The Battleship Alabama in Mobile Bay

   

Today is Tuesday. We arrived back Sunday late from a week in Farmington, Thanksgiving with family, and lots of good visits with friends and daughter.  The time went quickly.  We had hoped to be underway on the intercoastal today, but the winds were strong and the bay was  rough.  So we decided to tour the battleship Alabama instead.  Compared to today's aircraft carriers, it is small.  But standing on the deck  

looking down at the waterline, it seems mighty big!

(If you click on the photos, you will get a larger view.)

The battleship Alabama in Mobile Bay

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Captain Tom

The 16 inch gun turrets

Now this is what you call anchor chain!
Can you tell how balmy the weather is????

The museum grounds also have many airplanes.  I had to have a picture taken in front of this B25.  My dad  was the pilot of a B25 in WWII.    At a reunion many years later, he crawled in and sat in the pilot's seat once again.  I remember that he  commented on how the plane must have shrunk!