Saturday, August 17, 2013

Battleship Cove

This is Battleship Cove. Here they have a battleship, submarine, 2 destroyers, 2 PT boats, a Cobra, Huey, and WWII era landing craft on display.






The landing craft



Cobra


Huey


The PT boats









Guns on one of the destroyers



Engine room of the destoyer



The sub










This destroyer is actually East German I think, everything is in the Russian alphabet. 



Missle tube




Some kind of equipment that tracked where the ship was on the map


The battleship USS Massachusetts








The brig


One of the ammo feeders for one of the turrets. The magazine is in the bottom of the ship and is fed all the way up.





Door which fed powder from the magazine. It's a completely sealed and flameproof door


This beam/rail system ran throughout the whole ship. I think they used these to move shells throughout the ship. I saw a shell which was on a hoist on a beam somewhere. 






This is inside the smaller turrets. They have a 5 3/8 shell.




Inside the big turrets. They have a 16" barrell



This is the tine door to get into the turret. It's a real small door and is on the bottom on the back of the turret. So you practically have to crawl into this thing. 


Plymouth

I went to Plymouth Rock, which is actually not the first place that the Pilgrims landed. They actually landed in Provincetown, MA which is on the northern tip of Cape Cod. I went there one afternoon and it's a lot like Key West. Anyways Plymouth Rock is just where they made their settlement. 


Part of the actual rock, half of it broke off when it was attempted to move it.


The building which it is under


Massasoit of the Wampangags who helped the Pilgrims



The National Day of Mourning is what the Native Americans celebrate on Thanksgiving for the genocide and oppression which the Natives still experience today. 


Crypt for the Pilgrims who died in the first year


This is a natural stream in Plymouth which is why the Pilgrims decided to settle here. I walked up the stream till I got to the pond which it comes from.







Mill that is on the stream






Some photos of the harbor