS RefitOh, I had a mistaken notion. I thought armor was made for specific ships to get the...
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JBren1 wrote:Not old, but never completed, armor from (1st) South Dakota class battleships cancelled after the Washington Naval Treaty was said to have been used to protect spillway gates of the...
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simanton wrote:I know armor from several usn ships was used for shielding at Argonne Nat'l Lab and at Fermilab in Illinois. According to my father, who was involved in the project, armor from USS...
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An interesting link: http://history.fnal.gov/vessels.html Scott
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Supposedly, one of the local indoor ranges here has cruiser armor as the backstops. I have no way of verifying this atm.
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sidney111 wrote:Maciej wrote:Armour not mounted on battleship rebuild as carreier Eagle, was used to armour HMS Repeir and HMS RefitOh, I had a mistaken notion. I thought armor was made for specific...
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Sweden reused old shiparmour in the Tre Kronor cruisers. I suppose that was from necessity, as armour production was limited and army also had demands.
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