Like seeing a chop saw taken to a 1966 Mustang convertible. It is a damned shame that a garage couldn’t somehow be built for this vintage 2,200-ton sports car of the sea. And that we couldn’t pull it in there and tinker with it on weekends until it looked like new and we could take it out for a spin.
Well, I spose you could. For only a few tens of millions of dollars, and with 200+ highly trained best buddies.
*Sigh*.
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UPDATE: Calling all ship sleuths out there! Methinks the vessel in the above picture is ex-USS Aulick (DD-569), ex-HNS Svendoni (D-85). If so, here she is in her glory days of Greek service:
