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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Buffalo Naval Park

I went to the Buffalo Naval Park, and it was cool! I was inside a submarine, a turret, a captains bridge, and more! There were two ships and a submarine. The two ships were called The Sullivans and The Little Rock. The submarine was The Croaker. I am doing a paragraph on each, and I'm hoping you vote in the comments which ship is the best. I don't know, so it would be great to have you choose it for me. Anyway, hope you enjoy!

The Sullivans was named after the Sullivan brothers, 5 brothers who went to war and were sunk. Some say afterword there was a Sullivan's law, where no more than one brother can do the same mission. That is not true. There is no Sullivans' law, just that brother assigned themselves to different missions more often than before the Sullivans' death. The ship was a light cruiser, which was made in the middle of the war. It had a four leaf clover with a S in the middle as the symbol.
The Little Rock was named after the home town of the commanding officer, Little Rock, Arkansas. It, for some reason, was NOT little, and actually was a Talos missile launching ship. It was used as a flag ship for the admiral, it had a private gallery, ice cream machine metal tipped wood rods for banisters, a entertainment room, and lots more. It was made as a crane ship, and, with the sign that war was coming, reinvented into a Talos missile launching ship.  It had Snoopy as it's symbol.

The Croaker was a submarine, and destroyed three ships (in the middle of the islands of Japan) and the emperors own light cruiser on it's first mission. It succeeded in destroying 7 armed ships and 15 supply ships during the war. Not counting rescue operations. It had four torpedoes, two on the front and two in the back. It was hit once by torpedoes, but it was a dud and the crew were able to bring it to safety for repairs. It had a Toad holding a torpedo as it's symbol.

So, those were the three ships I was able to be on. It was a dollar for each ship, and the fact was it was 3 dollars for the wristband that let you start the tour. It was a do it your self thing, but I'm sure that there are honest tours, as well as sleepovers. Thank you all! Bye!