[EoW_WhamO_CO]

found this picture of the USS Lunga Point escort carrier during a storm in WWII



i know chocks are strong, but damn

[walter_solito]

Yes mate the chocks are strong but in this kind of situation the plane have deck belt too!!!

cheers

walter

[Planemad]

FAKE, sorry to burst your bubble mate

Planemad

[Senshi]

No fake.



What you mistake for people is some kind of fence... The actual people are the small guys who stand around with the far spread legs, having trouble to stand still. I don't see no people standing "perpendicular to the deck", most of them are leaning strongly.

[walter_solito]

The fence is the net to stop plane that miss cable!!! It's rised to avoid some plane 'll fall down the deck or for help crew to walk on the deck too!

cheers

walter

[BillSwagger]

found this picture of the USS Lunga Point escort carrier during a storm in WWII



i know chocks are strong, but damn

doesn't look fake to me, but its hard to tell from this angle.

I do see what looks like people standing on deck, and they do look like they are leaning. One thing is that this is a snapshot, and so relating any action or movement to the scene is impossible. So this could've been taken when this section of the ship was still, and relatively stable, so the deck crew could get to safety.

I doubt if it were rolling and rocking, they would be having a casual walk on the deck.

So in my opinion. Not fake.


Bill

[nyali]

fake - the ship never had the bow section break off - commisioned in 1944 . On 24 October 1946, the ship was decommissioned and became part of the Tacoma Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet. She was reclassified CVU-94 on 12 June 1955 and AKV-32 on 7 May 1959. She was struck from the Navy list on 1 April 1960, and sold at San Diego to Hyman Michaels Co. on 3 August 1960 for scrap.

[patrick james brian]

for me
it looks like the vessel had a accident with a other vessel.(or hit by torpedo) looks kinda bend in the middle.
the towers are still straight up in the pick.

[KG64v_Silentstrika]

This is not fake. I just googled it. It's on the naval archive's site. I didn't quite belive that is was real either. From what they said, I belive that it's the tower that is actually bent and the whole ship is listing to one side.

[Vpmedia]

By vpmedia at 2009-11-02

[Lefty Hartnett]

Is the sea rough enough to pitch the deck like that?

There doesn't seem to be a storm or anything.

Seems odd.

[Bobbo]

Not fake

http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/094.htm

USS Lunga Point (CVE-94) pitching heavily during a western Pacific storm, October 1945. Another escort carrier is steaming astern, beyond her starboard quarter. Photographed from USS Makin Island (CVE-93).

Courtesy of PHC John Highfill, USN (Retired).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph (# NH 94876).

[57thgrp]

I served on carriers and thats not much of a storm. Sorry cant see a carrier splitting there.

[Vpmedia]

I'm not so sure anymore, it really looked fake

[RichardH]

The fence is the net to stop plane that miss cable!!! It's rised to avoid some plane 'll fall down the deck or for help crew to walk on the deck too!

cheers

walter

Its not the crash barrier, the crash barrier is placed further aft, it the barrier was placed that much forward, there wouldn't be enough room to park aircraft there at all. Its actually a wind-break/brake (spelling) , its there to protect the aircraft/equipment from the winds passing over the deck in conditions like this.

As for the rest of the pic, i think its true. Just like a wing on an airplane is designed to flex upwards and downwards (as much as 5 yards up/down in a passenger aircraft) , i think the island superstructure is designed to be able to flex. If not, it'd break clean off in any sort of harsh condition..

Thats my two cents.