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Title: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2013, 09:07:45 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 28, 2013, 09:13:35 AM
That ship looks like it's loaded for... er, bear!

Is that the Kuznetzov in the backgound?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 28, 2013, 09:15:53 AM
yup.  Mirth is feeling red today.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2013, 09:19:02 AM
Always loved the Kirov Class.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2013, 09:24:20 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 28, 2013, 09:36:43 AM
OMG! It's the top of an OGRE emerging from the ocean!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2013, 09:43:26 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 28, 2013, 09:36:43 AM
OMG! It's the top of an OGRE emerging from the ocean!

Lol! Good call.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 29, 2013, 07:35:35 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 09, 2013, 06:54:08 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 09, 2013, 07:06:21 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 09, 2013, 06:54:08 PM
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Captain's Log: Note to self. Reassign half the Samoan sailors to duties on the starboard side of the ship ASAP
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on May 09, 2013, 07:48:33 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 09, 2013, 07:06:21 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 09, 2013, 06:54:08 PM
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Captain's Log: Note to self. Reassign half the Samoan sailors to duties on the starboard side of the ship ASAP

I thought he was skidding into a parking space
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on May 09, 2013, 09:18:32 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 09, 2013, 07:06:21 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 09, 2013, 06:54:08 PM
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Captain's Log: Note to self. Reassign half the Samoan sailors to duties on the starboard side of the ship ASAP

Photoshop? the seas don't look that rough.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 09, 2013, 09:24:26 PM
Brant is sort of right- look at the wake. That flattop is making a very sharp turn and those things can go upwards of thirty knots. What would happen to your car if you were going over thirty and you suddenly spun the wheel hard to the right?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on May 09, 2013, 09:29:13 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 09, 2013, 09:24:26 PM
Brant is sort of right- look at the wake. That flattop is making a very sharp turn and those things can go upwards of thirty knots. What would happen to your car if you were going over thirty and you suddenly spun the wheel hard to the right?

I'll buy that. The deck is clear. They're either hot dogging or practicing because that's as close to a calm sea on the open water as you could ask for.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 09, 2013, 10:12:45 PM
I'm with 'Wing. It looks legit. They're likely doing some kind of speed test or builders trial. I think the max speed of the Nimitz CVNs is classified. It's given as 30-plus knots.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on May 09, 2013, 10:53:47 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on May 09, 2013, 09:29:13 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 09, 2013, 09:24:26 PM
Brant is sort of right- look at the wake. That flattop is making a very sharp turn and those things can go upwards of thirty knots. What would happen to your car if you were going over thirty and you suddenly spun the wheel hard to the right?

I'll buy that. The deck is clear. They're either hot dogging or practicing because that's as close to a calm sea on the open water as you could ask for.

Yeah, because dumping your air component into the ocean is generally frowned upon by the Navy Department. Whoopsie!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 09, 2013, 11:54:33 PM
that is not a calm sea.  it may look like that until you scale that chop with a 1200' carrier doing a sharp turn.
also that white line on the left is the wake of this carrier getting all Tokyo drift.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2013, 10:16:59 AM
Kitty Hawk in heavy seas.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 11, 2013, 11:02:01 AM
Good one, Mirth.
Now think of the escorting destroyers and frigates in that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_PPs2MNwLY

It was pretty common for the screen commander to call the admiral's staff and ask for a course change in heavy weather.  We would be taking green water over the bow and doing heavy rolls, while on the carrier they just thought it was a heavy rain.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2013, 11:56:02 AM
Yeah I don't imagine it would be much fun for the escorts when the carrier is taking waves over the flight deck, 60ft above the waterline.

This vid is pretty impressive too



Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on May 11, 2013, 01:42:26 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 11, 2013, 11:56:02 AM
Yeah I don't imagine it would be much fun for the escorts when the carrier is taking waves over the flight deck, 60ft above the waterline.

This vid is pretty impressive too



That's kinda what I had in mind when I called the carrier pic Brant posted in "calm seas."

That stuff is crazy. I can't imagine being on a ship during those conditions.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2013, 02:27:34 PM
Makes me think of those poor bastards who did Atlantic convoy duty in those tiny corvettes and subchasers in WWII.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 11, 2013, 05:00:20 PM
You want to know crazy?
The brits built their destroyers and corvettes with open bridges.  Gave them the belief that visability was improved.
When the first american DDs went into Liverpool, the admiral was dismayed.  He figured with enclosed bridges the USN must be soft.
Try going through two weeks of convoy escort wwhere you stand watch on the open deck.
Oh, yes, the Canadians built their corvettes that way, too. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on May 11, 2013, 05:16:20 PM
Quote from: besilarius on May 11, 2013, 05:00:20 PM
You want to know crazy?
The brits built their destroyers and corvettes with open bridges.  Gave them the belief that visability was improved.
When the first american DDs went into Liverpool, the admiral was dismayed.  He figured with enclosed bridges the USN must be soft.
Try going through two weeks of convoy escort wwhere you stand watch on the open deck.
Oh, yes, the Canadians built their corvettes that way, too.

How did the calls of "Man Overboard" compare?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2013, 07:04:46 PM
Quote from: besilarius on May 11, 2013, 05:00:20 PM
You want to know crazy?
The brits built their destroyers and corvettes with open bridges.  Gave them the belief that visability was improved.
When the first american DDs went into Liverpool, the admiral was dismayed.  He figured with enclosed bridges the USN must be soft.
Try going through two weeks of convoy escort wwhere you stand watch on the open deck.
Oh, yes, the Canadians built their corvettes that way, too. 


That is crazy. Apparently using the head wasn't much fun either. From the wiki on the Flower-class corvette-

QuoteThe head (or sanitary toilet) was drained by a straight pipe to the ocean; and a reverse flow of the icy North Atlantic would cleanse the backside of those using it during rough weather.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 11, 2013, 07:31:17 PM
The US carrier Ranger (CV4) was the first american carrier designed as one, not a conversion.
She was a test bed and not ever considered a very successful design.
The pilots found life aboard her rather challenging.  Before operations, the pilots stayed in the ready rooms, waiting for information and orders.
The problem was that the ready rooms were just under the flight deck.  For this area, there was a trough used for sanitary purposes.  Seawater was pumped into the trough, it was slanted, and ran out over the water, carrying refuse.  When seas were rough, the piped water was reduced.  The "perfume" from the trough could be overwhelming.
One report noted that the fighter pilots of the ship were nearly overcome a few days before the North African landings.

Luckily, the French were unprepared.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on May 14, 2013, 10:49:27 AM
Quote from: mirth on May 11, 2013, 07:04:46 PM
Quote from: besilarius on May 11, 2013, 05:00:20 PM
You want to know crazy?
The brits built their destroyers and corvettes with open bridges.  Gave them the belief that visability was improved.
When the first american DDs went into Liverpool, the admiral was dismayed.  He figured with enclosed bridges the USN must be soft.
Try going through two weeks of convoy escort wwhere you stand watch on the open deck.
Oh, yes, the Canadians built their corvettes that way, too. 


That is crazy. Apparently using the head wasn't much fun either. From the wiki on the Flower-class corvette-

QuoteThe head (or sanitary toilet) was drained by a straight pipe to the ocean; and a reverse flow of the icy North Atlantic would cleanse the backside of those using it during rough weather.

When my dad was in the RCN, he served on the HMCS Magnificent (the "Maggie") in the early 1950s.  At least some of the heads drained the same way.  He told me about getting a cold draft and the occasional spritz of some cold spray.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on May 14, 2013, 04:52:11 PM
Are those Hawker Sea Fury's on deck?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on May 16, 2013, 09:58:04 AM
Probably.  They flew Sea Furies off the Maggie.

Quote
She was generally referred to as the Maggie. Her aircraft complement included Fairey Fireflies and Hawker Sea Furies, as well as Seafires and Avengers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Magnificent_(CVL_21)

My dad was a Signalman.  He tried-out to become a Radio Operator on Avengers (to earn more $$), but got airsick having to sit backwards.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 16, 2013, 05:36:31 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 16, 2013, 05:48:15 PM
That ski jump must add some interesting effects to severe weather/high wave condition operations.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 16, 2013, 06:05:07 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 16, 2013, 06:06:54 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 16, 2013, 06:08:03 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 16, 2013, 06:12:54 PM
Wow! If they could have lifted the carrier deck tractor up there under a heavy lift helo we could have had a shot of the whole collectible vehicle set!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 16, 2013, 06:54:35 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 16, 2013, 06:08:03 PM
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Im going to cry....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 16, 2013, 07:02:33 PM
Thing of beauty innit?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 16, 2013, 07:55:43 PM
I need a hug...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 18, 2013, 11:33:03 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 18, 2013, 06:34:09 PM
Who the Hel brings a spear-gun to a submarine fight?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 18, 2013, 07:06:40 PM
James Bond
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 18, 2013, 07:07:43 PM
Or a SEAL.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 18, 2013, 07:12:30 PM
or James Bond.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 18, 2013, 07:20:29 PM
Not my favorite Bond flick. Wayne Newton was awesome though. "Bless you my child".

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 18, 2013, 07:22:18 PM
I couldnt find the Roger Moore one.

or I didnt bother to look long enough.  ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 18, 2013, 08:56:42 PM
HA!  Never say Never Again is on now.   Bond vs subs with a speargun!

and its even Sean Connery!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 19, 2013, 06:19:43 AM
^IIRC, isn't that the movie that couldn't use the classic 'Bond' style opening credits because of some contractual bullshit?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2013, 07:37:39 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 19, 2013, 06:19:43 AM
^IIRC, isn't that the movie that couldn't use the classic 'Bond' style opening credits because of some contractual bullshit?

Yeah there was some weirdness about the rights to the series and Never Say Never. Don't remember the details without Goog.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on September 23, 2013, 11:00:41 AM
A dude/writer had some rights and after a court battle with Broccoli and Saltzman, the dude courted Connery into doing another Bond film away from Eon Productions.  It was released the same year as Octopussy.

I just saw a documentary made for the Bond franchise's 50th anniversary in film.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on September 30, 2013, 10:46:38 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 30, 2013, 06:37:32 PM
A classic!

IIRC all three are nuclear reactor powered- USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach, and... South Carolina?... California? One of the California class anyway.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 30, 2013, 06:44:39 PM
Bainbridge IIRC.

yup

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bainbridge_(CGN-25)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 04, 2013, 10:09:42 AM
would have never guessed this could happen 20 years ago.

http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20131004/183945240/Russia-to-Receive-First-Mistral-Warship-in-November-2014.html

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on October 05, 2013, 10:33:11 AM
Me neither.  France is part of NATO.  Aren't they are a little sensitive about arms exports to such countries?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 05, 2013, 12:42:31 PM
I'm sure the sensitive bits like radars and electronics will be russian and fitted out in russia.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 05, 2013, 04:08:06 PM
1.7B for two Mistrals seems like a deal.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 05, 2013, 05:13:03 PM
Dollars to Ponchikis the first one ends up in the Black Sea once it's operational. Being able to send the Havoks and Hokums against Georgian tanks from off-shore must sound mighty useful to the Onion Palace.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 05, 2013, 05:21:09 PM
I'm sure your right. Those baby carrier/assault ships are very useful types. Too bad for the Russkis that they no longer have a VSTOL aircraft to operate off them.

It also says a lot about the state of the Russian shipbuilding industry that they didn't build something in-house.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 05, 2013, 05:24:06 PM
I think it also says something about how soon the Russians expect to need an attack helicopter carrier if buying them now is preferable to building them later.

Hmmmm...  ???
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 05, 2013, 10:04:24 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 05, 2013, 05:21:09 PM
I'm sure your right. Those baby carrier/assault ships are very useful types. Too bad for the Russkis that they no longer have a VSTOL aircraft to operate off them.It also says a lot about the state of the Russian shipbuilding industry that they didn't build something in-house.

pfft give it 10 years and theyll be flying F-35s.

and no, Im not really joking.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 11, 2013, 01:36:57 PM
guess whats getting floated today?   ;D

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 11, 2013, 06:29:04 PM
Can't be the Izumo, can it? I thought that puppy was already in the water. The island looks similar though.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on October 11, 2013, 07:21:12 PM
whatever it is its going to take out the blue crane on the right as it slides by
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 11, 2013, 08:16:24 PM
CVN-78  and it won't hit the crane.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 11, 2013, 11:35:23 PM
how big?

this big:

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note that it clears the crane.   ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 11, 2013, 11:48:21 PM
Them guys on the right is teeny-tiny.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 12, 2013, 10:15:27 AM
The Zumwalt christening ceremony has been canceled. There was a chance I was going to attend :(

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Christening_of_BIW-built_destroyer_delayed_.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on October 12, 2013, 12:29:18 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 11, 2013, 11:48:21 PM
Them guys on the right is teeny-tiny.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on October 12, 2013, 12:31:29 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 11, 2013, 01:36:57 PM
guess whats getting floated today?   ;D

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What are we naming her? I don't recall.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 12, 2013, 12:33:46 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on October 12, 2013, 12:31:29 PM

What are we naming her? I don't recall.

USS Gerald R Ford
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 12, 2013, 12:36:33 PM
Here's what she'll look like when she steps out to play:

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on October 12, 2013, 12:46:24 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 12, 2013, 12:33:46 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on October 12, 2013, 12:31:29 PM

What are we naming her? I don't recall.

USS Gerald R Ford

Thanks! For some reason I thought the Ford was already in service and this was a different ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on October 12, 2013, 07:25:02 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 11, 2013, 11:35:23 PM
how big?

this big:

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note that it clears the crane.   ;)

crane grog
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 17, 2013, 11:35:15 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 17, 2013, 11:36:13 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 17, 2013, 11:40:22 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 21, 2013, 11:36:15 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 21, 2013, 08:30:12 PM
When does she get wet? How long till she gets her first rail-gun?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 21, 2013, 08:39:29 PM
Not sure when she'll be in the water.

Great series of pics here (including shots with the rail gun mount):

http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2013/10/latest-pics-of-zumwalt-ddg-1000/

Good article:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-navys-newest-warship-is-powered-by-linux/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 21, 2013, 08:42:47 PM
Ok, just noticed the report that she should be in the water by the end of the month.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 21, 2013, 08:47:31 PM
Interesting tidbit:

The Zumwalt-class is only 10 feet shorter than the Graf Spee and 8 feet shorter than the battleship USS Pennsylvania.

Maybe we should think about reviving the idea of 'Dreadnaught' class to describe her.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on October 22, 2013, 07:37:45 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 21, 2013, 11:36:15 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.onlinesentinel.com%2Fimages%2FM%2520Navy%2520Destroyer.jpg&hash=3694e61296ade8c3bc9d0e576fd13762ca34d79d)

That is quite the ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2013, 08:23:48 AM
Get this, the first captain of the DDG-1000?

James Kirk

http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg1000/Pages/bio1.aspx#.UmZ7Apzt5EQ
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on October 22, 2013, 09:26:22 AM
He needs to change his middle name to Tiberius.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 22, 2013, 09:30:24 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 21, 2013, 08:47:31 PM
Maybe we should think about reviving the idea of 'Dreadnaught' class to describe her.

not enough guns
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 22, 2013, 09:30:35 AM
whatever nickname the XO had got changed to Spock.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on October 22, 2013, 09:58:20 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 22, 2013, 09:30:35 AM
whatever nickname the XO had got changed to Spock.

:D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 22, 2013, 10:44:56 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 21, 2013, 08:47:31 PM
Maybe we should think about reviving the idea of 'Dreadnaught' class to describe her.

actually this is about as close to the concept of the 'arsenal ship' as we're going to see.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2013, 10:54:06 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 22, 2013, 10:44:56 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 21, 2013, 08:47:31 PM
Maybe we should think about reviving the idea of 'Dreadnaught' class to describe her.

actually this is about as close to the concept of the 'arsenal ship' as we're going to see.

Those Ohio SSGN conversions are essentially 'arsenal subs'. 154 Tomahawks could ruin anyone's day.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2013, 11:30:57 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FdXifTdU.jpg&hash=2dfcbceef63d82b9b4aa9386875c5b53b087a9c2)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on October 23, 2013, 11:38:21 AM
Quote from: mirth on September 16, 2013, 06:06:54 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FNr2b9FB.jpg&hash=51069bc9374b1b7068016a7ba20f4d1928dc705d)

Royal Marines are allowed helicopters???   
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 23, 2013, 12:09:12 PM
thats French.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on October 23, 2013, 12:15:54 PM
even worse
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2013, 12:20:13 PM
Quote from: Windigo on October 23, 2013, 12:15:54 PM
even worse

Don't be jealous, Windi. You guys will get your Sea King replacements someday!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on October 23, 2013, 12:30:21 PM
Marine = Navy in French

France does not have a Marine Corps like the US does.  They do have Fusiliers Marins (mainly for naval facility defense and short-term land missions, near to the shore), which includes the Commandos Marine, the special forces contingent of the Fusiliers Marins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiliers_Marins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_commandos_(France)

France also has the Troupes de marine, which is actually a branch of the French Army dedicated to overseas service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troupes_de_Marine

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on October 23, 2013, 12:40:25 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 23, 2013, 12:30:21 PM
Marine = Navy in French

France does not have a Marine Corps like the US does.  They do have Fusiliers Marins (mainly for naval facility defense and short-term land missions, near to the shore), which includes the Commandos Marine, the special forces contingent of the Fusiliers Marins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusiliers_Marins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_commandos_(France)

France also has the Troupes de marine, which is actually a branch of the French Army dedicated to overseas service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troupes_de_Marine

thats a pretty small helo... France is limited blue water?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 23, 2013, 01:10:45 PM
its a Dauphin.  pretty badass heli actually.  USCG uses them all over the place.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on October 23, 2013, 01:47:23 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 23, 2013, 01:10:45 PM
its a Dauphin.  pretty badass heli actually.  USCG uses them all over the place.

probably not viable up here for our coastguard work - not enough range/carrying capacity/loiter time
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 23, 2013, 02:23:39 PM
we use them in Alaska....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 01, 2013, 07:49:35 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F131028-O-ZZ999-103.JPG&hash=b0b1094948aa1c3fc1f40c516729d98927d87e40)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 01, 2013, 08:04:25 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FT6mx1KE.jpg&hash=9330cd3288b1a20ac31868e91704b9b5ea3b89c9)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 01, 2013, 08:15:18 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FCYzQTZg.jpg&hash=592533785f78c2fa6edad7301ce56907f3159910)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 01, 2013, 06:58:10 PM
Iowa?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on November 01, 2013, 07:52:10 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 01, 2013, 06:58:10 PM
Iowa?

I believe so - the number looks like 61. If that's correct then she's the Iowa.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 01, 2013, 08:39:08 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 01, 2013, 07:49:35 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F131028-O-ZZ999-103.JPG&hash=b0b1094948aa1c3fc1f40c516729d98927d87e40)

thats just sexy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on November 01, 2013, 09:22:10 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 01, 2013, 08:39:08 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 01, 2013, 07:49:35 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F131028-O-ZZ999-103.JPG&hash=b0b1094948aa1c3fc1f40c516729d98927d87e40)

thats just sexy.

No one is making a model kit of her yet. I found that a bit surprising.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 01, 2013, 09:51:53 PM

Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 01, 2013, 08:39:08 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 01, 2013, 07:49:35 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F131028-O-ZZ999-103.JPG&hash=b0b1094948aa1c3fc1f40c516729d98927d87e40)

thats just sexy.

She is quite stunning.

Quote from: LongBlade on November 01, 2013, 09:22:10 PM
No one is making a model kit of her yet. I found that a bit surprising.

Have no fear, the Chinese are working on it as we speak...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on November 02, 2013, 06:35:23 AM
Very interesting profile.  Good to see low radar profile hulls looking nice.  Things have come a long way since Sea Shadow.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 02, 2013, 10:03:18 AM
thank the Swedes.  ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on November 07, 2013, 09:26:47 AM
Speaking of Scandinavians, I still can't quite imagine how a viking longship  made it across the Atlantic back in the day... I'll leave to someone with more seafaring know-how to explain. 

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.modelships.de%2FMuseums_and_replicas%2FVikingeskibsmuseet_Roskilde%2FgIMG_6813.jpg&hash=d0599616ea87251f718c3ffccc1b31bddecb4ddd)

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on November 07, 2013, 11:31:01 AM
Quote from: endfire79 on November 07, 2013, 09:26:47 AM
Speaking of Scandinavians, I still can't quite imagine how a viking longship  made it across the Atlantic back in the day... I'll leave to someone with more seafaring know-how to explain. 

Because Vikings had balls of steel.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 07, 2013, 11:57:47 AM
and magnetized stone.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 07, 2013, 08:52:22 PM
Quote from: LongBlade on November 01, 2013, 07:52:10 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 01, 2013, 06:58:10 PM
Iowa?

I believe so - the number looks like 61. If that's correct then she's the Iowa.

It is Iowa. Coral Sea and her battlegroup are on the left. Saratoga with her's on the right.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 08, 2013, 02:32:26 PM
snicker

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FlAOG8rZ.jpg&hash=4e2f9cfeb0093d6c9d49563063bfe6664293156d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on November 08, 2013, 06:08:45 PM
Isn't there supposed to be a Drednok cleaning out that thing or something?  :)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 08, 2013, 07:01:59 PM
Is that some kind of GI Joe cartoon reference?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 08, 2013, 07:19:45 PM
 :o

yes
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 08, 2013, 07:52:30 PM
I didn't watch those cartoons. In the 80's I either was too hung over on Saturday mornings or still out somewhere from the night before.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 10, 2013, 07:08:50 AM
(https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q88/s720x720/1467296_202403419944248_294665486_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 10, 2013, 07:09:25 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 08, 2013, 07:52:30 PMI didn't watch those cartoons. In the 80's I either was too hung over on Saturday mornings or still out somewhere from the night before.

I was in Germany with no access to English-language TV and I still knew what the hell they were
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 10, 2013, 07:23:58 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 10, 2013, 07:08:50 AM
(https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/q88/s720x720/1467296_202403419944248_294665486_n.jpg)

Tirpitz!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 10, 2013, 07:28:51 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on November 10, 2013, 07:09:25 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 08, 2013, 07:52:30 PMI didn't watch those cartoons. In the 80's I either was too hung over on Saturday mornings or still out somewhere from the night before.

I was in Germany with no access to English-language TV and I still knew what the hell they were

Well, I did guess correctly. I just didn't watch.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on November 10, 2013, 08:06:02 AM
Tirpitz!  Send in the Tall-Boys
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 13, 2013, 07:51:44 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFZM2MDP.jpg&hash=21db79476e1ab0e3ed151689c9323f2a299c5af1)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on November 13, 2013, 09:47:38 PM
Amazing that we carry more ships - the Soviets/Russians are known for making bigger everything.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 14, 2013, 01:18:33 AM
yeah, its amazing what 70 years of actual combat cruises can teach a navy.  ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 14, 2013, 01:32:22 AM
chew on this tidbit:

IJN Soryu class fleet carrier:
Displacement:    16,200 tonnes (15,900 long tons) (standard)
                19,100 tonnes (18,800 long tons) (normal)
Length:    227.5 m (746 ft 5 in) (o/a)
Beam:    21.3 m (69 ft 11 in)
Draught:    7.6 m (24 ft 11 in)
18 Mitsubishi A6M Zero, 18 Aichi D3A, 18 Nakajima B5N (Dec. 1941)

modern Izumo class 'helicopter destroyer':
Displacement:    19,500 tonnes empty
                27,000 tons full load
Length:    248.0 m
Beam:    38.0 m
Draft:    7.5 m
Depth:    23.5 m
7 ASW helicopters and 2 SAR helicopters
14 aircraft maximum

and an Essex class carrier:
Displacement:    Design: 27,100 long tons (27,500 t) std, 33,000 long tons (34,000 t) full
Actual: 30,800 long tons (31,300 t) std, 36,380 long tons (36,960 t) full
Length:    820 ft (249.9 m) pp
870 ft (265.2 m) oa (short-bow units); 888 ft (270.7 m) oa (long-bow units)
862 ft (262.7 m) flight deck (short-bow units); 844 ft (257.3 m) flight deck (long-bow units).
Beam:    93 ft (28.3 m) wl; 147.5 ft (45.0 m) max
Draught:    23 ft (7.0 m) std; 27.5 ft (8.4 m) fl
Aircraft carried:    90–100 (Lexington 110 aircraft)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 14, 2013, 06:17:54 AM
^Which is exactly why these new Japanese 'destroyers' have the Chinese are so worked up. They must be painfully aware that they are still many years from wielding an effective carrier force and while the JMSDF may not have a lot of recent experience itself it's Papa-San wrote a large part of the Book.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 14, 2013, 08:26:18 AM
What I love is that the Wasps can carry as many aircraft as almost any other navy's 'Fleet' carriers. And we don't even designate them as carriers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on November 14, 2013, 09:09:12 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on November 14, 2013, 06:17:54 AM
^Which is exactly why these new Japanese 'destroyers' have the Chinese are so worked up. They must be painfully aware that they are still many years from wielding an effective carrier force and while the JMSDF may not have a lot of recent experience itself it's Papa-San wrote a large part of the Book.

We learned from the best and haven't forgotten the lesson.

If our lesson is "never get involved in a land war in Asia" the converse for Asia is also true: never get involved with the US Navy in the Pacific.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 14, 2013, 09:26:21 AM
Or the Atlantic for that matter.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 14, 2013, 01:50:24 PM
needs more Hellcats!

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 27, 2013, 09:07:46 AM
Nice little infographic for the Zumwalt

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SKOLndm41Us/UpThBBEZ07I/AAAAAAAAHeQ/AZ8lCU3tTns/w738-h480-no/USS_Zumwalt_%2528DDG-1000%2529_Design.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on November 27, 2013, 11:34:32 AM
600 feet long? Sheesh.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 27, 2013, 11:53:56 AM
makes one wonder why they just dont call them crusiers.  though I would prefer the return of the term battlecruiser.  8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on November 27, 2013, 10:47:44 PM
Cruiser?

You're probably right. The Indianapolis was 610 feet long. But get this - The USS Wasp was 688 feet long. The Missouri was 887 feet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 28, 2013, 04:24:17 AM
its a funding game with names.  far easier to get money for destroyers then crusiers and, in the case of the Japanese, aircraft carriers.  ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 28, 2013, 07:43:09 AM
I still maintain the notion that 'Dreadnought' would be the most fitting term.   8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 28, 2013, 10:52:42 AM
I would put the old Kirov class in that catagory or perhaps an arsenal ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 29, 2013, 09:57:23 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F-3nX8phGoCBE%2FUobI8-cDdrI%2FAAAAAAAAAoE%2FKvpPMhR0wT0%2Fs640%2FWestland%2BLynx%2BFlare%2BPhoto.jpg&hash=80f6e0b59175322e137f90fe5d36292e96af8a71)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 29, 2013, 10:17:01 AM
^That reminds me: I have to check on the status of my Ogre Deluxe edition order.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 03, 2013, 10:06:06 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F8%2F8a%2FHMS_Illustrious01.jpg&hash=edb0bf9352ff554ba3326f780384339079415903)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 03, 2013, 10:07:34 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FTLTekTC.jpg&hash=5de542bd013bcd3301617f2264503988087505a7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 03, 2013, 10:09:07 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FaTXB0F2.jpg&hash=b77a2b03682bdbd985b3b4839639a0690a10cb64)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 03, 2013, 11:21:28 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 03, 2013, 10:07:34 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FTLTekTC.jpg&hash=5de542bd013bcd3301617f2264503988087505a7)

where did you find this?  Ive read about US Navy Sinkex's before but finding images is a bitch.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 04, 2013, 04:48:55 AM
found it on Reddit. I didn't know that they had sunk a Tico. That's Valley Forge.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on December 04, 2013, 07:24:32 AM
Reddit. On that path lies madness.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 04, 2013, 08:46:33 AM
For some, all paths end in madness ;-)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 04, 2013, 09:19:05 AM
^^^  that should be the GH motto.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 05, 2013, 12:01:20 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgrogheads.com%2Fforums%2Findex.php&hash=c0372552b2de53e8b80b321c9273a769e7a77d38)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 05, 2013, 08:47:53 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmscsealift.dodlive.mil%2Ffiles%2F2013%2F11%2F3.jpg&hash=a8f35bc0a78b5a9e111ab2278808733754bef4d9)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 05, 2013, 08:49:25 PM
Brit CV Queen Elizabeth under construction:

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.staticflickr.com%2F2878%2F10797452636_9a97c4c0d3_c.jpg&hash=a037f5bfcf5b653df62c9aa2a4c2c09e09877a75)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 06, 2013, 01:23:26 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FoKwOQ3f.jpg&hash=de311132bb001d12f0f3930d07632dcea90da278)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 06, 2013, 01:28:21 PM
Great pic find Mirth!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on December 06, 2013, 02:14:58 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 06, 2013, 01:28:21 PM
Great pic find Mirth!

+1

Both of a bygone era. Great find.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on December 06, 2013, 02:26:08 PM
When you see HMS Victory, you just cannot imagine how so many men could live and work on it for months on end, as big as it is. Its very awe inspiring.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 06, 2013, 03:07:22 PM
ask Windy.  he served on both.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 06, 2013, 03:08:31 PM
This pick would be near where I currently live:

QuoteThe French destroyer Fantasque on trials in Casco Bay after refitting and requalification as a light cruiser, 13th of June 1943

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.minus.com%2FiWxZeF0gP8DgT.jpg&hash=4a5b9c44640abd26903ae29f435bb7df6e2f215b)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on December 06, 2013, 07:49:09 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 06, 2013, 03:07:22 PM
ask Windy.  he served on both.

don't forget the HCMS Haida
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 07, 2013, 08:27:56 AM
Outstanding Mirth.
Any chance there is a cache of more photos someplace? 
Thanks so much for sharing this image.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on December 07, 2013, 09:54:20 AM
I would love to make it over to Portsmouth some day to see the Victory. I saw the Constitution in Boston once.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 09, 2013, 09:48:41 AM
Quote from: besilarius on December 07, 2013, 08:27:56 AM
Outstanding Mirth.
Any chance there is a cache of more photos someplace? 
Thanks so much for sharing this image.

Bes, I found both of those pics in Reddit's "History Porn" subreddit. It's a trove of neat old pics.

http://www.reddit.com/r/historyporn
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on December 09, 2013, 12:50:14 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 09, 2013, 09:48:41 AM
Quote from: besilarius on December 07, 2013, 08:27:56 AM
Outstanding Mirth.
Any chance there is a cache of more photos someplace? 
Thanks so much for sharing this image.

Bes, I found both of those pics in Reddit's "History Porn" subreddit. It's a trove of neat old pics.

http://www.reddit.com/r/historyporn

"History porn"...wow. That's a title that will suck you in....ahem.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on December 09, 2013, 01:58:35 PM
Don't tell me - let me guess - there are 69 photo's, right?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on December 09, 2013, 02:23:30 PM
The ice cube mask designed to cure a hangover is new to me.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 17, 2013, 07:41:35 AM
Neat photos in a virtual tour of the USS MIssouri.

http://news.cnet.com/2300-10797_3-10019095-1.html

Also, an interesting article on her grounding in the Virginia Capes and the crack in a barbette due to poor technique.

http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-037.htm

The photographer keeps referring to cramped spaces   He shoudl visit some old, WWII tin cans, like Cassin Young in Boston or Kennedy at Fall River.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on December 17, 2013, 11:58:16 AM
Wow. How cool would it be to book the Captain's Quarters for a dinner?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 17, 2013, 07:27:56 PM
All 4 Iowas together.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FrnNQ9GK.jpg&hash=70e8cbdd17748f5bfaa0ed6c407cf6019d074a07)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 21, 2013, 06:22:10 AM
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hms-nelson-cuts/query/HMS

1926 newsreel on HMS Nelson.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 24, 2013, 06:59:04 PM
Very detailed WWI Uboat film for the homefront.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNVKWydEeg&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on December 24, 2013, 07:47:34 PM
Quote from: besilarius on December 21, 2013, 06:22:10 AM
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hms-nelson-cuts/query/HMS

1926 newsreel on HMS Nelson.

That's a pretty interesting site. Go back to the base website http://www.britishpathe.com/ (http://www.britishpathe.com/) and take a look around and there is all kinds of interesting stuff, including the sinking of the HMS Barham  http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hms-barham-1914-1941-aka-hms-barham-1914-41 (http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hms-barham-1914-1941-aka-hms-barham-1914-41)

Nice find!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on December 25, 2013, 06:39:44 AM
Very interesting. However, it says that the Barham was the only British Battleship to be sunk by a U-Boat, but in fact the Royal Oak was sunk in Scarpa Flow by U-47.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 25, 2013, 08:07:02 AM
True- And it was quite a feat on the part of U-47 and it's captain, Gunther Prein, to navigate all the way in to Scapa Flow to a proper firing point considering all the torpedo nets, shallow water, and activity along the docks and shoreline. Royal Oak was moored at the time so maybe the article meant Barham was the only one lost in active combat to a U-boot.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on December 25, 2013, 08:20:57 AM
Could be - or maybe the only one sunk whilst at sea, rather than in a 'protected' harbour.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 25, 2013, 08:57:44 AM
I recall playing Silent Hunter 3 and sneaking all the way into Scapa Flow to find no British ships at all. There appeared to be no defenses either so I sailed right up to the docks and whacked away with my deck gun for a bit. Rather pointless since non of the shore installations were destructible. I've also heard of other folks sailing in and finding themselves pummeled by destroyers and bombers off of a fleet carrier. YMMV I guess...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 27, 2013, 09:38:28 AM
Ohio during her conversion to SSGN:

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FWr7RWBJ.jpg&hash=94fb039ba389e9a8ffabc87c37a53cc9f0e9a00b)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 27, 2013, 09:58:33 AM
now that looks cool.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on December 27, 2013, 11:45:32 AM
wrong thread for that sort of thing *sniff*

everyone knows those aren't ships
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 27, 2013, 07:56:46 PM
Whatever floats your boat.  ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 28, 2013, 07:56:47 AM
Wrecks of IJN warships.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/atully08.htm

The thumb nail sketches of the damage taken is kind of interesting.  Note the differences between Yamato and Musashi.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on December 28, 2013, 05:25:21 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 27, 2013, 07:56:46 PM
Whatever floats your boat.  ;)

a nice Jacuzzi for two on an outdoor deck with plenty of wine - and an honoured SLCG floats my boat
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 28, 2013, 06:13:41 PM
Certainly nothing wrong with that plan.  :)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on December 29, 2013, 09:22:29 PM
BEST SIG LINE EVAH!!!!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2013, 12:22:47 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbreakingfiles.10uplabs.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2013%2F12%2FUSS-Little-Rock-light-cruiser-fires-missile.jpg&hash=96e2e450ccd6d275a1855c9f62910409dfcc41c4)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 09, 2014, 08:03:01 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F1%2F15%2FAndreiPervozvannyy1912-1914bashnya.jpg&hash=160661995bf92d2918a3c18c51b49774efe2cd9c)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 13, 2014, 12:37:31 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FyGm3Y2v.jpg&hash=809628502f300709ee2d0b8ceb4744d110828857)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 13, 2014, 12:45:37 PM
oh look a new Japanese destroyer.  ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: LongBlade on January 13, 2014, 01:17:23 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 13, 2014, 12:37:31 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FyGm3Y2v.jpg&hash=809628502f300709ee2d0b8ceb4744d110828857)

Hey now.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 13, 2014, 01:19:57 PM
its photos like that that give Chinese Admirals nightmares.  8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 13, 2014, 01:22:50 PM
I look forward to the day when the Japanese start operating F-35s off their 'destroyers'.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 13, 2014, 01:50:13 PM
and both those ships are as big as their WW2 relatives.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on January 13, 2014, 05:22:20 PM
Interesting lines to her bow.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 13, 2014, 08:06:36 PM
USS Caron. Explosives test that wasn't intended to sink her.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F3%2F37%2FUSS_Caron_sinking.jpg&hash=bf135e3fa04e266fa43ebb4f774194e80d5307b8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 13, 2014, 08:07:14 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navycthistory.com%2Fimages%2Fcaron.jpg&hash=318b8421e305e7a62eded3781cc3e821c5590e92)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-PY1gfnA6WOM%2FTr2QhFoiL4I%2FAAAAAAAAAhY%2F-xVNQ9x6nBQ%2Fs640%2FCaron%252BGoing%252BDown.jpeg&hash=8c261a774c00169cb1b785059be4ec2246603ec0)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 13, 2014, 09:06:22 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.justsaypictures.com%2Fimages%2Fcan-t-see-shit-2l6s.gif&hash=a10e66e64423775ad55c5cf28cb568970efcd8ae)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 14, 2014, 12:18:16 PM


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seaforces.org%2Fmarint%2FJapan-Maritime-Self-Defense-Force%2FDestroyer%2FHaruna-class-Dateien%2Fimage020.jpg&hash=d0eac544c5d1f6ed5ab40c06e14d048f15fd58eb)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on January 14, 2014, 04:48:28 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iboats.com%2Fsites%2Ftriton%2Fsite_page_6649%2Fimages%2Fl_Triton_1546_DS_2007_AI-227879_II-11258091.jpg&hash=2e940ad78e1f6defe273473f3919a0eac748b2de)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 16, 2014, 12:27:56 PM
Fuck you China.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8dWzrpE.jpg&hash=87e28aeab61f8b9a773cb2214f3354aa7aa19f76)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 16, 2014, 01:58:34 PM
That's s postcard to send to China.  ;D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 16, 2014, 02:14:11 PM
Oh, come on now. China probably manufactures 80-90% of what's in those ships in the first place.  ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 16, 2014, 03:43:49 PM
No they dont.  :)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 16, 2014, 08:56:42 PM
Ah, and THAT'S why they cost so damn much to build.  ;D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 16, 2014, 09:48:16 PM
it is.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 17, 2014, 12:40:13 PM
Nevada circa 1927

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F7%2F76%2FUSS_Nevada_at_1927_naval_review_NARA_19-LC-19C.jpg&hash=4b3eae0e858d30dcfe30b837e0c64959cfc2fd1c)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 17, 2014, 12:41:09 PM
Colorado

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6ab7cMc.jpg&hash=bdcc0a77971b3acc19ade3f09a18d390f1f460b6)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 17, 2014, 12:43:30 PM
Harry S Truman, Turkish frigate Gediz and Italian carrier Garibaldi

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fe%2Fed%2FUS_Navy_040712-N-0119G-087_The_Turkish_frigate_TCG_Gediz_%2528F_495%2529%252C_USS_Harry_S._Truman_%2528CVN_75%2529_and_the_Italian_aircraft_carrier_ITS_Giuseppe_Garibaldi_%2528C_551%2529_steam_through_the_Atlantic_Ocean_while_participating_in_Majestic_Eag.jpg&hash=6d6bb0cffab6f151c0e63dbf2202d42a20a3566e)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 17, 2014, 01:59:04 PM
That's an old picture judging by what's on the Truman's flight deck.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 21, 2014, 12:15:22 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defense.gov%2Fdodcmsshare%2Fhomepagephoto%2F2014-01%2Fhires_140113-N-QE566-001c.jpg&hash=b4fe219fd7dad322de5a3070dc1c51dcbadc745a)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 27, 2014, 08:12:27 AM
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ussiowa?source=feed_text

This claim is impressive, but it is against a stationary target with state of the art radars.
Beleive the "grand old lady", HMS Warspite, has the longest hit against a moving target.  It was in one of the early battles with the Italian battle fleet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 27, 2014, 08:28:48 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usnews.com%2Fusnews%2Fphp%2Fgalleries%2Fimage.php%2F70%2F6%2F6.jpg&hash=23919c2421468fdbcd1a0cfb4dc9dfb49fa8e478)

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 27, 2014, 08:53:52 AM
Quote from: besilarius on January 27, 2014, 08:12:27 AM
https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/ussiowa?source=feed_text

This claim is impressive, but it is against a stationary target with state of the art radars.
Beleive the "grand old lady", HMS Warspite, has the longest hit against a moving target.  It was in one of the early battles with the Italian battle fleet.

yes, a manuvering island would would me much harder to hit.  ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 28, 2014, 10:32:27 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5iGPfcn.jpg&hash=dda194ef86c9108061fd127d891dc59039628ebd)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 28, 2014, 10:34:03 PM
thats a cool one!  does the Navy even dock ships in NYC anymore?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 30, 2014, 08:27:29 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F140117-N-UD469-339.JPG&hash=5e9c5f12c7ed9267135316c7e281c01e3bea067d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 30, 2014, 09:18:21 PM
What's with all the sections of railing laying down flat? Also, in front of the flag, it looks like something that was bolted down isn't there anymore. Is the Dept of the Navy selling off parts to prop up the DOD budget?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 30, 2014, 09:23:46 PM
Great top down look at a 51!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 30, 2014, 09:33:12 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 30, 2014, 09:18:21 PM
What's with all the sections of railing laying down flat?

we'll have to ask Smuck, he was in the Navy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 01, 2014, 04:43:08 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FEZHmhQG.jpg&hash=55915fd40c19f9d51a4c428cc390ca75ee254551)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 01, 2014, 04:45:40 PM
Duke of York on the Murmansk run

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6e04sgS.jpg&hash=2b9c8c89d0e7d0ff380b233d7d05a1dee04a784c)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on February 05, 2014, 04:06:34 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 01, 2014, 04:43:08 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FEZHmhQG.jpg&hash=55915fd40c19f9d51a4c428cc390ca75ee254551)

Cool!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2014, 12:31:54 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FyuSSrWX.jpg&hash=680ba8b9b0512561cd55d9992e8f3decd2bbac22)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 18, 2014, 01:01:41 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FoVX8nBw.jpg&hash=d186247d1686899b9b64a99bc8800dd4448d9883)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 18, 2014, 06:39:31 AM
Nice shots there Mirth. Those Kirov class look huge! Good thing they can only keep a few of them in service.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 18, 2014, 08:13:48 AM
they only built two.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on February 18, 2014, 11:21:08 AM

US Navy ready to deploy laser for 1st time
By DAVID SHARP19 hours ago

BATH, Maine (AP) — Some of the Navy's futuristic weapons sound like something out of "Star Wars," with lasers designed to shoot down aerial drones and electric guns that fire projectiles at hypersonic speeds.

That future is now.

The Navy plans to deploy its first laser on a ship later this year, and it intends to test an electromagnetic rail gun prototype aboard a vessel within two years.

For the Navy, it's not so much about the whiz-bang technology as it is about the economics of such armaments. Both costs pennies on the dollar compared with missiles and smart bombs, and the weapons can be fired continuously, unlike missiles and bombs, which eventually run out.

"It fundamentally changes the way we fight," said Capt. Mike Ziv, program manager for directed energy and electric weapon systems for the Naval Sea Systems Command.

The Navy's laser technology has evolved to the point that a prototype to be deployed aboard the USS Ponce this summer can be operated by a single sailor, he said.

The solid-state Laser Weapon System is designed to target what the Navy describes as "asymmetrical threats." Those include aerial drones, speed boats and swarm boats, all potential threats to warships in the Persian Gulf, where the Ponce, a floating staging base, is set to be deployed.

Rail guns, which have been tested on land in Virginia, fire a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound — enough velocity to cause severe damage. The Navy sees them as replacing or supplementing old-school guns, firing lethal projectiles from long distances.

But both systems have shortcomings.

Lasers tend to loser their effectiveness if it's raining, if it's dusty, or if there's turbulence in the atmosphere, and the rail gun requires vast amount of electricity to launch the projectile, said Loren Thompson, defense analyst at the Lexington Institute.

"The Navy says it's found ways to deal with use of lasers in bad weather, but there's little doubt that the range of the weapon would be reduced by clouds, dust or precipitation," he said.

Producing enough energy for a rail gun is another problem.

The Navy's new destroyer, the Zumwalt, under construction at Bath Iron Works in Maine, is the only ship with enough electric power to run a rail gun. The stealthy ship's gas turbine-powered generators can produce up to 78 megawatts of power. That's enough electricity for a medium-size city — and more than enough for a rail gun.

Technology from the three ships in that DDG-1000 series will likely trickle down into future warships, said Capt. James Downey, the program manager.

Engineers are also working on a battery system to store enough energy to allow a rail gun to be operated on warships currently in the fleet.

Both weapon systems are prized because they serve to "get ahead of the cost curve," Ziv said.

In other words, they're cheap.

Each interceptor missile aboard a U.S. Navy warship costs at least $1 million apiece, making it cost-prohibitive to defend a ship in some hostile environments in which an enemy is using aircraft, drones, artillery, cruise missiles and artillery, Thompson said.

With a laser operating on about 30 kilowatts of electricity — and possibly three times that in the future — the cost amounts to a few dollars per shot, Thompson said.

The "Star Wars" analogy isn't a bad one.

Just like in the movies, the Navy's laser directs a beam of energy that can burn through a target or fry sensitive electronics. Unlike the movie, the laser beam is invisible to the human eye.

The targeting system locks onto the target, sending a beam of searing heat. "You see the effect on what you are targeting but you don't see the actual beam," Ziv said.

Other nations are developing their own lasers, but the Navy is more advanced at this point.

Most folks are stunned to learn the technology is ready for deployment, Ziv said.

"It's fair to say that there are other countries working on this technology. That's safe to say. But I would also say that a lot of what makes this successful came from the way in which we consolidated all of the complexity into something that can be operated by (a single sailor)," he said.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 18, 2014, 01:15:30 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 18, 2014, 08:13:48 AM
they only built two.

4, actually. The 5th was cancelled.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 18, 2014, 01:29:08 PM
can't believe none of y'all checked this out...

http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=9325.0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 18, 2014, 07:03:45 PM
Oh, trust me, I was sorely tempted. I just stayed strong and told myself that if I was meant to fall down that Rabbit Hole then you would be bumping the thread this Saturday morning, when I am not at work, the kids have eaten breakfast, I've already loaded the washing machine, and I'm just setting my second (or maybe third) cup o' joe down in front of my 'puter.  ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 22, 2014, 11:38:58 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F26bVnq9.jpg&hash=bc779bd8572e070a368ab1f50d2cd462f15eda7f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 26, 2014, 07:31:43 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.desura.com%2Fimages%2Fgroups%2F1%2F3%2F2103%2FThunder_Child.jpg&hash=7cf88badc2c9d7b3142c8f5300163135f38f2f0f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 26, 2014, 07:34:04 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc09.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2013%2F236%2Fa%2F2%2Fcrusade_battleship_by_progv-d6jh55z.jpg&hash=9b971f9176baa2f22b1136485a793efeef5e4d8a)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 26, 2014, 07:35:44 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FQKicgUL.jpg&hash=e6da99113c8ac0b491bc1dbdea193af808cfaa08)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on February 28, 2014, 08:28:59 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 26, 2014, 07:34:04 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffc09.deviantart.net%2Ffs71%2Ff%2F2013%2F236%2Fa%2F2%2Fcrusade_battleship_by_progv-d6jh55z.jpg&hash=9b971f9176baa2f22b1136485a793efeef5e4d8a)

I'd put some Phalanxes on the bottom too.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 28, 2014, 12:52:30 PM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Vanguard_and_Dragon.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 28, 2014, 12:59:09 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FDBreaRo.jpg&hash=1aea8c8b27e37927fff5ac81ab886e26d4fde83c)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 28, 2014, 12:59:56 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F058U3fN.jpg&hash=992af86ff2623d68b32a96b46dc68b5f58313840)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 28, 2014, 10:27:23 PM
Jap carriers and nuclear cruisers.
quite the range Mirth.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on February 28, 2014, 11:22:49 PM
It's a ship...

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.rarb.org%2Fimages%2Falbums%2F100-big.jpg&hash=a9f70085e809902b4d9ef4308d922c734ee7f00f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on February 28, 2014, 11:27:51 PM
Ok, well maybe this one was a better choice:

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fasianflixs.files.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F06%2Fharlock-arcadia-of-my-youth-screenshot.jpg&hash=c2dd3e0c362d9dfcab0b9fbb24d7ebf1f281011a)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2014, 01:43:40 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 28, 2014, 10:27:23 PM
Jap carriers and nuclear cruisers.
quite the range Mirth.

I am versatile.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2014, 12:17:22 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFqDiTmU.jpg&hash=6431adf0d1a8cd3f531859aa9c867bd7a23b8e13)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2014, 12:20:52 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FNhqjxmd.jpg&hash=ea5a0cc16614f3768b1596eed456610b1249205d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on March 01, 2014, 02:19:56 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 01, 2014, 12:17:22 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFqDiTmU.jpg&hash=6431adf0d1a8cd3f531859aa9c867bd7a23b8e13)

Woot. That's Newcastle taken from the quayside. That's the swing bridge with the high level bridge in the background. It was designed by Robert Stephenson and build 1846-1849.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 01, 2014, 03:57:47 PM
And our destroyers are now larger then that batteship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 03, 2014, 12:38:05 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FaTELpAw.jpg&hash=42e001ef8c14fbc84f300d2d04b5ced824deeecf)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on March 03, 2014, 12:48:17 PM
Quote from: bob48 on March 01, 2014, 02:19:56 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 01, 2014, 12:17:22 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFqDiTmU.jpg&hash=6431adf0d1a8cd3f531859aa9c867bd7a23b8e13)

Woot. That's Newcastle taken from the quayside. That's the swing bridge with the high level bridge in the background. It was designed by Robert Stephenson and build 1846-1849.

i see your ma let you borrow the rowing boat again
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on March 03, 2014, 01:44:57 PM
^Rollocks!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 03, 2014, 07:00:24 PM
Nothing but the Rollocks (does a poor rowboat make).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 06, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Ff%2Ff3%2FFederal_Ironclad_GALENA_1862_lowres.png&hash=c84b5a327650cff796c1ac7b4c54d7e9b5c01cfd)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 06, 2014, 06:51:18 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUno7gZZ.jpg&hash=f83603bfbd2bed2ecdfd6f92cbeba95c2f5e2fdb)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 09, 2014, 10:17:52 AM
http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=4229536&convertTo=USD

16 inch, MK 7 gun tubes up for auction.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 09, 2014, 10:26:18 AM
Quote from: besilarius on March 09, 2014, 10:17:52 AM
http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=4229536&convertTo=USD

16 inch, MK 7 gun tubes up for auction.


From the listing:
QuoteDemilitarization is a condition of sale for Gun Tubes only

Drat!  :( They would have helped make great shore batteries for Grogheads Island.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: WallysWorld on March 09, 2014, 10:58:44 AM
First US Navy ship to be deployed with a laser.

After successful testing last year, the Navy is preparing to deploy its first directed energy weapon to the fleet. When it puts to sea this summer, the afloat forward staging base ship USS Ponce will be equipped with the Navy's Laser Weapon System (LaWS).

While the Navy will still depend on missiles and guns to defend against bigger targets, the LaWS system is designed to cost about a dollar a shot without the fuss and muss of the depleted uranium bullets spewed by the Navy's Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS).

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/navy-will-deploy-first-ship-with-laser-weapon-this-summer/ (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/navy-will-deploy-first-ship-with-laser-weapon-this-summer/)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.arstechnica.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F03%2F120804-N-ZZ999-005-R.jpg&hash=98125ad1dd63001cf40fea54a3da887464fa1be1)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 12, 2014, 03:59:21 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 06, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Ff%2Ff3%2FFederal_Ironclad_GALENA_1862_lowres.png&hash=c84b5a327650cff796c1ac7b4c54d7e9b5c01cfd)

Nicely placed shot low on her hull.... good thing she didn't get through
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 12, 2014, 06:11:52 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 06, 2014, 06:51:18 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUno7gZZ.jpg&hash=f83603bfbd2bed2ecdfd6f92cbeba95c2f5e2fdb)

I'll have to dig around for it but I recently saw an incredible model of this ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 12, 2014, 06:18:33 PM
Who was she?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 12, 2014, 06:31:17 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 12, 2014, 06:18:33 PM
Who was she?


Bouvet, French Jauréguiberry-class battleship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 12, 2014, 06:35:26 PM
USN Nuclear Cruisers

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fyf43uhe.jpg&hash=3c08c454c4c231697d293543df00c64bfa2a9982)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 12, 2014, 06:36:13 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F6%2F65%2FCerb%25C3%25A8re_and_B%25C3%25A9lier-Neurdein_img_3119.jpg&hash=ef3f94c62d236593dcdaad5e91b872dfabbc1614)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 12, 2014, 06:37:16 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fpb9yRoZ.jpg&hash=efd295c477d3bd9f966af78d8c21b39d239c0271)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 12, 2014, 07:12:33 PM
I was just going to ask 'Japanese?' when I saw the photo caption.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 12, 2014, 07:26:03 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Flcweb2.loc.gov%2Fservice%2Fpnp%2Fggbain%2F16000%2F16028v.jpg&hash=6105be59b67d5c4d563ccb5afdc54643fd5aaa4d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 12, 2014, 11:22:34 PM
found the model pics.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jbadiorama.com%2Fnet%2Fseddul%2Fprev_web0.jpg&hash=2d1054c0c2a94a74305270fe0a535bf0e19b5823)

http://www.network54.com/Forum/110741/thread/1372238430/Sedd%FClBahir
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2014, 11:12:20 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F7NE22aX.jpg&hash=7aa260f74f3943b7e2305969062d180328a467c0)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2014, 11:13:06 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FvLfmqr7.jpg&hash=69d58b1e2a14f13f284a296045e0e1f9a6b0fb01)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2014, 11:16:08 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fx08cbUv.jpg&hash=93604b0e8633d90ed57bbb7439688a87eacecca7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2014, 11:18:06 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FkFZAiGS.jpg&hash=75d9e05840b01fde26949ef2ea860c293b1b8523)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 14, 2014, 06:16:16 PM
Excellent photos, Mirth.
Thanks for posting.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 14, 2014, 06:21:42 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 14, 2014, 11:16:08 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fx08cbUv.jpg&hash=93604b0e8633d90ed57bbb7439688a87eacecca7)

I know the guys in front have a high vantage point but it creates the illusion that they are watching a miniature battleship sail by with a crew of lilliputians for crew.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 14, 2014, 06:26:45 PM
I get just the opposite reaction.
they know theyre watching 65000 tons of battleship drive by.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 15, 2014, 09:43:53 AM
Detailed graphic of the Defence of Taffy 3 off Samar.

http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/second-world-war/defending-taffy-what-the-pilots-saw/2772464589001/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2014, 11:01:48 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FWeJq9uY.jpg&hash=d8c7ad69afba36cdb1725ae4103d79106dca13c2)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Jack Nastyface on March 16, 2014, 01:07:15 PM
Old school...
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi919.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fad39%2FJack_Nastyface1805%2Fpic1236206_zpsdd7466f6.jpg&hash=1c1d0909d6aa07bf20fbfbf3066734fffdaa3b8e)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2014, 01:23:58 PM
^very nice
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 16, 2014, 02:27:51 PM
Wow! It there a higher rez version available? That would look awesome printed and framed.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 18, 2014, 11:17:31 AM
QuoteAs seen from the Essex (CV-9), the Langley (CVL-27) with the Washington (BB-56) astern plowing and rolling through heavy seas on 13 January 1945 in the South China Sea.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F3AwVzpg.jpg&hash=62da11456ce27ccc69838b9b91de826c650531e9)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 18, 2014, 11:17:55 AM
QuoteNorth Carolina (BB-55) is diving deep into heavy green seas while operating with TG.38.3 on 12 December 1944.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8mDwsyc.jpg&hash=02f2034f54e1bbb1d79adadc94e1b72c84a927c3)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 18, 2014, 11:22:11 AM
Last naval shore bombardment of World War 2 (http://imgur.com/a/5kzww)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 18, 2014, 11:24:27 AM
QuoteFrench battleship Jean Bart visiting New York, 1955.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FZ7bPabH.jpg&hash=5569d5e6db5713a25720cf14a74c79b2006e02fc)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 18, 2014, 06:41:00 PM
how about some captions and context Mirth.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 18, 2014, 09:52:29 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 18, 2014, 06:41:00 PM
how about some captions and context Mirth.

Because I love you...done.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2014, 11:31:27 AM
Coral Sea and New Jersey off Vietnam circa 1969.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FWpYBLkF.jpg&hash=a2c761afe26088d7a045f17992e3b24fe07af6e4)



Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2014, 11:34:36 AM
Kongō in drydock. Yokosuka, 1930.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFRhM2JH.jpg&hash=ecce9069d72a16f47650d5759dce337c091e7ca7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 20, 2014, 11:45:47 AM
Prinz Eugen in Boston Harbor after the war.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FBJmGZ4q.jpg&hash=a1b80db6885afe3c999dce7b25828e25309f194b)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 20, 2014, 11:48:15 AM
Lady Lex early 1942

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzehkN2i.jpg&hash=6cb72ccd3751a5e41883bc04a1990d09bdf0dcaa)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 21, 2014, 05:59:57 AM
you just can make stuff up like this.  my guess is that it will be almost completed and then sold to the Chinese.

QuoteWashington: Iran is building a nonworking mock-up of an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that US officials say may be intended to be blown up for propaganda value.

Intelligence analysts studying satellite photos of Iranian military installations first noticed the vessel rising from the Gachin shipyard, near Bandar Abbas on the Persian Gulf, last summer. The ship has the same distinctive shape and style of the Navy's Nimitz-class carriers, as well as the USS Nimitz's No. 68 neatly painted in white near the bow. Mock aircraft can be seen on the flight deck.

The Iranian mock-up, which US officials described as more like a barge than a warship, has no nuclear propulsion system and is only about two-thirds the length of a typical 1,100-foot-long Navy (335 metre) carrier. Intelligence officials do not believe that Iran is capable of building an actual aircraft carrier.

"Based on our observations, this is not a functioning aircraft carrier; it's a large barge built to look like an aircraft carrier," said Commander Jason Salata, a spokesman for the Navy's 5th Fleet in Bahrain, across the Persian Gulf from Iran. "We're not sure what Iran hopes to gain by building this. If it is a big propaganda piece, to what end?"

Whatever the purpose, American officials acknowledged Thursday that they wanted to reveal the existence of the vessel to get out ahead of the Iranians.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FToICIlP.jpg&hash=18f2677bdd312e1e84bd9ad194b1324a2c00d915)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FYwDCQoZ.png&hash=0dd67b849785ab4a36f869326fb971814a63eed6)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2ti7vMP.jpg&hash=6bcf3abec86ba35a1851aa826942df1471b6dcb6)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on March 22, 2014, 01:45:33 PM
maybe a theme park/hotel like they did with the old russkie carriers in China years ago? Weird.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 24, 2014, 05:10:40 PM
those are pretty shitty welds on that thing
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 24, 2014, 05:35:50 PM
Quote from: Windigo on March 24, 2014, 05:10:40 PM
those are pretty shitty welds on that thing

It probably wasn't built to, like actually... uh, float or anything.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 24, 2014, 07:03:06 PM
Im not sure theyre even welds.
my bet is on Chinese gorilla glue.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 24, 2014, 09:58:14 PM
I kinda have to give the Iranians credit for even building something that shitty.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 25, 2014, 11:29:04 AM
Quote from: mirth on March 24, 2014, 09:58:14 PM
I kinda have to give the Iranians credit for even building something that shitty.

its unbelieveably bad... it could even be stretched canvas, doped and painted ....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on March 25, 2014, 04:20:30 PM
how about a big-ass walrus sleeping on a Russian sub

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19877909/walrus.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on March 25, 2014, 05:54:41 PM
lol nice find.

'Comrade, oh Comrade!  NATO capitalistic opportunist wreckers have resorted to using sea cows to shit all over us!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on March 25, 2014, 05:56:11 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.kitsapsun.com%2Fnews%2F2000%2Fjanuary%2F0119a1a.jpg&hash=eb18d110f15bbdf804d49f0a7d40e0a20b882281)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: endfire79 on March 25, 2014, 05:58:09 PM
Quote from: endfire79 on March 25, 2014, 05:56:11 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweb.kitsapsun.com%2Fnews%2F2000%2Fjanuary%2F0119a1a.jpg&hash=eb18d110f15bbdf804d49f0a7d40e0a20b882281)

They dropped in to add their seal of approval.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2014, 08:58:37 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FXu99oSv.jpg&hash=79d22588d5e68c2b75e64b5539a066ddcf4cc270)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2014, 09:00:41 PM
Cuban Osa II missile boat, 1984.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Ff%2Ffe%2FProject_205-ER_Cuban_missile_boat_in_1984.jpg&hash=01088a24b13c645bd7617cd90cb5717a3857586e)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2014, 09:05:16 PM
USS Santa Fe (CL-60) during Typhoon Cobra


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fh8BoFDO.jpg&hash=f72defad53ae73e772fc1274b8091dc17572d96f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2014, 09:06:18 PM
USS Cowpens (CVL-25) during Typhoon Cobra.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FSVe9QVE.jpg&hash=365b5db132a1e731d08fca2e93c23a7e859175c0)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2014, 09:08:22 PM
HMS Ark Royal with the replica of the Mayflower mid-Atlantic June 1957.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FNeLT9Ag.jpg&hash=896d23e79953757591dca8237f3a72dfce72f222)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 26, 2014, 11:16:31 AM
Flicker Stream of the Queen Elizabeth Class Carriers under construction (http://www.flickr.com/photos/qeclasscarriers/)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 27, 2014, 05:34:44 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FkvrM2zb.jpg&hash=d5d4f3e914c04acd2211527cf2e3621a528d6ff2)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 27, 2014, 05:45:16 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg202.imageshack.us%2Fimg202%2F8640%2Fuser3680402535.jpg&hash=69e0e806b7ff4ef29188a82b7ad1f29282b1214f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 27, 2014, 05:48:57 PM
USS Delaware (BB-28) in heavy seas, 1914.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1gViyhE.jpg&hash=a3deb75d8dfc8cd488157aaf9c7ae7e540555c26)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 27, 2014, 05:52:27 PM
USS Saugatuck (AO-75) refuels USS Massachusetts (BB-59) off Japan, 20 April 1945.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FbVrq1ty.jpg&hash=938347cfffadc2ba882d8a3b324efa3615647391)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 27, 2014, 05:57:49 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hmscourageous.co.uk%2Falexandria%252035.jpg&hash=65ebdddaa4e97aef7d8df3b1d057f5880a700d99)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 27, 2014, 08:35:22 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 27, 2014, 05:48:57 PM
USS Delaware (BB-28) in heavy seas, 1914.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1gViyhE.jpg&hash=a3deb75d8dfc8cd488157aaf9c7ae7e540555c26)

I buddy I grew up with was posted on the Saratoga.  he said that when they did shit up north of GUIK line you could stand at the end of the flight deck and watch the sky and the water switch positions every 30 seconds.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2014, 11:24:11 AM
American submarines at their advanced base in the Mariana, March 1945.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FYFLmVA8.jpg&hash=443fae9da4bcf16179f22c4fe1ea5deb51c415a1)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 28, 2014, 12:17:15 PM
I think the ameros built the best looking subs
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on March 28, 2014, 12:28:48 PM
Quote from: Windigo on March 28, 2014, 12:17:15 PM
I think the ameros built the best looking subs

Really? I was just thinking how... crude they look compared to the u-boats....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 28, 2014, 10:57:08 PM
Bauhaus rule #1: form follows function.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 01, 2014, 11:07:16 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FsCz2WkW.jpg&hash=c7827497b4b46aa32eea325ec4f6c26e0a081c15)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 01, 2014, 11:08:23 AM
The U.S. Navy's first three carriers; USS Langley (CV-1), USS Saratoga (CV-3), and USS Lexington (CV-2). Bremerton, Wash. 1929

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FXipePZp.jpg&hash=eba2c3df9c4cdce76ef1ae165cf825b2218be1dc)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 01, 2014, 11:37:27 AM
it still boggles my mind that we were able to stuff so many planes into one of those carriers and the modern Izumo carries only 14 helicopters.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 01, 2014, 02:02:05 PM
If they wanted to I'm sure that the current Japanese Navy could find room for another chopper or two...

... and a squadron of Super Hornets or the like.  ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 01, 2014, 02:03:28 PM
I'm sure when the time comes, they'll find room for a squadron of STOL F-35s.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 01, 2014, 02:04:10 PM
Even better!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 01, 2014, 02:04:57 PM
No launching or arrester gear on them.  Their decks are supposedly rated for 35's though.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Mr. Bigglesworth on April 02, 2014, 01:19:47 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 01, 2014, 11:37:27 AM
it still boggles my mind that we were able to stuff so many planes into one of those carriers and the modern Izumo carries only 14 helicopters.

Yeah, but imagine how many packs of ramen noodles they have.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Mr. Bigglesworth on April 02, 2014, 04:30:28 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fecx.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F51bV%252BuUAENL._SL500_AA300_.jpg&hash=edbd2520ff7766f2ab94e800a28788a1fbf8e07d)

http://www.amazon.com/Naval-Institute-Guide-Soviet-Navy/dp/B001NOH7XA/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396474038&sr=1-12&keywords=The+Naval+Institute+Guide+to+the+Soviet+Navy (http://www.amazon.com/Naval-Institute-Guide-Soviet-Navy/dp/B001NOH7XA/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396474038&sr=1-12&keywords=The+Naval+Institute+Guide+to+the+Soviet+Navy)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 02, 2014, 06:00:45 PM
Only $89.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 03, 2014, 05:37:57 PM
Tennessee, 1930.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzCPMKCR.jpg&hash=8128b68c7b0ccfde75625b68660abd9b85be8853)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 03, 2014, 05:39:29 PM
British Med Fleet in Malta. 1939.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fr0EfyV2.jpg&hash=dc99325cb0625cff01821e303554a3385f4c2f40)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 03, 2014, 06:01:40 PM
For a flyspeck on the map of the Mediterranean, Malta never ceases to amaze me with how large it actually is.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2014, 11:12:41 AM
S-300F magazine in a Russian cruiser

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fo4Pn25u.jpg&hash=18cd6718e2be73ea8c0f5e69e277c2c3bfd7d86d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2014, 11:15:00 AM
HMS M1, a WWI-era British submarine armed with a 12in gun

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6Fxpvbx.jpg&hash=a5da85df5b0b1c3b3ebd7826cf036a1612ac64f7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2014, 11:21:30 AM
USS Carpenter (DDE-825) Carpenter during a Formosa Straits patrol, August 1953.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.navy.mil%2FDANFS%2Fc4%2FCARPENTERAug1953.jpg&hash=f563625dad36025cdd491eff36a61e860697eea7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2014, 11:23:26 AM
Italian carrier Cavour with escorts, Indian ocean 2013.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Ft2XALL7.jpg&hash=0bc1b4315bfabe2be461a1092633547742b08eae)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2014, 11:26:39 AM
Soviet battleship Paris Commune bombarding German army units that were besieging Sevastopol, December 1941.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fukrmap.su%2Fprogram2009%2Fuh11%2F11_3%2F60.jpg&hash=4084e02d0e8f10b08538d9c3dd21112a9f3e03a3)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on April 07, 2014, 12:26:29 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 07, 2014, 11:15:00 AM
HMS M1, a WWI-era British submarine armed with a 12in gun

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6Fxpvbx.jpg&hash=a5da85df5b0b1c3b3ebd7826cf036a1612ac64f7)

truly a WTF were they thinking
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2014, 12:56:39 PM
From Wikipedia:

QuoteM1 was fitted with a 12-inch (305mm) gun which was intended for use against surface ships in preference to torpedoes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo), the argument being that, "No case is known of a ship-of-war being torpedoed when under way at a range outside of 1000 yards".
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 07, 2014, 01:47:50 PM
those S-300 cells look pretty unprotected.  where did you find that?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2014, 02:51:49 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 07, 2014, 01:47:50 PM
those S-300 cells look pretty unprotected.  where did you find that?

The pic came from Reddit, but it looks like it's circulated around the web for a while.

I also came across this old discussion thread that may or may not be related to that pic. It's interesting at any rate:

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?2882-S-300FM-Kirov-Hull-4-Pyotr-Veliky
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 07, 2014, 05:39:54 PM
Quote from: Windigo on April 07, 2014, 12:26:29 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 07, 2014, 11:15:00 AM
HMS M1, a WWI-era British submarine armed with a 12in gun

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6Fxpvbx.jpg&hash=a5da85df5b0b1c3b3ebd7826cf036a1612ac64f7)

truly a WTF were they thinking

They were thinking the same thing as the French, apparently:


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F3%2F32%2FSurcouf_FRA.jpg&hash=84bc92c016d7b8ee7f934067c6ea2da36bc0ebd9)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Surcouf
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 07, 2014, 10:04:06 PM
of course the French went for 2 barrels.   ::)
and typically, the German pic is NSFW.  ???
and dont even get me started on the Japanese carrier sub...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2014, 10:20:56 PM
I've seen pics of Surcouf before. The Brit sub was new to me.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 07, 2014, 10:30:13 PM
so you like to barrels?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 10, 2014, 02:07:01 PM
I & II Squadrons of the High Seas Fleet in Kiel:

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FNavLWnc.jpg&hash=f15547afb2c951caab35d8fd892dd072b58e6a52)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Redwolf on April 10, 2014, 04:40:43 PM
I would really like to buy a book or otherwise get a lot more solid information on modern Amphibious warfare ships. And I mean all the details like layout and dimensions and what exactly they can carry.

What I have now is assembled bits and piece, e.g. the information sheet for the F35 planning so that the plane fits there ships.

Any recommendation? I suppose there are none that you can actually visit, right?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 10, 2014, 09:37:59 PM
you might want to check the Naval Institute Press for books.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 14, 2014, 11:27:20 AM
USS Des Moines, Venice 1958

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 14, 2014, 12:18:19 PM
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/10245302_737852006246427_1803173944635508517_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 14, 2014, 07:49:29 PM
Thatsa one-a bigga Wata Taxi!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 16, 2014, 08:12:28 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.militaryfactory.com%2Fships%2Fimgs%2Fhms-vanguard-23_9.jpg&hash=84099121c658ce4249df70a8ab9b7f97d9ebb9dd)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 17, 2014, 05:18:38 PM
HMS Benbow leads two of her sisters.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FqEVVhl6.jpg&hash=2089db00f28234e459e42f9db1a02565dffa8288)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 17, 2014, 05:19:59 PM
Broadside view of HMS Dreadnought.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 19, 2014, 08:07:27 AM
Lexington in Hawaiian waters, 1932.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2014, 11:40:03 AM
USS Bennington after being hit by a typhoon off Okinawa. June 5, 1945.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ww2incolor.com%2Fd%2F471432-4%2Ftyphoon_2&hash=ecc64c9b363b4b6045a95025a3dcd05f43b96e70)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2014, 11:45:40 AM
Escort carriers steam through heavy seas in the Pacific, 1945

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ww2incolor.com%2Fd%2F359265-4%2Fpto165&hash=fb63913893e855162ff703ce78424e29f04de22d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 23, 2014, 11:31:06 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naviearmatori.net%2Falbums%2Fuserpics%2F11615%2F2qwn675.jpg&hash=da2948cbe329d2446fa1d551e4fdafdfb0887b6f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 23, 2014, 11:33:29 AM
HMS Royal Oak in rough seas.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F7DjN8Qu.jpg&hash=34995670441494ad640a12d16de98beccfb62d58)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on April 23, 2014, 11:50:47 AM
Quote from: mirth on April 21, 2014, 11:40:03 AM
USS Bennington after being hit by a typhoon off Okinawa. June 5, 1945.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ww2incolor.com%2Fd%2F471432-4%2Ftyphoon_2&hash=ecc64c9b363b4b6045a95025a3dcd05f43b96e70)

WOW!  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 23, 2014, 12:14:27 PM
Iirc that typhoon sunk 20+ ships.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 23, 2014, 01:25:03 PM
Not sure about ship losses, but that was the second typhoon that Halsey drove Third Fleet into. The board of inquiry that followed recommended his reassignment. Nimitz let him stay in command of Third Fleet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 23, 2014, 01:36:23 PM
Footage from the June '45 Typhoon.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on April 30, 2014, 08:25:20 AM
USS Nebraska at Norfolk, VA, April 1918.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fstatic%2Finfocus%2Fwwi%2Fintroduction%2Fl_43.jpg&hash=ad727a1259ea0b427f793e23e748d5aaf364e148)

A bunch of other WWI photos here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/introduction/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=%2ASituation+Report (http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/introduction/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_term=%2ASituation+Report)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Ubercat on April 30, 2014, 08:44:46 AM
Quote from: mirth on April 23, 2014, 11:31:06 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naviearmatori.net%2Falbums%2Fuserpics%2F11615%2F2qwn675.jpg&hash=da2948cbe329d2446fa1d551e4fdafdfb0887b6f)

Wow. My grandfather was on the New Jersey. He was a gunners mate and I believe he worked AA guns on the port side. Since we appear to be looking at the fantails of the two ships, then it's the port side of the Jersey that's in view. He could be in this pic. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Ubercat on April 30, 2014, 08:49:05 AM
I just realized that those are jets on the carriers decks! This pic may be from the '51 Korea tour. If that's the case, then he's almost certainly on the ship somewhere. I have his cruise book from that tour.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 30, 2014, 10:01:45 AM
Those are Tomcats on the port side and you can see the white "R2-D2" Phalanx CIWS mount on the aft end.

You can also see 3 of the CIWS mounts on NJ, as well as the Tomahawk launchers.

So the pic is from the 1980s. It's a cool story about your grandad though, UC. :)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Ubercat on April 30, 2014, 10:42:12 AM
Oh, I failed to spot the Phalanxes. When I was on the Independence (CV62) in the late 80's, at the time undergoing a massive 4 year overhaul at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, it was neat to watch the big phalanx whip around to track passenger airliners approaching the airport. They were turned on but not armed. Imagine the tragedy that would have occurred if they'd shredded a 747 loaded with passengers.  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 30, 2014, 11:46:53 AM
USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) pulls away after taking on fuel in heavy seas.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fa%2Fa7%2FUS_Navy_111224-N-DR144-439_USS_Bunker_Hill_pulls_away_after_taking_on_fuel_in_heavy_seas.jpg&hash=72f3655aec90530453eab12e64a2f08df615aed7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 30, 2014, 02:41:34 PM
I was on her for fleet week a few years back.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Atilla60 on April 30, 2014, 03:49:47 PM
Havhingsten (Sea Stallion ) on a test run in 2007.
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Come on guys, it's a ship. Right?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 30, 2014, 05:58:08 PM
Yes it is!

It needs a striped sail and rows of shields for proper presentation though.


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 30, 2014, 06:36:13 PM
and we need to tie Gus to the front.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Atilla60 on May 01, 2014, 03:23:26 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 30, 2014, 06:36:13 PM
and we need to tie Gus to the front.
LOL!
You mean kinda, sorta like this?
(from 00.30 onwards)

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 01, 2014, 08:16:37 PM
that was the exact scene in my mind!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 12:01:40 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2goaZ5F.jpg%3F1&hash=bf6f896006f97e510faed7b048a3f514cb206060)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 12:02:24 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FLqTHFS2.jpg%3F1&hash=8048be4f3b7f0323d1c0d7a900e18adaf6b6e896)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 02, 2014, 12:04:11 PM
Odd-looking ducks ain't they?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 12:09:22 PM
I think theyre pretty cool.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6KqNxuG.jpg%3F1&hash=ae6c7a52d5e2354d81589821460c9ef190a3e1d4)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 12:11:40 PM
more Iranian carrier shots

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FxUZB3Gj.jpg&hash=505c8e2f6aba25ee8eeb17f4de015ca91e6a8a6d)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fa2Fp37W.jpg&hash=9b6dfd4b91b1c990b9b09c5b4136d5910e08e9c5)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 02, 2014, 12:27:13 PM
QuoteUSS De Haven (DD-727) buries her fo'c's'le during unrep off the Korean coast. Operation Chromite, September 15, 1950.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FQypzzyE.jpg&hash=cee19280a6999f704518bf2bc68d5f2f373568c6)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on May 02, 2014, 12:27:59 PM
it really is sad seeing that

like that picture of that african rebel armed with an AK.... wearing a flourescent orange life jacket as body armour
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on May 02, 2014, 12:29:13 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 02, 2014, 12:27:13 PM
QuoteUSS De Haven (DD-727) buries her fo'c's'le during unrep off the Korean coast. Operation Chromite, September 15, 1950.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FQypzzyE.jpg&hash=cee19280a6999f704518bf2bc68d5f2f373568c6)

that is one reason I would never be a navy man*




*OK so that term, navy man, may be mutually exclusive
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 12:43:49 PM
you can be the cabin boy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on May 05, 2014, 10:44:59 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2014, 12:43:49 PM
you can be the cabin boy.

thats Gus' job for life, I have too much respect for his professionalism to try and cut in
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 05, 2014, 01:54:11 PM
USS Massachusetts - A look inside one of her turrets. August 1898


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F21pxydL.jpg&hash=cd283758f894519cf41ae77dd862582fe2e4d47f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2014, 11:04:41 AM
USS Antietam with an Avenger from it's air group banking overhead, July 1945.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2Fj4jsA4p.jpg&hash=f43823eeac39ffbc916c1d06c02f291ee79a6ac6)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2014, 11:07:47 AM
USS Colorado (BB-45) with the NYC skyline in the background, 1932

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F2%2F20%2FUSS_Colorado_%2528BB-45%2529_New_York_1932.jpg&hash=fd578dcb620458cd7ce8acd6c9c9b42a6b535b38)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 08, 2014, 02:53:16 PM
Italian carrier Cavour

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FmmR1ogQ.jpg&hash=1c275640185f46415f552fea594d9634d9745fdc)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 08, 2014, 02:54:58 PM
Another pic of the French Submarine Cruiser Surcouf.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maritimequest.com%2Fwarship_directory%2Ffrance%2Fsubmarines%2Fsurcouf_nn3%2Fsurcouf_c.jpg&hash=600f855fd42be9010243ba1f0ad69bca51f533df)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 08, 2014, 06:12:20 PM
Supposedly she was sunk in the Caribbean or Canal zone by friendly fire (US on Free French) for being mistaken for a U-boat while her radios were out of service. There was an enemy sub reported sunk in that area on a day when KreigsMarine records show no U-boats anywhere near there at that time failed to return to port.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 09, 2014, 09:44:56 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFZQXbD0.jpg&hash=a50d2f2dc9e3bd197d47505e624b66a00b892da7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 09, 2014, 12:05:04 PM
Honda Point Disaster. The largest peacetime loss of Navy ships in US history.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FAvq6LQQ.jpg&hash=23ebc1c99ad48a43248e9589c76feba8a2c3b4a2)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_Disaster
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on May 09, 2014, 01:36:49 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 09, 2014, 12:05:04 PM
Honda Point Disaster. The largest peacetime loss of Navy ships in US history.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FAvq6LQQ.jpg&hash=23ebc1c99ad48a43248e9589c76feba8a2c3b4a2)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_Disaster

This site is part of Vandenberg AFB territory now. I've been to the point overlooking the wrecks. You really can't see anything from the shore besides the rocks and heavy surf (and it does get really foggy) but helicopter pilots say you can still see the outlines of the destroyers under the waves.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 09, 2014, 06:10:46 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 09, 2014, 09:44:56 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFZQXbD0.jpg&hash=a50d2f2dc9e3bd197d47505e624b66a00b892da7)

It looks as if the bow should have a roll-back door for unleashing hoards of wet-suited Bond-villains in high-speed Zodiaks.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 12, 2014, 12:37:03 PM
Danish Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate smashes through high seas

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Post by: mirth on May 12, 2014, 12:38:35 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 12, 2014, 12:43:17 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on May 12, 2014, 02:29:20 PM
jeeze thats a shit pile of metal
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 13, 2014, 11:28:20 AM
USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) moored to USS Patoka (AO-9). Los Angeles, built for the US Navy by Germany as war reparations following WWI, served from 1924 to 1932.

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Post by: mirth on May 13, 2014, 11:31:49 AM
Israeli Dolphin Class Submarine Surfacing

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Post by: mirth on May 13, 2014, 11:33:32 AM
Enterprise at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor being readied prior to the Battle of Midway

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on May 13, 2014, 12:07:46 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 13, 2014, 11:31:49 AM
Israeli Dolphin Class Submarine Surfacing

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what the hell kind of test was this boat under going to surface like that?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 13, 2014, 12:49:19 PM
Emergency blow of the ballast tanks, staged for the photo op.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on May 13, 2014, 03:25:53 PM
looks like a reverse belly flop, at least american subs (in the pics) pop up with a little more grace and style than that
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 13, 2014, 03:44:05 PM
that depends on when during the maneuver you take the photo.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 14, 2014, 09:57:02 AM
Manning the yards on the USS Atlanta in Boston Harbor, 1890

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Post by: mirth on May 14, 2014, 10:02:50 AM
Armored Cruiser Seattle anchored at San Diego, 1923

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Post by: mirth on May 15, 2014, 05:56:58 PM
Tirpitz

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Post by: mirth on May 15, 2014, 05:59:42 PM
Operation Crossroads Baker. 21 KT atomic detonation 90 feet underwater. Nagato, Pensacola-class cruiser, and Prinz Eugen visible (among others).

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Post by: mirth on May 20, 2014, 11:35:18 AM
USS Saratoga (CV-3) passing through the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal enroute to the Pacific. February 7th, 1928.

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Post by: mirth on May 28, 2014, 05:19:50 PM
Quarterdeck of HMS Hood awash.

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Post by: mirth on June 02, 2014, 11:15:57 AM
German High Seas Fleet entering Scapa Flow for internment.

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Post by: mirth on June 02, 2014, 11:18:19 AM
Three sailors getting smoked out on USS North Dakota (BB-29) circa 1913

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Post by: BanzaiCat on June 02, 2014, 12:59:14 PM
^Those pics should give Windy an ecohard-on.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on June 02, 2014, 11:47:09 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on June 02, 2014, 12:59:14 PM
^Those pics should give Windy an ecohard-on.

meh, coal's days are numbered, worse fossil fuel ever
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 03, 2014, 12:09:23 AM
the day afer California legalized pot in San Diego.

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Post by: mirth on June 03, 2014, 08:26:22 PM
US landing craft at Okinawa

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 03, 2014, 08:38:53 PM
I just want to be that country again.   :-\
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: TheCommandTent on June 03, 2014, 10:04:34 PM
Great picture but it looks like a logistical nightmare.


Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 03, 2014, 08:38:53 PM
I just want to be that country again.   :-\

+1
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Post by: eyebiter on June 03, 2014, 10:31:40 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on June 04, 2014, 05:20:49 AM


Just gotta love this.
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Post by: mirth on June 04, 2014, 11:30:19 AM
^Nice find, Bob!
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Post by: mirth on June 04, 2014, 11:31:39 AM
Engine room of USS Massachusetts (BB-2). 1898.


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Post by: bob48 on June 04, 2014, 12:37:12 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 04, 2014, 11:30:19 AM
^Nice find, Bob!

There is so much to like about that film. I love the way the pilot comes to a stop and still is only abaft the tower. Interesting to note that one of the other aircraft that lands is an RN F4. Not sure if the other aircraft is a 'Skywarrior' or a 'Destroyer'?
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Post by: mirth on June 04, 2014, 12:50:21 PM
Skywarrior. The Destroyer was the USAF version developed from the Skywarrior.
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Post by: bob48 on June 04, 2014, 02:00:17 PM
Thanks, Mirth, I was not aware of that.
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Post by: undercovergeek on June 04, 2014, 02:16:48 PM
if theyre stopped with arrestor wires, why are the tyres smoking, are brakes been applied too?
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Post by: bob48 on June 04, 2014, 04:30:12 PM
The Broncos was doing test landings without a wire and take offs without a catapult. It's a VSTOL aircraft.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 04, 2014, 05:20:44 PM
'cause Bawb's a VSTOL guy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 04, 2014, 05:55:04 PM
Bob loves him some OV-10s, he does. Yessiree... uh, Bob.

I've always had a soft spot for Broncos as well as some of the other somewhat obscure prop a/c of the 60's and 70's that flew on combat missions such as OV-1 Mohawks and Cessna Skymasters. Imagine going to war in a Mixmaster while you know there were Mig-17s and Mig-21s out there looking for a snack...  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on June 05, 2014, 07:41:20 AM
Yes indeed - I do love the Bronco. The Ov-1 is pretty cool as well though.

It seems like nothing ever came from the proposal to start building up-dated OV-10's again.  :(
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2014, 11:30:03 AM
Landing Craft Infantry approaching Utah/Omaha beaches


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Post by: mirth on June 07, 2014, 04:43:36 PM
USS Idaho (BB-42) traverses Panama

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Post by: Staggerwing on June 07, 2014, 08:41:38 PM
Any idea what year that was? She still has the early 'wickerworks' (Lattice Masts).
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 07, 2014, 09:06:09 PM
he's lucky he knows what day it is.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 10, 2014, 11:36:14 AM
Not sure on the year on the Idaho pic.

This is Hood traversing the canal in 1924.


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Post by: Staggerwing on June 10, 2014, 06:18:07 PM
Cool.

Notice that the Brits were using the sturdy 'Tripod Mast' design. Eventually the USN adopted it after one of the lattice masts on a US battleship got folded over right down to the deck during a storm. The Japanese also used the tripod but decided to hang everything including the kitchen sink on the masts so superstructures ended up looking like Brazilian mountainside shantytowns (Pagoda Mast).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 10, 2014, 06:25:59 PM
The Brits adopted the tripod mast early on. It was a standout feature of their battle cruisers in WWI. Beyond the functional/structural aspects of the cage mast, I've never liked how it made our battleships look.
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Post by: Staggerwing on June 10, 2014, 06:54:33 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 10, 2014, 06:25:59 PM
The Brits adopted the tripod mast early on. It was a standout feature of their battle cruisers in WWI. Beyond the functional/structural aspects of the cage mast, I've never liked how it made our battleships look.

It does look somewhat silly.
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Post by: Al on June 11, 2014, 09:21:45 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 10, 2014, 06:25:59 PM
The Brits adopted the tripod mast early on. It was a standout feature of their battle cruisers in WWI. Beyond the functional/structural aspects of the cage mast, I've never liked how it made our battleships look.

Here's an explanation of why the US used cage masts instead of tripods.  Weight saving was one reason.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/battleship-cage-masts.htm (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/battleship-cage-masts.htm)
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 11, 2014, 09:51:11 PM
very interesting article.  thanks.  O0
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Post by: mirth on June 12, 2014, 01:06:14 AM
Thanks, Al!
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Post by: mirth on June 14, 2014, 09:40:57 AM
Shots of the new Japanese carrier Izumo

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Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 14, 2014, 11:18:48 AM
silly boy... its a helicopter destroyer.   :P  ::)  :2funny:
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Post by: mirth on June 14, 2014, 11:32:56 AM
I'm sure that's how the Chinese think of it too :P
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Post by: Windigo on June 17, 2014, 03:20:01 PM
Couldn't they like, put a spoiler on the stern or something?You know... give it some better lines.

Looks like something my son Paul, could draw using a CAD program... when he was 8 years old
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 17, 2014, 07:33:33 PM
Wait until you see it transform into a gigantic PLAN-smashing robot that launches stealthy super cruising Zero MkII fighters from it's torso.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 17, 2014, 07:42:15 PM
Ha! Funny cause it's true!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 17, 2014, 09:04:17 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 17, 2014, 07:33:33 PM
Wait until you see it transform into a gigantic PLAN-smashing robot that launches stealthy super cruising Zero MkII fighters from it's torso.

QFT!

I think its a good looking ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 18, 2014, 11:31:02 AM
Hibiki-class Acoustic Measurement Ship

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Quote"Acoustic measurement ship" is the Japanese term for this type of ship, but their equivalents in the US are called ocean surveillance ships.

The role of the Hibiki-class is to detect, track, and monitor submarines in Japanese or near-Japanese waters, as well as to gather acoustic data at sea (particularly that of submarines) for analysis. They were designed in the late '80s as a response to the increasing stealthiness of Soviet sub designs, ironically becoming a major concern as the Japanese firm Toshiba had sold technology and machinery that allowed them to build quieter screws, which came to light in the Toshiba-Kongsberg Scandal.

However, they are not in themselves anti-submarine warfare platforms, as they are completely unarmed. They act only as the JMSDF's ears, and are not combatants.

They are very similar in design and role to a number of other ships - the American Victorious-class and the USNS Impeccable, and the Chinese Type 639. The one major difference between these and the Japanese ships is the huge helidecks present on the Hibiki-class, although they have no hangar.

The Hibiki- and Victorious-class ships were first commissioned in the same year, 1991, and may be of related design, although I have seen no clear word of how much one design influenced the other. They do however both use the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) as their main tool.

These are all small-waterplane-area twin hull (SWATH) designs, which is like a catamaran, but where the twin hulls are very large and submarine-shaped beneath the waterline. This places the majority of the ship's displacement completely under the wave action, increasing stability at the cost of speed. I can find no pictures of the Hibiki-class in dry dock, but this pic of a Victorious-class in dry dock shows off the hull design, which is probably very similar.

Although neat, the sonars on ocean surveillance ships similar to this have been implicated as a cause for mass beachings of whales. Because of this, the US Navy has supposedly placed limits on where, when and how they may be used. I don't know if the JMSDF has similar regulations.

The Hibiki-class are named after "nadas". A "nada" in Japanese is an area of sea that has particularly rough waters and strong currents. I don't think there's an equivalent English word.

    AOS-5201 Hibiki: "Hibiki" is a word that means echo, reverberation, or more generally as a verb that refers to the travelling of sound. The Hibiki Nada is the stretch of sea northwest from the Kanmon Straits between Honshū and Kyūshū.

    AOS-5202 Harima: The Harima Nada is in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea, between Honshū and Shikoku. Harima is the name of an old province that was on the Honshū coast north of the Nada.

Another SWATH design operated by Japan is the Kaiyō ("Ocean"), an oceanographic research vessel used by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), essentially Japanese NOAA. Because it is made by the same manufacturer at about the same time, it may be a related design, even though it's a civilian ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 18, 2014, 11:34:45 AM
HMS Hood - 1891

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Post by: mirth on June 18, 2014, 11:36:33 AM
QuoteA U.S. Navy Douglas A4D-2N Skyhawk launches from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) on 1 October 1962. Note the North American A3J-1 Vigilante bombers of Heavy Attack Squadron VAH-7 Peacemakers of the Fleet on deck.

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Post by: mirth on June 25, 2014, 05:59:25 PM
Dreadnought Yamashiro launches a biplane from her turret-top flight-deck, 1922.

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Post by: mirth on June 30, 2014, 07:38:50 PM
Salvaged turret from the battleship Mutsu


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Post by: Staggerwing on June 30, 2014, 07:48:16 PM
Seen like that, it looks like part of a fallen Jaeger.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 30, 2014, 07:53:54 PM
thats pretty cool.
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Post by: mirth on July 04, 2014, 10:06:33 AM
French frigate Latouche-Tréville (D646) fighting heavy seas in the Bay of Biscay


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Post by: BanzaiCat on July 04, 2014, 03:13:24 PM
The 65,000-ton (tonne) HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain's soon-to-be newest aircraft carrier...

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It's going to field the new F-35C (carrier version) when it's operational...in 2020.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28146412

Weird-looking thing, with the two islands...the front one for navigation and the rear one for aircraft ops.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 04, 2014, 04:32:43 PM
But they do give some cover to an elevator.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on July 06, 2014, 10:06:10 PM
At least they're not calling it a destroyer!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 07, 2014, 07:54:10 AM
The Brits prefer "through-deck cruisers" when referring to their "not an aircraft carrier" aircraft carriers.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on July 07, 2014, 08:32:55 AM
Right, their 65,000-ton cruiser... lol.  ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 07, 2014, 11:45:34 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on July 07, 2014, 11:59:51 AM
seen from where on USS  Los Angeles?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on July 07, 2014, 12:08:08 PM
Looks like the USS Los Angeles might be a air ship (zeppelin).... took me a bit to realise the "pods" are engine mounts, plus the altitude of the shot...

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 07, 2014, 12:22:25 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Los_Angeles_%28ZR-3%29
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on July 07, 2014, 12:23:50 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on July 07, 2014, 12:08:08 PM
Looks like the USS Los Angeles might be a air ship (zeppelin).... took me a bit to realise the "pods" are engine mounts, plus the altitude of the shot...

it was indeed - so sayeth the google
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Post by: Staggerwing on July 07, 2014, 06:43:34 PM
And that big tower on the USS Patoka is there for the Los Angeles to hook onto:

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 09, 2014, 05:14:11 PM
QuoteAn artist's impression of the nuclear guided missile cruiser USS Long Beach (CGN-9) converted into an AEGIS cruiser, an unrealized facelift from 1977 or 1978.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 09, 2014, 05:16:59 PM
Interior of a Japanese midget sub (with apologies to Gus)

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Post by: mirth on July 09, 2014, 05:17:40 PM
Another angle

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Post by: mirth on July 09, 2014, 05:24:42 PM
Another shot of Patoka. This time with USS Shenandoah moored to her.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 09, 2014, 05:50:06 PM
QuoteDmitri Donskoi in the SEVMASH building hall after being upgraded to Project 941UM, which was a test-bed for the Bulava missile system.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 09, 2014, 06:34:16 PM
well that missile went to shit!  and that Long Beach rendering is really friking cool!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 10, 2014, 11:15:09 AM
"The U.S. battleship Wyoming (BB-32) fresh from the Fall target practice off the Virginia Capes steaming up the East River to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for the periodical docking and repairs." Published in the New York Times, 1916

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 10, 2014, 11:16:38 AM
USS Wyoming (M-10), an Arkansas-class monitor near Mare Island, California. 1902.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 10, 2014, 11:18:18 AM
USS Intrepid before and after the installation of her angled flight deck.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 10, 2014, 11:56:36 AM
I gotta say Mirth that youre doing an outstanding job with this ship thread.  I think its more interesting then all the others.
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Post by: eyebiter on July 10, 2014, 12:31:24 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on July 10, 2014, 12:33:07 PM
Yeah, this is a great thread. Just looking at that Monitor - not much freeboard on it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 10, 2014, 03:18:06 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 10, 2014, 11:56:36 AM
I gotta say Mirth that youre doing an outstanding job with this ship thread.  I think its more interesting then all the others.

Mostly, I'm cherry picking from Reddit, but I do try to only post the things that I consider unusual or interesting.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2014, 11:30:26 AM
USS Remey (DD-688)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2014, 11:32:17 AM
Enlisted Berthing Deck aboard USS Boston, a protected cruiser. Circa 1888.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2014, 11:34:04 AM
26 May 1944, PT-126 "Acey Deucey" replenishing the day before attacking Sandakan harbor with seven other PTs.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2014, 06:35:33 PM
A Kingfisher being recovered by USS South Dakota during WWII.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2014, 06:39:22 PM
Avengers on USS Bogue.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 15, 2014, 06:45:09 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 15, 2014, 06:39:22 PM
Avengers on USS Boag.

Err... USS Bogue? the Baby Phat-top?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2014, 06:46:34 PM
oops.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:22:44 AM
Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy transiting the Suez Canal.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:25:35 AM
HMS Queen Elizabeth, recently floated out of drydock.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:27:53 AM
USS Chicago CG-11 seen from USS Ranger.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:35:09 AM
Hulls of CGN-38 Virginia, CGN-39 Texas, and CGN-9 Long Beach at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington.  :(

All decommissioned USN nuclear vessels go through the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program at PSNS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship-Submarine_Recycling_Program (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship-Submarine_Recycling_Program)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:38:03 AM
USS Truxtun decommissioning ceremony at PSNS, 1994

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:39:19 AM
And Truxtun being broken up at PSNS.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 17, 2014, 11:53:00 AM
Quote from: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:22:44 AM
Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy transiting the Suez Canal.

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they did make em pretty.  I'll give them that.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on July 17, 2014, 12:54:48 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 17, 2014, 11:53:00 AM
Quote from: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:22:44 AM
Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy transiting the Suez Canal.

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they did make em pretty.  I'll give them that.

Yeah... but it looks fragile as hell....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 17, 2014, 07:01:00 PM
Needs more turrets w/ triple BFGs...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 17, 2014, 07:05:46 PM
thats a Kirov class.  ya know how many missiles are on that thing?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on July 17, 2014, 07:08:27 PM
Can't fire em when you're sunk
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 17, 2014, 07:13:29 PM
not such an easy thing I would imagine.  that thing has more CWIS bumps then pining has genital warts.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 17, 2014, 07:17:39 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 17, 2014, 07:05:46 PM
thats a Kirov class.  ya know how many missiles are on that thing?

I know, I know... I just like turrets with triple BFGs is all...  ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2014, 09:31:29 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 17, 2014, 07:13:29 PM
not such an easy thing I would imagine.  that thing has more CWIS bumps then pining has genital warts.

It's CIWS chucklehead :P
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 17, 2014, 10:10:19 PM
back in your hole boy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 18, 2014, 07:33:57 PM
USS Chicago at the launching of USS Maine, 1889

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 18, 2014, 07:45:15 PM
I wonder what the significance is of the numbers up the bow? Does it tell them current displacement with cargo/fuel/munitions based on how high out of the water the ship is? Or is it to be able to compare height of bow to stern in case of a hull breach?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 18, 2014, 07:56:44 PM
feet above the keel for draft.

http://www.fromthedeckchair.com/2013/05/30/cruise-101-know-your-hull-markings/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 18, 2014, 08:02:16 PM
Ah... so...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 19, 2014, 11:25:37 AM
Royal Navy's 5th Battleship Squadron in rough seas. Circa WWI.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 19, 2014, 11:27:50 AM
HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1944.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Al on July 19, 2014, 01:07:06 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 17, 2014, 11:27:53 AM
USS Chicago CG-11 seen from USS Ranger.

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Looking at the Chicago - that looks like a lot of superstructure on a small hull!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 19, 2014, 05:37:46 PM
She started out as this

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And was converted to

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 19, 2014, 06:32:59 PM
#2 might be more lethal but #1 is way more sexy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2014, 09:30:20 AM
USS Oregon (BB-3) torpedo tube and torpedoes, c1900.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2014, 09:34:10 AM
QuoteThe bridges of HMS Colossus. This bit of experimentation didn't last long and was not used in later classes of battleships. The rear bridge was removed shortly after completion.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2014, 09:36:56 AM
QuoteBrand new Elco PT boats of Squadron 2 off NYC, November 1941.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Al on July 27, 2014, 01:46:42 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 27, 2014, 09:36:56 AM
QuoteBrand new Elco PT boats of Squadron 2 off NYC, November 1941.


That's a cool photo.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2014, 06:50:06 PM
Town-class light cruiser HMS Sheffield in 1942.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2014, 06:52:20 PM
USS Key West (SSN-722) at Periscope Depth, RIMPAC 2004.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: TheCommandTent on July 29, 2014, 09:15:57 AM
^ That is just a cool picture.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 05, 2014, 11:29:34 AM
QuoteHMCS Rainbow, Canada's first move in the First World War - sent south protect a pair of British sloops against much larger German cruisers

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 05, 2014, 11:31:38 AM
QuoteU.S. Pacific Reserve Fleet, at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington (USA), circa 23 April 1948. There are six aircraft carriers visible (front to back): USS Essex (CV-9), USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Lexington (CV-16), USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), and USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) (in the background). Three battleships and various cruisers are also visible.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2014, 05:39:04 PM
Damage to the USS San Francisco after colliding with a seamount at 35kts in 2005.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2014, 05:44:02 PM
Ships of Task Force 11 turn in unison, July 1942.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2014, 05:48:59 PM
USS Enterprise (CV-6) tied up at NAS North Island, 1940.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2014, 05:52:33 PM
USS Kearsarge (BB-5) the only USN battleship not named after a state.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 14, 2014, 06:01:25 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 14, 2014, 05:44:02 PM
Ships of Task Force 11 turn in unison, July 1942.

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That's the maneuver that the German high Seas Fleet practiced and later used at Dogger Bank and/or Jutland. It allowed the German fleet to reverse course with an entire column of ships in a fraction of the time the Grand Fleet needed using it's follow-the-leader-in-a-big-half-circle doctrine.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 14, 2014, 11:48:43 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 14, 2014, 05:52:33 PM
USS Kearsarge (BB-5) the only USN battleship not named after a state.

somewhat telling that we now name our SSBN's after states.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 17, 2014, 11:15:26 AM
WWI era French submarine transport Kanguroo

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on August 19, 2014, 09:20:49 AM
Cool.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 19, 2014, 11:37:16 AM
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) Pearl Harbor, 1962

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 19, 2014, 06:48:18 PM
Article with lots of nice pics of DDG-1000

http://intercepts.defensenews.com/2014/06/zumwalt-ddg-1000-the-future-is-nearly-here/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 21, 2014, 06:27:40 PM
Boston Navy Yard, April 1960.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 21, 2014, 06:31:10 PM
Battle Force Zulu 1991, USS Midway (CV-41), upper left; USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), upper right; USS Ranger (CV-61), lower left; and USS America (CV-66), lower right.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 21, 2014, 06:33:07 PM
USS Atascosa with PT boats as deck cargo

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 21, 2014, 06:35:53 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 21, 2014, 06:31:10 PM
Battle Force Zulu 1991, USS Midway (CV-41), upper left; USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), upper right; USS Ranger (CV-61), lower left; and USS America (CV-66), lower right.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/US_Navy_Battle_Force_Zulu_carriers_overhead_view_in_1991.jpg)

Look closely at the decks. You're going to make Star sad again.  :(
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 21, 2014, 06:41:55 PM
Poor Midway. No Tomcats for you!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 21, 2014, 07:12:22 PM
 :'(
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 23, 2014, 05:41:37 PM
QuoteUSS Boxer (CV-21) with F4U Corsairs overhead from VF-884--Bitter Birds. Sept. 4, 1951. Grumman F9F Panthers from VF-721 or VC-61 on deck for launch.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 26, 2014, 03:18:34 PM
USS Macon (CA-132) visiting Cleveland, Ohio as part of Operation Inland Seas in 1959.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Inland_Seas
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 26, 2014, 03:22:24 PM
Crew of USS Oklahoma cleaning her 14-inch guns circa 1916.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 26, 2014, 03:43:23 PM
Lexington transiting the Panama Canal in 1934.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 26, 2014, 06:12:52 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 26, 2014, 03:22:24 PM
Crew of USS Oklahoma cleaning her 14-inch guns circa 1916.


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reminds me of the time I caught the clap.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 26, 2014, 06:24:15 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 26, 2014, 03:18:34 PM
USS Macon (CA-132) visiting Cleveland, Ohio as part of Operation Inland Seas in 1959.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Inland_Seas

Notice the Regulus missiles on the stern.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 26, 2014, 06:30:41 PM
I knew they wouldn't escape your notice Wing. ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 27, 2014, 09:44:51 AM
USS Mississippi, 1944. Note the large amount of AA.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 27, 2014, 05:08:40 PM
British Motor Torpedo Boat 219 launching torpedoes

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2014, 06:01:06 PM
Emergency Blow Test, USS L Mendel Rivers

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on September 05, 2014, 12:17:10 PM
I've never seen a sub fart before!!  :)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 06, 2014, 03:51:20 AM
Th Silent but Deadly Service.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on September 06, 2014, 05:25:26 AM
^ROFL
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 12, 2014, 04:16:13 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F140903-N-CB621-178.JPG&hash=b509180fe4167e5f61f3efa97ba601a2c6657b82)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 12, 2014, 06:07:34 PM
Somebody's b-day?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 13, 2014, 10:06:35 AM
 ::)

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/whatever-you-do-dont-buy-your-aircraft-carrier-from-russia-e0f6707cb4ee
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 13, 2014, 10:39:03 AM
its borderline barbaric how we used to build these!

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 15, 2014, 06:56:23 PM
Trafalgar class submarine HMS Talent

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FqHpvegb.jpg&hash=ce5bca68cca3ebac2ee1503404b2e94044ab3e5b)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 16, 2014, 11:08:17 AM
USS Fitzgerald launches two SM-2 missiles in the Philippines Sea

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3852/15057926017_60bbc37d4a_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 16, 2014, 11:13:52 AM
CH-46 Sea Knight hovers over the USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), 1977

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2014, 07:32:40 AM
Tirpitz in Altenfjord, Norway. July 1942.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2014, 07:33:16 AM
French carrier Béarn, 1938.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FB0OADqd.jpg&hash=60a93a59c132302bbe9ed97f6c2faf1b3ecfdf9f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on September 19, 2014, 12:38:19 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 12, 2014, 06:07:34 PM
Somebody's b-day?

Toonces surfboard escort.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 19, 2014, 10:52:50 PM
Soviet Typhoon under construction.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FFNptg9p.jpg&hash=f9c10b6b3f38319b395c3acd8ffefde31588b21d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 20, 2014, 06:00:24 AM
Amazing size. Good thing they only completed 6.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 20, 2014, 06:22:52 AM
and they only have 1 left.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 20, 2014, 08:32:24 AM
Where's that 1 operating from? And is it still in operational condition?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 20, 2014, 08:38:29 AM
IIRC its up north and its being used as a testbed.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 21, 2014, 04:30:03 PM
Dmitri Donskoy. IIRC it was the first of the class and is/was being used for testing the Bulava SLBM.

There were rumors that a couple of the other Typhoons would be refitted as SSGNs along the lines of the older Ohios, but the Russkies gave up on it as not cost effective. The Typhoons are old and it would take many rubles to modernize them.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 21, 2014, 04:30:47 PM
This is impressive

http://wtkr.com/2014/09/19/navy-marks-4000th-ballistic-missile-submarine-patrol/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Mr. Bigglesworth on September 24, 2014, 08:16:34 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 21, 2014, 04:30:47 PM
This is impressive

http://wtkr.com/2014/09/19/navy-marks-4000th-ballistic-missile-submarine-patrol/

"The current Ohio-class SSBNs carry the majority of deployed U.S. nuclear warheads allowing them to stabilize deterrent relationships and render surprise attacks inconceivable."

Probably not inconceivable. Still very cool. The world is safer with their patrols.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 27, 2014, 02:08:32 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8WbaWeZ.jpg&hash=850854a77c285f95ed8578932fc0f23ed9e67009)

The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers USS George Washington (CVN 73), right, and USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) steam in formation at the conclusion of Valiant Shield 2014

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Title: .
Post by: eyebiter on September 27, 2014, 08:48:12 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 28, 2014, 06:27:13 PM
USS MIDWAY (CV-41) arriving at Pearl Harbor in 1991.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 28, 2014, 07:47:47 PM
thats gotta be fresh from a refit cycle.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 28, 2014, 07:51:42 PM
Actually, Midway was retired the year after that picture. Now she's a museum ship somewhere.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on September 29, 2014, 12:56:51 PM
Star is all  :'( on the Tomcat, as am I, but the Intruder makes me  :'( moreso.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 29, 2014, 01:08:18 PM
There was an idea once to fit the Awg-9 to an Intruder and load it up with Phoenix's.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 29, 2014, 03:50:37 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 29, 2014, 01:08:18 PM
There was an idea once to fit the Awg-9 to an Intruder and load it up with Phoenix's.

Sounds like an update on the Missileer concept
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_F6D_Missileer
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 30, 2014, 08:11:22 AM
PT 117 running trials, August 1942

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 30, 2014, 08:15:40 AM
Submarine S-8 coming into Charlestown Navy Yard, 1928.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 01, 2014, 06:51:10 PM
HMS Rodney passing under the Forth Bridge.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 01, 2014, 07:18:12 PM
no pics of the first through third? 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 01, 2014, 07:23:40 PM
gimme a second...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 01, 2014, 08:38:14 PM
How about the bridge over the Firth of Fifth?



Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on October 02, 2014, 09:50:04 AM
I've been over the Forth Rail Bridge a couple of times - its really impressive.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2014, 10:11:45 AM
 Not bad for a bridge about to turn 125 next year.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 02, 2014, 12:01:50 PM
Dayum!  I wonder if Windy has any pictures of it being built.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 02, 2014, 12:30:07 PM
They built that bridge out of a witch! She was made of wood!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 02, 2014, 05:49:22 PM
Does it weigh more than a duck?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on October 03, 2014, 07:32:11 AM
Is that an African duck, or a European duck?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 05, 2014, 03:58:56 PM
Lexington at anchor, 1938.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on October 06, 2014, 01:04:37 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthechive.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F10%2Fdaily-morning-awesomeness-30.jpg&hash=ed2d72d7a66761a61816f63928bec73d9897f80d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 06, 2014, 09:12:56 PM
With the exception of some Prowlers (the last of which are slated to be retired by 2019), none of those aircraft types are in service anymore :(
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 10, 2014, 09:39:43 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1yRykBz.jpg&hash=d4aa5bc9af9ee806992fb348ee059b4b86f74abd)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 13, 2014, 04:19:56 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fchivethebrigade.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F10%2F01-navy-920-8.jpg%3Fw%3D919%26amp%3Bh%3D690&hash=8b2d42219c04c3122958e93f482192e9506f16c2)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 15, 2014, 05:44:11 PM
Remains of SMS Emden at North Keeling Island

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/SMS_Emden_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 15, 2014, 05:45:54 PM
USS Hancock (CV-19) test fires a SSM-N-8 Regulus cruise missile, 1954

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 15, 2014, 05:48:32 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 15, 2014, 05:44:11 PM
Remains of SMS Emden at North Keeling Island

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/SMS_Emden_SLV_AllanGreen.jpg)

Looks like she's been there a while. When was that pic taken?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 15, 2014, 05:49:34 PM
French ships Mars (ex-Sceptre, ex-Masséna), Souverain and Eylau

Text: Our old warships now serving as barracks for our marine infantry.



(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Mars-Souverain-Eylau--A_Bougault.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on October 17, 2014, 11:00:26 AM
Chinese cruiser being built on land for integration trials

http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eastern-arsenal/china%E2%80%99s-mega-warship-plans-become-clearer-new-photos?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=7&con=chinas-mega-warship-plans-become-clearer-with-new-photos
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 19, 2014, 12:12:23 PM
USS Enterprise (CVN 65) at launch

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 19, 2014, 12:17:15 PM
Coronation Fleet review at Spithead, 1953

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 19, 2014, 01:46:43 PM
Very impressive.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 20, 2014, 01:15:40 PM
QuoteThe first polar icebreaker the Russian Yermak. Here she is helping to free the Imperial Russian Navy coastal battleship Admiral Graf Apraxin from the ice.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on October 23, 2014, 03:01:13 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 19, 2014, 12:17:15 PM
Coronation Fleet review at Spithead, 1953

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My dad was there, on the HMCS Magnificent.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 23, 2014, 03:07:56 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10711006_1507506092843914_1500877702372622255_n.jpg?oh=699b52f9d3e9f00507265413e8cb8d59&oe=54E4713C&__gda__=1421062252_041ce57779036b007a080a16c262c2ae)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2014, 04:58:46 PM
^fantastic pic!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 23, 2014, 05:00:44 PM
you can just hear the vomit sloshing around.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 23, 2014, 06:00:34 PM
Toonces would sail that wave all the way in to the coast and cut right over into to a waiting dockside berth leaving nary a ripple.  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2014, 06:02:00 PM
More likely his watch would capsize the ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2014, 02:46:06 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FAei17SU.jpg%3F1&hash=64e6247b1e13b562e864826764a3d98e26f14100)


http://imgur.com/a/4SJHx
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 02:51:51 PM
^Transformer or Decepticon? Dear God, keep Michael Bay away from it.  :crazy2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2014, 02:57:52 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 02:51:51 PM
^Transformer or Decepticon? Dear God, keep Michael Bay away from it.  :crazy2:

You know he's planning some kind of Transformers/Battleship crossover. The resulting movie will be so dumb it will require a Surgeon General's warning about the potential for permanent brain damage.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2014, 02:59:49 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F17tqdc78lol2a4cj23uooc0k03.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com%2Fprograms%2Fssp%2Fnukes%2Fimages%2Fruspat.jpg&hash=847829be2b1a5a7e1f3bd084857e1f5426fff5b1)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 04:12:40 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 26, 2014, 02:57:52 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 02:51:51 PM
^Transformer or Decepticon? Dear God, keep Michael Bay away from it.  :crazy2:

You know he's planning some kind of Transformers/Battleship crossover. The resulting movie will be so dumb it will require a Surgeon General's warning about the potential for permanent brain damage.

The resulting $5.00 DVD will sell like mad at Wal-Mart. In subsequent news, everyone who purchases it there will be wearing their jammies or too-short shirts showing us things we can't unsee. Ever.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2014, 04:15:27 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 04:12:40 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 26, 2014, 02:57:52 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 02:51:51 PM
^Transformer or Decepticon? Dear God, keep Michael Bay away from it.  :crazy2:

You know he's planning some kind of Transformers/Battleship crossover. The resulting movie will be so dumb it will require a Surgeon General's warning about the potential for permanent brain damage.

The resulting $5.00 DVD will sell like mad at Wal-Mart. In subsequent news, everyone who purchases it there will be wearing their jammies or too-short shirts showing us things we can't unsee. Ever.

Which in turn will trigger Michael Moore to make a new documentary. A vicious downward cycle that will result in the Apocalypse (theme song to be provided by Aerosmith).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 05:22:23 PM
And all this time we thought it would be a zombie Apocalypse......

Hell, I'd take zombies over anything having to do with Michael Moore.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2014, 05:44:46 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 05:22:23 PM
Hell, I'd take zombies over anything having to do with Michael Moore.

Have you met his fans? Zombies have a LOT to do with Michael Moore.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on October 26, 2014, 06:27:00 PM
True that..... ;D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 10, 2014, 12:23:32 PM
QuoteGymnote II Q244/S655/Q650 (1955/1966). Intended to be the first french nuclear sub before the cancellation of the project due to difficulties with uranium procurement, it was later rebuilt as a a trials submarine for ballistic missile launches.

Album: http://imgur.com/a/Vf2UQ

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on November 13, 2014, 01:38:49 PM
Looks happy to see you.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 13, 2014, 02:08:45 PM
Honestly, that exact thought went through my mind.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on November 13, 2014, 04:10:05 PM
Of course!  We're degenerates!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 17, 2014, 12:36:09 PM
Flock of Stringbags over Ark Royal

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 21, 2014, 01:08:05 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2F3%2F33%2FUSS_Iowa_Floating_Drydock.jpg&hash=b85a7d5dfb5904dd29e862413a5f25178fe72bfe)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 21, 2014, 06:53:00 AM
USS Missouri? Iowa?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 21, 2014, 07:59:49 AM
Iowa at Ulithi Lagoon 1944.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 24, 2014, 03:48:20 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FJjQcQpn.jpg&hash=935d852da85f14a3dc65e59388097a3351115822)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 26, 2014, 11:29:56 AM
Dutch subs undergoing maintenance

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fvmlbe65.jpg&hash=f0806d5b7f5b0b84e54fd81eb430d070a7598984)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 26, 2014, 11:40:59 AM
USS Michigan carrying the Advanced Seal Delivery System


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FxytfOpz.jpg&hash=81fd26063e9a38dbae19e1ecb3da848de7424b59)

Full gallery - http://imgur.com/a/XMNPJ/layout/grid
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on November 26, 2014, 03:04:53 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 26, 2014, 11:29:56 AM
Dutch subs undergoing maintenance

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fvmlbe65.jpg&hash=f0806d5b7f5b0b84e54fd81eb430d070a7598984)

Making sure they're all ready for bear season?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 26, 2014, 07:25:57 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 26, 2014, 11:29:56 AM
Dutch subs undergoing maintenance

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fvmlbe65.jpg&hash=f0806d5b7f5b0b84e54fd81eb430d070a7598984)

Tidy looking yard.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 11, 2014, 09:42:12 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.postimg.org%2Fqqhbwj62b%2F1648861.jpg&hash=20a12ce5b00e12a5a56f8eb396fbaa8bcc0d908d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 12, 2014, 07:38:53 AM
QuoteHMS M2 Submarine Aircraft Carrier with a Parnall Peto seaplane taking off

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FWqTiFAk.jpg&hash=7a18ac42a65fd398b8a4488121b6fec07d11be87)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 16, 2014, 09:42:52 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FoMwBORA.jpg&hash=0f1d2d94d3cf310a4c8985fb373228cadf4a75a5)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 16, 2014, 09:54:21 PM
That's a lot of old nukes! What the hel are the boats with the funky bows, one on either side of the main pier? Are they just further along in the chop-up phase than the others?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 16, 2014, 10:05:32 PM
it didnt have a caption or a reference.  Im guessing those parts were used once upon a time for active units.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 16, 2014, 10:59:00 PM
Wild. That's a lot of types in one pic.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 16, 2014, 11:07:14 PM
those cant all be nukes.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 16, 2014, 11:09:45 PM
theres a lot of DEs in that shot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submarine_classes_of_the_United_States_Navy
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 16, 2014, 11:20:22 PM
I dunno. Those hull numbers all look like they are in the high 500s to 600s. And there weren't many US diesel subs that used the tear drop hull.


Looks like maybe Nautilus in there with some Skates and then later types.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 17, 2014, 06:23:32 AM
I found the original pic at Navsource Online and Wikicommons. Based on the associated caption one of you guys with free time and internet access at work should be able to go through the list and tally up the nukes and d/e boats. I expect you to format the answers in an attached spreadsheet file with class, hull number, powerplant type, year of launch, decommissioning, number of tours, and notable events all in sortable columns.
Go to work!

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08592.htm
QuoteAn aerial view of a section of the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993. One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the Seawolf (SSN-575); six George Washington, and Lafayette class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several Skate, Skipjack, Permit and Sturgeon class SSN's. All are awaiting scrapping.
Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583) , Seadragon (SSN-584).
Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598),Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664).

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Puget_Sound_Naval_Shipyard_in_the_1990s#mediaviewer/File:USS_Sperry_(AS-12)_and_retired_submarines_at_Puget_Sound_1993.JPEG
QuoteAn aerial view of a section of the U.S. Navy Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993. One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the USS Seawolf (SSN-575); six George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several Skate, Skipjack, Permit and Sturgeon class SSN's. All were awaiting scrapping. Identifiable boats are, from left to right: USS Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), USS Skipjack (SS-585), unidentifiable, USS Triton (SSRN-586), possibly the USS Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), unidentifiable, USS Skate (SSN-578), USS Sargo (SSN-583), USS Swordfish (SSN-579), USS Seawolf (SSN-575), unidentifiable. Behind them is the submarine tender USS Sperry (AS-12). Across the pier are what appear to be the USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), USS Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), USS George Washington (SSBN-598), unidentifiable, and maybe USS Barb (SSN-596).



Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 17, 2014, 09:06:21 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 17, 2014, 09:14:20 PM
Certain a light touch with respect to infrastructure.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 17, 2014, 09:32:16 PM
thats a post retirement shot.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 20, 2014, 10:37:11 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 20, 2014, 10:47:58 AM
Badum-tish?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 26, 2014, 03:09:09 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 26, 2014, 06:17:01 AM
Nice! Here she is as she was in the Age of Wickerworks:


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 26, 2014, 10:15:06 AM
QuoteRussian Pr. 949A Oscar II SSGN K-266 Oryol in Zvezdochka Shipyard, Severodvinsk 2014

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 26, 2014, 10:24:02 AM
QuoteThe Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Olympia (SSN 717) moors at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam after returning from a seven-month deployment to the western Pacific region.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 26, 2014, 11:18:45 AM
glad to see the Red in Red Banner Fleet stands for Rust.  ;D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 29, 2014, 04:32:53 PM
QuoteUSS Augusta (CA-31), USS Midway (CV-41), USS Enterprise (CV-6), USS Missouri (BB-63), USS New York (BB-34), USS Helena (CA-75), and USS Macon (CA-132) in the Hudson River, New York City for Navy Day. Oct 1945.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Al on December 29, 2014, 08:21:29 PM
GDS - That's an awesome photo of the Idaho.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2014, 12:32:00 PM
QuoteGunfire damage to the U.S.S. San Francisco after the Battle of Guadalcanal - November 13 1942

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2014, 12:33:13 PM
QuoteThe Great White Fleet lies off Old Point Comfort

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2014, 07:33:03 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.defense.gov%2Fdodcmsshare%2Fhomepagephoto%2F2014-03%2Fhires_140320-N-KL846-342c.jpg&hash=882367847a2675e618eeabdc94caf7d35369c236)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 30, 2014, 08:09:31 PM
Whoa...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 30, 2014, 09:12:17 PM
From the stern aspect in this photo, my first thought was this was the old Soviet, Moskva.
But what was an Osprey doing on her?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 30, 2014, 09:15:44 PM
It's the Anchorage, one of the San Antonio class LPDs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Anchorage_%28LPD-23%29
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 30, 2014, 10:45:02 PM
Quote from: besilarius on December 30, 2014, 09:12:17 PM
From the stern aspect in this photo, my first thought was this was the old Soviet, Moskva.
But what was an Osprey doing on her?

I dont see that mistake can be made.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 31, 2014, 08:29:46 AM
The visual identification of the Moskvas was the abrupt cut off of the superstructure.
This picture shows the stern view and in it there seemed a resemblance.

Never saw the Moskva, but we all wanted to.  Our DCA was a fellow named Gene Reid, who was very clever.
The phone system was like a party line.  When you were on the line, you heard everyone else who was on.  He was waiting to speak to the duty in Damage Control Central when a message went out on the 1MC, general announcing speakers.  It called for the Operations Officer and CIC officer to call the bridge.
Then the CICO called the bridge to ask what was up.  The boatswain mate of the watch asked him to hold while he found out.
This was too much for Gene, he waited a second and then said, "Mr. Gallagher, Mr. Gallagher...it's da Moskva!"
When Gene got to the bridge, both Ops and CICO were there with binoculars saying, "Where is she?"  and the bridge watch looking at them like they'd lost their minds.
Gene couldn't keep a straight face and started laughing.  Nearly was tossed into the water.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 31, 2014, 04:38:36 PM
Illustrious and Queen Elizabeth

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 08, 2015, 11:21:59 AM
QuoteHMS Britannia (l) and HMS Hindostan (r) as cadet training ships, Dartmouth, England.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 08, 2015, 11:25:11 AM
QuoteUSCGC Duane in the North Atlantic.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 09, 2015, 12:37:49 PM
QuoteThe ill-fated HMS Victoria. Flagship of the Med Fleet under Adm George Tyron, she was rammed and sunk by HMS Camperdown when the admiral inexplicably ordered the two lines of ships to turn towards each other. She is now buried bow first (perpendicular) into the bottom of the Med.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 09, 2015, 12:39:14 PM
QuoteAEGIS cruiser Yorktown, and the destroyer O'Bannon, making a port visit among the ex-Soviet Navy's cream. 1992, Severomorsk

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 09, 2015, 12:40:40 PM
(http://)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 12, 2015, 01:54:18 PM
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-gear-russia-published-image-of-classified-submarine-2015-1

QuoteTop Gear Russia magazine accidentally published an image of a secret Russian submarine.
The Russian edition of the automobile magazine published a photo of the classified "AC-12 Project," a nuclear deep-water submarine, nicknamed "Losharik" after a children's movie.

This was first reported by the unofficial blog of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies and picked up by Slon Media, which reached out to an expert for commentary.

Weapons expert Vasiliy Sichev told Slon that it's extremely likely that this is the secret submarine. He told the site:

"It's impossible to unequivocally say that the picture was really the AC-12, of course, because the project is classified and how the 'Losharik' looks is technically unknown. However, photos which were allegedly of 'Losharik' surfaced in 2007, 2010, and 2011, and they had a lot of similarities with the one in Top Gear."

Russia is in the midst of a serious military buildup. Among other things, the Russian military is upgrading its navy and by 2020 is hoping to add at least 16 new nuclear submarines to its Northern and Pacific fleets.

Here's the whole page from the magazine:

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 12, 2015, 08:41:17 PM
French Navy in Toulon

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 12, 2015, 08:42:49 PM
is that all of it?   :buck2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 12, 2015, 08:51:55 PM
QuoteRussia is in the midst of a serious military buildup. Among other things, the Russian military is upgrading its navy and by 2020 is hoping to add at least 16 new nuclear submarines to its Northern and Pacific fleets.

they simply dont have the money.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 16, 2015, 07:31:30 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlfAAycGIXk&feature=youtu.be

fish eye view of KGV.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 17, 2015, 12:58:30 AM


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on January 21, 2015, 09:47:22 AM
Looks like fun.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 21, 2015, 06:17:21 PM
January 22, 1944, per "Iowa Class Battleships"
After transiting the Panama Canal on 7 January, the two new battleships reported to Raymond Sruance's Fifth Fleet on 22 January. Although some of the veteran aviators resented the snappy appearance and win-the-war attitude of the battleship sailors, Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman remarked to Capt. McCrea, "Thank goodness you people are here. From here on, I shan't worry about providing my own anti-aircratt coverage". The following is a 20MM antiaircraft mount om USS Iowa in WWII
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 21, 2015, 06:48:09 PM
Really tight fit.  (Be careful not to get Star excited.)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 22, 2015, 07:18:51 AM
When the Iowas was refurbed at the Ingalls shipyard, one of the tasks was to rebuild the fuel lines.  The ship had been built to use Black Oil, and needed to be upgraded to Distillate.  Distillate burns cleaner and generally causes less maintenance aches.
Unfortunately, the yard used gaskets made from the wrong material. 
The distillate began disintegrating the gaskets once she went underway.  The engineers had to clean up one heck of a mess and refit the fuel delivery lines with new gaskets.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 22, 2015, 06:55:26 PM
LCS Survivabilty.

http://news.usni.org/2015/01/22/opinion-lcs-survivability-questions-linger

Most of what the author says is pretty clear.  The issue comes down to money for an expanded base of larger ships.
Also, one area the USN has always been good at is Damage Control and training.  These are not appreciated.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 22, 2015, 10:10:39 PM
to be fair they arent supposed to act as screening units of a CVBG nor are they supposed to be running around chasing subs.

personally I think the idea of the class as whole is somewhat stupid.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 27, 2015, 07:16:17 PM
The cruiser Santa Fe in Typhoon Cobra.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 01, 2015, 12:17:38 PM
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) about to be transported back in time to December 6, 1941.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 01, 2015, 12:20:28 PM
LOL
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 01, 2015, 05:45:04 PM
a collection of World War I photos.

http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/wwisea/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 05, 2015, 07:57:43 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 05, 2015, 08:07:27 PM
I'm shocked.  Check out Farragut's sonar domes.  No one was supposed to know.
The PAIR sonar lost out to ITASS towed array, but had great definition.  Problem was the domes went down pretty far and would tear if a channel was too shallow.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 05, 2015, 08:44:54 PM
Slideshow of heavy guns and their shells.
at the end is a drill bit for 16inch.
http://www.williammaloney.com/aviation/WatervlietArsenalMuseum/NavalCannon/pages/14_16inchNavalGunRiflingCuttingBit.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 06, 2015, 01:31:36 PM
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/top-10-undiscovered-shipwrecks-wwii.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2015, 01:07:54 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on February 10, 2015, 01:17:41 PM
Yikes!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 10, 2015, 07:43:45 PM
Halsey's typhoon?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 10, 2015, 08:18:01 PM
USS Lunga Point, Oct. 1945. There is a second baby flattop right behind her.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/094.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 10, 2015, 11:17:37 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 10, 2015, 11:21:31 PM
USS John C. Stennis about to travel back to 1941.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 11, 2015, 02:05:01 AM
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-destroyer-is-the-worlds-largest-remote-controlled-1663603212
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: jomni on February 15, 2015, 01:07:06 AM
Took these pictures yesterday.

RSS Endurance.  Singapore Landing Ship.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/16506833696_e7d1977d36_b.jpg)

Protector Unmanned Surface Vessel.
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on February 18, 2015, 11:40:53 AM
Nice.  And no snow to boot!  Wonderful!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 18, 2015, 06:34:56 PM
A collision at sea, can ruin your whole day.  Thucydides, ca 434BC.


Why is the Wisconsin referred to as the WisKy?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 22, 2015, 09:46:39 AM
HMS Warspite home page.  Some pretty good paintings.

http://iainballantyne.com/warspite-100/ship-history/an-amazing-fighting-life-part-1/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 25, 2015, 07:29:35 PM
Chinese pre-dreadnaught.

http://www.hksw.org/ting%20yuen.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 25, 2015, 07:34:52 PM
^^^  good tour but I was hungry an hour later.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 28, 2015, 06:04:28 PM
Radar Intecept Room Aboard USS Shangri-La (CV-38)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Ubercat on February 28, 2015, 09:22:20 PM
Wow. When I was in the Navy in the 80's, the Shangri-La was rusting away at the naval base in Philly. I walked by many times, seeing all the birds and what appeared to be plants growing on the flight deck. She had a wooden deck and I'm sure it was quite rotted out. Didn't stop me from wishing that I could board and go exploring!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 01, 2015, 12:29:10 PM
Carriers normally were in a circular formation in the center of the formation.
Once in a while, they like to act like a real ship.  Here the carrier Midway in a Form 1 (line ahead) follows the guide, battleship Iowa. 
Being a bit unfamiliar with station keeping, she got a little close.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2015, 02:06:47 PM
Iran carried out an exercise using the carrier mockup they built


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Interestingly, an Iranian Admiral was very clear about the plan for attacking a USN Carrier:

QuoteWell, the United States doesn't consider a small one-man speed boat to be any real threat, or they'd have a tighter defense. An analysis of the plans provided by Wikipedia has demonstrated a weakness in their Super Carrier.

The approach would not be easy. They'd be required to maneuver between the Destroyers and up along side the Carrier to a point near the aft. The target area is only two meters wide. It's a small exhaust port, right between the main propellers. The shaft leads directly to the nuclear reactor. A precise hit with a torpedo will start a chain reaction which should destroy the Super Carrier.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on March 01, 2015, 02:49:02 PM
Not the old exhaust port ploy again :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 01, 2015, 04:53:58 PM
Kinky
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 01, 2015, 05:07:12 PM
A couple of rounds of Able-Able common, VT fuze should take out small boats like these.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 01, 2015, 05:18:11 PM
Even the shortest range CWIS mounts should be able to handle a few speedboats, no?

Never mind when the lasers and rail guns are widely deployed...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2015, 05:21:51 PM
It's not like the carrier is sailing around unescorted. Those speedboats would never be allowed to close.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2015, 05:23:20 PM
A few Seahawks with Hellfires would get the job done nicely.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on March 01, 2015, 05:41:09 PM
What the heck do they think they are going to shoot up this orifice anyway - from a small boat, which I doubt would be a very stable platform anyway.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2015, 05:48:07 PM
Proton torpedoes
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on March 01, 2015, 06:52:38 PM
Doh! Oh yes, silly me - fancy not knowing that.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2015, 07:25:50 PM
No worries, Bob. Everyone knows that frying pans are the most destructive weapon ever created ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 01, 2015, 07:38:49 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 01, 2015, 05:18:11 PM
Even the shortest range CWIS mounts should be able to handle a few speedboats, no?

Never mind when the lasers and rail guns are widely deployed...

CWIS mounts have had this very software upgrade for well over a decade.  all ships also have quite a few .50 mounts now.  its not like we just started cruising in the Persian Gulf last week.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2015, 07:41:46 PM
^somebody needs to let Iran know :P
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 01, 2015, 07:43:16 PM
They'll be quite sad to find out after putting so much time into that giant fiberglass movie prop.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 01, 2015, 08:18:45 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 01, 2015, 07:41:46 PM
^somebody needs to let Iran know :P

Id rather they didnt now.  why spoil the surprise.  >:D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 05, 2015, 12:27:28 PM
For all East Coast Grogs, this could be a lot of fun.

http://tallshipsphiladelphia.com/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 11, 2015, 07:20:55 PM
16" Mark 7.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16%22/50_caliber_Mark_7_gun
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 11, 2015, 09:57:48 PM
Postwar movie on Pacific submarine operations.

http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/SubPac.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 12, 2015, 06:18:09 AM
Bes, them's some cool links you've been posting. Keep it up!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 12, 2015, 06:30:37 AM
Thank you, Stagger.  For me, Grogheads is like an old country store.  People come in with their stuff, leave with some stuff, but everyone sits around the crackerbarrel sharing yarns,
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2015, 06:10:40 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5bhVpdG.jpg&hash=5ff3e3a2a7d12c2c1be9e9e0ad2549a9a6c68f02)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 19, 2015, 08:16:00 PM
we're going to have such cool looking starships.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 19, 2015, 08:21:41 PM
That is the ugliest flucking thing I've ever seen afloat, except for the Merrimac and the bodies Star dumps into the swamps behind his house.

Which of course means it must be one of the deadliest.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 19, 2015, 08:22:19 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 19, 2015, 08:16:00 PM
we're going to have such cool looking starships.

First we're going to have to figure out how make them levitate. Then we can make 'em all purty.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 19, 2015, 08:24:12 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 19, 2015, 08:22:19 PM
Then we can make 'em all purty.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nocleansinging.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F03%2Fdeliverance2.jpg&hash=fca81dacdc6b9724297949ed8f7372d75bf7b1d2)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 19, 2015, 08:32:57 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fholler.banjoholler.com%2FSmileys%2FHoller%2520Smileys%2Ftwo_banjos.gif&hash=12041c64b51b95f9512d17dad82d1714dc64aeee)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on March 20, 2015, 07:56:31 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 19, 2015, 08:16:00 PM
we're going to have such cool looking starships.

Haven't you heard??!!  You already do!!!  ;)

http://exopolitics.org/whistleblower-reveals-serving-for-3-years-on-secret-space-fleet/

http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-ussas-secret-space-programs.html

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-wm61_F9trFk%2FU21cekwtzVI%2FAAAAAAAAc-Y%2FbjkC9fvEJ28%2Fs1600%2Fblack_triangle_delta_theobjectreport.jpg&hash=cc9b95ac84af4ced934d27f66affc7219f51bcf6)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 20, 2015, 08:01:04 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on March 20, 2015, 07:56:31 AM

http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-ussas-secret-space-programs.ht (http://eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.ca/2014/06/the-ussas-secret-space-programs.ht)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-wm61_F9trFk%2FU21cekwtzVI%2FAAAAAAAAc-Y%2FbjkC9fvEJ28%2Fs1600%2Fblack_triangle_delta_theobjectreport.jpg&hash=cc9b95ac84af4ced934d27f66affc7219f51bcf6)

I recognize that ship. It's Lonetar's Winnebago!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 20, 2015, 08:51:30 AM
Lonetar? The loner that goes around in his 'free candy' van, putting pine tar on kids' 'baseball bats?'
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2015, 11:58:23 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FlyD8t9p.jpg&hash=2c10fcee0636289783f9cac5b7c3394c0563d0e7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on March 25, 2015, 12:43:40 PM
Nice shot
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2015, 11:59:56 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fft9iJXP.jpg&hash=57a6d3b01fca5795909fb2ea5f43fb7e039e7620)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2015, 12:10:18 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FrTtWJMy.jpg&hash=b8a3ecf03d42afeee1fd493f24582d3a31fa7e88)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on March 28, 2015, 12:22:54 PM
May be just the perspective, but the superstructure on Hermes looks massive.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 28, 2015, 12:39:13 PM
Quote from: bob48 on March 28, 2015, 12:22:54 PM
May be just the perspective, but the superstructure on Hermes looks massive.


Looks big here too:
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.divesrilanka.com%2FDSBatti%2FDSHermesSailing.jpg&hash=19b9684b7ba3d3ba0aea59cef41f100abbfe8fd4)

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on March 28, 2015, 02:08:39 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 28, 2015, 11:59:56 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fft9iJXP.jpg&hash=57a6d3b01fca5795909fb2ea5f43fb7e039e7620)

Nice.  ;)

It is odd to see Japanese carries in formation again though.....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on March 28, 2015, 02:16:59 PM
^Let's hope the Chinese think so  8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Ubercat on March 29, 2015, 08:51:43 AM
Here's the only image I could find online of my grandfathers first ship in WW2. It was a sub chaser which I believe was based at Panama canal. He might even be one of the men standing on the forecastle. Later, grandpa was transferred to the New Jersey.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi163.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Ft281%2FTardwarf%2F1215065901.jpg&hash=bb81682a060c9aafa7e6129692fa971928d6385b)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Al on March 29, 2015, 09:16:50 AM
Quite a change from that to the New Jersey.  That's the CL Brooklyn behind your grandfather's ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 30, 2015, 06:11:25 AM
Double header
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 30, 2015, 08:11:24 PM
USS Iowa in the Gulf of Sidra, 1986. Conducting a Freedom of Navigation exercise

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FIvlFSdB.jpg&hash=be25498584626e7995092ef48c4f58f904e686bd)

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 31, 2015, 06:08:15 AM
A collision at sea can ruin your whole day.  - Thucydides
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 31, 2015, 06:28:27 AM
Maybe it will buff out?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Ubercat on March 31, 2015, 12:31:28 PM
Quote from: Al on March 29, 2015, 09:16:50 AM
Quite a change from that to the New Jersey.  That's the CL Brooklyn behind your grandfather's ship.

Heh. If that's just a cruiser then the SC's were even smaller than I thought!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 01, 2015, 12:03:57 PM
USS Peleliu, last of the Tarawa-class Assault Ships. Decommissioned this week.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FZlwJwlv.jpg&hash=cdbd57a31ff7e359342a05aca67c049731d23e43)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 01, 2015, 05:01:49 PM
Finally.
Now we can all sleep at night without fearing the Gamillons.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 01, 2015, 06:02:33 PM
Lemme guess...

The NJ's Wave Motion Guns are slightly smaller than Yamato's but can fire twice as fast.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Mr. Bigglesworth on April 01, 2015, 07:19:03 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 01, 2015, 12:03:57 PM
USS Peleliu, last of the Tarawa-class Assault Ships. Decommissioned this week.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FZlwJwlv.jpg&hash=cdbd57a31ff7e359342a05aca67c049731d23e43)

Why? Those were cool ships. I visited one in Vancouver when i was a kid. Got the grand tour as my older sister's bf was Canadian navy. Even saw the command center, which was a mass of buttons and scopes.

What is the replacement vessel?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on April 01, 2015, 07:32:07 PM
Quote from: Mr. Bigglesworth on April 01, 2015, 07:19:03 PM
What is the replacement vessel?

The America class: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assault_ship (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assault_ship)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 01, 2015, 07:36:15 PM
The Tarawas are old. Peleliu was the youngest at 35 years old. We still have 8 of the Wasp-class in service and the Americas are coming on line with 11 planned.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on April 02, 2015, 06:14:40 AM
Quote from: Mr. Bigglesworth on April 01, 2015, 07:19:03 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 01, 2015, 12:03:57 PM
USS Peleliu, last of the Tarawa-class Assault Ships. Decommissioned this week.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FZlwJwlv.jpg&hash=cdbd57a31ff7e359342a05aca67c049731d23e43)

Why? Those were cool ships. I visited one in Vancouver when i was a kid. Got the grand tour as my older sister's bf was Canadian navy. Even saw the command center, which was a mass of buttons and scopes.

What is the replacement vessel?

I saw one steaming into port in San Diego when I was 17. I thought she was huge....then I realized she wasn't even a fleet carrier, LOL.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 02, 2015, 07:45:07 AM
They're roughly the same size of a WW2 Fleet carrier or the 'Fleet' carriers of other modern navies. So not as big as super carrier, but still pretty damn big.

That's the truly amazing thing about the USN. It maintains a group of 'assault ships' which is pretty much an auxiliary carrier force that is still larger than the carrier force of any other navy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on April 02, 2015, 09:27:20 AM
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on April 01, 2015, 07:32:07 PM
Quote from: Mr. Bigglesworth on April 01, 2015, 07:19:03 PM
What is the replacement vessel?

The America class: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assault_ship (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assault_ship)

Could you talk to someone about building an extra one, then let it "fall-off-the-truck" for us... out of pity?

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fb%2Fba%2FNaval_Ensign_of_Canada.svg%2F1000px-Naval_Ensign_of_Canada.svg.png&hash=e4d567caedb77aa0c110542e7c48d16b9d9b1379)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on April 02, 2015, 09:56:10 AM
I hear we got one sub now that can actually fire torpedos
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on April 02, 2015, 10:07:17 AM
Without catching fire?!?  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 02, 2015, 10:41:55 AM
That's a Flight 10 upgrade.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on April 02, 2015, 11:18:23 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on April 02, 2015, 10:07:17 AM
Without catching fire?!?  :o

Apparently. Next we'll buy a used American assault ship and convert it into an icebreaker.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 02, 2015, 12:27:12 PM
An icebreaker that catches fire when it contacts ice.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on April 02, 2015, 12:41:39 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 02, 2015, 12:27:12 PM
An icebreaker that catches fire when it contacts ice.

At an officer's mess dinner/party that would be quite the  ....    ....    .... ice breaker
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 02, 2015, 02:02:41 PM
But it catches fire after every shot.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on April 02, 2015, 02:07:52 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on April 02, 2015, 02:02:41 PM
But it catches fire after every shot.

Isn't that the french pilot?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 03, 2015, 11:32:16 AM
USS Arizona in the 1930s.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fz13BdlD.jpg&hash=e17e27503e0b889714ca111b5859b68574c86aeb)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 04, 2015, 12:05:29 PM
A US Navy blimp on patrol for submarines while an Atlantic convoy steams for Europe, 1943.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FOKQrPXB.jpg&hash=259378432b63e83c63861324dd760490de847259)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 04, 2015, 12:06:44 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F012Wptm.jpg&hash=ac31ab901f6c59d954fa82518a2be6b5e74f78fa)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on April 08, 2015, 07:33:13 AM
Quote from: mirth on April 04, 2015, 12:05:29 PM
A US Navy blimp on patrol for submarines while an Atlantic convoy steams for Europe, 1943.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FOKQrPXB.jpg&hash=259378432b63e83c63861324dd760490de847259)

Awesome.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 08, 2015, 07:46:56 AM
Just to be different...the largest cruise ship in the world (well, one of two, the Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas)...

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fe%2Fe1%2FAllure_of_the_seas_sideview.JPG&hash=c3f658b394a95622b7c074fe5fc35ad03002a854)

(https://www.regonline.com/custImages/300000/302430/AllureoftheSeas-AerialView.jpg)

Over 225,000 tons.
Max speed, just over 22 knots.
$1.2 billion (with a 'b') to build.
16 passenger decks.
6,296 passenger capacity.
2,384 crew capacity.
A total of 8,680 souls aboard if maxed out.

This thing is insane.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 08, 2015, 08:09:42 AM
Where's the VLS? Or the CIWS mounts?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on April 08, 2015, 08:16:36 AM
Quote from: mirth on April 08, 2015, 08:09:42 AM
Where's the VLS? Or the CIWS mounts?

The pools slide back to reveal the VLS.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 08, 2015, 08:18:35 AM
The people in balcony staterooms are the chaff. When activated, they are forcibly ejected out of their staterooms over the side. They're all so sunburned over their pasty white bodies that they also doubly serve as flares.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on April 08, 2015, 08:51:04 AM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on April 08, 2015, 08:18:35 AM
The people in balcony staterooms are the chaff. When activated, they are forcibly ejected out of their staterooms over the side. They're all so sunburned over their pasty white bodies that they also doubly serve as flares.

8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on April 08, 2015, 12:34:13 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on April 08, 2015, 07:46:56 AM
Just to be different...the largest cruise ship in the world (well, one of two, the Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas)...
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fe%2Fe1%2FAllure_of_the_seas_sideview.JPG&hash=c3f658b394a95622b7c074fe5fc35ad03002a854)


The wargamer in me wants to be stalking it with a U-Boat, my hand hovering over the button that will send a spread of torpedoes in her side    :knuppel2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 08, 2015, 12:40:45 PM
^ Wilhelm Gustloff style?

It's sad, but that's the first thing I thought of too. When the Quantum of the Seas came into Nassau last week, and we pretty much had a front row view of the monster (it's only slightly smaller than the Oasis-class above and the second largest cruise ship in the world), I thought of the Gustloff and what a slaughter it would be to even put one torpedo in the side of the Quantum.

However, that might be less wargamer-ish and more sociopathic-ish, but as I'm probably in good company in BOTH of those categories, I'm sure you guys get it.

I can't remember if it was Freeport or Nassau, when we were in line getting back on the Freedom, when someone in front of me held the bulkhead and remarked how thin it was. Me being the dork I am, replied, "Good thing we don't have to worry about torpedoes." I mean seriously, ONE torpedo and that giant (or any) cruise ship is a goner.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherv.net%2Fcm%2Femoticons%2Fflags%2Famerican-flag.gif&hash=efe9760754975031e84237923708c68fed735c4b) THE PRECEDING MESSAGE IS ONLY A JOKE, NSA. CARRY ON. I DO NOT OWN A U-BOAT OR EVEN A PT-BOAT. 'MURICA! (https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sherv.net%2Fcm%2Femoticons%2Fflags%2Famerican-flag.gif&hash=efe9760754975031e84237923708c68fed735c4b)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on April 08, 2015, 12:42:42 PM
^Dude, we're too much alike. If you've slept with Gus' mother too, we may need to talk  :coolsmiley:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 08, 2015, 12:44:24 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on April 08, 2015, 12:42:42 PM
^Dude, we're too much alike. If you've slept with Gus' mother too, we may need to talk  :coolsmiley:

If she lives in New York, Gus's family might be in my woodpile somewhere.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on April 08, 2015, 12:45:21 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on April 08, 2015, 12:44:24 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on April 08, 2015, 12:42:42 PM
^Dude, we're too much alike. If you've slept with Gus' mother too, we may need to talk  :coolsmiley:

If she lives in New York, Gus's family might be in my woodpile somewhere.

Yeah, ummmm.......how 'bout them Cowboys???
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 08, 2015, 12:47:44 PM
Dude, you can't go from incest to the Cowboys. It's like going from ass to mouth.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on April 08, 2015, 12:50:01 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on April 08, 2015, 12:47:44 PM
Dude, you can't go from incest to the Cowboys. It's like going from ass to mouth.

A lot of people think Cowboys ownership is a result of incest...but that's for another thread  >:D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on April 08, 2015, 12:52:09 PM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on April 08, 2015, 12:47:44 PM
Dude, you can't go from incest to the Cowboys. It's like going from ass to mouth.

A most quotable statement.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 08, 2015, 01:50:03 PM
yes, yes is.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 08, 2015, 04:58:41 PM
Sad day.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 10, 2015, 11:35:16 AM
HMS Iron Duke

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6bIbVeP.jpg&hash=8a5cd0104fd679ca8d58aee402154936e83cd978)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 21, 2015, 05:45:02 PM
Vietnamese submarines.

http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 27, 2015, 11:54:36 AM
Brazilian Navy monitor Parnaíba (U17). Commissioned in 1938 and still in active service

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgOlpume.jpg&hash=f754532b999fda9bc7ffee40f767d3c2c3781b12)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_monitor_Parna%C3%ADba_%28U17%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_monitor_Parna%C3%ADba_%28U17%29)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 27, 2015, 05:18:52 PM
https://www.facebook.com/themighty/videos/661745047290733/?fref=nf
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 30, 2015, 08:13:33 AM
HCMS Bonaventure in a storm, 1959.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FvR2TtQP.jpg&hash=7a776cf772852ae629049dea933082da4070f3e2)

Small gallery of pics here:

http://imgur.com/a/MHeZS (http://imgur.com/a/MHeZS)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 30, 2015, 08:16:27 AM
Pieces of what will eventually be  the next Ford-class aircraft carrier - John F. Kennedy (CVN 79)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FScXFgAH.jpg&hash=ca4aa6f23b29aa4dfa8fdc9b9e8169d889900c81)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on April 30, 2015, 08:22:57 AM
Quote from: mirth on April 30, 2015, 08:13:33 AM
HCMS Bonaventure in a storm, 1959.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FvR2TtQP.jpg&hash=7a776cf772852ae629049dea933082da4070f3e2)

Small gallery of pics here:

http://imgur.com/a/MHeZS (http://imgur.com/a/MHeZS)

My dad was on the Maggie from 1952-53.  He said that the shitters were basically open tubes through the hull.  On days like the one pictured above, a seaman could experience a bracing breeze or a refreshing spritz whilst defecating.  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 30, 2015, 06:08:59 PM
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Ftcullx8.jpg&hash=69273db095f37c68eec9ff3ab2cc17cebada4e1a)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 30, 2015, 06:20:18 PM
USS Farragut (DDG-99)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 30, 2015, 06:41:52 PM
On the old, World War I destroyers, called four-pipers, they were small enough that you couldn't go from the stern to the bow under the main deck.  You had to go topside.
In a storm, ropes were rigged to grab hold of.  They taught the sailors that if you saw a really big wave coming, the important thing was to put your head against a bulkhead.  This way it wasn't slammed into an unmoving object.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on May 04, 2015, 08:33:56 AM
Last summer I had the chance to go to London to do some research and I took advantage of the opportunity to go down to the historic dockyards at Portsmouth to knock an item off my bucket list: seeing the HMS Victory. I've been meaning to share these photos for a while, but I have some time on my hands now and I'm just getting around to it. Here they are:

HMS Victory
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As my two-year-old son says, "Cannons! Boom boom!"
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Where Nelson fell
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on May 04, 2015, 08:36:23 AM
The HMS Warrior (first British Ironclad frigate) is there too:

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Much more open inside the armored box:
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And they apparently took boarding operations incredibly seriously:
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on May 04, 2015, 08:38:38 AM
As a bonus, HMS Illustrious was there too, right across from Victory:
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 04, 2015, 08:39:02 AM
Great pics! Thanks for sharing them.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on May 04, 2015, 09:01:42 AM
Quote from: mirth on May 04, 2015, 08:39:02 AM
Great pics! Thanks for sharing them.

Yeah.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 04, 2015, 10:45:58 AM
Quote from: Centurion40 on May 04, 2015, 09:01:42 AM
Quote from: mirth on May 04, 2015, 08:39:02 AM
Great pics! Thanks for sharing them.

Yeah.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on May 04, 2015, 11:08:46 AM
There was a Royal Navy officer in Nelson's cabin answering questions when I was there. A woman asked him who was in charge of the ship (since it's still an active ship in the Royal Navy) and his (very sad, to me) answer was "Admiral so-and-so is the First Sea Lord, he commands the whole Royal Navy...or what's left of it."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on May 04, 2015, 11:23:40 AM
I've only been down to see HMS Victory once, but it really is most impressive.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 04, 2015, 12:51:10 PM
We thought you served on her.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on May 04, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
Powder monkey.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2015, 11:28:51 AM
Final moments of USS America (CVN-66)  :(


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 07, 2015, 06:05:44 PM
Sad.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on May 07, 2015, 07:50:06 PM
Sad, USS Rodney M Davis was decommissioned in January of this year.  I spent a couple of months aboard her on his very first deployment, which was to the Persian Gulf.    I think all of the ships I spent time on are gone now. 

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on May 08, 2015, 09:57:23 AM
Quote from: OJsDad on May 07, 2015, 07:50:06 PM
Sad, USS Rodney M Davis was decommissioned in January of this year.  I spent a couple of months aboard her on his very first deployment, which was to the Persian Gulf.    I think all of the ships I spent time on are gone now. 


It's a weird aspect of life as we mature, ain't it? 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 08, 2015, 07:05:43 PM
Here's a story about the America.  Back around 72, certainly before the Yom Kippur War in 73, American was going to Thessaloniki, Greece for a port call.
Going into the port, is  a bit tricky for such a ship, because there is a good, deep channel, but not very wide.  Also, there are a lot of small islets and rocks waiting to grab hold of any ship that dares to move freely.
There was a little chop to the waves and a fairly strong crosswind, but nothing that couldn't be handled.  One of the lookouts spotted a little fishing vessel that was crossing the channel.  After a few minutes, the bridge crew realised they had a "steady bearing, decreasing range" surface contact. 
The Greek boat was chugging along and just ignoring the looming collision.  He wouldn't answer any radio circuits and ignored flashing light.  This was getting serious.  You can't just stop in a channel with a crosswind, it will blow you onto shoal water, and there was nowhere to turn away.
The captain had six short blasts on the horn, the international danger warning, and a saluting gun fired a blank.  No difference, the fishing boat just kept moving.
The captain didn't want to, because it could cause some panic, but sounded the collision alarm.  Everyone tensed up as the little boat went under the flight deck overhand and we all waited for the SCRUNCH of running over the boat.
Then it appeared off the starboard side of the bow, just chugging along, making no allowance for the huge ship that nearly ran it down.  Everyone on the bridge was tensed up, with sweat pouring all over.  The captain and XO were facing the end of their careers if they ran down a fishing boat.  I distinctly remember the Quartermaster of the watch saying, "That Greek...he's got brass balls the size of footballs."
At that moment, a hatch opened on the deck and a guy climbed out.  His teeth nearly fell out as he gaped up at the overhanging ship, towering over him.  He yanked open the door, pulled a rope off the wheel, and swung the ship directly away.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on May 08, 2015, 09:01:28 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on May 08, 2015, 09:57:23 AM
Quote from: OJsDad on May 07, 2015, 07:50:06 PM
Sad, USS Rodney M Davis was decommissioned in January of this year.  I spent a couple of months aboard her on his very first deployment, which was to the Persian Gulf.    I think all of the ships I spent time on are gone now. 


It's a weird aspect of life as we mature, ain't it?

Maturing my hairy arse.  It's called getting old! :tickedoff:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on May 09, 2015, 09:02:23 AM
That's an awesome story, Bes   ;D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 10, 2015, 10:01:57 AM
Richelieu, 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjtUYiylVo
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 10, 2015, 10:18:42 AM
French frigate Duquesne (D603)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 10, 2015, 10:37:30 AM
1-inch armor plate penetrated by a 15-inch shell.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 14, 2015, 11:33:52 AM
QuoteUSS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN-730) arrives home at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor following a strategic deterrent patrol. May 2015.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 17, 2015, 07:47:33 PM
https://www.facebook.com/NavyNuclear/videos/2644857284799/?fref=nf

Nuke sub engagement.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 22, 2015, 11:41:40 AM
Essex Class Carrier Modernizations

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on May 23, 2015, 08:06:02 AM
Here's a short article pointing out where you can visit certain U.S. Carrier's and Battleships on display. To me, the U.S.S. Texas really stands out because she's the oldest surviving American battleship and only remaining U.S. dreadnaught. I've visited her many times. If you're in the Houston area, go see her and the surrounding San Jacinto battlegrounds.

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2015/05/22/best-americas-battleships-and-aircraft-carriers-on-display/?intcmp=HPBucket (http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2015/05/22/best-americas-battleships-and-aircraft-carriers-on-display/?intcmp=HPBucket)


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 23, 2015, 11:11:17 AM
They should have added the USS Massachusetts (at Battleship Cove, in the ship's namesake state) to that list:

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http://www.battleshipcove.org/exhibits/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on May 23, 2015, 11:47:19 AM
I knew some were missing. They should have consulted us here at Grogheads, we could probably have written the article   :smitten:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 26, 2015, 11:26:57 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 26, 2015, 11:35:58 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 26, 2015, 12:11:16 PM
Things indeed get larger with age.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on May 26, 2015, 12:40:26 PM
It ain't the size that counts, its.....well Hell, maybe it IS the size that counts   :knuppel2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 02, 2015, 11:38:42 AM
USS Mississippi (BB-23)


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 03, 2015, 05:50:38 PM
May 16, 1991.
Wisconsin's last fire mission.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/watch-and-hear-the-last-time-the-battleship-wisconsin-f-1707956997
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 12, 2015, 11:44:44 AM
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) and USS Ashland (LSD-48) maneuver to conduct a replenishment-at-sea. East China Sea. June, 2015.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 13, 2015, 07:06:46 AM
The old "Arky" visits Kiel.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 15, 2015, 11:33:02 AM
QuoteKirov class battlecruiser firing Granit ASM

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 15, 2015, 11:43:48 AM
QuoteSize comparison for some of the ships involved in the action off Samar during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 25, 1944.

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"We're making a torpedo run. The outcome is doubtful, but we will do our duty." - Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland,  USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 15, 2015, 05:49:52 PM
Somewhere in Valhalla the sailors of Taffy 3 are sharing pints with the crew of HMS Glowworm.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 16, 2015, 11:07:11 AM
Russian Oscar II SSGN in dry dock

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 17, 2015, 11:35:12 AM
QuoteThe guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) (right) leads the way along with USS McFaul (DDG 74), USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) and USS Cole (DDG 67), and the guided missile cruisers USS Cape St. George (CG 71) and USS Anzio (CG 68)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on June 17, 2015, 12:14:24 PM
Great pic!  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 17, 2015, 12:35:59 PM
That is a fuck ton of firepower.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on June 17, 2015, 12:37:19 PM
Awesome pic. Is there any special reason why some ships have the flag flying on the port side and some on the starboard side?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on June 17, 2015, 12:38:53 PM
Quote from: bob48 on June 17, 2015, 12:37:19 PM
Awesome pic. Is there any special reason why some ships have the flag flying on the port side and some on the starboard side?

Star will tell you it's a "left earring, right earring" thing   8)

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071201183547AAikxCb (https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071201183547AAikxCb)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on June 17, 2015, 12:42:34 PM
^ROFL
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 17, 2015, 12:54:46 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 17, 2015, 12:35:59 PM
That is a fuck ton of firepower.

yeah it is. America, fuck yeah!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on June 17, 2015, 12:57:19 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 16, 2015, 11:07:11 AM
Russian Oscar II SSGN in dry dock

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I thought it was integral to been a sneaky underwater bastard to have a totally clean, non barnacled to fk hull
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 17, 2015, 12:58:43 PM
^It's a Russian sub. They're just happy it isn't on fire and exploding.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on June 17, 2015, 01:09:15 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 17, 2015, 12:58:43 PM
^It's a Russian sub. They're just happy it isn't on fire and exploding.

Well you took tea down my nose public - waiting for my daughter in a costa coffee now with hankies

I don't know what valves open in my head when I laugh but I'm sure they're the wrong ones
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 17, 2015, 01:24:08 PM
In Soviet Russia sub sticks to barnacles!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on June 17, 2015, 01:26:21 PM
It looks rough as fk, I could pick it up with 2 cups and a bit of string never mind sonar

Any further reference to me and 2 cups stops right there
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on June 17, 2015, 02:45:45 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 16, 2015, 11:07:11 AM
Russian Oscar II SSGN in dry dock

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lol, hardwater stains
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 18, 2015, 11:42:49 AM
QuoteWater slug being fired from a missile tube of the USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-629) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 1964.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 18, 2015, 11:44:21 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2015, 11:28:20 AM
QuoteNorwegian Sea (June 5, 2015) The attack submarine USS Seawolf (SSN 21) makes a stop for personnel. Seawolf, homeported in Bangor, Wash., is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2015, 11:30:45 AM
QuoteDamage to the port side and helicopter hangar of the destroyer HMS GLAMORGAN caused by an Argentine MM.40 land based Exocet missile. The missile was launched from a mobile launcher near Port Stanley, some 18 miles away, on 12 June 1982. Radar systems failed to detect the missile but in the few seconds available after making visual contact, GLAMORGAN was able to turn rapidly and the missile struck the hangar instead of the Ship's side. Thirteen lives were lost but the damage failed to put GLAMORGAN out of action, making her the first British warship to survive an Exocet missile strike.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: jejo68 on June 19, 2015, 07:18:05 PM


Our navys newest pride and joy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2015, 11:29:46 AM
JMSDF Kongō (DDG-173) along with a host of Japanese and US ships

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 26, 2015, 11:52:39 AM
QuoteRemoving the guns from 3 & 4 turrets of USS Arizona

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QuoteThe Arizona (BB-39) after turrets were determined to be salvageable after her sinking. The Army in 1943 intended to incorporate these turrets into the costal defense of Hawaii. Named Batteries Pennsylvania and Arizona, they were to be placed on the tip of Mokapu Peninsula, to cover the eastern portions of Oahu, and on Kahe Point, to cover the south and west, respectively. Only battery Pennsylvania was completed and it was test fired on V-J day when it instantly became obsolete.

QuoteBattery Pennsylvania test firing on VJ Day

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 30, 2015, 11:33:38 AM
QuoteF-14D Tomcats staged in launch position to depart USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) for home port NAS Oceana. March, 2006.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 01, 2015, 11:22:43 AM
Comparison of stealth warship hulls


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 01, 2015, 11:24:57 AM
QuoteUSS Mobile Bay (CG 53) operates in the Persian Gulf, Sept. 20, 2011

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 01, 2015, 06:30:52 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 01, 2015, 11:22:43 AM
Comparison of stealth warship hulls


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Looks like the Zumwalt and Visby got it goin' on in the stealth dept. All that radar-reflective crap festooned over the others must inflate their returns notably.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 01, 2015, 07:32:56 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 01, 2015, 11:22:43 AM
Comparison of stealth warship hulls


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Im not sure if the ships heights are accurate.  the Zumwalt it a tall ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 07, 2015, 07:20:19 PM
HMCS Victoria returns home from operations with the U.S. Navy in February. Note the total lack of fire  O0

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 07, 2015, 09:09:42 PM
Must be all the heat resistant tiles...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 10, 2015, 07:28:32 AM
QuoteHMS Duncan working alongside the USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Paul Hamilton during strike missions on ISIL

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http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2015/july/07/150707-duncan-joins-us-carrier-on-operations
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 13, 2015, 11:57:59 AM
USS Idaho (BB-42)


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2015, 05:50:44 PM
Admiral Kuznetsov

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 15, 2015, 06:18:09 PM
Is that just before the USS Boise put a couple of Mk48s into Kuznetsov and sent her down into the icy North Atlantic deep?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2015, 06:25:38 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on July 15, 2015, 06:18:09 PM
Is that just before the USS Boise put a couple of Mk48s into Kuznetsov and sent her down into the icy North Atlantic deep?

Exactly  >:D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2015, 07:51:17 PM
QuoteLAKE ERIE CLASS (CV) Rough outline of the hull plan showing the conversion of the Iowa Class battleship hull into a carrier.


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QuoteAfter the loss of so many carriers in the early part of the war and the pressing need for many more a study was undertaken to possibly convert the then building Iowa Class battleships into aircraft carriers much along the lines of the Independence Class (CVL) carriers that were built on Light Cruiser Hulls. The swift building program of the Essex Class carries made this unnecessary so the project was dropped.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Mr. Bigglesworth on July 16, 2015, 11:46:32 AM


Quote from: Staggerwing on July 15, 2015, 06:18:09 PM
Is that just before the USS Boise put a couple of Mk48s into Kuznetsov and sent her down into the icy North Atlantic deep?

Wasnt that sold to India or Brazil?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 16, 2015, 12:05:26 PM
Quote from: Mr. Bigglesworth on July 16, 2015, 11:46:32 AM


Quote from: Staggerwing on July 15, 2015, 06:18:09 PM
Is that just before the USS Boise put a couple of Mk48s into Kuznetsov and sent her down into the icy North Atlantic deep?

Wasnt that sold to India or Brazil?

Kuznetsov is still in Russian service. Baku was sold to India, but that was an old Kiev-class.

Varyag was the other ship in the Kuznestov-class, but it was never completed/commissioned by the Russians. The Chienese bought, finished it, and have it in service now.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Mr. Bigglesworth on July 16, 2015, 12:12:54 PM
Good to know, thanks mirth.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 16, 2015, 09:23:05 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 16, 2015, 12:05:26 PM
Varyag was the other ship in the Kuznestov-class, but it was never completed/commissioned by the Russians. The Chienese bought, finished it, and "have it in service now".

fixed
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2015, 08:00:21 AM
Well they sail it around and pretend it's a carrier.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 17, 2015, 05:33:48 PM
Don't let them fool you.  We called the Langley an aircraft carrier, when everyone knew it was only a test bed.

And then it became CIA headquarters.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2015, 05:41:31 PM
The difference being that the Chinese are on their Langley and we have nearly a century of carrier ops under our belts.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 17, 2015, 06:15:40 PM
A couple of fellows (from the agency that will not be named) have an over/under on chinese pilots lost in four years.  (This counts pilots lost on the airstrip in China that is painted like a carrier deck.)
Right now the bet is one-hundred in five years.
Are you over?  Or under?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 17, 2015, 06:23:32 PM
Per Official Chinese News?
Under.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2015, 06:51:54 PM
The over/under is 100 pilots lost? I'll take the over.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 17, 2015, 07:10:55 PM
If a Chinese J-15 explodes during a hard landing on the deck of the Liaoning and there is no independent observer, does it make a noise?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 17, 2015, 07:34:53 PM
Not according to the PLAN.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Mr. Bigglesworth on July 17, 2015, 08:49:41 PM
That would be a kung pao landing.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 19, 2015, 11:54:55 AM
QuoteUSS Josephus Daniels (DLG-27) and USS Belknap (DLG-26) under construction at Bath Iron Works in 1964.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 21, 2015, 11:32:03 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 22, 2015, 07:05:46 AM
USS Edsall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Edsall_%28DD-219%29
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 22, 2015, 08:27:48 AM
Learn to scale the pics, Star!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on July 22, 2015, 10:19:16 PM
JMSDF planning missile/railgun Aegis destroyers.

http://navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2925 (http://navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2925)

Can giant robots be far behind?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on July 23, 2015, 12:00:57 PM
Cool find AR.

I'd love for the US to build a new BB, armed with 2-4 railguns, laser PD system, and hundreds of VLS missiles.  Good armor, nuke powered.  No aircraft. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on July 23, 2015, 12:31:21 PM
Just realized I wrote "missile/railgun" when I meant "laser/railgun."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 23, 2015, 01:33:27 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 22, 2015, 08:27:48 AM
Learn to scale the pics, Star!

Buy a real monitor Mirth.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2015, 01:39:33 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 21, 2015, 11:32:03 PM
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gee that was tough
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on July 23, 2015, 02:21:09 PM
Wtf is that?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 23, 2015, 02:31:04 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on July 23, 2015, 02:21:09 PM
Wtf is that?

USS Independence. LCS-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_(LCS-2)

Been in service for a few years now.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2015, 02:34:29 PM
One of the LCS (Littoral Combat Ship). They've built 2 different designs. That's one of the Independence-class with a trimaran hull.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littoral_combat_ship)

The Freedom-class is a more conventional design.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2015, 02:34:51 PM
D'oh! Ninja'ed.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 23, 2015, 04:12:07 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2015, 11:44:37 AM
QuoteType 89 torpedo being loaded onto Sōryū-class submarine of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2015, 11:46:17 AM
USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) in heavy seas

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 29, 2015, 05:05:17 PM
Electric Boat Co. Groton Connecticut, 1943.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 29, 2015, 05:08:43 PM
QuoteJustice on the Hudson, 1909. A Liberté class pre-dreadnought in town for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 30, 2015, 10:57:15 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/USSTheSullivans-firingmissi.jpg)

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 03, 2015, 11:29:11 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 03, 2015, 11:35:05 AM
QuoteView of USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) from an aircraft approaching for landing, 1957

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 07, 2015, 08:13:13 AM
QuoteThe U.S. Navy Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship USS Hurricane (PC-3) leads other coastal patrol ships assigned to Patrol Coastal Squadron 1 (PCRON 1) in formation during a divisional tactics exercise in the Persian Gulf. PCRON-1 was deployed supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 07, 2015, 05:17:28 PM
Transiting the Panama Canal
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 07, 2015, 06:59:34 PM
When was that taken?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 07, 2015, 08:20:47 PM
1984 if my recollection is correct.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 07, 2015, 08:27:16 PM
Would that then be the USS Iowa?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 07, 2015, 08:40:31 PM
Yes and Steven Seagal was the cook.
..
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 07, 2015, 08:46:27 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 07, 2015, 08:40:31 PM
Yes and Steven Seagal was the cook.
..

" Get my pies out of the oven!"
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 07, 2015, 10:07:30 PM
That's it. Is Erika Eleniak still alive?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 07, 2015, 10:16:48 PM
If so I'm calling seniority privilege. We'll let you know when we need more towels.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on August 08, 2015, 10:26:49 AM
Gary Busey is the XO.  He's a little unstable, but as long as you don't get him pissed all is good.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 16, 2015, 10:11:19 AM
Ford Class carrier

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 18, 2015, 11:10:02 AM
Nice collection of WWI and WWII era military vessels

https://popgrotto.com/JoeHaupt/Militaria%20-%20World%20War%20I%20And%20World%20War%20II/Details
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 19, 2015, 07:17:08 PM
A Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk on USS Little Rock (CL-92) in heavy seas

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 19, 2015, 07:19:13 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 19, 2015, 08:13:50 PM
Just four months and 2 days after she was sunk!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 20, 2015, 06:27:29 AM
Just how big is an Iowa turret?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 20, 2015, 06:10:24 PM
QuoteLaunch preparations for USS Missouri (BB-63), Brooklyn Naval Yard, 1944.

(https://i.imgur.com/FsiWuH7.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 24, 2015, 11:33:22 AM
US Navy CVEs at anchor.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 24, 2015, 05:10:14 PM
HMS Ark Royal and the admiralty tug, Sprite, at Devonport.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 25, 2015, 05:20:39 PM
Imagine some poor, lost schlub with his nose stuck in his smart phone.  Looking up and coming face to face with Wiscy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 26, 2015, 07:01:40 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 26, 2015, 07:59:36 AM
I see nothing but targets.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 26, 2015, 08:26:03 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 26, 2015, 07:59:36 AM
I see nothing but targets.

Silhouette templates for kill indicators.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 26, 2015, 06:08:16 PM
Which ones are the Colony Ships?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 26, 2015, 06:20:30 PM
they have colony pods everywhere.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 26, 2015, 08:54:10 PM
Captain McCrea, officers and men of the Iowa:

I had wanted to say a few words to you on the trip east, but I couldn't do it properly because so many of you were mere, miserable pollywogs. Now, I understand that I can talk to you as the Chief Shellback of them all.

I have had a wonderful cruise on the Iowa, one I shall never forget. I think that all my staff have behaved themselves pretty well, with one or two lapses. When we came on board from that little French destroyer, I was horrified to note that Major General Watson and Mr. Hopkins came over the rail on all fours. However, landlubbers like that do have lapses. Outside of that, all the Army and Navy and civilians have been wonderfully taken care of, and I am impressed with two facts—the first is that you had a happy lot of visitors, fellow shipmates.

Second, from all I have seen and all I have heard, the Iowa is a "happy ship," and having served with the Navy for many years, I know—and you know—what that means. It is part and parcel of what we are trying to do, to make every ship happy and efficient.

One of the reasons I went abroad, as you know, was to try, by conversations with other Nations, to see that this war that we are all engaged in shall not happen again. We have an idea—all of us, I think—that hereafter we have got to eliminate from the human race Nations like Germany and Japan, eliminate them from the possibility of ruining the lives of a whole lot of other Nations. And in these talks in North Africa, Egypt, and Persia, with the Chinese, the Russians, Turks, and others, we made real progress.

Obviously, it will be necessary, when we win the war, to make the possibility of a future upsetting of our civilization an impossible thing. I don't say forever. None of us can look that far ahead. But I do say as long as any Americans and others who are alive today are still alive. That objective is worth fighting for. It is a part of democracy which exists in most of the world.

In upper Teheran, where the Prime Minister, Marshal Stalin, and I met, in one sense it followed that as heads of Governments we were representing between two-thirds and three-quarters of the entire population of the world. We all had the same fundamental aims: stopping what has been going on in these past four years. And that is why I believe from the viewpoint of people just plain people—this trip has been worth while.

We are all engaged in a common struggle. We are making real progress. Take what has happened in the past two years. From Pearl Harbor, from being on the defensive—very definitely so -two years ago, from being in the process of building things up to a greater strength a year ago, to where we are today, when we have the initiative in every part of the world. The other fellows may not be on the run backwards—yet. That will be the next stage, and then all of us in the service of the country will have a better chance to go home, even if we have to come home to very cold weather like this. I think after what you have seen of Bahia and Freetown and Dakar, that you will agree with me that in the long run, year in and year out, this American climate is better than any other.

And now I have to leave you for the U.S.S. Potomac. When I came out on deck quite a while ago, and saw her about a half mile away, I looked and decided how she had shrunk since I had been on the Iowa.

And so good-bye for a while. I hope that I will have another cruise on this ship. Meanwhile, good luck, and remember that I am with you in spirit, each and every one of you.
Citation: Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Remarks on Leaving the U.S.S. Iowa.," December 16, 1943. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.ed
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 27, 2015, 11:14:14 AM
QuoteUSS Tennessee (SSBN_734) returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay Georgia, 2013.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 27, 2015, 11:17:01 AM
cool dolphins!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 27, 2015, 11:17:31 AM
QuoteRoyal Navy dreadnought HMS Superb emerging from the darkness, spring 1909. Her masts have been stepped down so she can pass under bridges as she makes her way down the River Tyne after construction.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 27, 2015, 11:19:21 AM
QuoteUSS Spruance (DDG 111) pulls away as USS Rushmore (LSD 47) approaches USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7), center and USS Peleliu (LHA 5)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msc.navy.mil%2Fsealift%2F2014%2FJuly%2Fimages%2FPAC-Rainier.jpg&hash=e4f36996f310424d25bebd32a91d6549ce3fd4f9)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 28, 2015, 06:22:01 AM
Queen Elizabeth's eyes open.

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/hms-queen-elizabeth-powers-up-radar-for-first-time/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=UKDJ+Facebook+Page&utm_campaign=SNAP
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 28, 2015, 11:12:58 AM
QuoteUSS William P Lawrence taking JP-5 from the USS John C Stennis


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F150819-N-DA737-401.JPG&hash=983d0db7be47cba5aaf51bfb038e6602ec24ec7e)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 28, 2015, 11:24:07 AM
Two Iowa class battleships in formation. USS Long Beach in the background.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5246/5280056839_facde68662_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 28, 2015, 11:24:58 AM
QuoteHMS Vanguard returns to HMNB Clyde

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3677/12587026323_0f52188a36_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on August 28, 2015, 11:51:07 AM
Quote from: mirth on August 28, 2015, 11:24:07 AM
Two Iowa class battleships in formation. USS Long Beach in the background.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5246/5280056839_facde68662_o.jpg)

Hate to be on the receiving end of that!  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 28, 2015, 06:17:19 PM
The Long Beach sure does have a satisfied glow about her, doesn't she?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 28, 2015, 07:14:38 PM
Radiation does that.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 29, 2015, 02:34:27 PM
QuoteWhite Oak trees are delivered to the USS Constitution in drydock for use in her restoration

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fusscm.org%2Frestoration%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F07%2FIMG_5239.jpg&hash=911d78851f195043e612ad5332c97c1c945482f8)

QuoteWhite oak is a highly desired wood for Constitution. While available commercially, the quality, sizes and dimensions of timber required for Constitution precludes availability from many sources. The Navy sources needed oak timber from "Constitution Grove" a Naval timber reserve, at Naval Weapons Support Center, Crane Indiana.

http://www.maritime.org/conf/conf-otton-mat.htm

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on August 30, 2015, 03:14:22 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 27, 2015, 11:17:31 AM
QuoteRoyal Navy dreadnought HMS Superb emerging from the darkness, spring 1909. Her masts have been stepped down so she can pass under bridges as she makes her way down the River Tyne after construction.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FIctmylv.jpg&hash=e0c50ff45bdc194acdf65a8b99a5d951c8c3732d)

Its possible she was steaming down from the old Vickers Armaments factory, which is a little way up-river. The new factory, which until recently produced armoured vehicles as BAe Systems, is further up-river from the old factory and near to Scotswood Bridge. That whole area of the Tyne has been extensively redeveloped over the past few years.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 30, 2015, 03:53:26 PM
Bawb remembers sailing from there to join Nelson before Trafalgar.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on August 30, 2015, 03:54:21 PM
oo-ar!

Avast behind....

...duck hat....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2015, 03:56:38 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 30, 2015, 03:53:26 PM
Bawb remembers sailing from there to join Nelson before Trafalgar.

Bawb remembers when Noah built the Ark.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on August 30, 2015, 04:02:34 PM
Somebody had to read the plans for him.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2015, 04:18:36 PM
How many frying pans tall was it?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on August 30, 2015, 05:31:23 PM
27 and an omelette pan (= 15.723 woks).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2015, 05:37:05 PM
Quote from: bob48 on August 30, 2015, 05:31:23 PM
27 and an omelette pan (= 15.723 woks).

All according to God's plan.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 30, 2015, 06:00:57 PM
So "cubit" is ancient Arimatheaic for "frying pan?"
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2015, 06:09:58 PM
^yes
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2015, 06:11:07 PM
Trust me. I studied under Professor Ravenswood.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2015, 06:13:52 PM
And take back one frying pan to honor the God whose Ark this is.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 30, 2015, 06:24:01 PM
Frakk you. Now I have to watch that movie again.

Afterwards, can I skip the next one and go straight to number 3?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2015, 06:26:49 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 30, 2015, 06:24:01 PM
Afterwards, can I skip the next one and go straight to number 3?

Anything goes ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 30, 2015, 06:30:50 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 30, 2015, 06:26:49 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 30, 2015, 06:24:01 PM
Afterwards, can I skip the next one and go straight to number 3?

Anything goes ;)

Except for in Rowan County, KY.

(State abbreviation adds irony)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2015, 09:01:24 PM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 02, 2015, 11:27:36 AM
Dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy photo album

http://imgur.com/gallery/rk0Mv

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 02, 2015, 11:30:49 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FZ0O7UVL.jpg&hash=403125bc762c34b016823e6d94a8f244deda2a1b)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 03, 2015, 06:30:45 AM
Fleetweek 1932 in NYC.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on September 03, 2015, 07:26:15 AM
HMCS Magnificent in Halifax harbour when my dad served on her in 1952.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fjproc.ca%2Frrp%2Frrp3%2Favenger_castoff_event_a.jpg&hash=e7d59e39ccc56b609cafd4e50d25b2f66055e8e6)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/HMCS_Magnificent_flight_deck_forward_with_Avengers.jpeg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 08:07:46 AM
^Cool pics, 40!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 03, 2015, 11:18:43 AM
Dreadnought of the future?

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/politics/britain-warship-of-the-future/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/02/politics/britain-warship-of-the-future/index.html)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 11:28:00 AM
QuoteCaptain's view aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) as the carrier approaches the pier where USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is already docked


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FobfMuTp.jpg&hash=5e0ed77004440e41f6aaddec548b924cb530c0f5)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 11:31:04 AM
QuoteThe only functioning tank landing ship tank left in the world, LST-325 at Chattanooga, TN, 2014.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5PO1ahx.jpg&hash=fdbcbc6c71af13bb159dd52abc8a099b3700b772)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 11:39:37 AM
QuoteUSS Halibut(SSGN-587) watches a Regulus missile fly away 25 Mar 1960.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FKUKspmk.jpg&hash=e8cfee1f2858014bf231ecc8b664e65e63cecfe8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 11:40:44 AM
QuoteThe Big "O". Aerial view of USS Oriskany (CV-34) underway, probably during her maiden deployment and only Med cruise, May–October 1951.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FtXy4lIx.jpg&hash=a3bad4489277652312ca9b428159464c18da90bb)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on September 03, 2015, 11:58:12 AM
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2015, 11:28:00 AM
QuoteCaptain's view aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) as the carrier approaches the pier where USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is already docked


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FobfMuTp.jpg&hash=5e0ed77004440e41f6aaddec548b924cb530c0f5)

Looks like fun!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on September 03, 2015, 11:58:32 AM
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2015, 11:39:37 AM
QuoteUSS Halibut(SSGN-587) watches a Regulus missile fly away 25 Mar 1960.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FKUKspmk.jpg&hash=e8cfee1f2858014bf231ecc8b664e65e63cecfe8)

Sweet find!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on September 03, 2015, 11:59:24 AM
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2015, 11:31:04 AM
QuoteThe only functioning tank landing ship tank left in the world, LST-325 at Chattanooga, TN, 2014.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5PO1ahx.jpg&hash=fdbcbc6c71af13bb159dd52abc8a099b3700b772)

Well get this as the Grogferry to our future Grog Island fortress.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 03, 2015, 01:30:29 PM
Japan launches its second Izumo-class "destroyer." They named her Kaga  :coolsmiley:

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navyrecognition.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fnews%2F2015%2Faugust%2FDDH-184_Kaga_Izumo%2520class_Helicopter_Destroyer_JMSDF_2.jpg&hash=5774ba1ca2948900b99682aad71b3f74869eac82)

Next one to be named Akagi perhaps?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 01:50:01 PM
Seems like they are naming them after old provinces. So maybe not Akagi, but Shinano, Yamato, and Musashi would all be options.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 03, 2015, 02:08:30 PM
I guess the connection I was making was to their WWII carriers. Didn't know where the names actually came from.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 02:15:55 PM
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on September 03, 2015, 02:08:30 PM
I guess the connection I was making was to their WWII carriers. Didn't know where the names actually came from.

I get what you were going for ;) Kaga seems like a pretty bold statement, given the history tied to the name.

Your comment made me curious as to what the naming convention for the class might be so I started digging into it a bit.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 02:29:01 PM
Only two of the class are planned, so it's unlikely we'll see an Akagi or Shinano.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 03, 2015, 02:33:44 PM
That's just because their putting their effort towards ships that turn in to giant robots.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 02:35:39 PM
I fully endorse that endeavor.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 03, 2015, 05:29:22 PM
If they justified Kaga as being named for a province.  (Which was their normal procedure for battleships.  Kaga was laid down as a battleship before the Washington Treaty limited the production.)
Akagi, which I'm pretty certain means Red Castle, would be hard to justify.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 05:42:40 PM
I don't think they were necessarily trying to justify anything and I don't know for certain that is the naming convention for the class. Izumo and Kaga both happen to be old province names. It's somewhat telling that they picked Kaga since there are many old province names to choose from. It's a not so subtle message about the true nature of the ships.

The ships of the previous class of "helicopter destroyers" were also named for old provinces - Hyuga and Ise. Both names were also used for World War 2 era IJN battleships.

Names aside, the Japanese now have four baby carriers that could be outfitted to operate fixed-wing VSTOL/STOVL aircraft.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 07:26:53 PM
QuoteThe Admirable Class Minesweeper USS Spectacle (AM-305) maneuvers through some snotty weather en route to Iwo Jima, where she would be credited with sinking seven Shin'yō suicide boats and shooting down one G4M "Betty" bomber before being kamikazed and badly damaged.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FhNaoKY2.jpg&hash=4e9a1f9a584b6576bd489c4a5747f6b8ce713e5d)

http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/mine/am305.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 03, 2015, 07:31:35 PM
QuoteProject Lehi: USS King County (AG-157) with a mockup of the deck of USS Halibut on it, Testing the Regulus II missile system..

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FRDeFVxQ.jpg&hash=320a1852c91e5e01f8e31b470c46c33488559e2a)

Album here - http://imgur.com/a/mvJAN (http://imgur.com/a/mvJAN)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on September 04, 2015, 07:02:12 AM
Cool!  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 04, 2015, 11:14:45 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FRZnysGv.jpg&hash=fca03f4c35d2d6f8e8eeffd84318268af808131f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on September 04, 2015, 05:31:54 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2015, 05:42:40 PM
Names aside, the Japanese now have four baby carriers that could be outfitted to operate fixed-wing VSTOL/STOVL aircraft.

Suck it, China!   :knuppel2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 04, 2015, 06:44:05 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on September 04, 2015, 05:31:54 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2015, 05:42:40 PM
Names aside, the Japanese now have four baby carriers that could be outfitted to operate fixed-wing VSTOL/STOVL aircraft.

Suck it, China!   :knuppel2:

Exactly.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 04, 2015, 06:52:20 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 04, 2015, 06:44:05 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on September 04, 2015, 05:31:54 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2015, 05:42:40 PM
Names aside, the Japanese now have four baby carriers that could be outfitted to operate fixed-wing VSTOL/STOVL aircraft.

Suck it, China!   :knuppel2:

Exactly.

Especially since Japan is one of a very small number of countries that has a blue-water carrier-backbone wartime naval tradition, even if it is now two generations removed.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 05, 2015, 07:19:47 AM
Mean Harry passes Gibraltar
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 06, 2015, 08:21:33 AM
HMAS AUstralia 1917.
This is interesting because it shows the extra armor plate on top of the turret.  These were put on after Jutland.
Also, the graph scale on the turret is to show other ships where the turret is aiming.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 06, 2015, 08:30:08 AM
This photo is very intriguing.  It was labeled as Kirishima, but think it far more likely to be Nagoto or Mutsu due to the funnel.
From the range, and angle of the searchlight beam, the illuminating ship would seem to be perhaps 2,000 yards apart.
My guess is this is from a night training exercise.  Naturally, people would love it to be one of the night engagements off Guadalcanal.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 06, 2015, 08:32:40 AM
Very cool photos bes!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 06, 2015, 09:40:01 AM
QuoteUSS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) being overflown by the Blue Angels.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FG3QdEZU.jpg&hash=e8134d5270c37a2c9399bad1d9b0d33f13b5d98a)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 06, 2015, 11:12:47 PM
Ike shows what she can do.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223965/USS-Eisenhower-makes-high-speed-turns-sea-practices-launching-fighter-jets-two-years-maintenance-yard.html#v-4466655885001

Poor old Mike Boorda was pretty cool  Never heard another captain tell the conning officer, "Drive her like you stole her."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 08, 2015, 11:22:52 AM
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) after her refit. Sea Vixen and Buccaneers can been seen on her flight deck

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FxGomIT8.jpg&hash=57c094f93b88d45d13a84bd58d4ae275c97ac845)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 09, 2015, 06:34:57 AM
Royal Navy maneuvers 1939.

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/whotube-2/hms-hood-and-other-ships-in-color.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=postplanner&utm_source=facebook.com

Hood from Prinz Eugen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7y3_DqFVnY
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 09, 2015, 09:24:44 AM
QuoteInside the hangar bay of USS Ronald Reagan

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5679/20930796529_4e5635ae6a_k.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2015, 11:07:03 AM
QuoteHMS Vanguard "vents off" as she leaves HMNB Clyde in Scotland

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8050/8097399089_7808da6d2b_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2015, 11:09:05 AM
QuoteJune 15, 1953: Commonwealth carriers at Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Review

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2015, 11:11:25 AM
QuoteMissile loading onto a Delta III

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FCBLLlnk.jpg&hash=5438e985b864a7da9e3fac404126aa1d30af4ed7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 11, 2015, 06:11:02 PM
Is that at Kitsap?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 11, 2015, 10:23:27 PM
Heerman and John C. Butler make smoke as they attack the Center Force off Samar.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 12, 2015, 08:11:50 AM
Cranky old lady.
HMS Vanguard breaks it's lines and is drifting in the wind.  She was going to the breakers and had no crew.  If you enlarge the view you can see the wind effect on her starboard side, while on her port the surface is smooth.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 12, 2015, 08:18:08 AM
Quote from: besilarius on September 12, 2015, 08:11:50 AM
Cranky old lady.
HMS Vanguard breaks it's lines and is drifting in the wind.  She was going to the breakers and had no crew.  If you enlarge the view you can see the wind effect on her starboard side, while on her port the surface is smooth.

??? There seems to be a lot of spray on the port side, unless her funnel is backwards or something.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 12, 2015, 08:48:44 AM
Only guessing here.  She was not supposed to have any systems functioning.
It's possible she was receiving low pressure steam from the dock to run the generators to provide electricity.  If that line broke, that may be the haze.
The haze might be from moisture coalescing after the wind crosses the hull, making a bit of surface fog.  Battleships had such high superstructures that there could be a temperature drop on the shady side.  Depends on the sun, wind, and weather.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on September 12, 2015, 11:58:08 AM
Or it's a whale fart
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 14, 2015, 11:40:09 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FpANQY3O.jpg&hash=804886a251474bd7d9963719517f735a3cdc3f36)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 14, 2015, 11:44:26 AM
QuoteAerial view of ships moored at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5590/14669245400_c931d65847_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on September 14, 2015, 11:50:17 AM
It always amazes me the quality and detail of so many black and white photos.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 14, 2015, 11:55:18 AM
That one of Victorious is particularly nice. Did you view it at full size? Some great details.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on September 14, 2015, 12:05:23 PM
I hadn't, but I see what you mean.  It feels like camera quality today is just now catching back up with black and white
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 14, 2015, 06:14:59 PM
Looks like  Fairey Fulmars on the flight deck.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 14, 2015, 06:27:45 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 14, 2015, 06:14:59 PM
Looks like  Fairey Fulmars on the flight deck.

Good eye. They are Fulmars.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 14, 2015, 07:20:43 PM
They have that looooong canopy just like the Fairey Battle.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on September 15, 2015, 10:36:57 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 14, 2015, 07:20:43 PM
They have that looooong canopy just like the Fairey Battle.

3 man cockpit typical of brit carrier planes...
pilot, navigator, and some guy named John who makes the tea
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on September 15, 2015, 10:39:37 AM
Well, everyone has to start at the bottom, and makin' the tea is very important. It has to be done right. You can't expect to be able to fly a Fulmar if ye cannae mek a decent brew.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 15, 2015, 05:45:09 PM
http://www.argunners.com/seldom-interior-images-of-italys-wwii-battleship-roma-2/

Italian battleship Roma.  Very attractive ship, there was fuel shortages, so she didn't do much steaming.
Admiral quarters were very posh.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 15, 2015, 06:03:13 PM
http://www.ijnwarship.com/IJN%20Lore/Volume%203/3a%20The%20Last%20Glorious%20Days%20-%20Naval%20Review,%201940.htm

Imperial review of the fleet, 1940.  some rather unusual photos.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 16, 2015, 06:32:11 AM
Damn mud flats.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 16, 2015, 07:01:55 AM
Classic rail gun.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 16, 2015, 07:07:48 AM
Is that one of the guns the Navy found somewhere in a scrapyard or forgotten storage site after telling everyone it could not get any more of that type because the techniques were forgotten or the right manufacturing systems no longer existed?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 16, 2015, 07:39:37 PM
A friend who is ordnance assures me that there are both barrels and liners in storage.
Had not heard of anyone denying it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 16, 2015, 09:05:31 PM
I have a (admittedly dim) memory of reading an article a while back saying that the Navy would have trouble contracting for more gun barrels which is why finding a number of them in obscure storage was such a boon.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 16, 2015, 10:20:50 PM
Years ago, the Washington Navy yard was also the Naval Gun Factory.
Back in the 60s or 70s, a drunk sailor drove his Volkswagen into the pit used to cast the liners.
As a safety measure, it was filled in with concrete.
Will ask my friend what production facilities may still exist.  He may answer me in six months.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 20, 2015, 11:42:50 AM
Turkish Sultana Yavuz.  (SMS Goeben).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 22, 2015, 10:34:58 AM
QuoteKGW-1 Loon missile explodes on the deck of USS Cusk(SSG-348) 7 Jul 1948

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FJqGJpUq.jpg&hash=c67d67b9a47eb3b70403a5bd1dbb386d3a6d62b6)

Album - http://imgur.com/a/BvaHx
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 22, 2015, 10:40:01 AM
USS Peralta (DDG 115) and USS Monsoor (DDG 1001) under construction at Bath Iron Works. Pic highlights the size difference between a Burke and a Zumwalt.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 23, 2015, 07:35:47 AM
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114 (http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3114)

So those two Mistral-class amphibs that the French were supposed to sell to the Russians are now going to...Egypt?

Can someone here give some perspective on this? To me it seems an odd purchase for the Egyptians. Where are they going to use them? and what for? Not that I mind them going to an ally, I'm just a little puzzled about it. Maybe they got them on clearance?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 23, 2015, 08:15:45 AM
Very odd.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 23, 2015, 11:02:01 AM
its easier to move refugees to Europe that way.   :P
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 23, 2015, 05:13:33 PM
Possibyl, this is the last photo ever taken of HMS Nelson before being towed to the breakers yard, she is shown in 1949 at anchor in a river at or near Rosyth being used as a target ship by the fleet air arm.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 23, 2015, 06:08:37 PM
QuoteSailors and Marines man the rails of the carrier Ranger (CVA 61) as she pulls into port at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1958

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2015, 08:42:39 AM
K-456 Tver

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2015, 11:39:09 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2015, 11:43:16 AM
QuoteRoyal Navy light cruiser HMS Diomede, (D92) pitches through a swell during a storm in the Atlantic. Photo taken from light cruiser HMS Dunedin, (D93). Summer 1940.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2015, 11:44:29 AM
QuoteStern view of battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) during sea trials after being modernized in 1982

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2015, 11:46:07 AM
USS Oregon in drydock, 1913.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5566/14760384021_d7b629f79c_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 24, 2015, 05:28:45 PM
BC Hiei, October 1941.  Home waters.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 24, 2015, 07:37:01 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 24, 2015, 11:46:07 AM
USS Oregon in drydock, 1913.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5566/14760384021_d7b629f79c_o.jpg)

I may print that out and frame it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 24, 2015, 08:31:25 PM
thats it?   :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 24, 2015, 08:41:05 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 24, 2015, 08:31:25 PM
thats it?   :o

Eh?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 24, 2015, 08:49:54 PM
the British Navy OOB.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 24, 2015, 08:56:30 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 24, 2015, 08:49:54 PM
the British Navy OOB.

That's it
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 25, 2015, 12:04:54 PM
Some thoughts on why Egypt is buying the Mistrals

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-is-egypt-buying-two-orphaned-mistral-class-aircraft-1732595299
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 25, 2015, 01:28:30 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 24, 2015, 08:49:54 PM
the British Navy OOB.

It's ok. They've still got HMS Victory.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on September 25, 2015, 01:31:23 PM
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on September 25, 2015, 01:28:30 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 24, 2015, 08:49:54 PM
the British Navy OOB.

It's ok. They've still got HMS Victory.

Phew!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 25, 2015, 02:17:07 PM
Bob served on her with Nelson.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on September 25, 2015, 02:18:40 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 25, 2015, 02:17:07 PM
Bob served on her with Nelson.

I remember when he was just a powder monkey.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 25, 2015, 02:21:16 PM
Quote from: bob48 on September 25, 2015, 02:18:40 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 25, 2015, 02:17:07 PM
Bob served on her with Nelson.

I remember when he was just a powder monkey.

You taught him well.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 25, 2015, 06:37:10 PM
It's a good thing Nelson rose in rank to captain and then admiral.
I just can't see how anyone can be a powder monkey with one arm and one eye.  Too accident prone.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 27, 2015, 07:19:42 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=240&v=jhiBdgbGLdY

documentary of IJN cruisers.  Some good views.  At the 2 minute mark, a division of cruisers  changes formation from line ahead (Form 1) to line abreast.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 28, 2015, 08:59:33 AM
QuoteThe Italian submarine ITS Salvatore Todaro (S 526) at Naval Station Mayport, the first visit by an Italian submarine to the United States since World War II.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on September 28, 2015, 09:49:19 AM
That thing looks tiny. I imagine the Atlantic crossing was a little long and cramped.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 28, 2015, 09:59:01 AM
Those Type 212s have a very small crew complement. And from what I've read, surprisingly decent accommodations. Still you probably go a little stir crazy after awhile.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on September 28, 2015, 10:17:18 AM
Crew is 5 officers and 22 O/R from what I read.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on September 28, 2015, 10:51:31 AM
that cant be it surely!

there most be shit loads still submerged - its almost a mini sub
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on September 28, 2015, 11:05:49 AM
I googled it :-)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 28, 2015, 06:45:46 PM
QuoteHMS Iron Duke Vertical Seawolf launch

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 29, 2015, 10:59:48 AM
QuoteUSS George Washington (CVN-73) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Sept. 2015.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F150922-N-DM308-310.JPG&hash=45161c94d1c3ae21a7e10c95214e78183d5e4606)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 30, 2015, 11:45:02 AM
QuoteUSS Albany, CG-10 in Barcelona, 1979

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FfOhYF3U.jpg&hash=bda1602d0e2b59c16696de1babb6849564f360d9)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 30, 2015, 11:46:30 AM
Predreadnought SMS Schlesien

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 30, 2015, 05:33:13 PM
A little love letter from Bob Kane, creator of Batman, to the USS Iowa.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 03, 2015, 10:49:16 AM
QuoteUSS Lafayette (SSBN-616) with extended telemetry mast used for Poseidon missile tests, ca. 1975.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 03, 2015, 10:51:26 AM
QuoteHMS Ark Royal leaving Gibraltar for the last time, wearing her paying off pennant, 2nd October 1978.


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.iwm.org.uk%2Fiwm%2FmediaLib%2F174%2Fmedia-174677%2Flarge.jpg%3Faction-d%26amp%3Bcat%3Dphotographs&hash=848b1254b0aae3ebcf2515d95f76fbc05ea5f46c)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 05, 2015, 04:13:38 PM
Artist rendition of the cruiser Quincy during Savo Island.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on October 06, 2015, 12:50:59 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 23, 2015, 11:02:01 AM
its easier to move refugees to Europe that way.   :P

ouch!!  LOL.... 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 07, 2015, 11:41:22 AM
QuoteRussian Akula class submarine loading torpedo

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FmH7IHZq.jpg&hash=ca663a6f7da21553ecaeef1ed9dd29b172dc10ff)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 07, 2015, 11:42:37 AM
QuoteThe U.S.S. Indiana, her deck lined with Sailors and Marines, as seen from the Golden Gate Bridge, returning from the Pacific (Oct. 6, 1945).

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 07, 2015, 11:47:06 AM
All 4 Iowa-class battleships operating together in the Virginia Capes area. (June 7, 1954)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FCebn7Nl.png&hash=ad0016f440b64720b5514082634c85e369685892)



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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on October 07, 2015, 11:52:02 AM
thats a lot of kaboom all in one row
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 08, 2015, 11:22:13 AM
QuoteUSS America (CVA-66), foreground, and USS Ranger (CVA-61) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Januray 1973.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 11, 2015, 08:09:09 AM
QuoteInvincible Class HMS Ark Royal in Portsmouth Naval Drydock

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fdf8vJ44.jpg&hash=883da38de2e8701e92f7e075d8edf9d3e385441d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 11, 2015, 08:42:34 AM
QuoteFrench SSBN Le Triomphant departs Brest

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.bemil.chosun.com%2Fnbrd%2Fdata%2F10044%2Fupfile%2F201205%2F20120512105157.jpg&hash=cfde79482ddce53e02cb3406bd3b6b69986e69b9)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 11, 2015, 08:43:59 AM
QuoteKilo-class B-800 Kaluga submarine returns to the base

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FpBBoTc4.jpg&hash=e02cf16a5de0c0aa807ebbcc029cbe6b3529e848)

Gallery - http://imgur.com/a/u5QpO
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 11, 2015, 09:03:51 AM
The outsides of Russian subs always look like they were made from dented scrap plating. I'm guessing that texture must be  anechoic coating material.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on October 11, 2015, 09:06:21 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 11, 2015, 09:03:51 AM
The outsides of Russian subs always look like they were made from dented scrap plating.

Ha! That might not have been far off for their earliest subs.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Mr. Bigglesworth on October 11, 2015, 09:48:28 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 11, 2015, 09:03:51 AM
The outsides of Russian subs always look like they were made from dented scrap plating. I'm guessing that texture must be  anechoic coating material.

Nah, just dented plate, painted. The anechoic stuff looks like rubber tiles. There is a pic of a US sub in the thread iirc that looks like grey rubber tiles. The finish looks flat, whereas the finish on marine paint is glossy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 12, 2015, 07:13:23 AM
A collision at sea can ruin your whole day. - Thucydides, 323BC.

Leipzig and Prinz Eugen
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 12, 2015, 06:40:47 PM
Not sure, may have posted this before.
Still a great video of automated gunnery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=155&v=ICifnf63lCs

And for the Gun Club, the Naval Gunnery Factory at the Washington Navy Yard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epclkzKJvfc
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 12, 2015, 07:08:01 PM
Henry V's flagship may be found.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3268751/One-Henry-V-s-four-great-warships-buried-mud-Hampshire-river-spotted-aerial-photograph-historian.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on October 13, 2015, 05:23:26 AM
Fantastic!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 13, 2015, 11:17:13 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F7s4OnqR.jpg&hash=509df4f96ad03f1a6b418cad6fb703bc0ad1c885)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on October 13, 2015, 12:13:38 PM
Not as good as a VW though........
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 13, 2015, 05:05:49 PM
Laffey versus Hiei
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 14, 2015, 06:27:28 AM
Horsecock and Joe in the Goatlocker.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 14, 2015, 11:26:04 AM
QuoteSpanish frigate Blas de Lezo (F-103) passing San Felipe castle in Ferrol, North Western Spain.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 14, 2015, 11:32:54 AM
Flickr Album from Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa : US Sixth Fleet

https://www.flickr.com/photos/cne-cna-c6f/sets/72157647574803063
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 14, 2015, 11:37:18 AM
QuoteTyphoon class sub under construction. Two pressure hulls and the ICBM section between them clearly visible

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1dmbLUn.jpg&hash=dbc77aeb42ee4345e24cfaf0cfcfc2e5ba24ce24)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 14, 2015, 11:38:28 AM
QuoteHMS Illustrious (86) in the Indian Ocean in August 1942

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.iwm.org.uk%2Fiwm%2FmediaLib%2F467%2Fmedia-467058%2Flarge.jpg%3Faction-d%26amp%3Bcat%3Dphotographs&hash=a139d40c749b9c4c1c2bea0456cbc23404771e1d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 14, 2015, 11:40:11 AM
Quote from: bob48 on October 13, 2015, 05:23:26 AM
Fantastic!

Did you serve aboard Henry V's flagship, bawb? ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on October 14, 2015, 12:23:21 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 14, 2015, 11:37:18 AM
QuoteTyphoon class sub under construction. Two pressure hulls and the ICBM section between them clearly visible

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1dmbLUn.jpg&hash=dbc77aeb42ee4345e24cfaf0cfcfc2e5ba24ce24)

Very cool.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 15, 2015, 11:57:31 AM
QuoteUSS Block Island (CVE-106) in North Atlantic seas 1952

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 15, 2015, 06:21:58 PM
Sonia does Sussex.

http://lex-for-lexington.tumblr.com/post/131225255272/uss-edsall-impression-of-a-ki-51-sonia
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on October 16, 2015, 08:23:11 AM
Quote from: besilarius on October 15, 2015, 06:21:58 PM
Sonia does Sussex.

http://lex-for-lexington.tumblr.com/post/131225255272/uss-edsall-impression-of-a-ki-51-sonia

Wild!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 19, 2015, 11:15:11 AM
QuoteUS Atlantic Fleet in a gale, 1913.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1n42QNt.jpg&hash=00652e51c44b1f6ff92ff98564999b90817ed5fa)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 19, 2015, 06:06:01 PM
Diving on Musashi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwaaJeCjgjw
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 20, 2015, 11:00:51 AM
QuoteSMS Lützow, the flagship of Rear Admiral Franz von Hipper during the Battle of Jutland.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FoGD6fxc.jpg&hash=95752d75a785c2250d1b597b5ef6be2039bc72fa)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 21, 2015, 11:44:12 AM
QuoteShore party from the USS Onondaga, a double-turreted monitor launched 29 July 1863.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.murdoconline.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F01%2Fcws_onondaga.jpg&hash=f05c9e61a1ef8a83c2e83b85534a4ae627910813)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 21, 2015, 11:45:39 AM
QuoteUSS Indianapolis (CA 35) entering New York City, date unknown


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 21, 2015, 06:13:32 PM
Well, we know the photo was taken sometime before July of 1945.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 21, 2015, 06:20:41 PM
I actually think it's pre war.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on October 22, 2015, 08:12:54 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 21, 2015, 11:44:12 AM
QuoteShore party from the USS Onondaga, a double-turreted monitor launched 29 July 1863.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.murdoconline.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2009%2F01%2Fcws_onondaga.jpg&hash=f05c9e61a1ef8a83c2e83b85534a4ae627910813)

Looks like a sweet gig (for back in the day).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2015, 11:00:17 AM
QuoteHMS Ark Royal (R09) with Venoms, Hawks and Gannets on deck.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F0nazyMk.jpg&hash=6c8da4f3953e36aadde93f6f94ed8197d5a42912)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2015, 11:02:54 AM
(http://)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2015, 11:04:49 AM
QuoteUSS Oregon returning from Cuba (Spanish-American War). She's showing signs of some seriously hard mileage (sailed from SF to Cuba via Cape Horn) as well as combat (Battle of Santiago Bay).

(https://i.imgur.com/33gnm.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2015, 11:06:43 AM
QuoteHMS Lion (C34) at Malta, in 1961

(https://i.imgur.com/IiugLto.png)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 22, 2015, 06:30:22 PM
German naval paintings

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/claus-bergen-marine-maler-im-ersten-und-zweiten-weltkrieg-fotostrecke-130623.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 23, 2015, 07:52:26 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 21, 2015, 11:44:12 AM
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Thas' a purty funnel you got there, boy...

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Post by: besilarius on October 23, 2015, 05:22:35 PM
Now, if the First Lieutenant had any sense of humor, they'd let the anchor go.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 23, 2015, 07:49:06 PM
Quote from: besilarius on October 23, 2015, 05:22:35 PM
Now, if the First Lieutenant had any sense of humor, they'd let the anchor go.

Caddyshack flashback...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 25, 2015, 01:45:01 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 26, 2015, 06:44:14 AM
Constitution, New York, and Texas at Charleston, Mass shipyard, early 1930s
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Post by: mirth on October 26, 2015, 03:40:42 PM
HMS Furious in 1918 with flight decks fore and aft of the superstructure.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2015, 03:42:29 PM
QuoteUSS ABSD-2 with USS Mississippi in the dock, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 12 Oct 1944

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Post by: mirth on October 26, 2015, 03:44:39 PM
USS Iowa in the same floating drydock shown above


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2015, 03:47:00 PM
Quote3-inch guns in the stern gun tubs aboard the USS Essex, circa 1950.

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Post by: mirth on October 27, 2015, 09:05:23 AM
QuoteUSS Halsey (DLG/CG-23) following completion of her air warfare upgrade at Bath Iron Works. 1972.


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Post by: besilarius on October 27, 2015, 07:39:13 PM
Midrats on the Yorktown in 1944.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2015, 08:52:54 AM
QuoteRoyal Navy Vanguard Class submarine HMS Vigilant returning to HMNB Clyde after her extended deployment.

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Post by: Centurion40 on October 29, 2015, 10:05:58 AM
Looks like a sea monster!
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Post by: mirth on October 29, 2015, 05:24:36 PM
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 29, 2015, 10:05:58 AM
Looks like a sea monster!

Nessie made it out of the Loch.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2015, 05:27:30 PM
QuoteUSS New York seen from the deck of USS Missouri, October 27th, 1945, in the Hudson River

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 29, 2015, 05:38:17 PM
Pennsylvania after a torpedo hit on 12 August, 45.  One torpedo blew a hole thirty feet in diameter near the stern.
Note the freeboard on the main deck!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on October 29, 2015, 05:48:52 PM
man that was close to the end
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2015, 11:21:17 AM
QuoteThe Second Battleship Squadron of the German Navy sailing to the North Sea, circa 1911-14.

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Post by: mirth on October 30, 2015, 11:22:14 AM
QuoteFirst and Second Battleship Squadrons and Small Cruiser of the German Navy, in Kiel Harbor, Germany, circa 1911-14.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2015, 11:23:28 AM
QuoteHarry Truman watching the 1945 Navy Day celebrations in New York from the USS Missouri, October 27, 1945.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on October 30, 2015, 11:50:11 AM
Cool pic.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 02, 2015, 07:20:14 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61dzZo5Up0

A rather wet ride.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 02, 2015, 07:41:16 AM
Warspite on the rocks.
On the way to the breakers, the grand old lady had one more adventure.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on November 02, 2015, 09:11:12 AM
Quote from: besilarius on November 02, 2015, 07:20:14 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61dzZo5Up0

A rather wet ride.

Methinks that we should purchase some of those from you.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 02, 2015, 06:56:52 PM
Most theme parks have flume rides and log drops that do the trick for a wet one.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 02, 2015, 07:43:51 PM
Turret Explosion on Battleship Michigan, 25 September 1916.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 03, 2015, 07:27:24 PM
One admiral's response to Chinese weaponry.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/08/04/our-aircraft-carriers-are-not-sitting-ducks/

I am certain the navy is working on technological advances.  Hope it will be enough.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Centurion40 on November 04, 2015, 08:38:00 AM
Quote from: besilarius on November 03, 2015, 07:27:24 PM
One admiral's response to Chinese weaponry.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/08/04/our-aircraft-carriers-are-not-sitting-ducks/

I am certain the navy is working on technological advances.  Hope it will be enough.

When a senior executive like an Admiral/General level officer starts telling me that everything is ok, well, that's when I start to worry.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2015, 10:05:35 AM
QuoteChristening ceremony at Bath Iron Works for USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115)


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Post by: mirth on November 04, 2015, 10:07:18 AM
QuoteAn MV-22 Osprey lands on the flight deck of USS Boxer (LHD-4) as USS New Orleans (LPD-18) and USNS Yukon (T-AO 202) conduct a replenishment at sea during a Composite Training Unit Exercise in the Pacific.

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Post by: mirth on November 04, 2015, 10:08:45 AM
QuoteLeander-class frigate HMS Cleopatra passing through the Corinth Canal, Greece in 1970.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2015, 10:09:34 AM
QuoteEscort Carrier USS Barnes transporting P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes across the Pacific, July 1, 1943

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 04, 2015, 06:14:19 PM
Always wanted to try the Corinth canal, but the fuddy-duddies at Sixth Fleet were concerned about the sonar domes!
Can you imagine?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 04, 2015, 06:15:09 PM
Maryland after a torpedo strike off Saipan.  10 July, 1944
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on November 04, 2015, 06:34:22 PM
Damn that's a BFH!*








* Also said by Star on several occassions
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Post by: besilarius on November 05, 2015, 06:56:26 PM
Video filmed from Prinz Eugen of the Denmark Strait.

https://www.facebook.com/fireflypls/videos/1710973809122193/?fref=nf
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 08, 2015, 12:04:45 PM
QuoteSS Atlantic Conveyor after her 10 day refit during the Falklands War.

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http://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2012/04/the-atlantic-conveyor-falklands30/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 08, 2015, 05:16:17 PM
IJN cruiser Nachi 5 November, 1944, Manila.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 08, 2015, 06:26:10 PM
Looks like she is missing her bow in addition to that other... problem.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 09, 2015, 09:44:10 PM
Quote from: besilarius on November 08, 2015, 05:16:17 PM
IJN cruiser Nachi 5 November, 1944, Manila.

its a picture of Mirths love life.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 09, 2015, 10:11:07 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 09, 2015, 09:44:10 PM
Quote from: besilarius on November 08, 2015, 05:16:17 PM
IJN cruiser Nachi 5 November, 1944, Manila.

its a picture of Mirths love life.

You're the one with all the experience with Filipino trannies.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 10, 2015, 07:34:21 AM
Gambier Bay getting a water washdown from 18" shells.
And the ship on the far right is the cruiser Chikuma.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 10, 2015, 01:42:16 PM
IIRC, Gambier Bay didn't have long to live after that photo was taken.
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Post by: besilarius on November 12, 2015, 07:28:47 AM
The 20mm oerlikons were manned by the messmates on Essex.  When the kamikaze hit, avgas spilled off the flight deck and over the guncrews.  They were burned so badly that all the medical crew could do was shoot them up with morphine.  Within half an hour they had all died.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 12, 2015, 07:52:50 PM
Quote1970 Super Boss Mustang 429 being loaded aboard USS Coral Sea (CV-43)

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QuoteIn 1970, lawyer and drag racer Al Eckstrand put together a Lawman Racing Team, consisting of two 780hp Boss 429 Mustang drag cars and six 428 Cobra Jet Mach 1s, to tour U.S. military facilities around the world. It was during the Vietnam War, and servicemen were happy to see some of the musclecars from back home. Two Lawman Boss 429s were built, one for Eckstrand demonstrations in Southeast Asia and the other for use as a show car in Europe. The first car was destroyed at sea when an 8-ton ship container fell on it So, Eckstrand hastily finished the second car, which was flown by Air Force transport to the south Pacific. http://www.mustangheaven.com/2015/old-photo-of-1970-lawman-super-boss-429-being-unloaded-in-vietnam/#more-23035
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 14, 2015, 08:13:39 PM
A female worker cleaning the rifling on a 15 inch rifle in Warwickshire.
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Post by: besilarius on November 16, 2015, 11:05:32 PM
Event on the USS Chopper.
http://diodon349.com/Stories/Stories_SS/The_Deep_Dive_of_the_USS_CHOPPER_SS_342.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 22, 2015, 06:52:05 PM
USS Maddox during Halsey's Typhoon, 17 December, 1944.
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Post by: besilarius on November 22, 2015, 10:24:52 PM
Battleship Texas, steam plant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdGo-54bknM
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Post by: besilarius on December 01, 2015, 06:19:55 PM
Dead Man's turret on Seydlitz.  Queen Mary put a 13.5 thru the barbette of the aft superfiring turret, killing about 150 men. 

At Dogger Bank, Lion put a 13.5 into the deck at the base of the barbette, also killing about 150 men in the same turret.
German ammunition burned instead of exploding, which is why Seydlitz made it home.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 07, 2015, 06:19:59 PM
Zumwalt in sea trials.

http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2015/12/07/largest-destroyer-built-navy-headed-sea-testing/76919816/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 07, 2015, 07:46:01 PM
Quote from: besilarius on December 07, 2015, 06:19:59 PM
Zumwalt in sea trials.

http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2015/12/07/largest-destroyer-built-navy-headed-sea-testing/76919816/

TBH, I'm still not sure why the Zumwalt Class are considered destroyers since they are the size of the pocket battleship Graff Spee. Still, if the Japanese can call something that launches aircraft and is the size of WW2's USS Enterprise a 'helicopter destroyer' I guess we can join in on the rebranding as well.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on December 08, 2015, 07:14:34 AM
Quote from: besilarius on December 07, 2015, 06:19:59 PM
Zumwalt in sea trials.

http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2015/12/07/largest-destroyer-built-navy-headed-sea-testing/76919816/

Ha! The skippers name - James Kirk.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 16, 2015, 07:54:14 AM
Walk Softly, and Carry a Big Stick.
The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 19, 2015, 07:23:34 AM
Primer man on center gun of an Iowa 16" turret.  The gun's breech is above him.
The red line behind him was called the recoil line.  If you were even with the line, or worse in front of it, when the gun fired, you would not be in good condition.
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Post by: besilarius on December 20, 2015, 08:43:24 AM
Hercules is the last steam tug in America.  Video of her trip across San Francisco Bay.  Good view of boilers and reciprocating engines.  All ships used to work like this.

https://www.facebook.com/richard.everett.3998
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Post by: besilarius on December 21, 2015, 06:38:29 PM
X  turret, HMS Tiger after Jutland
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Post by: Airborne Rifles on December 21, 2015, 10:14:48 PM
Old Soviet navy vs. new Russian navy.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 21, 2015, 11:49:01 PM
 :2funny:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 24, 2015, 07:21:41 AM
The end of Exeter.
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Post by: besilarius on December 28, 2015, 09:05:46 AM
Portsmouth harbor, 1919.  Royal Sovereign and Victory
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Post by: besilarius on December 28, 2015, 09:06:32 PM
Floating Dock, Deptford, London.  Approx 1845.
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Post by: besilarius on December 31, 2015, 09:34:09 AM
HMAS Sidney wreck videod.

http://www.argunners.com/new-images-of-hmas-sydney-confirm-fate-killing-645/

Apparently the first german salvo hit squarely in the bridge.  Normally a cruiser like this should have been able to handle an auxiliary cruiser. 
The same thing nearly happened to Prince of Wales during the Bismarck engagement.  A 15" shell hit the bridge, but did not explode.  Even so, all but three of the crew were killed or incapacitated.  If the shell went off, with a new ship that was still working up, might have been catastrophic.
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Post by: besilarius on January 01, 2016, 11:48:48 AM
Italian factory, Genoa, 1906
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Post by: Staggerwing on January 01, 2016, 12:50:20 PM
Are you sure that's Genoa? The caption translates as:

"workshop staging towers (Establishment Armstrong -Elswick")

That would put it at the Elswick Shipyards on the River Tyne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth#Shipbuilding
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on January 01, 2016, 01:37:33 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on January 01, 2016, 12:50:20 PM
Are you sure that's Genoa? The caption translates as:

"workshop staging towers (Establishment Armstrong -Elswick")

That would put it at the Elswick Shipyards on the River Tyne.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth#Shipbuilding

About 3 miles from where I live, although its not there now, obviously :-)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 02, 2016, 01:54:47 AM
Can't say at all.  Got it from a friend who said it was from an Italian book on the prewar Italian Navy. 
Took him at his word, which was apparently not that good.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 03, 2016, 08:46:53 AM
French steam battleship, Carnot. 
Very baroque in style.  Can just imagine the admiral enjoying a snifter of cognac as the seaman holystone the teak deck.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on January 03, 2016, 09:41:06 AM
Look at all that bloody smoke! Who built the engines, Volkswagon?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 03, 2016, 11:11:54 AM
Or maybe the Trabant factory.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 04, 2016, 12:18:00 AM
For those who have never quite figured out what a 16" shell is equivalent to.
Nauticus museum in Norfolk, VA, USS Wisconsin.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 09, 2016, 05:36:52 PM
#2 Fire room, USS Yorktown.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 12, 2016, 06:36:48 PM
Christmas Day, 1940 on HMS King George V.

Giblet Soup?  A Bawb specialty?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on January 13, 2016, 06:50:06 AM
We had to make do. There was a war on, y'know!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 14, 2016, 08:49:27 PM
http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/russias-aircraft-carrier-piece-junk

This sounds too good to be true. 
If it should be true, and the Chinese are using this as a blueprint, I'm not so worried anymore.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 15, 2016, 09:59:39 AM
Quote from: besilarius on January 14, 2016, 08:49:27 PM
http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/russias-aircraft-carrier-piece-junk

This sounds too good to be true. 
If it should be true, and the Chinese are using this as a blueprint, I'm not so worried anymore.

"If you misbehave, you'll be sent to the Kuznetsov"

;D

Sounds like we could bring the Intrepid or other 'museumed' CVs back into service and they'd still be lightyears ahead of Russia, China, and other third-world powers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 15, 2016, 12:39:17 PM
QuoteHMS King George V viewed from beneath the 14 inch guns of HMS Anson, Scapa Flow - 15th January 1943.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 15, 2016, 12:41:07 PM
QuoteRussian Delta class submarine firing ballistic missile

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 17, 2016, 08:29:13 AM
USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 17, 2016, 08:37:34 AM
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Post by: Staggerwing on January 17, 2016, 08:50:34 AM
Cool charts. Where did you find them? Are there any more at the source?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 17, 2016, 08:59:07 AM
I found them on Reddit. This is the source site - http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/

Cool site, but I didn't see anymore infographics like those.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 17, 2016, 09:30:11 AM
The cruiser chart is missing the Marbleheads.
A great class inspired by the govenors of Massachusetts.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 17, 2016, 09:47:57 AM
I think the graphic was meant to show more notable ways that USN cruisers changed over the years rather than include each and every class. There are no Chester- or St-Louise-class ships on the list either.
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Post by: besilarius on January 19, 2016, 06:50:25 PM
2 Million pounds for Dreadnaught in 1905.
Would be roughly 218 Million pounds today.  Might be able to cover an F35/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 19, 2016, 07:04:24 PM
That cruiser chart is cool, but that's some shitty Photoshop skills, making the bottom of it unreadable.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 20, 2016, 09:51:55 AM
QuoteRIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile launched from Wasp-class amphibious assault ship

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 20, 2016, 10:14:32 AM
Good read - http://breakingdefense.com/2016/01/navys-dilemma-what-kind-of-presence/ (http://breakingdefense.com/2016/01/navys-dilemma-what-kind-of-presence/)

I like this guy:

Quote"Folks, our job is to kill people and break their toys," the Navy's director of surface warfare, Rear Adm. Peter Fanta, said to laughter and applause at the Surface Navy Association's annual conference. "There's nothing else in the world that matters. That's why you have a Navy."

"I got it," Fanta went on. "There's presence — [but] presence without lethality is impotence."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on January 20, 2016, 10:18:37 AM
1100 crew on a cruiser?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 20, 2016, 02:34:19 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on January 20, 2016, 10:18:37 AM
1100 crew on a cruiser?

Not ours. Most of our modern cruisers/destroyers have a total complement of around 300-350. The Zumwalts will only have about 150 due to the high level of automation.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on January 20, 2016, 02:37:22 PM
i refer you to the long beach and baltimore class
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 20, 2016, 02:50:35 PM
Quote from: undercovergeek on January 20, 2016, 02:37:22 PM
i refer you to the long beach and baltimore class

Not exactly modern ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on January 20, 2016, 03:41:49 PM
^....neither is 'geek............
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 20, 2016, 03:52:25 PM
Quote from: bob48 on January 20, 2016, 03:41:49 PM
^....neither is 'geek............

Heh. I just realized that he was looking at the chart. My mind was elsewhere when I responded to his post.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on January 20, 2016, 03:58:46 PM
fkng useless!!  :D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 20, 2016, 07:11:19 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FRcpZMIv.jpg&hash=1ac45d2447de01b618baa9f1366fdf77a3c39e09)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 20, 2016, 07:22:57 PM
Almost as big as a Chinese Coast Guard cutter.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 20, 2016, 07:58:06 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fnavydata%2Fships%2Fdestroyers%2Fdesron23.jpg&hash=a2b1e683df9966bd91fe28b7ca494cb647969109)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 23, 2016, 10:34:52 AM
The Tillman Battleship boondoggle.
These "maximum" BBs were derailed by the Washington Treaty.
http://myplace.frontier.com/~wellsbrothers/Battleships/TillmanBB.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 23, 2016, 10:50:32 AM
Interesting article. The Tillmans sound like the battleship equivalent of the Neubaufahrzeuge panzers or the Soviet T-35, both dead-end designs.

Those 6-gun turrets would have been spectacular to see, even a full broadside would have probably been out of the question for structural integrity reasons.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on January 23, 2016, 12:17:20 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 20, 2016, 07:11:19 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FRcpZMIv.jpg&hash=1ac45d2447de01b618baa9f1366fdf77a3c39e09)

"We are the Borg. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile".
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 23, 2016, 12:20:46 PM
Remember, the Captain's name is James Kirk. I can just imagine the bridge chatter, "Captain, thair be whales here!".
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on January 23, 2016, 12:26:56 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 23, 2016, 12:20:46 PM
Remember, the Captain's name is James Kirk. I can just imagine the bridge chatter, "Captain, thair be whales here!".

I had forgotten that! Sooooo many bad Trek lines to be made here!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 27, 2016, 07:49:24 AM
Final take off and landing on the Sad Sara.

http://worldwarwings.com/uss-saratoga-got-one-final-landing-but-its-not-what-youd-think
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 27, 2016, 11:54:29 AM
QuoteUSS Missouri fires a salvo of 16-inch shells from turret 2 while bombarding Chongjin, North Korea, in an effort to cut enemy communications, October 1950.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 27, 2016, 11:57:03 AM
(http://)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 27, 2016, 12:10:24 PM
Slava class cruiser in dry dock

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FHarUfpy.jpg&hash=0470c4c997b12bf67005333c303e7b48de4c7267)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 27, 2016, 06:57:36 PM
German battlecruiser SMS Von der Tann in drydock after the battle of Jutland, showing the aft armoured plate over the starboard rudder dislodged after being hit at 17.09 of May 31, 1916 by a 15-inch shell of HMS Barham. The shell struck in compartment I hitting the junction between the upper 80mm-thick armoured plate and the lower 100mm-thick one, with splinters of armour penetrating inside the ship. The shell provoked the flooding with 600 tons of water of the starboard rudder room, detention cells, starboard wing passage and all store rooms on Zwischendeck in compartments I and II. As a consequence, the starboard rudder was temporarily jammed, the draught aft increased to 10 m and the battlecruiser acquired a 2° listing to starboard, but without more serious consequences and personnel losses.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 27, 2016, 09:32:20 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 27, 2016, 12:10:24 PM
Slava class cruiser in dry dock

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FHarUfpy.jpg&hash=0470c4c997b12bf67005333c303e7b48de4c7267)

The MiniMe completes that pic.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 28, 2016, 12:16:02 PM
QuoteUSS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Midway (CVA-41), USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), and USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14) at Pier J, Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, 18 July 1970.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 29, 2016, 12:32:53 PM
USS Iowa (BB-61)

(https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12651030_1164964456854827_8934062620158012958_n.jpg?oh=8dd1b306ee4674e66ab6595093021d57&oe=5729E99C)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 30, 2016, 12:00:38 PM
Blücher (Admiral Hipper-class) burning and sinking in Oslofjorden after being hit by two 280 mm shells and two 450 mm Whitehead torpedoes fired by Oscarsborg Fortress, plus thirteen 150 mm shells fired by the nearby Kopås Battery. Blücher sank at 06.22 of April 9, 1940.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 30, 2016, 01:42:18 PM
Quote from: besilarius on January 30, 2016, 12:00:38 PM
Blücher (Admiral Hipper-class) burning and sinking in Oslofjorden after being hit by two 280 mm shells and two 450 mm Whitehead torpedoes fired by Oscarsborg Fortress, plus thirteen 150 mm shells fired by the nearby Kopås Battery. Blücher sank at 06.22 of April 9, 1940.

It's kind of hard to sink a coastal fortress, even if you do get in the first shots...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 30, 2016, 04:08:44 PM
The Tchermans were surprised that the Whitehead torpedoes, manufactured prior to World War I, would still work.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 30, 2016, 04:24:11 PM
QuoteOpen missile tubes for P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) on Kuznetsov class carrier

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FCgeplAe.jpg&hash=b9c42f2d3ca5681045181ef8d3bd4d4a8ac1b914)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 30, 2016, 04:27:17 PM
QuoteHMS Rodney leaving the builder's yard, August 26th, 1927.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 30, 2016, 04:31:03 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 30, 2016, 04:24:11 PM
QuoteOpen missile tubes for P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) on Kuznetsov class carrier

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FCgeplAe.jpg&hash=b9c42f2d3ca5681045181ef8d3bd4d4a8ac1b914)

I hope those doors are well armored in case some ordinance laden Yak141 that's been sitting on top waiting for takeoff has a sudden fuel tank BLEVE.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 30, 2016, 05:53:25 PM
Greased pigs on the USS Saratoga





http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-time-when-the-uss-america-dropped-live-pigs-on-the-1756136949
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 03, 2016, 11:10:30 AM
QuoteUSS Nautilus (SSN-571) in 1958

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FH9PAsjF.jpg&hash=e96d7ea885d14b079d101322200bffbb1aeb8534)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 04, 2016, 06:28:10 PM
Laffey versus Aoba.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 04, 2016, 07:49:44 PM
QuoteThe USS Kitty hawk (CV-63) underway in support of Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan in 2001. 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment helicopters are visible on the vessel's flight deck

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FAheSzkc.jpg&hash=898118439b9e7fe6b6d0d53c4689773f4e73ebbb)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 04, 2016, 07:57:31 PM
Purty picture.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 06, 2016, 09:43:09 AM
Captain's cabin, Uss Constitution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3w3-jSMB0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 06, 2016, 09:57:02 AM
Quote from: besilarius on February 06, 2016, 09:43:09 AM
Captain's cabin, Uss Constitution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3w3-jSMB0

Beautiful lady. And the cabin wasn't too bad either. ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 07, 2016, 06:02:36 PM
Constitution with angels.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 08, 2016, 11:43:18 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimgur.com%2FkNPRBNh.jpg&hash=d16ca4f6562c51bee82e7a014c3f517580588307)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 10, 2016, 12:18:30 PM
QuoteU.S. battleship Connecticut in 1909

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzT71m53.jpg&hash=b339f91acf806d18e971b0ed4fba9cd272eba8e3)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 10, 2016, 06:50:47 PM
Nice! I may have to print that one out and frame it, me being a resident of the Nutmeg State and all...  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 11, 2016, 07:33:10 AM
Light cruiser Chester after Jutland.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2016, 08:28:44 AM
QuoteThe scene in the Ferry Dock at Dover, showing some of the Royal Naval Coastal Force Ships, consisting of MTB's, MASB's, and RAF HSL's, 11th February 1942.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2016, 08:32:14 AM
QuoteVon Steuben (SSBN-632), as "JAWS" in dry dock during the first non-CONUS, non-refueling, overhaul in Holy Loch Scotland, circa 1970's.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on February 13, 2016, 07:49:02 AM
Russia's sub fleet today:

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fl1.yimg.com%2Fbt%2Fapi%2Fres%2F1.2%2FSjFDojeoXEOJc.oBbtx6vg--%2FYXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztxPTg1%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fglobalfinance.zenfs.com%2Fen_us%2FFinance%2FUS_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE%2FThis_amazing_graphic_shows_all-5f88c5002e046a490413821161d62fa5&hash=333e2b9e93b4bd01fa700f286e4a750e08bd093e)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 13, 2016, 10:31:33 AM
U boat, 1915, command station.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 13, 2016, 02:57:40 PM
QuoteVirginia-class battleship USS Georgia (BB-15) departing from New York

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 13, 2016, 02:58:25 PM
QuoteColorado-class battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) after her modernization off Puget Sound Navy Yard, July 1944

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F1Ugr92R.jpg&hash=506aa01bb7ff6184815889144c7ed1a1ad79523e)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 13, 2016, 03:20:42 PM
QuoteThe Seaplane Tender-Destroyer USS McFarland (AVD-14) stands at anchor in Narragansett Bay and prepares to receive a pair of PBY Catalinas on 15 April 1939.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 13, 2016, 03:23:12 PM
QuoteHMS "Hood" in the Lower East Chamber of the Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal. July 23, 1924.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2016, 07:30:48 AM
QuoteUSS Gemini firing a Harpoon anti-ship missile.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foils.org%2Fgallery%2Fphm1m.jpg&hash=9d5707bac39844904ef67240b404ca5f0c81cc03)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2016, 07:41:01 AM
QuoteHMS Glorious raising steam in 1917

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FUxTucPV.jpg&hash=33e3781c15344d5b8ffbd97a39ffa6473b1291b3)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 14, 2016, 07:45:08 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 14, 2016, 07:30:48 AM
QuoteUSS Gemini firing a Harpoon anti-ship missile.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foils.org%2Fgallery%2Fphm1m.jpg&hash=9d5707bac39844904ef67240b404ca5f0c81cc03)

Hydrofoil!  48 Knots!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus-class_hydrofoil


I had a nice model of the USS Tucumcari when I was a teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tucumcari_(PGH-2)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/USS_Tucumcari_%28PGH-2%29.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2016, 07:51:51 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 14, 2016, 07:45:08 AM

I had a nice model of the USS Tucumcari when I was a teenager.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tucumcari_(PGH-2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tucumcari_(PGH-2))

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/USS_Tucumcari_%28PGH-2%29.jpg)

Cool!  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2016, 07:55:12 AM
Ouch!

QuoteOn 16 November, 1972, Tucumcari suffered a serious accident. While participating in simulated combat operations with other amphibious forces off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, she unexpectedly ran aground. Hitting a coral reef at 40+ knots, Tucumcari was stopped dead within the length of her hull, forcing the front strut aft and shearing off the port and starboard foils. Several crewmen were injured and two crewmen had to be air lifted by helicopter from the grounded vessel. Fortunately, all the crewmen recovered from their injuries.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/USS_Tucumcari_%28PGH-2%29_Grounding_01.JPG)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 14, 2016, 10:38:35 AM
Modernization work left Midway top heavy.
People are still shocked the hull frames could take the stress of a 41 degree roll in a typhoon.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2016, 04:06:16 PM
QuoteRoyal Australian Navy ships HMAS Darwin, Anzac and Warramunga sail into Jervis Bay.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 15, 2016, 07:23:25 AM
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12717404_10153930497693669_3897697367701980118_n.jpg?oh=b9c4bc6ca16cd20720110412dfc5f751&oe=575CBCAE)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 15, 2016, 08:59:29 AM
^Nice!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 16, 2016, 03:20:06 PM
USS Vicksburg, guns blazing


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 17, 2016, 12:25:59 PM
QuoteThree Canadian escorts in the Saint Lawrence estuary in 1943 - Two Bangor class minesweepers and the Flower class corvette HMCS La Malbaie

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 18, 2016, 12:22:01 PM
Deck edge elevator on USS Wasp (CV-7)

http://wonderduck.mu.nu/uss_wasp_the_worst_us_carrier_in_the_pacific


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on February 18, 2016, 01:03:58 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 15, 2016, 07:23:25 AM
(https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12717404_10153930497693669_3897697367701980118_n.jpg?oh=b9c4bc6ca16cd20720110412dfc5f751&oe=575CBCAE)
American carriers give me a hardon  :P
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 18, 2016, 06:28:44 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 19, 2016, 08:04:46 AM
Squall.  Vladi's anti-Zumwalt design.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 19, 2016, 09:58:37 AM
Quote from: besilarius on February 19, 2016, 08:04:46 AM
Squall.  Vladi's anti-Zumwalt design.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

(inhale)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

...we'll probably be on the next generation post-Zumwalt by the time they start laying the keel of this one, it'll run at about 50% efficiency, and eventually they'll sell it to the Chinese Navy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 19, 2016, 10:13:11 AM
I doubt they ever make it past the scale model

http://www.janes.com/article/51453/russian-destroyer-design-revealed (http://www.janes.com/article/51453/russian-destroyer-design-revealed)

QuoteThe destroyer is intended to be powered by a gas turbine engine (although Russia currently lacks any adequate sources for naval gas turbines)

Maybe they can tow it around, like the pretty much do with the Kuznetsov.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 19, 2016, 09:31:36 PM
The rules were clunky, and the physical mechanics could be really hard on the knees, but god it was fun.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 20, 2016, 11:40:22 AM
Volador test torpedo was a circular runner.
Same thing that sank the Tang.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 21, 2016, 05:17:30 PM
Gambier Bay under fire from Chikuma (circled).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 22, 2016, 08:56:53 AM
QuoteNorfolk waterfront at sunrise from across the river.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 25, 2016, 11:55:12 AM
QuoteUSS HALSEY (DDG 97) stands out of San Diego at sunset.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.public.navy.mil%2Fsurfor%2Fswmag%2Fvol42%2FFirstPlace.jpg&hash=247d5ea7c081bf7b86fd55da1e0b4e610d6e0a69)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 27, 2016, 06:06:47 PM
QuoteTiconderoga-class cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG-56) executes a high-speed turn following replenishment at sea with USNS Big Horn (T-AO 198) in the Med. Feb. 1996. USN Photo.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 28, 2016, 05:48:35 AM
...not Captain Wilkes, I hope...........
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 28, 2016, 03:18:25 PM
QuoteThe sun rises behind USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). As photographed from JFK. Mar 2002. USN Photo.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 28, 2016, 03:20:17 PM
QuoteAn HH-60H Seahawk helicopter assigned to the "Nightdippers" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Five (HS-5) crosses the bow of USS John F. Kennedy (C-67). The Med. Feb 2002. USN Photo.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 28, 2016, 03:22:34 PM
QuoteUSS Antietam (CG 54) conducting UNREP via the USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) in the Philippine Sea at night time.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2016, 04:48:02 PM
QuoteHMS Indefatigable nearing completion at Rosyth, 2nd March 1944.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2016, 04:49:10 PM
QuoteHMS Hermes off Hong Kong, 1930.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2016, 04:50:25 PM
QuoteCardboard model used to help plan the salvage of the USS Oklahoma after Pearl Harbor

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2016, 04:52:39 PM
QuoteRussian submarine Project 665. NATO reporting name Whiskey Long Bin

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Album

http://imgur.com/a/GEuR5 (http://imgur.com/a/GEuR5)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 02, 2016, 06:23:51 PM
Somethings are just too ugly... no pride in that Navy?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 03, 2016, 10:45:34 AM
QuoteRoyal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette HMCS La Malbaie (K273) underway in choppy seas.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 03, 2016, 10:46:32 AM
QuoteThe 7th Destroyer Squadron at Sliema, Malta. From left to right: Weapon-class destroyer HMS Scorpion (D64), Battle-class destroyer HMS Jutland (D62), Weapon-class destroyer HMS Broadsword, Battle-class destroyers HMS Dunkirk (D09) and HMS Trafalgar (D77), 3rd March 1961.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 04, 2016, 09:24:06 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 04, 2016, 09:24:31 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 04, 2016, 09:24:53 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 04, 2016, 11:30:39 AM
QuoteHMS Courageous off Yugoslavia, 1929.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 04, 2016, 11:31:48 AM
QuoteGerman battleship SMS Lothringen photographed passing under the Levensau Bridge of the Kiel Canal before World War I

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 04, 2016, 11:33:46 AM
QuoteUSS LST-806 beached at Palawan Island, Philippines, with a wrecked Japanese Aichi E13A Jake Float Plane

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 08, 2016, 07:25:55 AM
Wonder what the british version of this would say?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 08, 2016, 12:40:19 PM
QuoteHMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) with Grumman S-2 Tracker aircraft on deck. Late 60's.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 08, 2016, 12:41:20 PM
QuoteUSS Antietam (CG-54) prowls the South China Sea while on deployment with the US 7th Fleet on 6 March 2016.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 08, 2016, 12:43:12 PM
QuoteCNS 北极星 (Beijixing) and USS Stockdale sailing in the South China Sea. The Chinese ELINT ship is keeping an eye on the John C. Stennis Strike Group conducting FONOP.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 09, 2016, 01:00:10 PM
QuoteImperial Japanese Navy Myōkō-class heavy cruiser 'Ashigara' prior to the Spithead Coronation Fleet Review, May 19th 1937.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 10, 2016, 07:39:18 AM
Today's navy.


I blame it on Zumwalt.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2016, 09:01:19 AM
QuoteUSS Florida and a bargeload of shells, Boston Navy Yard, 1922


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on March 10, 2016, 09:07:08 AM
Ummmmm.... who was the naval genius that had the idea to have that second turret face into the ship!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on March 10, 2016, 09:37:57 AM
as long as you dont fire youre ok
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on March 10, 2016, 09:52:31 AM
The Acme Ship Design Company?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2016, 09:56:41 AM
It wasn't uncommon to have odd gun arrangements like that in early all-big-gun battleships. It took awhile to figure out superfiring (raised) turrets.

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/concepts_superfiring_turrets.html (http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/concepts_superfiring_turrets.html)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 10, 2016, 11:20:59 AM
Quote from: Barthheart on March 10, 2016, 09:07:08 AM
Ummmmm.... who was the naval genius that had the idea to have that second turret face into the ship!

its to keep the naval sodomites from mutiny.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 10, 2016, 11:28:33 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 10, 2016, 11:29:35 AM
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I like how the sailor is knowingly looking at the goat  ^-^

Dammit, ninja'd by Windy. Good job old chap.  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2016, 11:30:39 AM
Quote from: Windigo on March 10, 2016, 11:28:33 AM
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HMS Goatfury?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 10, 2016, 11:33:41 AM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on March 10, 2016, 11:29:35 AM
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I like how the sailor is knowingly looking at the goat  ^-^

Dammit, ninja'd by Windy. Good job old chap.  O0

I liked where this whole goat thing is going. Its fun...
My real job, in part, is identifying trends early and getting in front of them.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2016, 11:34:25 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 10, 2016, 11:36:34 AM
^ Saw that pic. It disturbed me on a couple of levels.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2016, 11:36:48 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 10, 2016, 11:40:56 AM
^ The goat looks awfully happy to have a radar array up its bum.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2016, 11:42:58 AM
It's also standing directly over the vertical launch system
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2016, 07:05:51 PM
QuoteElectric Boat workers prepare Virginia-class attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786) for rollout. July 2015.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 12, 2016, 01:17:08 PM
QuoteUSCGC Mellon firing RGM-84 Harpoon

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Quote
Mellon was modernized from 1985 to 1989. She was the first and only USCG cutter to be fitted with the Harpoon missile, test firings were also conducted in January 1990. She also received an anti-submarine warfare suite including the AN/SQS-26 sonar and Mark 46 torpedoes. The ASW suite and Harpoon capability were removed due to fiscal constraints, but served as a proof of capability for all USCG cutters.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 12, 2016, 01:29:13 PM
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From reddit:

QuoteBoaters and sailors of Reddit, what is the scariest or most unexplainable thing you've experienced at sea?

QuoteEx Navy, Spruance class destroyer sailor. First was a rudder sticking and a collision at sea with a tanker during an underway replenishment. 2nd would be our CO cutting across the bow of not one, but TWO aircraft carriers and almost causing a carrier - destroyer collision. Spoilers, destroyers don't win those. 3rd was trying to outrun a hurricane in the South China sea. We were taking 35 degree rolls, the waves were cresting over the bridge, some were 35 ft plus. I almost know how they felt in A Perfect Storm.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2fdon4/boaters_and_sailors_of_reddit_what_is_the/ck8dfo5?context=3

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2016, 08:44:49 AM
QuoteNine Flat Tops at US Navy base Naval Station Norfolk, December 20, 2012

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QuoteFrom bottom to top, front to back, or left to right:

Aircraft carrier DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN 69)

Aircraft carrier GEORGE H. W. BUSH (CVN 77)

Aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE (CVN 65)

Amphibious assault ship BATAAN (LHD 5)

Aircraft carrier ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72)

Aircraft carrier HARRY S TRUMAN (CVN 75)

Amphibious assault ship WASP (LHD 1)

Amphibious assault ship KEARSARGE (LHD 3)

Amphibious landing platform dock NEW YORK (LPD 21)

A T-AKE dry cargo ammunition ship

Amphibious assault ship IWO JIMA (LHD 7)

and various cruisers, destroyers, frigates and submarines of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on March 14, 2016, 08:59:53 AM
Nice to have them all lined up like that....  ???
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on March 14, 2016, 01:22:50 PM
I hope there's plenty of AA around  :buck2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 14, 2016, 05:55:23 PM
At least they remembered to deploy the torpedo nets this time.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2016, 05:59:03 PM
Someone remembered how the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 14, 2016, 06:01:48 PM
Yeah, but they tore down the DesSub Pub that used to be to the right.
A tragedy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2016, 06:06:54 PM
Every time a pub closes, an angel loses its wings.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 14, 2016, 07:56:44 PM
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/how-you-move-giant-submarines.html?src=fba&type=int&page=who
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on March 15, 2016, 01:32:25 AM
ooooohhh. Is that a Victor? That is a sexy sub

mmm...it could be an Akula  :-[

Reading on wiki, I would imagine it's an Akula, given it has two rows of 4 tubes.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on March 15, 2016, 11:32:29 AM
So, the Russians don't trust their sailors to get their subs from one base to another over a distance of 10,000 KM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 15, 2016, 11:58:56 AM
I think it's more that they don't trust the subs to make it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 15, 2016, 01:59:29 PM
QuoteUSN warships at anchor inside the breakwater at Colon, Canal Zone, 1933. Identifiable are USS Langley (CV-1), USS Lexington (CV-2), and USS Saratoga (CV-3), along with USS Texas (BB-35) and USS New York (BB-34). Omaha and Pensacola-class cruisers are also shown.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 15, 2016, 02:00:43 PM
QuoteAn A3J Vigilante and F-8 Crusader launch from the deck of the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), ca. 1962.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 16, 2016, 06:52:16 AM
USS Alabama, third deck, Damage Control Central.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2016, 08:57:30 AM
QuoteUSS Barton (DD722) on the measured mile off Rockland, ME 1943

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2016, 09:01:17 AM
QuoteAn RAF Avro Vulcan makes a low pass over HMAS Melbourne (R21) during Exercise Bersatu Padu, South-East Asia 1970
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on March 16, 2016, 09:38:30 AM
^ He's dropped his bomb somewhere  :2funny:

I love the Vulcan!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 16, 2016, 11:52:12 AM
Quote from: JudgeDredd on March 16, 2016, 09:38:30 AM
^ He's dropped his bomb somewhere  :2funny:

I love the Vulcan!

I noticed that too!

Are those Buccaneers on deck?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2016, 11:57:58 AM
Looks like S-2 Trackers and an A-4.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 16, 2016, 06:56:22 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 16, 2016, 11:57:58 AM
Looks like S-2 Trackers and an A-4.

Looks like its time for me to make myself some new glasses...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2016, 07:08:08 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 16, 2016, 06:56:22 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 16, 2016, 11:57:58 AM
Looks like S-2 Trackers and an A-4.

Looks like its time for me to make myself some new glasses...

Heh. Might be :P
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on March 16, 2016, 09:15:17 PM
Wow, open tow sandals.  Beat the steeltoes we had to wear.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 17, 2016, 05:22:03 AM
Quote from: OJsDad on March 16, 2016, 09:15:17 PM
Wow, open tow sandals.  Beat the steeltoes we had to wear.

They're Aussies. It's probably regulation footwear.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on March 17, 2016, 11:17:04 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 17, 2016, 05:22:03 AM
Quote from: OJsDad on March 16, 2016, 09:15:17 PM
Wow, open tow sandals.  Beat the steeltoes we had to wear.

They're Aussies. It's probably regulation footwear.

lmao beat me to it - exactly what i was going to say, although they probably hid the tinnies when the camera came out
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 17, 2016, 11:30:21 AM
QuoteArleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG-82) patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean. Mar 2016.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: avrotim on March 17, 2016, 11:52:34 AM
The Canadian hydrofoil ship: HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400)

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http://www.foils.org/brasdorp.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 17, 2016, 11:56:28 AM
^Cool! Great site!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 21, 2016, 06:40:12 AM
Refurb of HMS Victory is complete.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3501722/Visitors-follow-Nelson-s-footsteps-time-new-areas-HMS-Victory-thrown-open-major-revamp.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 21, 2016, 06:50:05 AM
http://forces.tv/25691873

Odd names for UK warships.  In the Nineteenth century, when sailors wore the ship's name on their flathats, there must have been some interesting bar fights.
Of course, HMS Pansy is in a class all its own.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2016, 11:59:40 AM
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) leaving Sydney, Australia in 1967.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudobservers.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F07%2FHMS-Victorious-leaving-Sydn.jpg&hash=678e00a16f3dc9bea9383c4bbd1d5bf46e01dad7)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2016, 12:01:37 PM
QuoteJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force Hayabusa-class guided-missile patrol boat

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1695/25020798302_89d2da244f_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2016, 12:04:20 PM
QuoteA Royal Navy Valiant Class Attack Submarine cruises off HMNB Clyde on 14 May 1986.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FmK2XWbg.jpg&hash=6411a1f3085d65f3cae0a5fd96252f254f8d9bf6)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 21, 2016, 05:42:24 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 21, 2016, 11:59:40 AM
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) leaving Sydney, Australia in 1967.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudobservers.co.uk%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F07%2FHMS-Victorious-leaving-Sydn.jpg&hash=678e00a16f3dc9bea9383c4bbd1d5bf46e01dad7)

Aha! Now that ship has Buccaneers on the flight deck!

(...along with something that looks suspiciously like a Fairey Gannet.)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2016, 05:45:23 PM
^Truth be told, I posted that for you. And it is a Gannet forward of the Bucs.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 21, 2016, 05:51:01 PM
Thankee!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2016, 05:53:09 PM
You've earned redemption  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2016, 11:17:23 AM
QuoteUSS Daniel Webster (SSBN-626) Arriving at Pearl Harbor March of 1970

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2016, 11:22:43 AM
QuoteAmerican Destroyers from 1864 to 2016

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2016, 11:26:39 AM
QuoteMap of River Thames showing comparative range of naval guns firing upon London (Illustrated London News, 24 July 1909)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2016, 11:28:39 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.doncio.navy.mil%2Fuploads%2F0905SEY26321.jpg&hash=6e41cf813902e68e169e808ce471928d9bd0090c)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2016, 11:30:47 AM
QuoteResupply day at McMurdo Station in Antarctica on 13 February 1971, with a pair of US Coast Guard Icebreakers supporting US and New Zealand Naval Auxiliaries delivering dry goods and fuel.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 29, 2016, 06:44:40 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D99QkLytWLY

Have not seen this before.  It is a vid on turret procedures for the Yamato class.
Only geeks will care but it appears the powder handling procedures are different than on Iowas.  Possibly more anti flash protection.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 29, 2016, 11:44:16 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/ybXXQXU.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on March 29, 2016, 11:48:20 AM
^ very cool shot
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 29, 2016, 11:58:21 AM
Pretty sure that was taken a week ago Monday. We had snow that day and Zumwalt was scheduled for a second round of sea trials.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on March 29, 2016, 01:06:09 PM
Brand new ship and you already got snow on it, tsk tsk tsk.........
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 31, 2016, 06:42:36 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN1tOVzFrWY

9.2" naval gun.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 31, 2016, 07:23:08 AM
QuoteUSS North Dakota during gunnery practice, 1921.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FLKG1pXt.jpg&hash=4e6e125d8b3df2de742c24d1be3d8a04d2a40327)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 31, 2016, 07:33:04 AM
Japanese post-strike damage estimate for Pearl Harbor, Dec 8th, 1941.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FA8sacqS.jpg&hash=8415d28045dfd03fa2c168a28a8518ca231e8149)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 31, 2016, 08:42:29 AM
Interesting map esthetic. Also, I'm wondering if there was some ground-level reporting to augment the estimates of the moving vessels' final resting spots...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on March 31, 2016, 08:50:34 AM
Very cool find.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 31, 2016, 05:47:13 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 31, 2016, 08:42:29 AM
Also, I'm wondering if there was some ground-level reporting to augment the estimates of the moving vessels' final resting spots...

It's my understanding the Japanese had plenty of intelligence assets on the ground at Pearl Harbor that were able to report on dispositions leading up to the attack, and also on the effects of the attack, but it's my understanding they weren't able to stick around for long.

This propaganda piece is an interesting look at how we think the Japanese did things. Also interesting to note that the Tatsuto Maru (in the film) was sunk in 1943 with over 1,000 Japanese troops aboard.

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675060934_Japanese-people_Pearl-Harbor_American-citizens_dramatization_short-wave-radio-signals

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 31, 2016, 06:00:05 PM
Kido Butai damage at Midway.

http://www.midway42.org/TheBattle/IJNCarrierDamage.aspx
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 31, 2016, 07:31:07 PM
HMS Triumph, Trafalgar class SSN

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalnavy.mod.uk%2F%7E%2Fmedia%2FRoyal%2520Navy%2520Responsive%2FImages%2FUnits%2520and%2520Equipment%2FSubmarines%2FFleet%2520Submarines%2FTrafalgar%2520Class%2FHMS%2520Triumph%2FTriumph-Background_1500x1090.jpg&hash=1967bd55c07a2b0a2d39952ab719d2396a43a0e5)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 31, 2016, 07:33:15 PM
QuoteItalian navy COMSUBIN (combat divers) exiting a Type 212 (Todaro) class submarine while underwater.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F9BLZf8r.jpg&hash=97089ca93b55af91624c521544259067fc198460)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 31, 2016, 09:41:28 PM
Irrespective of the rest of Italy's armed forces' percieved reputations, their Frogmen have always been the Bold Ones with the Brass Ones.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 04, 2016, 06:23:00 PM
Some internal shots of Zumwalt.

http://www.defensenews.com/videos/defense-news/tv/2016/04/03/defense-news-tv-inside-the-destroyer-zumwalt/82585250/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on April 05, 2016, 07:46:57 AM
Destroyer Piers, Naval Station Norfolk, 1954:

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QuoteThe surface warships represent the myriad of different vessels that were built between 1941 and 1947. Visitors are encouraged to provide identification of ships if they spot one they know is in the picture.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 06, 2016, 08:17:36 AM
1/10 model the Yamato in the lobby of the Kure Maritime Museum.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 08, 2016, 09:56:06 AM
QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CVA-43) on Yankee Station conducting flight ops with an F-4 Phantom on final approach. Photo taken from USS Francis Hammond (DE-1067) in plane guard position. 1972.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 08, 2016, 09:56:31 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 08, 2016, 09:59:01 AM
QuoteUSS Constellation CV-64 during the WestPac '68 Cruise

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 13, 2016, 12:05:21 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 13, 2016, 06:46:47 PM
Am I the only one weird enough to think that a computer sim letting you guide highly detailed vintage warships through the length of Panama Canal would actually be an awesome thing?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 13, 2016, 06:57:38 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 13, 2016, 06:46:47 PM
Am I the only one weird enough to think that a computer sim letting you guide highly detailed vintage warships through the length of Panama Canal would actually be an awesome thing?

Actually, that sounds kinda cool.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 13, 2016, 07:10:13 PM
It's all in the hands of the canal's pilot.
If a regular OOD took over, they'd be on a rock in no time.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 13, 2016, 07:18:21 PM
QuoteAudacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) in 1972

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 17, 2016, 07:35:59 AM
QuoteFrench carrier battle group transiting Suez

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 18, 2016, 01:57:32 PM
Italian aircraft carrier Cavour

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 18, 2016, 02:02:11 PM
QuoteBattleship Number 33, USS Arkansas, off Manhattan, 1914. Laid down Jan 1910. 12 x 12" guns 26,000 tons, 20kn, 1000+ officers & crew. Served in both World Wars. She was sunk during Operation Crossroads, test Baker, Bikini Atoll in 1946.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F7VZsy.jpg&hash=d6a2e1a3b8ea5325406eb7a034d2119d10656529)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 24, 2016, 10:32:19 AM
All the good snipes acted like bridge crew were glorified chauffeurs.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 24, 2016, 03:23:15 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 26, 2016, 06:24:27 AM
Newbies were often tweaked during quiet times.
They would be sent on quests to find a roll of water level line, a bucket of relative bearing grease, and a jar of:

Finally found it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 26, 2016, 11:45:24 AM
QuoteThe JCG Shikishima (PLH-31). Designed as an armed escort for plutonium transports from Europe to Japan, she is uniquely armed with AA radar, twin 35 mm, and a 20mm Vulcan. She also enjoys a range of 20k nmi- long - enough to make trips to Europe without resupply.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblogimg.goo.ne.jp%2Fuser_image%2F44%2F06%2F33c1a10794b962686717687d204dcc81.jpg%3Frandom%3D31dda1e2e0213f4a3cc446b7141ea33e&hash=dbbd95b3bb6e2c7220c559e04584804a78e81568)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 26, 2016, 06:29:30 PM
She looks like one buff cutter, and not at all afraid of some blue water.

In fact, she looks almost like... a destroyer.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 26, 2016, 10:03:41 PM
no no no!   this is a current Japanese destroyer:

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi57.fastpic.ru%2Fbig%2F2013%2F1029%2F36%2Fa07704cdab3e67038d6245b5353ccb36.jpg&hash=af22ef4b0f123e91d01e59b21449e94f558bcb1d)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 27, 2016, 05:33:19 AM
I almost went there myself but decided having someone else complete the line of thinking would be better and, as a bonus, it got you to show up...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on April 27, 2016, 03:11:39 PM
This must be a new Japanese light cruiser then:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Yamato_during_Trial_Service.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 27, 2016, 05:04:44 PM
This is their new Space Shuttle

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Forig04.deviantart.net%2F1785%2Ff%2F2013%2F073%2F5%2F0%2Fyamato___star_blazers_by_thermslusitania-d5y2q0x.png&hash=f35122228119917cde953eca4129ffe55d359fe9)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 27, 2016, 06:04:24 PM
Wiscy's last shots

https://www.facebook.com/boatkrazy/videos/1734290696803918/?fref=nf

Really don't see how Bismarck and Richelieu were rated at 3 rounds perminute.  Safety procedures just seem too hard to fathom.
Especially in the crowded quad turrets on Richelieu.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2016, 11:26:50 AM
QuoteOperation Sandy.USS Midway with a captured V-2 Rocket on her flight deck.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FKqk8aEV.jpg&hash=2cb2a532c4c90060d03c5ad1acc6e990a9b5a2c7)


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2016, 11:27:50 AM
QuoteRussian Delta class SSBN in dry dock

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FsWrZOMy.jpg&hash=52d147857cecca77d4ae12848f6e69a75cf3e458)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2016, 11:29:58 AM
QuoteUSS Toledo CA 133 launching a Regulus Missile, 1956

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2016, 11:32:22 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on April 28, 2016, 11:33:18 AM
Quote from: mirth on April 28, 2016, 11:26:50 AM
QuoteOperation Sandy.USS Midway with a captured V-2 Rocket on her flight deck.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FKqk8aEV.jpg&hash=2cb2a532c4c90060d03c5ad1acc6e990a9b5a2c7)


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They fired it from the flight deck?!?  :o
Was von Braun on the same trip?  ???

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2016, 11:37:32 AM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 29, 2016, 11:35:14 AM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on April 29, 2016, 12:15:58 PM
That's very cool, mirthie. Nice find.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 30, 2016, 03:58:11 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 03, 2016, 11:20:37 AM
USS Randolph (CVA-15) in rough seas

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 03, 2016, 11:22:07 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fv0mT6AP.jpg&hash=d245a756ea510beae712372ab2cead8b1245d183)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 03, 2016, 11:24:41 AM
QuoteThe destroyer USS Peterson (DD-969) near a Soviet Moma Class survey ship ССВ-506 Находка and the disabled Victor III class submarine K-324. On 15 Oct 1983, K-324 was disabled after snagging the USS McCloy's towed sonar array cable.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/USS_Peterson_%28DD-969%29_with_Victor_class_sub.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 04, 2016, 05:39:37 PM
https://www.facebook.com/Shipwreckhunter/videos/1321910437824467/?fref=nf

16th century swedish ship Mars is explored.  Looks like a movie scene.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 06, 2016, 06:50:29 AM
Life at sea.
https://www.facebook.com/emmalynnwhitman/videos/10153886349713503/?fref=nf

There are times I actually miss this.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 06, 2016, 11:23:27 AM
5th Battle Squadron



(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn-4.britishbattles.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2F94-5th-Battle-Squadron-at-sea-taken-from-HMS-Barham-1916.jpg&hash=280aa99e4ecbff73c334c22f77f35746d92f5feb)


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 06, 2016, 11:24:52 AM
QuoteUSS Constitution and Curtiss OC Observation Aircraft. Photographed during her 1931-34 cruise.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 06, 2016, 11:26:15 AM
Russian Kilo in drydock

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2016, 08:42:41 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2016, 08:45:43 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 07, 2016, 09:48:10 AM
Great find, Mirth.  Never have seen that one before.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 07, 2016, 02:32:00 PM
USS Barry leaving the Washington Navy Yard today.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 08, 2016, 04:41:54 PM
USS Iowa in drydock

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FjKZTLSn.jpg&hash=278bb5f5fdb72e659652f893aa63f1ca410ef46a)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 08, 2016, 04:47:08 PM
QuoteUSS Hunley (AS-31) at Holy Loch, Scotland with two ballistic-missile submarines alongside, 1963.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 08, 2016, 04:49:24 PM
QuoteView from the bridge of HMS Sheffield as she escorts an arctic convoy, 1943.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 10, 2016, 07:03:22 AM
Prinz Eugen kisses Leipzig
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 10, 2016, 11:40:26 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 10, 2016, 05:59:38 PM
Another nice glamor shot.  O0

How close to Bath are you again? Not that you are biased or anything...  8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 10, 2016, 07:22:04 PM
HMS Victory is bulging.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-36254359
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 11, 2016, 07:03:57 AM
Rodney at work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3E80CRKcPg

Different shell handling than on Iowas.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2016, 11:24:13 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 10, 2016, 05:59:38 PM
Another nice glamor shot.  O0

How close to Bath are you again? Not that you are biased or anything...  8)

About 40 minutes from Bath. I caught a glimpse of her dockside a little while back. She made a visit to Portland during one of her sea trials, but I didn't find out she was in the harbor until after. Would have loved to see that.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2016, 11:25:11 AM
QuoteSoviet Yankee-class SSGN submarine K-420, Project 667M "Andromeda", during deconstruction process.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2016, 11:26:47 AM
QuoteThe sad end for Royal Navy carriers, in the center HMS Leviathan, never finished,HMS Centaur being decommissioned and in the background HMS Victorious suffering the same fate, 1968.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2016, 11:30:29 AM
QuoteU.S.S. West Virginia, Maryland and Colorado lead the way from Los Angles Harbor en route to maneuvers off Hawaii

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2016, 11:33:25 AM
Salvaging USS Oklahoma:

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Album here:  http://imgur.com/a/8wbuO
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on May 11, 2016, 09:41:06 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 11, 2016, 11:33:25 AM
Salvaging USS Oklahoma:

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Album here:  http://imgur.com/a/8wbuO

Just read about this in The Conquering Tide by Ian Toll. Fascinating, and terrible work for the salvagers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 12, 2016, 06:58:32 PM
https://www.facebook.com/atelieruldemodelism/videos/1000932846624941/

Boys and their toys.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 17, 2016, 06:38:41 AM
German round that penetrated Texas off Normandy, but did not explode.
I don't know if anyone has looked at this, but many german large caliber rounds did not detonate.  Prince of Wales was struck four times (?) at Denmark Straits, and only one had a partial detonation.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 17, 2016, 11:39:41 AM
QuoteThe French navy frigate FS Cassard (D614) breaks away from alongside the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 17, 2016, 06:38:07 PM
What, the GHW Bush didn't have any Grey Poupon?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on May 17, 2016, 07:59:19 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 17, 2016, 11:39:41 AM
QuoteThe French navy frigate FS Cassard (D614) breaks away from alongside the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)


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Practicing retreating?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 17, 2016, 08:05:21 PM
^The French don't need to practice that
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on May 17, 2016, 08:45:07 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 17, 2016, 08:05:21 PM
^The French don't need to practice that

At least they didn't practice scuttling the damn ship. There is that.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 17, 2016, 08:54:16 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on May 17, 2016, 08:45:07 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 17, 2016, 08:05:21 PM
^The French don't need to practice that

At least they didn't practice scuttling the damn ship. There is that.

Heh. There is that. The French Navy is significantly more capable than the Royal Navy these days. Yet somehow I think the French would find a way to lose a stand up fight.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 18, 2016, 11:17:25 AM
QuoteThe New Jersey (BB-62) follows the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN-65) during Fleet Exercise '89, on 14 Oct 1989

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 18, 2016, 11:17:58 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 18, 2016, 11:21:27 AM
QuoteSailors from the Perch (APSS-313) chipping the ice from the deck in Bristol Bay, January 1950. The ice was so thick the Perch couldn't dive.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on May 18, 2016, 11:22:56 AM
Only 3 poor buggers? I bet they were on a defaulters list :-)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on May 18, 2016, 11:39:04 AM
What a bizarre looking ice formation...?  :o Looks like a bunch of dinner plates frozen together... :idiot2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 18, 2016, 05:25:22 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on May 18, 2016, 11:39:04 AM
What a bizarre looking ice formation...?  :o Looks like a bunch of dinner plates frozen together... :idiot2:

Doesn't that have something to do with the salinity and how fast the ice formed?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on May 18, 2016, 05:38:14 PM
...and super-saturated solutions at low temperatures?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 18, 2016, 06:23:42 PM
Quote from: bob48 on May 18, 2016, 05:38:14 PM
...and super-saturated solutions at low temperatures?

Is this in anyway related to how one makes 'Rock Candy' (for those old enough to know what that is)?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 18, 2016, 08:17:56 PM
Savannah hit by a Fritz-X.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on May 19, 2016, 06:04:03 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 18, 2016, 11:17:58 AM
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That's depressing.  Seems like there should be twice as many ships on that list.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 19, 2016, 06:18:49 PM
Heh. There should be, but we're still the A-Team.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 20, 2016, 11:22:22 AM
QuoteUSS Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86) underway with an assortment of aircraft destined for Korea: TBM Avengers, SNB, R4D Skytrain, JD-1 (the Navy's version of USAAF's A26-C Invader) and F4U Corsairs.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 20, 2016, 12:19:10 PM
Are those smaller transport aircraft Electra Juniors? They look too small to be regular Electras or Lodestars.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 20, 2016, 01:12:52 PM
Not 100% sure, they do look like Juniors. Could be Beechcraft 18s too.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 21, 2016, 01:28:00 PM
QuoteFrench aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 23, 2016, 05:53:47 PM
Missouri struck by a kamikaze on 11 April, 45. 
Interesting debris.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 24, 2016, 05:42:14 PM
Jean Bart after duking it out with Big Mamie.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 24, 2016, 09:29:13 PM
Penicillin five dolla.
Luv you forever, Joe.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 25, 2016, 11:10:12 AM
USS Harry S. Truman

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 29, 2016, 08:29:51 AM
Seydlitz barrel after Jutland.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 30, 2016, 05:38:00 PM
In hindsight, using the catapult may have been too much.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 30, 2016, 05:51:42 PM
Glenn looks quite dashing there.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 31, 2016, 11:21:05 AM
QuoteUSS Washington (BB-56) loading supplies in Iceland mid 1942

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 31, 2016, 11:23:24 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/V-boats.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on May 31, 2016, 08:57:51 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 31, 2016, 11:21:05 AM
QuoteUSS Washington (BB-56) loading supplies in Iceland mid 1942

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That couldn't be mid year since the crew is in blues.  If it was mid year, they would have been in whites. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 31, 2016, 10:14:04 PM
pretty sure it had to do with latitude not time of year.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 02, 2016, 11:28:21 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 06, 2016, 03:17:11 PM
QuoteNaval Bombardments on D-Day, June 6, 1944. A map of the invasion area showing channels cleared of mines, location of warships engaged in bombardment, and targets on shore.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 07, 2016, 11:32:03 AM
QuoteBritish Fleet at Spithead, 1887

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 07, 2016, 11:34:31 AM
QuoteUSN ships at anchor in the Hudson River off New York City in celebration of Navy Day on 27 October 1945.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 07, 2016, 05:50:50 PM
Astute class subs under construction, UK.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 07, 2016, 09:45:35 PM
thats just a friking cool picture.  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 09, 2016, 09:08:15 AM
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) in dry dock at Newport News

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 09, 2016, 05:51:12 PM
Oooh... shiny!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 11, 2016, 07:33:50 AM
http://www.stena.ee/blog/kak-eto-ustroeno-podvodnaya-lodka-v-razreze

Some Russian efforts.
Talk about cramped working spaces.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 12, 2016, 12:43:38 PM
QuoteNetherlands Heavy Lift ship MV Tern carries four US Navy mine counter measure ships... Warrior, Devastator, Pioneer and Sentry to Bahrain, June 2012.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 12, 2016, 12:48:14 PM
QuoteUSS Ohio (BB-12) In drydock at MINS August 10, 1915

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 12, 2016, 12:51:45 PM
QuoteUSS Haddo (SSN-604), a Permit-class submarine and a unit of Submarine Squadron Four based in Charleston, S.C.

(https://i.redd.it/crqem2lmvj2x.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 12, 2016, 12:53:18 PM
QuoteJapanese Kongo class guided missle destroyer JDS Chokai pulls up alongside the USS Kitty Hawk.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 12, 2016, 01:26:08 PM
^Most likely more deadly that the Battleship it was named after...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 12, 2016, 02:14:50 PM
Certainly better against subs than her namesake was.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 14, 2016, 03:06:44 PM
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...actually posted at about half size as this image was 4000px wide, but it's hard to read the small print at sizes smaller than this. If I can't see it then you fogies sure can't! ;)

Original image (http://i.imgur.com/ezJlVLo.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 17, 2016, 11:08:44 AM
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and USS Ashland (LSD 48) in formation.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 17, 2016, 11:09:44 AM
QuoteUSS Winston Churchill (DDG 81) is overflown by a Spitfire whilst nearing Portsmouth. August 22, 2001.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/USS_Churchill_mast.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 17, 2016, 11:12:32 AM
Quote10,000lb explosive goes off near USS Jackson LCS 6 as part of recent shock tests - she apparently withstood damage "better than expected"


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Article - http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense-news/2016/06/16/littoral-combat-ship-lcs-coronado-fort-worth-freedom-independence-milwaukee-rimpac-jackson-explosion-shock-test/86002384/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 17, 2016, 08:48:31 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 17, 2016, 11:08:44 AM
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and USS Ashland (LSD 48) in formation.

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thats a nice "Marine Destroyer", to use the Japanese classification.   ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 18, 2016, 03:39:13 PM
QuoteOberon-class submarine HMCS OJIBWA (S72) on the syncrolift at Halifax, 1986.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 18, 2016, 05:00:09 PM
It's crewed by Redshirts? Shouldn't they be serving on the Victoria-class boats instead?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2016, 10:42:05 AM
USS Michael Monsoor during yesterday's christening ceremony.


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http://www.pressherald.com/2016/06/18/biw-christens-uss-michael-monsoor-in-ceremony-saturday/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2016, 11:41:56 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2016, 12:22:29 PM
QuoteSoviet Gus Class hovercraft on the Amur River

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 22, 2016, 05:57:09 PM
^Doesn't the DOD require Gus Team Seal to use only US-built equipment?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 24, 2016, 06:48:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPa_KyimFOk

The Enterprise at Bloody Santa Cruz.  My dad was on the second Yorktown and they studied the damage to Enterprise and Hornet to learn all they could to keep a carrier going.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 24, 2016, 11:31:16 AM
QuoteBridge of the USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) in the South China Sea

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 24, 2016, 05:50:03 PM
Size comparison of a Yamato turret, and a Tiger I.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 29, 2016, 11:10:25 AM
QuoteMidway-class aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43) and her escorts as they pass under the Golden Gate Bridge. San Fransisco, March 1983. On deck are aircraft of Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14).

(https://i.redd.it/xrijqz07xg5x.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 02, 2016, 10:17:40 AM
Why Helena couldn't be saved.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 03, 2016, 12:22:15 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 05, 2016, 11:28:17 AM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 05, 2016, 11:29:53 AM
QuoteThe crew of the British aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R68) on deck for an inspection by Field Marshal Earl Alexander, Defense Minister of Great Britain. 14 June 1952.

(https://i.redd.it/q1s0snby1g7x.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 11, 2016, 06:52:14 PM
QuoteSoviet cruiser Murmansk that ran aground off the Norwegian village Sørvær during the transfer to be scrapped in India. 1994.

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QuoteShe wasn't dismantled until 2013, some 19 years after she ran aground.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 12, 2016, 11:25:31 AM
QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CVA-43) returning from a 331-day deployment to Vietnam in 1965.

(https://i.redd.it/ppkh6795jj8x.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 21, 2016, 08:45:45 PM
Nice to know some of the retired Figs will live on

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2016/07/21/VSE-reactivating-mothballed-frigates/9851469122105/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on July 27, 2016, 09:12:59 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fstatic%2Finfocus%2Fwwi%2Fintroduction%2Fw_19.jpg&hash=9a6e430cd0ca82240edd82e72404fb5241eb2f9a)

The French battleship Bouvet in the Dardanelles, circa 1915
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 28, 2016, 05:55:40 AM
Cool pic. That tumblehome design looks a little iffy for rough seas though.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on July 28, 2016, 06:42:29 AM
Looks a little iffy for high angle incoming shells too!  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 28, 2016, 07:11:18 AM
19153? Did technology take a slide 17,000 years in the future?  :D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on July 28, 2016, 07:31:26 AM
Quote from: Banzai_Cat on July 28, 2016, 07:11:18 AM
19153? Did technology take a slide 17,000 years in the future?  :D

What was old is new again   8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2016, 10:13:48 AM
so we start calling Windy Junior?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on July 28, 2016, 10:16:27 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2016, 10:13:48 AM
so we start calling Windy Junior?

Pet names are so cute.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2016, 11:36:58 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Ex-USS_Makassar_Strait_grounded.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on July 28, 2016, 12:54:03 PM
That looks expensive
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2016, 01:06:34 PM
it was being used as a target ship post WW2.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2016, 01:09:57 PM
Yep. She was being towed to be used as a target when she ran aground. Navy ended up using her as target where she sat.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2016, 01:12:50 PM
Another view

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 29, 2016, 07:36:23 AM
Damage to HMS Ambush after recent collision off Gibraltar

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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4580/check-out-the-huge-dent-in-hms-ambush

I'm guessing when you surface a $2.4 billion sub into a tanker you aren't passing the Perisher course.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 30, 2016, 07:07:32 AM
^ That's like taking Dad's Ferrari out for a joyride and busting it up.  :2funny:

Funny how the article says it's "not clear" whom was 'driving' at the time...I'd imagine it was the trainee captain, no? Someone screwed the Yorkshire pooch on that one.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 03, 2016, 06:26:04 AM
Grape bug juice over cornflakes.  A true gourmet experience, when the powdered milk was just too much.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 04, 2016, 05:56:46 PM
QuoteAircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) sails through calm seas near Guam at sunset


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 07, 2016, 09:00:56 AM
QuoteView from French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 07, 2016, 09:03:56 AM
QuoteUSS Worcester (CL-144) testing her radiation washdown system - July 7, 1954

(https://i.imgur.com/SbQ05SF.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 10, 2016, 10:23:18 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0D-ulUrMIo&feature=youtu.be

Tour of turret one on Iowa.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2016, 08:39:53 AM
QuoteJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships during naval review

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2016, 08:43:44 AM
QuoteVirginia-class attack submarine Minnesota (SSN-783) under construction in 2012.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 15, 2016, 07:03:29 AM
IJN heavy cruiser Nachi under carrier air attack.  Sunk later that day in the Philippines.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 21, 2016, 08:10:38 AM
HMS Gloucester under stuka attack off Crete.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 24, 2016, 10:32:52 PM
Rough day at the office.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 25, 2016, 06:55:00 AM
Littorio class Italian Battleship engages the Royal Navy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krFxUrZsYqw

A clip from Roberto Rosellini's1941 movie, La Nave Bianca.
The internal shots are very good.  A noticeable difference with US practice is the lack of sound powered phones.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 25, 2016, 07:11:51 AM
QuoteLaunch of USS Washington (BB-47) - she would never be completed and was ultimately sunk as a gunnery target in 1924.


(https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/i05000/i05177.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 25, 2016, 07:13:55 AM
QuoteHMS Victorious at Pearl Harbor, 1943.

(https://i.redd.it/tzwp1t6scdhx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 25, 2016, 07:19:32 AM
QuoteUSS ENGLISH (DD-696) steams in the China Sea with USS HANCOCK (CV-19) and other units of the Third Fleet, circa January 1945.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 25, 2016, 07:21:07 AM
QuoteTF 77 steaming in formation in the South China Sea, 21 January 1966. Carriers present are (l-r): USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), USS Hancock (CVA-19), USS Ranger (CVA-61), USS Hornet (CVS-12). USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) and another CLG are in the center with DD's in column formation.

(https://i.redd.it/eukhnkl765hx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2016, 11:29:51 AM
QuoteSeawater spills over the fantail of USS Iowa (BB-61) during high power maneuvers in shallow waters at Chesapeake Bay, VA, 19 November 1985.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2016, 11:31:38 AM
QuoteHeavy-lift vessel MV BLUE MARLIN delivers the damaged USS COLE (DDG-67) to Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2000.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 30, 2016, 06:36:14 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 30, 2016, 11:31:38 AM
QuoteHeavy-lift vessel MV BLUE MARLIN delivers the damaged USS COLE (DDG-67) to Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2000.

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The aquatic version of a Dragon Wagon.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 31, 2016, 06:52:28 AM
Intrepid's last shot
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 01, 2016, 11:52:15 AM
QuoteA MK-23 16 in. nuclear projectile for use on Iowa-class battleships


(https://i.redd.it/r9aq9ddmirix.jpg)

QuoteA total of fifty Mark 23 "Katie" nuclear projectiles were produced during the 1950s with development starting in 1952 and the first service projectile being delivered in October 1956. USS New Jersey and USS Wisconsin had an alteration made to Turret II's magazine to incorporate a secure storage area for these projectiles. USS Missouri was not so altered as she had been placed in reserve in 1955. This secure storage area could contain ten nuclear shells plus nine Mark 24 practice shells. These nuclear projectiles were all withdrawn from service by October 1962 with none ever having been fired from a gun. It is not clear whether or not any of the battleships ever actually carried a nuclear device onboard, as the US Navy routinely refuses to confirm or deny which ships carry nuclear weapons. At least one Mark 23 shell body still exists at the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 07, 2016, 07:27:58 PM
QuoteUSS Zumwalt departs Bath Iron Works on her way to Baltimore.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 07, 2016, 07:30:48 PM
QuoteThe USS Coral Sea with a deck full of Corsairs and Skyraiders in 1949

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More pics here: http://www.usscoralsea.net/pics1940s1.php
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 08, 2016, 07:01:13 AM
QuoteCapt. James Kirk, skipper of the Zumwalt, stands in front of the destroyer at Bath Iron Works on Tuesday, the day before it left to be commissioned in Baltimore.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 08, 2016, 07:13:26 AM
Another shot of the Zumwalt leaving BIW, headed for her commissioning ceremony in Baltimore. DDG-1001, Michael Monsoor, is tied up on the left.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 09, 2016, 07:15:56 AM
QuoteU.S.S. Enterprise (CVN 65) haulin' ass, U.S.S. Porter (DDG 78) and Cole (DDG 67) keeping up during exercise Bold Alligator off the Virginia and North Carolina Coasts. 2/4/2012.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 09, 2016, 07:19:56 AM
QuoteUSS Dallas (SSN-700) is escorted while pulling into port. Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. Aug. 2016.

(https://i.redd.it/1z72rdhm4xjx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on September 09, 2016, 07:35:06 AM
The Dallas is still afloat!?!

....

Ah she's due for retirement in 2017... but still that's a long time fer a sub no?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 10, 2016, 07:27:29 AM
Looks like something we found in a fan room on the Manley.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 10, 2016, 05:43:07 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on September 09, 2016, 07:35:06 AM
The Dallas is still afloat!?!

....

Ah she's due for retirement in 2017... but still that's a long time fer a sub no?

I was surprised 'Big D' is still in service. She's one of the early Flight I boats. 35 years is a good long life for an SSN, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the 688i boats end up with 40 years of service.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2016, 10:21:46 AM
Zumwalt making a port call in Newport, RI.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 11, 2016, 10:23:25 AM
QuoteUS Third Fleet prepares for the invasion of Leyte, 6 October 1944


(https://i.redd.it/u74h74i1utkx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 11, 2016, 10:24:45 AM
Quote from: mirth on September 11, 2016, 10:21:46 AM
Zumwalt making a port call in Newport, RI.

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Maybe Toonces can try and talk his way aboard to get us some groovy pix?

Ok, maybe that's not such a good idea...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 11, 2016, 07:57:51 PM
he likes a good cavity search.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 15, 2016, 11:24:51 AM
QuoteADM. Rickover waiting on the dive plane of USS Sculpin SSN-590

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 22, 2016, 06:02:20 PM
frigate sailors do it with one big screw.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on September 28, 2016, 06:12:38 PM
Tomahawk launcher on USS Florida, SSGN-728.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 28, 2016, 06:21:57 PM
I promise not to step.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on September 28, 2016, 06:46:32 PM
What are the small black squares in the lower right that 2 of them don't need?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 28, 2016, 07:00:05 PM
Electrical tape covering the scuffs from where somebody stepped.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 28, 2016, 07:01:25 PM
the one with the yellow tape make big mushroom clouds.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on September 29, 2016, 09:50:12 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 28, 2016, 06:46:32 PM
What are the small black squares in the lower right that 2 of them don't need?

Hard points for removing them from the silo? The yellow is the residue from the gorilla-glue that was used to attach them?  Maybe?    ???
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on September 30, 2016, 06:19:29 PM
Rodney firing on the burning Bismarck.
Taken from KGV.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:04:48 AM
QuoteThe Charles de Gaulle's First deployment with a Rafale only air wing

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:10:21 AM
QuoteINS Vikramaditya, Indian Aircraft carrier

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:11:42 AM
QuoteUS & ROK Navy ships - Busan Naval Base

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:15:55 AM
QuoteUSS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) passing through the Panama Canal on her way to Bikini Atoll to participate in Operation Crossroads - March 1946

(https://i.imgur.com/KZpBAkz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:19:14 AM
QuoteJMSDF Soryu-class submarine SS-505 Zuiryū

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1584/24890338626_3c4d8a3f4a_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 02, 2016, 10:19:57 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:15:55 AM
QuoteUSS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) passing through the Panama Canal on her way to Bikini Atoll to participate in Operation Crossroads - March 1946

(https://i.imgur.com/KZpBAkz.jpg)

She survived at least 2 atomic blasts.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:27:40 AM
I didn't realize we actually commissioned her into the USN.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:34:27 AM
DDG-1000 passing Fort Popham

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 02, 2016, 12:43:25 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 02, 2016, 10:27:40 AM
I didn't realize we actually commissioned her into the USN.

The US Navy had that IX designation for all kinds of odd things, for example: the Great Lakes paddlewheel steamers that were converted to freshwater aircraft carriers for training new pilots in the (relative) safety of Lake Michigan during WW2.

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http://militaryhistorynow.com/2016/08/29/fresh-water-flattops-the-u-s-navys-forgotten-great-lakes-aircraft-carriers/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 02, 2016, 12:46:57 PM
Those paddlewheel carriers were such cool ships.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on October 02, 2016, 01:00:37 PM
Oh boy - I had not seen anything about those before. How interesting.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 02, 2016, 06:25:14 PM
 :D

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 03, 2016, 07:07:17 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-iN21u6nG8

Had to see this every year for safety.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 09, 2016, 08:11:06 AM
QuoteFrench battleship Richelieu under the Brooklyn Bridge, February 1943

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1507/26544189352_9014f6326c_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 09, 2016, 08:19:13 AM
QuoteHMS Victorious making way with a full load of Buccaneers, Sea Vixens and Wessex's

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.woolleyfamily.co.uk%2FVictorious4.jpg&hash=4a47c1cc8ee69941952b20a670fa1e17034458fd)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 11, 2016, 11:33:12 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FTX1sTkH.jpg&hash=cbe25f53a6d602d5cb62f08c58bd2b71334978db)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 13, 2016, 11:22:30 AM
QuoteUSS Indiana (BB-58) fires a salvo from her forward 16" guns at the Kamaishi, Japan Iron Plant. The forward mast of USS Massachusetts (BB-59) is visible directly behind Indiana. In the distance is most likely the USS Quincy (CA-71)

(https://i.redd.it/9veziylrv8rx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 13, 2016, 11:25:03 AM
QuotePT-490, an 80-foot Elco motor torpedo boat with MTB Squadron 33, transporting Gen Douglas MacArthur and staff from Iloilo on Panay to Bacolod on Negros in the Philippines, 7 Jun 1945.

(https://i.redd.it/grvuatc5x8rx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 13, 2016, 11:37:14 AM
Quotehttp://HMS Monarch, an Orion-class battleship, sailing down the Tyne, 1911.

(https://i.redd.it/1yr0smo7q2rx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 13, 2016, 11:39:06 AM
QuoteArmoured cruiser Pisa at high speed

(https://i.redd.it/ltt6ua58p2rx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on October 13, 2016, 12:39:16 PM
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/11999639_1035069583180206_673655024528679388_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 21, 2016, 11:13:50 AM
QuoteJapan's new Asahi-class destroyer (25DD) being launched

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2016, 08:38:54 AM
Nice gallery of pics on board Harry S. Truman

http://imgur.com/a/GKTC4
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 23, 2016, 01:20:02 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3858514/Russia-s-attack-fleet-closes-Dover-Putin-s-warships-prepare-enter-English-Channel-TODAY-way-launch-strikes-Syria.html#ixzz4NvXH6Is8

Very nice photos of the Russian Task group transiting the English Channel.
Article is rather shrill.  Did like the commentary on the Kuznetzov's diesel engineering plant.  Apparently other ships have had their plants cannibalised for this sortie.
All that black smoke from a diesel plant probably means incomplete combustion.
They're probably putting in too much fuel and creating all that smoke.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2016, 01:21:12 PM
I figure the black smoke was because they switched her to coal.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2016, 01:23:43 PM
Nice bow art on Dragon

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 23, 2016, 09:29:30 PM
QuoteRussian media crowed abut the strength of their fleet. Military expert Alexander Khrolenko said: 'While the North Atlantic bloc is stalling in the sands of the Middle East, the Russian Navy seizes control over the Atlantic, not to mention the Mediterranean and Black Seas.'

He added: 'They [NATO] have no equal in the Mediterranean.'

:2funny:  :idiot2:  :uglystupid2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 24, 2016, 09:02:01 AM
That guy is smoking some serious shit.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 27, 2016, 11:17:02 AM
QuoteWorcester class anti-aircraft cruiser

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http://navalanalyses.blogspot.com/2016/10/warships-of-past-worcester-class-anti.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 27, 2016, 06:41:57 PM
The dual purpose 6" guns on Worcester were amazing.
During a battle efficiency test, the staff took the ship's rating down because the 5" guns never opened fire.
The XO stood up and said, "The drones never got through the 6 inchers, to get into the 5" range."
Staff pukes never change.

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_6-47DP_mk16.php
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 28, 2016, 11:19:31 AM
Pics of USS Eaton (DD-510) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) after their collision

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 28, 2016, 11:22:08 AM
QuoteBattleship France, last ship of the Courbet-class battleships, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy, in 1914.

(https://i.redd.it/ujb0omguq1ux.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 28, 2016, 11:24:57 AM
QuoteHMS Albion leading HMS Ark Royal out of Gibraltar Harbour at the end of a visit. Sea Hawk aircraft are seen parked on the deck of Ark Royal. 21st October 1957.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2016, 10:04:01 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2016, 10:07:20 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2016, 10:08:36 AM
QuoteThe unfinished Italian aircraft carrier "Aquila" tied up at La Spezia sometime following Italy's surrender

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2016, 10:13:01 AM
QuoteUSS Enterprise (CVAN-65), showing the crew fighting a fire on the flight deck that occurred as the carrier was conducting air operations near Hawaii. The fire started when a Zuni rocket accidentally exploded under the wing of an F-4J Phantom II 14 January 1969

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http://www.insensitivemunitions.org/history/the-uss-enterprise-cvan-65-fire-and-munition-explosions/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2016, 10:15:02 AM
QuoteUSS Alabama (BB-60) shortly before being commissioned, July 1942

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5527/30327404620_f62cb7cdbc_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 30, 2016, 11:00:17 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 30, 2016, 10:07:20 AM
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Looks like the Russians could use a few thousand gallons of Naval Jelly.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2016, 11:00:55 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on October 30, 2016, 11:00:17 AM
Quote from: mirth on October 30, 2016, 10:07:20 AM
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Looks like the Russians could use a few thousand gallons of Naval Jelly.

They should talk to Star.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 30, 2016, 06:40:17 PM
Toonces is my supplier.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2016, 06:42:15 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 30, 2016, 06:40:17 PM
Toonces is my detailer.

ftfy
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 31, 2016, 11:15:11 AM
QuoteThe last gun cruiser in active service with any navy and the flagship of the Peruvian Navy: BAP Almirante Grau (CLM-81)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 02, 2016, 11:06:26 AM
QuoteThe Spanish dreadnought "Jaime I" docked at Tenerife, 5th May 1936

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 02, 2016, 11:08:06 AM
Quotenaval guns undergoing maintenance at South Korean Navy depot

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 02, 2016, 11:10:15 AM
QuoteTask Force 77 in formation off North Vietnam, March 1965.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 02, 2016, 11:13:05 AM
QuoteUSS Connecticut (BB-18) during speed trials, 1906

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 02, 2016, 11:15:42 AM
QuoteTwo Charlemagne class battleships

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 04, 2016, 06:53:02 AM
The Great White Fleet visited Chicago?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2016, 11:21:50 AM
QuoteVirginia-class submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786) seen here with her crew during the commissioning ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut, on October 29, 2016.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2016, 11:24:10 AM
QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CV-43) underway as she approaches Naval Station, Pearl Harbor. Jan '81


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2016, 11:25:48 AM
QuoteUSS Little Rock (CL-92) firing a Talos guided missile, May 1961


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2016, 11:30:51 AM
QuoteHMS K2. A completely unsuccessful and unlucky submarine. Launched in 1915, 2000 tons, 8 x 18" torpedo tubes & two 4" deck guns. Suffered an explosion and fire during her trials, collided with two different submarines. Scrapped 1926. Shown with a couple QE class battleships.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 06, 2016, 07:27:03 AM
QuoteItalian navy submarine Scirè under construction.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 06, 2016, 07:56:07 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 07, 2016, 12:27:37 PM
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer Hyūga (DDH-181) in Guam

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5757/30066429293_58efedf83c_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 07, 2016, 07:26:33 PM
Yamamoto would have approved.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 07, 2016, 07:49:32 PM
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer

still makes me laugh every time.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 07, 2016, 07:53:49 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 07, 2016, 07:49:32 PM
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer

still makes me laugh every time.

I know, right?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 08, 2016, 07:22:39 AM
Nighttine trap on a carrier.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a23733/super-hornet-low-visibility-landing/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 10, 2016, 06:37:22 PM
QuoteVarshavyanka-class (Improved Kilo) submarine mooring. Russian Pacific fleet.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 10, 2016, 06:39:50 PM
QuoteA British Blackburn Buccaneer bomber buzzes the Soviet battlecruiser Admiral Lazarev

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 10, 2016, 06:42:37 PM
QuoteHMS Revenge, Ramillies, Royal Sovereign and Resolution, taken from their sister HMS Royal Oak in 1930.


(https://i.redd.it/2e9wqwwdkuwx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 11, 2016, 12:14:59 PM
Canadian submarine HMCS Windsor goes into a dive (that it hopefully will recover from)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on November 11, 2016, 01:34:01 PM
^Diving is the easy part. Coming back up...that's the bitch   8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 15, 2016, 12:23:19 PM
QuoteUSS Ohio (SSGN-726) arriving in Busan, South Korea

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 15, 2016, 07:25:22 PM
Looks like S.K. is the inspiration for W40K Hive Worlds.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 17, 2016, 07:05:38 PM
Another day at the office.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on November 20, 2016, 06:19:07 PM
Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Vileky transiting the Suez Canal:

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Of course, other captions may be more entertaining  ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 20, 2016, 06:22:21 PM
Suez pics are always cool!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 20, 2016, 06:41:37 PM
USS Essex Plan of the Day (POD) for 22 Feb, 1944, strikes on Saipan and Tinian.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 23, 2016, 09:20:14 AM
http://www.orcadian.co.uk/hms-vanguard-studied-detail/

HMS Vanguard blew up at anchor in Scapa Flow.  Much like the USS Maine, it has never been exactly determined why she blew up.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 24, 2016, 03:47:45 PM
QuoteUSS Macon (ZRS-5) under construction in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation hangar at Akron, Ohio.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 24, 2016, 03:49:19 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 24, 2016, 03:47:45 PM
QuoteUSS Macon (ZRS-5) under construction in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation hangar at Akron, Ohio.

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:smitten:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 27, 2016, 09:54:18 AM
QuoteHMS Warspite fitting out, October 1914

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 27, 2016, 10:02:41 AM
QuoteUSS South Dakota (BB-57) fitting out on the 1st of January, 1942.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 27, 2016, 10:06:12 AM
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/11/5d/5d/115d5df2788e6868e66fd0dd220c8e62.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on November 27, 2016, 11:11:08 AM
Quote from: mirth on November 27, 2016, 10:02:41 AM
QuoteUSS South Dakota (BB-57) fitting out on the 1st of January, 1942.


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i know todays are probably 10 times bigger, but the scale of those old WW2 battleships amazes me
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on November 27, 2016, 11:27:00 AM
I guess the only ships which are bigger now are the carriers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 27, 2016, 12:03:48 PM
The South Dakotas were very good ships, but were notoriously cramped.  Not  a bit of extra space.
Massachusetts is in very good shape at Falls River, MA, and well worth a visit.  The docents indicate that they are working on opening up spaces that previously were not open to the public.

Some notes on her damage from Kirishima.     http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-092.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 30, 2016, 06:34:22 PM
QuoteFrench Type 38 torpedo boats 321 and 315 on the Seine in 1922.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 30, 2016, 06:38:56 PM
QuoteUSS Vincennes (CL 64) Steaming off the U.S. East Coast (position 36 52'N, 76 09'W, course 265) at 1700 hours on 28 March 1944. Photographed from a Squadron ZP-14 blimp, from Naval Air Station Weeksville, North Carolina. Altitude was 150 feet. Ship's camouflage is Measure 33, Design 3d
.

(https://i.redd.it/4gpgycw8so0y.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 30, 2016, 06:40:27 PM
QuoteUSS New Mexico (BB-40) in her original configuration (top) and her post-1931-1933 modernization.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 05, 2016, 07:47:23 AM
So true.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 05, 2016, 04:48:42 PM
^Heh. Nice.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 07, 2016, 01:19:36 PM
QuoteU.S. Fleet moored in Pearl Harbor on 3 May 1940

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 07, 2016, 06:43:47 PM
That's a different angle than usually shown. Nice find.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 07, 2016, 08:19:17 PM
For those who can't get enough of Musashi and Yamato, there is a report that Mitsubishi shipyards have found 200 original blueprints.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20161204/k10010794821000.html   (Regrettably this report is in Japanese).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on December 07, 2016, 09:48:41 PM
Quote from: besilarius on December 07, 2016, 08:19:17 PM
For those who can't get enough of Musashi and Yamato, there is a report that Mitsubishi shipyards have found 200 original blueprints.

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20161204/k10010794821000.html   (Regrettably this report is in Japanese).

Awesome find, Bes!

Though if you view it in Google Chrome, it does an admirable job of translating the page.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 09, 2016, 11:47:43 AM
QuoteUSS Drayton (DD-366) off the West Coast in October 1941, as seen from a Navy Texan trainer
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 10, 2016, 08:57:56 AM
Battlecruiser Seydlitz after Jutland.
Riding a little low.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 10, 2016, 10:41:13 AM
IIRC, Of all the heavies at Jutland, isn't Seydlitz the ship which suffered the worst pounding while still making it home?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 10, 2016, 03:09:00 PM
Would have to agree, certainly on the German side.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfWarships/comments/4m1w5x/german_battlecruiser_sms_seydlitz_after_jutland/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxv9_-w26L4
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 10, 2016, 06:04:12 PM
http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20161209/uss-salem-to-move-to-new-pier-in-january

The Salem is moving, for any who might have wanted to visit her.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 14, 2016, 01:09:02 PM
QuoteUS Marine Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) depart USS Bataan (LHD-5), 2016

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 14, 2016, 06:36:31 PM
As all snipes will tell you.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 15, 2016, 07:42:50 AM
Not really sure if this belongs under Ships or under Planes.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on December 15, 2016, 09:47:19 AM
Quote from: besilarius on December 15, 2016, 07:42:50 AM
Not really sure if this belongs under Ships or under Planes.

The Royal Navy in about 2 years
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 15, 2016, 10:00:19 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on December 15, 2016, 09:47:19 AM
Quote from: besilarius on December 15, 2016, 07:42:50 AM
Not really sure if this belongs under Ships or under Planes.

The Royal Navy in about 2 years

So there's going to be a budget increase?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 18, 2016, 06:32:13 AM
QuoteCanadian Sailors Play A Game Of Hockey On The Flight Deck Of HMCS Magnificent (CVL-21), 1948.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on December 18, 2016, 06:41:17 AM
Quote from: mirth on December 15, 2016, 10:00:19 AM
Quote from: undercovergeek on December 15, 2016, 09:47:19 AM
Quote from: besilarius on December 15, 2016, 07:42:50 AM
Not really sure if this belongs under Ships or under Planes.

The Royal Navy in about 2 years

So there's going to be a budget increase?

Most of the money is spent on bobs pension - he was in for a looooooooong time
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on December 18, 2016, 07:15:27 AM
Yes, it was one of our capital ships. Quite a large rowing boat, actually.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on December 18, 2016, 07:15:58 AM
Solution to the Royal Navy having carriers but no planes to fly from them in a couple of years? Just let the Americans use the deck:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38336101 (http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38336101)

The inter-operability is pretty cool, especially with US and French jets cross-decking on the CDG. Anybody know if we did things like this during the Cold War?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 18, 2016, 07:35:39 AM
UN Marine Phantoms operated briefly from the Ark Royal:

http://www.urbanghostsmedia.com/2014/12/usmc-f-4-phantom-151477-tail-markings-royal-navy-malta/

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I don't know how common it was but here is a pic of the opposite- a Brit Phantom alongside it's USN cousin. on a US carrier.


[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/F-4J_VF-33_and_F-4K_892_NAS_on_USS_Independence_(CVA-62)_1971.jpg/img]


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 18, 2016, 07:43:36 AM
Looks like you were missing a bracket on the closing img tag.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 18, 2016, 07:44:30 AM
Doh!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 18, 2016, 08:51:11 AM
Photo taken by a Japanese plane of the moment after a torpedo hist HMS Exeter.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 20, 2016, 12:24:22 PM
QuoteRoyal Navy's Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth 1914

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 21, 2016, 02:45:11 PM
QuoteThe "Tsesarevich", 1904, at Qingdao

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: undercovergeek on December 21, 2016, 02:52:55 PM
That looks like something orcs would build
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on December 21, 2016, 06:57:15 PM
"Waaaghovich!"
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 21, 2016, 11:59:16 PM
The Langley/Jupiter must have been really shallow draft.  The Potomac has some tricky shallows.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 23, 2016, 06:49:02 AM
QuoteA MH-60S conducts vertrep between USNS Walter S Diehl (T-AO-93) and USS Essex (LHD-2) as USS Mustin (DDG-89) pulls alongside. Andaman Sea, 2008

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 25, 2016, 05:59:37 PM
QuoteScharnhorst and Gneisenau together in 1939

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 25, 2016, 06:01:23 PM
QuoteHMS Victoria passing a swing bridge while en route from Armstrong Shipyard at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, circa 1890.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 25, 2016, 06:05:50 PM
QuoteKing George V-class battleship HMS Duke of York as she leaves drydock at Rosyth.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on December 25, 2016, 06:10:53 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 25, 2016, 06:01:23 PM
QuoteHMS Victoria passing a swing bridge while en route from Armstrong Shipyard at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, circa 1890.

(https://i.redd.it/s6vz3u7tyo5y.jpg)

Not seen that picture before. I live about 5 miles away from there.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 27, 2016, 11:42:56 AM
QuoteDaring-class destroyer HMS Diamond (D35) steaming past "Mayflower II". 1957.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 27, 2016, 11:45:01 AM
QuoteWeapon-class destroyer HMS Broadsword (D31) hard over under heavy wheel off the coast of Libya. May 1962.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 28, 2016, 09:54:29 AM
Alabama fitting out in Norfolk Navy Shipyard.
The interesting sidenote is that the crane ship to port is placing the 16" guns into the turrets.
This crane ship is the former battleship Kearsarge.
The Kearsarge sank the Confederate raider Alabama in the Civil War.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 28, 2016, 12:47:51 PM
QuoteWaiting for an air raid onboard the Canberra. Falklands conflict 1982.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 28, 2016, 12:51:23 PM
QuoteAircrew learning how to identify vessels at sea using models on the Tactical Floor in No. 3 School of General Reconnaissance at Squires Gate, Blackpool, Lancashire, April 1944

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 28, 2016, 12:53:14 PM
QuoteHMS Barham and the destroyers Mons (left) and Medusa, being fitted out at Clydebank, July 1915.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on December 31, 2016, 10:40:09 AM
QuoteRussian Oscar II class submarine

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 02, 2017, 07:33:54 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth preparing for sea trials which are due to begin in the next few months.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 03, 2017, 07:49:27 AM
USS Begor (APD127) during the evacuation and demolition of Hungnam, Korea.  24 December, 1950
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 06, 2017, 08:15:19 AM
QuoteHauling lifeboats ashore while the RFA Sir Galahad burns in the background. Bluff Cove, Falklands. 1982.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 06, 2017, 08:16:29 AM
QuoteUSS Indiana (BB-1) at the Chicago World's Fair 1893

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 06, 2017, 08:18:00 AM
QuoteUSS Forrestal in the Suez Canal. 1988

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 07, 2017, 09:55:31 AM
USS Olympia porn.

https://www.facebook.com/CruiserOlympia/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf

About half way down the page is a click and drag photo of an engineering space.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 09, 2017, 03:03:56 PM
QuoteKongō in drydock, Yokosuka, Japan, 1930.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 09, 2017, 03:05:49 PM
QuoteRussian battleship Retvizan. Launched in 1902, she had a short, yet action packed career. Torpedoed & sunk at Port Arthur, raised, sunk again, raised by the Japanese, used during WWI to hunt German warships in the Pacific. Scrapped 1922.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 11, 2017, 12:47:26 PM
QuoteUSS Antietam (CVS 36) moments after launching an F3D Skyknight and Grumman F9F Panther while underway in the Caribbean.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 11, 2017, 12:49:44 PM
QuoteSailors execute a Tactical Snow Angel Formation Exercise (TACSNANEX) on the forward flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) during a January 7th snowstorm in Norfolk.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 11, 2017, 07:09:59 PM
LOL. Paradoxically, it's sailors (and soldiers, airman and Marines) getting away with goofy shit like this that maintains my confidence in our military and it's role in our democracy. A fascist junta would never ever tolerate it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 12, 2017, 07:58:31 AM
Quote from: mirth on January 11, 2017, 12:47:26 PM
QuoteUSS Antietam (CVS 36) moments after launching an F3D Skyknight and Grumman F9F Panther while underway in the Caribbean.

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An unusual pic of an RN Sea Hawk on the Antietam. (Unusual to me, anyway.)

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/CV-36_RN_SeaHawk_NAN9-53.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 12, 2017, 08:14:42 PM
QuoteBattleship Number 58, USS Indiana, in a South Pacific harbor, December 1942. Taken by a USS Saratoga (CV-3) photographer.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 12, 2017, 08:16:01 PM
QuoteUSS Indianapolis (CA-35) off Mare Island Navy Yard. July 10, 1945.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 12, 2017, 08:20:28 PM
QuoteJapanese battleship Fusō conducting a flooding and drainage test at Kure, Japan, 20 Apr 1941. Source: Maritime History and Science Museum, Kure, Japan.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 12, 2017, 08:43:44 PM
Quote16 inch projectile and full 6 bag powder charge as used by BB-61 IOWA.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7086/7304209258_533a628ed5_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 16, 2017, 07:57:03 AM
HMS Kelly going down.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 17, 2017, 12:40:22 PM
QuoteHMAS Melbourne (R21) launching Gannet aircraft while cruising with HMAS Vendetta and HMAS Voyager

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 17, 2017, 08:33:45 PM
The Melbourne actually collided with and sunk one of those two destroyers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 18, 2017, 07:29:01 AM
Operation Verity, 1949.
Monty visits the fleet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPRIsq-DkJY
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 21, 2017, 05:48:25 PM
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) fires a Sea Sparrow missile during Valiant Shield 2016

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 21, 2017, 06:08:19 PM
QuoteUSS Alabama (BB-60) anchored in Casco Bay, Maine, circa December 1942.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 24, 2017, 12:45:54 PM
QuoteHMS Vengeance in Florida

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 24, 2017, 07:05:17 PM
from the failed Trident test?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 24, 2017, 07:09:41 PM
Yeah, think so. That's Port Canaveral.


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 25, 2017, 12:15:20 PM
QuoteRussian battleship Oryol after Tsushima

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 26, 2017, 12:49:57 PM
QuoteUSS Lexington (CV-2) underway during the Battle of Coral Sea, 8 May 1942. This view appears to have been taken in the early afternoon, after planes had been recovered and initial damage control measures effected, but before the start of the fires that led to the ship's loss. This is the last known photograph of Lexington in operational condition. Taken from USS Portland (CA-33).

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on January 26, 2017, 12:55:29 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 25, 2017, 12:15:20 PM
QuoteRussian battleship Oryol after Tsushima

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That's quite the pounding.... there's a Goatfury analogy in here somewhere....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 26, 2017, 08:56:42 PM
I leave bigger holes.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 27, 2017, 07:29:05 AM
When first scanning your post, it read as "I have bigger holes."
Too early in the morning to go on with this.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 29, 2017, 10:22:08 AM
The end of aircraft carrier "bow prongs"

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7099/__trashed-9
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 30, 2017, 12:23:32 PM
QuoteJapanese Hayabusa-class guided missile patrol boat JS Kumataka (PG-827)

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/639/22196705282_e652abb353_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on January 30, 2017, 05:20:01 PM
Three? WTF three? Looks big enough for four.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 30, 2017, 10:28:48 PM
like theres a chinese warship that can survive 2.....  ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on January 31, 2017, 12:03:39 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 30, 2017, 10:28:48 PM
like theres a chinese warship that can survive 2.....  ::)

You saying that that carrier (by virtue of its size) cant survive two of those?
I am assuming that those are exocet type missiles
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 31, 2017, 12:12:25 PM
Quote from: Windigo on January 31, 2017, 12:03:39 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 30, 2017, 10:28:48 PM
like theres a chinese warship that can survive 2.....  ::)

You saying that that carrier (by virtue of its size) cant survive two of those?
I am assuming that those are exocet type missiles

They're homegrown Japanese SSMs, roughly equivalent to the US Harpoon. Two of them might not sink a ChiComm carrier, but they'd likely render it hors de combat.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 31, 2017, 12:24:57 PM
QuoteUSS Intrepid (CV-11) afire, after she was hit by a Kamikaze off Okinawa on 16 April 1945. Photographed from USS Alaska (CB-1), as a Fletcher class destroyer steams by in the foreground.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 31, 2017, 08:39:30 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 31, 2017, 12:12:25 PM
Quote from: Windigo on January 31, 2017, 12:03:39 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 30, 2017, 10:28:48 PM
like theres a chinese warship that can survive 2.....  ::)

You saying that that carrier (by virtue of its size) cant survive two of those?
I am assuming that those are exocet type missiles

They're homegrown Japanese SSMs, roughly equivalent to the US Harpoon. Two of them might not sink a ChiComm ex-Soviet ex-Indian carrier, but they'd likely render it hors de combat.

FTFY
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 31, 2017, 10:37:28 PM
the problem with those carriers is how much exposed ordinance they carry.  missile engines dont respond well to explosions.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 31, 2017, 10:43:03 PM
The Chinese were at least smart enough to ditch the SSMs that the Russkis carry on theirs.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 01, 2017, 06:57:38 PM
HMS King George V

(https://i.redd.it/xozrib78r9dy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 01, 2017, 06:59:12 PM
QuoteUSS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624) starts down the way at Mare Island on 22 February 1963

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 01, 2017, 07:02:36 PM
QuoteHe-115 Aircraft Flies By A Scharnhorst Class Battleship And A German Destroyer During The Channel Dash, February, 1942.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 01, 2017, 07:08:51 PM
QuoteUSS Utah (BB-31), getting painted, May 4, 1929


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: steve58 on February 04, 2017, 08:22:29 AM
U.S. Navy officially decommissions the "Big E", the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (http://newatlas.com/uss-enterprise-decommissioned/47744/l)

Quote
After almost 55 years of active service, the USS Enterprise has been decommissioned. No, we're not talking about a certain starship, but the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which was commissioned in the US Navy in 1961 and now bears the distinction of being the first nuclear carrier to be decommissioned. The eighth US Naval vessel to bear the name, the Enterprise was removed from the Navy list today as Captain Todd Beltz relinquished his command in a ceremony in the ship's hangar bay.

A ninth USS Enterprise (CVN 80), one of the Gerald R Ford class of nuclear supercarriers, is scheduled to enter service in 2027.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 07, 2017, 09:55:42 PM
Plane being blown off the Lexington's flight deck by an explosion.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 12, 2017, 09:18:28 AM
Entrance wound of Yorktown at Coral Sea.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 12, 2017, 09:38:07 AM
QuoteQE class carrier compared to Invincible class

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 12, 2017, 09:47:30 AM
Very impressive. Still, the QE seems to lack something, but what? I just can't quite put my finger on it... I'm sure the answer will land on me any moment though.




Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 12, 2017, 11:51:49 AM
It is somewhat confusing to see starboard side elevators.  Thought for a second the picture was reversed.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 12, 2017, 12:03:15 PM
Don't the Nimitzs have elevators on the Starboard side in front of and behind the island?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 12, 2017, 03:58:08 PM
Yes, had a brain fart.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on February 12, 2017, 07:36:42 PM
F35 at the top of the ski jump. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 12, 2017, 09:24:24 PM
^That's it!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2017, 12:13:26 PM
QuoteUSS HANCOCK (CV-19) at a Pacific anchorage, 1944-45

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on February 14, 2017, 01:09:27 PM
those are anchor lines... theys fishing.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 15, 2017, 07:47:24 AM
1934 Fleet Maneuvers.

http://dvr-streaming.mirc.sc.edu/autogenerated/MVTN_23-987to23-988_r1of3_Mez1_CMS_588_Acc.m4v
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 16, 2017, 12:09:06 PM
QuoteNuclear powered Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine USS Benjamin Franklin (SSNB-640)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 16, 2017, 12:09:57 PM
QuoteHMS Benbow leading line astern

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 16, 2017, 12:11:39 PM
QuoteUSS Gwin (DM-33), her decks augmented with rails to support the stowage and rapid launching of the MK18 Naval Ground Mine, is inclined at her builders yard the day prior to her commissioning into US Navy service.

(https://i.redd.it/pwfnl3fub1gy.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on February 16, 2017, 12:15:36 PM
QuoteAn S-3 Viking is readied for launch from catapult number two on the flight deck of USS John C Stennis (CVN-74), 2002

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 23, 2017, 06:59:42 PM
Quote1945, United States, Cape May, the German submarine U-858 (Type IX-C: 40) just capitulated and headed for the US coast

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 23, 2017, 07:01:04 PM
QuoteDutch torpedo boat ARDJOENO, built by Yarrow in 1886

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 26, 2017, 08:08:09 AM
QuoteWith USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) in the background, the Los Angeles-class fast-attack sub USS Olympia (SSN-717) arrives at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for a port visit. Jan. 2017. USN Photo.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on February 27, 2017, 08:22:31 PM
https://warisboring.com/chinas-second-aircraft-carrier-is-almost-complete-aeefad0aa293#.9qxsfslbc
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 27, 2017, 10:20:53 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 27, 2017, 08:22:31 PM
https://warisboring.com/chinas-second-aircraft-carrier-is-almost-complete-aeefad0aa293#.9qxsfslbc

Good article as usual. The Chinese are nowhere near threatening US and Allied naval power in the Pacific, though. Good for them having their first little aircraft carrier with training wheels by 2020.  ;D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 28, 2017, 07:41:16 AM
Damage from a near miss to Enterprise at Eastern Solomons.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2017, 01:06:55 PM
QuoteUSS California (BB-44) drydocked after Pearl Harbor.

(https://i.redd.it/w7x4yxjg1tiy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 02, 2017, 07:35:02 AM
Dud bomb found on West Virginia
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2017, 08:22:31 AM
QuoteConstruction of the 14 inch guns for USS New York (BB-34) and USS Texas (BB-35).


(https://i.redd.it/o0ll2g1dvyiy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 02, 2017, 06:43:41 PM
November 25,1944 kamikaze attack on Essex.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 03, 2017, 05:54:01 AM
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/a-kickin-time-for-military-monday-258.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 04, 2017, 04:27:36 PM
Some crew chief screwed up big time.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 07, 2017, 06:33:07 PM
QuoteBattleship guns being manufactured at the Washington Navy Yard, 1917

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 07, 2017, 06:47:32 PM
The building is still there, but all the equipment is long gone.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 08, 2017, 04:58:26 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 03, 2017, 05:54:01 AM
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/a-kickin-time-for-military-monday-258.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)

what the hell is that .... thing aft of the tower? I mean besides screwing up some sweet sub lines....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 08, 2017, 05:56:14 PM
Chamber for Special Forces ops.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 08, 2017, 06:06:14 PM
ahhh that's where they have the cow catapult...   :bd:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 08, 2017, 06:08:59 PM
Like I said.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 10, 2017, 07:37:34 AM
HMS Valiant damage by Italian pigs.  (Maila)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 10, 2017, 07:45:58 AM
Shooting the sun with a sextant.

Phone call about 1972.
"Do you carry an A-10 Sextant?"
Gasp!  "A what tent?"
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2017, 12:16:44 PM
QuoteHSwMS Vale (P155) in 1982

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2017, 12:18:24 PM
QuoteA USMC AV-8B Harrier launches from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) during flight operations in the Mediterranean Sea. Apr. 2005.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 10, 2017, 12:20:07 PM
QuoteThe Grand Fleet's 2nd and 6th (US Navy) Battle Squadrons steam out of Rosyth on a dark day in Scotland, 1918. Photo taken from HMS Queen Elizabeth.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 11, 2017, 09:25:47 AM
USS Grayback preparing a Regulus missile for launch.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 11, 2017, 09:16:04 PM
As of 2007, Parche was said to be "the most highly decorated vessel in U.S. history", receiving a total of nine Presidential Unit Citations and ten Navy Unit Commendations. The submarine also received thirteen Navy Expeditionary Medals during her thirty years of service.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 12, 2017, 10:21:02 AM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 17, 2017, 05:38:14 AM
Where are the carriers?

https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/us-naval-update-map-march-16-2017?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 18, 2017, 09:02:08 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FznZfU4d.jpg&hash=ba9121879995e0af6f0de399ca60c619c32b97d5)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 20, 2017, 07:51:04 AM
QuoteUS Navy SEALs and divers from SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team (SDVT) 1 swim back to USS Michigan (SSGN-727) during an exercise for certification on SEAL delivery vehicle operations in the southern Pacific Ocean, 2012

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6982072595_c6dec53cfd_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 20, 2017, 07:53:25 AM
QuoteAircraft carrier Houshou with landing biplane fighter underway off the coast of Shanghai, China 1932

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 20, 2017, 07:56:19 AM
QuoteThe guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60) approaches the guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) for a sail pass while under way in the Indian Ocean.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 20, 2017, 07:58:25 AM
QuoteAircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) transits the Mediterranean Sea alongside aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91).

(https://media.defense.gov/2016/Dec/08/2001676888/-1/-1/0/161206-N-QY430-335B.JPG)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 23, 2017, 04:52:06 AM
QuoteGerman predreadnought battleship SMS Elsass in Kiel

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 24, 2017, 11:02:07 AM
QuoteSeawolf-Class attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 26, 2017, 08:15:32 AM
QuoteJapan's 2nd Izumo-class helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184) was commissioned recently after its launch in 2015

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 26, 2017, 08:17:28 AM
QuoteJMSDF Submarine Hakuryū (SS-503) visiting Guam in 2013.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 26, 2017, 08:32:58 AM
^ Sōryū-class submarine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-class_submarine)

Soryu-class... they sure aren't shy anymore about reminding certain folks that not so long ago Japan had a navy capable of going toe-to-toe with all comers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 26, 2017, 08:50:18 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 26, 2017, 08:32:58 AM
^ Sōryū-class submarine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-class_submarine)

Soryu-class... they sure aren't shy anymore about reminding certain folks that not so long ago Japan had a navy capable of going toe-to-toe with all comers.

And the new "helicopter destroyer" is named Kaga.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 26, 2017, 09:45:33 AM
Don't they have an Aegis-equipped vessel named Kongo as well? Rebooting the 'Yamato' can't be far off.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 26, 2017, 09:50:09 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 26, 2017, 09:45:33 AM
Don't they have an Aegis-equipped vessel named Kongo as well?

Yep. That entire class has some well known names: Kongo, Kirishima, Myoko, Chokai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D-class_destroyer

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on March 26, 2017, 11:58:32 AM
Quote from: mirth on March 26, 2017, 08:15:32 AM
QuoteJapan's 2nd Izumo-class helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184) was commissioned recently after its launch in 2015

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Are Japanese "helicopter destroyers" the pocket battleships of the 21st century?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 26, 2017, 02:35:45 PM
Just add Gen5 VTOL.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on March 26, 2017, 02:39:39 PM
Is there a legal/treaty reason they don't classify those DDH's as CVL's. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 26, 2017, 02:42:25 PM
Quote from: OJsDad on March 26, 2017, 02:39:39 PM
Is there a legal/treaty reason they don't classify those DDH's as CVL's. 

Yes. Under the post-war constitution, Japan's military can only possess defensive weapons. Aircraft carriers are considered offensive platforms.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 28, 2017, 12:11:07 AM
then its a good thing they're destroyers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 28, 2017, 06:27:32 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 28, 2017, 12:11:07 AM
then its a good thing they're destroyers.

I'm not sure the Chinese think so :P
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 29, 2017, 11:26:53 AM
QuoteUSS America (LHA 6) with a deck full of F-35Bs and MV-22 Ospreys

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 06, 2017, 06:32:10 AM
Almost delusional, thinking mattresses would do much for bomb splinters.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 06, 2017, 06:35:36 AM
I dunno man. You ever try sleeping on a real futon? I'd swear there is armor plating between the layers of packed cotton.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 06, 2017, 08:51:53 AM
Probably not delusional for the guys on the receiving end.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 06, 2017, 07:28:39 PM
QuoteHMS Barham followed by the battleship Malaya and the aircraft carrier Argus

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on April 07, 2017, 10:38:54 AM
Carriers without islands just look.... weird.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 08, 2017, 02:50:26 PM
HMS Dido entering Malta, 1944
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 10, 2017, 11:59:20 AM
QuoteGerald R. Ford CVN 78, first of her class, underway on her own power for the first time for Builder's Sea Trials

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 10, 2017, 12:04:54 PM
Another shot of the Ford underway

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 10, 2017, 01:17:11 PM
so clean and pretty.  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 10, 2017, 06:42:58 PM
Yes... no pesky aircraft to clutter up the deck.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 10, 2017, 06:47:57 PM
Someday the F-35 will be ready
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 10, 2017, 06:51:33 PM
How soon is now?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 13, 2017, 07:23:03 AM
QuoteHMS Nelson between the wars

(https://i.redd.it/opliysvic6ry.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 13, 2017, 07:25:41 AM
QuoteUSS Wyoming in dry dock, sometime between 1910 and 1915. She is showing her anti-destroyer 5" gun at the stern.

(https://i.imgur.com/YAUsl6l.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 19, 2017, 11:43:58 AM
QuoteNavy Blimp L-8 delivers B-25 parts to USS Hornet off San Francisco, April 4, 1942

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 19, 2017, 11:48:09 AM
QuoteClass-leader Iowa (BB-61) fitting out at the New York Naval Shipyard, 15 Jan 1943, approx. one month prior to commissioning. Source: Nat'l Archives.

(https://i.redd.it/ti53xtc3c1sy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 19, 2017, 11:51:32 AM
QuoteHMAS Melbourne (CVS-21), in company with HMAS Stalwart (D215), launches a Grumman S-2E Tracker, approx 1977

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 19, 2017, 05:47:56 PM
https://www.facebook.com/100009366591039/videos/1836850336637168/

Adolph and Benito review the Italian Fleet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 20, 2017, 07:08:40 AM
Last voyage of the Iowa.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2017, 04:46:00 PM
QuoteUSS Ronald Reagan (CNV 76) seen from the hangar of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)

(https://media.defense.gov/2016/Jun/24/2001558879/-1/-1/0/160618-N-GZ947-043A.JPG)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2017, 04:49:33 PM
QuoteFrench Aircraft Carrier Béarn in 1939

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2017, 04:58:32 PM
QuoteUSS Wood (DD-317) aground on Angel Island, CA sometime in the 1920's.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2017, 05:10:06 PM
QuoteUSS Wisconsin towering over the streets of Norfolk, VA


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bbmike on April 21, 2017, 05:11:04 PM
^That's a cool shot.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2017, 05:14:48 PM
Yeah. I'm trying it as a desktop background.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on April 21, 2017, 05:15:59 PM
Its impressive.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 21, 2017, 05:26:15 PM
This is cool when viewed  it at full size

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on April 21, 2017, 09:37:18 PM
QuoteHSwMS Gotland in San Diego with USS Ronald Reagan in background

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/HMS_Gotland_with_USS_Ronald_Reagan.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 25, 2017, 07:08:06 AM
National Archive video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12nDAg-oWZc
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:17:30 AM
QuoteUSS Baltimore (SSN-704) and USS Samuel B. Robert steam alongside USS George Washington (CVN-73) during a battle formation exercise, April 2002

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:19:52 AM
QuoteUSS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) transits the Philippine Sea

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2832/33391164734_41004ea0b2_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:21:16 AM
QuoteOhio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN-727) arrives in Busan, South Korea

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2809/33869529930_ee579a0086_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:23:31 AM
QuoteArleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane

(https://media.defense.gov/2016/Nov/08/2001665544/-1/-1/0/161104-N-BL637-127A.JPG)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:30:12 AM
QuoteWWII: German Activities: German submarine in full ride. Photographed by war reporter: Zuber. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2846/33877505432_c174237bdf_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:31:23 AM
QuoteSoviet Navy riverine armoured gunboats S40 & 1124

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:32:44 AM
QuoteImperial Russian Navy submarine type AG in dry dock

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:34:43 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:39:04 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:40:13 AM
QuoteUSS Enterprise awaiting disposal alongside the new & fitting out USS Independence, 22nd of June, 1958. Also in the photo are what appears to be a pair of Rudderow-class destroyer escorts, some Gearing-class destroyers, Gato-class submarine and a pile of Fletcher-class destroyers.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 25, 2017, 12:49:35 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:19:52 AM
QuoteUSS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) transits the Philippine Sea

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2832/33391164734_41004ea0b2_o.jpg)

Duffle Blog says that the Vinson BG is really off 1941-era Pearl Harbor, ready to take on the Kito Butai.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2017, 12:52:05 PM
I'll defer to Duffle Blog then.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 25, 2017, 06:45:29 PM
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/north-america/aircraft-carriers-bigger-better-1091

One admiral's opinion on carriers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 26, 2017, 06:51:47 AM
IJN carrier Amagi in Kure harbor, 1945
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 26, 2017, 07:01:08 AM
HMS Victorious in the Pacific.
The neat thing is the yellow square amidships was a camouflage decoy.  It was put there, to look like an elevator, and give a dive bomber a point of aim.
Whereas it really was the strongest point on the british armored flight deck.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 26, 2017, 06:29:31 PM
Why is it covered in USN aircraft?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 27, 2017, 06:25:28 AM
This was when Victorious was loaned to the USN as USS Robin

http://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-robin-hms-victorious/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on April 27, 2017, 07:11:53 AM
How interesting. I did not know that.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 27, 2017, 04:28:34 PM
QuoteHMAS Ballarat and HMCS Ottawa and HMCS Winnipeg sailing together in a SE Asia deployment

(https://images.defence.gov.au/fotoweb/cache/5003/DefenceImagery/2017/S20170793_/20170419ran8107930_Panorama.t59002e1e.m2048.x2b1f614d.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 27, 2017, 06:56:55 PM
Quote from: besilarius on April 27, 2017, 06:25:28 AM
This was when Victorious was loaned to the USN as USS Robin

http://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-robin-hms-victorious/


Great story! Thanks for the link!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 27, 2017, 09:41:10 PM
Armored Carriers is a great site with extremely well written reports.
The one on Taranto, is the best account I've ever come across.  And the anecdotes are well done.
Especially like the one where an american officer is surprised at the Fairey Swordfish airplane, the old Stringbag.
Although slow, it had great maneuverability.  Seeing a Swordfish able to almost hover when flying into a headwind, he asked, "Who makes those?"
"Faireys."
He just looked at the other guy before saying, "Of course they do."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2017, 12:24:53 PM
QuoteUSS Idaho (BB-42) at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Jan 2, 1945, she was just refitted with 10 - 5"/38 guns

(https://i.imgur.com/5RsFO1d.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2017, 12:25:37 PM
QuoteWaves break over the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) in the Pacific Ocean

(https://www.nrl.navy.mil/PressReleases/2012/150-12r_USS_Bunker_Hill_1600x1054.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2017, 12:26:54 PM
QuoteUSS Toucey (DD-282) underway at an unknown location

(https://i.imgur.com/lNrrc3V.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 28, 2017, 12:27:40 PM
QuoteUSS Monterey (CG-61) performs a high speed maneuver in the Arabian Sea, 2013

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7457/8951447626_d8b4bacaab_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 02, 2017, 06:18:56 AM
One of the first chilled scuttlebutts.  Made a big difference in engineering spaces and tropical climes.  Tepid water is not so refreshing.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 04, 2017, 07:38:46 PM
Russian mine defusing.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2017, 07:46:01 AM
QuoteRoyal Navy battleships astern. HMS Marlborough first, HMS Benbow second. 1919. Imperial War Museum photo.


(https://i.redd.it/97yhfjvg70wy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 17, 2017, 06:28:31 AM
QuoteThe USS Reuben James, a Clemson-class destroyer. Sunk by U-552 while escorting a convoy on 31 OCT 1941. It was the first US Navy ship sunk by the Germans in the Atlantic in World War II, prior to formal declaration of hostilities.

(https://i.redd.it/2i8qa142aoxy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 19, 2017, 06:07:31 PM
CVE Manila Bay under air attack off Saipan.
The caption is incorrect.  In defence, four P-47s were launched to support the CAP, and these planes continued on to Saipan.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 20, 2017, 08:33:21 AM
Cruiser chicago fouls the approach of a Tomcat.
David Eisenhower have the conn?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 22, 2017, 08:25:10 AM
QuoteRoyal Navy destroyer HMS Manchester (D95) prepares to come alongside the fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE-8) during an underway replenishment in the Persian Gulf. Mar 2008. USN photo.

(https://i.redd.it/d53nsrk43syy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 22, 2017, 08:25:46 AM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FuRijKGL.jpg&hash=08bf53e290776767d882c4c1150570033000c573)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 24, 2017, 06:58:43 AM
A bit of Navy humor:

'BUTTERCUPS AND GOLF BALLS'

Towards the end of the golf course, the Chief hit his ball into the woods and found it in a patch of pretty yellow buttercups. Trying to get his ball back in play, he ended up thrashing just about every buttercup in the patch..

All of a sudden...

... POOF ...

In a flash of puff and smoke, a little old woman appeared. She said...

"I'm Mother Nature! Do you know how long it took me to make those buttercups?"

The Chief stands there abruptly stunned not knowing what to say...

"Just for doing what you have done, you won't have any butter for your popcorn for the rest of your life; better still, you won't have any butter for your toast for the rest of your life. As a matter of fact, you'll never have any butter for anything the rest of your life!"

... POOF! ...

And she was gone!

After Chief recovered from the shock, he hollered for his golf budd, the  Master Chief...

"Master Chief, where are you?"

Master Chief yells back...

"I'm over here in the pussy willows!!!"

Chief shouts back...

"DON'T SWING MASTER CHIEF; FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, DON'T SWING!!!"


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 24, 2017, 06:47:18 PM
QuoteThe Italian destroyer leader Pantera in the 1920s

(https://i.redd.it/5lmuytbxtezy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 24, 2017, 06:50:09 PM
QuoteUSS Idaho (BB-42) under way


(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FiUnOe2x.jpg&hash=b1c52fb12a6d1163a9250edbf88a97b3af795770)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 24, 2017, 07:07:53 PM
There appears to be quite a bit of the crew above decks. Must have been quite a heady feeling to stand there while the battleship was slamming it's way through the chop.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 25, 2017, 05:57:10 PM
QuoteUSS Kearsarge (LHD-3) passes One World Trade Center for NYC Fleet Week 2017

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4195/34042555964_551c04b828_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bbmike on May 25, 2017, 06:03:38 PM
This is my USS Kearsarge. No bloody A - B - C - or D!

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarcentral.com%2Fpics%2F1861.jpg&hash=73c7fd19a79e90e42b136b1eeb140cd0eb6a9ccf)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 25, 2017, 07:44:27 PM
Quote from: bbmike on May 25, 2017, 06:03:38 PM
This is my USS Kearsarge. No bloody A - B - C - or D!

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarcentral.com%2Fpics%2F1861.jpg&hash=73c7fd19a79e90e42b136b1eeb140cd0eb6a9ccf)


Utopia Planitia looks a bit soggy in that pic.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 25, 2017, 07:49:21 PM
Quote from: bbmike on May 25, 2017, 06:03:38 PM
This is my USS Kearsarge. No bloody A - B - C - or D!

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aarcentral.com%2Fpics%2F1861.jpg&hash=73c7fd19a79e90e42b136b1eeb140cd0eb6a9ccf)

Love the reference.
as for the timeline though, thats more Bawbs Kearsarge.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 28, 2017, 07:40:15 AM
Two Lone Ships, 1914.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on May 28, 2017, 03:20:02 PM
https://www.facebook.com/GloMilStrat/videos/448958472104264/

Very short film on Russian Northern Fleet exercise.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 01, 2017, 12:01:07 PM
QuoteAn undated photo of the future USS Washington (SSN-787). The Navy accepted delivery of the 14th submarine of the Virginia-class May 26. Huntington Ingalls Industries photo.

(https://i.redd.it/x0j58ymzv50z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 01, 2017, 06:19:23 PM
QuoteVinson, Reagan and Ashigara

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4220/34899568421_4a9210502e_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 02, 2017, 11:13:38 AM
QuoteBattleship SMS Bayern being re-floated for salvage. Scapa Flow, 1934

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/96/c4/de/96c4de5c858491114daf6fc7f98791bf.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 03, 2017, 06:48:02 PM
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyers Kaga and Izumo

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fd.ibtimes.co.uk%2Fen%2Ffull%2F1601682%2Fjapanese-helicopter-carrier.jpg&hash=04df53d35580b15b3034c81c69bd53a2fe015cee)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 03, 2017, 07:11:15 PM
If you look reallllllly close you can see the word 'RESERVED' in Kanji script stenciled on the decks, surrounded by the outline of an F-35.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 03, 2017, 07:19:48 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 03, 2017, 07:11:15 PM
If you look reallllllly close you can see the word 'RESERVED' in Kanji script stenciled on the decks, surrounded by the outline of an F-35.

lol
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 03, 2017, 08:10:36 PM
I bet they could hold a 100+ Zeros.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 07, 2017, 07:00:52 AM
Monitor versus Merrimack.
Skip to 45 for the combat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7wIDslzGQU
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 07, 2017, 11:19:23 AM
QuoteIJN Kaga, from the stern, with view of horizontal stacks

(https://i.imgur.com/qdjSo8v.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 09, 2017, 07:05:42 AM
6 May, 1964.
USS Decatur has an underway replenishment accident.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 09, 2017, 07:13:24 AM
QuoteUSS Oriskany on fire October 1966.

(https://i.redd.it/s260hamd2h2z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 09, 2017, 07:15:15 AM
QuoteHMS Erin in a floating dry dock, circa 1918.

(https://i.redd.it/744mlw65lj2z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 09, 2017, 07:19:18 AM
QuoteDestroyer HMS BROKE in drydock at Tyneside showing damage sustained at the Battle of Jutland, 1916.

(https://i.imgur.com/pjets6t.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on June 09, 2017, 07:20:37 AM
That's broke alright!  :hide:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 09, 2017, 07:22:23 AM
QuoteKamikaze Near Miss on USS Sangamon CVE-26 off Ryukyu Islands May 1945

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwarphotos.info%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fusa%2Fus-navy%2FJapanese_Kamikaze_Near_Miss_on_USS_Sangamon_CVE-26_off_Ryukyu_Islands_May_1945.jpg&hash=85aa45053dff5d708613a757922b78d55529bb54)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 09, 2017, 07:24:15 AM
QuoteUSS Forrestal (CVA-59) awaits her turn to refuel while operating in the Mediterranean Sea during the Jordanian crisis, 29 April 1957. USS Caloosahatchee (AO-98) is ahead, with USS Lake Champlain (CVA-39) and USS Salem (CA-139) alongside.

(https://i.redd.it/oggpcvo0jc2z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 09, 2017, 06:23:21 PM
Look at those shiny new Skywarriors on the deck. The Navy ended up keeping those big puppies in service until around the time Clinton took office.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 09, 2017, 07:49:57 PM
they were excellent ELINT platforms.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 09, 2017, 08:44:03 PM
Broke also suffered damage to her bows in the Battle of the Dover Strait when she rammed the german destroyer G-85.
"I hit her at full speed almost at right angles abreast after funnel, port side, and she literally tore her side out and bent my stem to port."

Her captain, E R G R Evans was one of the great english eccentrics.  He actually was second in command of Captain Scot's expedition to the Pole, but had to turn back because Evans came down with scurvy.
Scott got to the Pole after Roald Amundsen, and he and all his party died.
During Dover Strait, Evans issued cutlasses to his men while the ships were entangled.
He took some criticism because members of his crew using steaming cups of cocoa to repulse the german boarders.
A clear violation of the Geneva Convention.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Uberhaus on June 10, 2017, 12:27:58 AM
C'mon British cocoa isn't that bad.  It would have been a real crime to waste tea though.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 10, 2017, 08:04:47 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 09, 2017, 07:49:57 PM
they were excellent ELINT platforms.

There's an EA-3B on display at the New England Air Museum, about an hour's drive from me.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 11, 2017, 09:03:26 AM
QuoteUSS Topeka (CLG-8) fires a "Terrier" missile on 18 November 1961 during weapons demonstrations for the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson. The photo was taken from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FkVJHqJd.jpg&hash=6df13d7830ce0a3b61538d35d783b01041a4ed88)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on June 12, 2017, 04:23:46 PM
Love the 'Spad' in the foreground.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 12, 2017, 05:52:23 PM
They were life savers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 13, 2017, 07:03:08 AM
Here's an awesome size comparison chart, with Henry V' s Grace Dieu in the center.
Good thing her wreck still exists and has been scientifically examined, or I'd never believe it.
Henry VIII's Henri Grace a Dieu is almost purely conjectural, however, since only her tonnage (interior volume) has been recorded.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 13, 2017, 11:32:03 AM
QuoteRare aerial photo of Bismarck moving through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal to the Baltic Sea, March 8, 1941.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FnYUAjZd.jpg&hash=61fac4deec2049e81087cc4487f6ffa8d841bf9b)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 13, 2017, 11:34:20 AM
QuoteHangar deck of USS Lexington (CV-2) in March, 1928. The aircraft are Curtis F6C-3's of Fighter Squadron Five (VF-5).

(https://i.imgur.com/VxVIZ64.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 13, 2017, 11:36:36 AM
QuoteThe carrier Philippine Sea (CVA 47) returns to port carrying transport planes in addition to airplanes of her embarked air group, 8/9/1952.

(https://i.redd.it/6rnurfe7d13z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 13, 2017, 06:54:30 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 13, 2017, 11:34:20 AM
QuoteHangar deck of USS Lexington (CV-2) in March, 1928. The aircraft are Curtis F6C-3's of Fighter Squadron Five (VF-5).

(https://i.imgur.com/VxVIZ64.jpg)

Great find! I love seeing Golden-Age/PreWW2 aviation pix, especially Naval Aviation.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 13, 2017, 07:01:57 PM
That is a cool pic.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on June 14, 2017, 04:33:14 AM
Yeah, its a good 'un.  :bd:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 18, 2017, 08:32:23 AM
Keel laying ceremony for the Iowa (BB-61), as seen on 27 June 1940 seventy seven years ago today at the New York Navy Yard. Shipyard Superintendents, foremen and chargemen who will lead the yard workers on the project look on as Rear Admiral C. H. Woodward, Chief of the Bureau of Construction and Repair Bu C & R) drives the first rivet.


Look at the size of that clamp.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 19, 2017, 08:03:14 AM
Quote from: besilarius on June 13, 2017, 07:03:08 AM
Here's an awesome size comparison chart, with Henry V' s Grace Dieu in the center.
Good thing her wreck still exists and has been scientifically examined, or I'd never believe it.
Henry VIII's Henri Grace a Dieu is almost purely conjectural, however, since only her tonnage (interior volume) has been recorded.

Why not ask Bawb? He sailed on her, didn't he?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on June 19, 2017, 09:26:15 AM
Lets see now - hmmm, I'll need to go and check the manuscripts..........................
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2017, 10:46:45 AM
QuoteThe airship K-69 launches from the deck of the escort carrier Mindoro (CVE 120) c 1950.

(https://i.redd.it/h13pb6z6ff4z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2017, 10:49:22 AM
Stern launch of a Martin BM-1 torpedo bomber of VT-1S off USS Lexington (CV-2).

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FdGvdNwR.jpg&hash=ab7e390016111bea10389910928eb119c39c5a94)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2017, 10:52:12 AM
USS Iowa (BB-4)

(https://i.redd.it/p200ombcuz3z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2017, 10:54:09 AM
QuoteUSS Lassen patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean, March 10, 2016

(https://media.defense.gov/2016/Mar/16/2001480980/-1/-1/0/160310-N-MD297-161.JPG)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2017, 10:56:10 AM
QuoteCrew stand on fairwater planes, sail and deck of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force submarine Mochishio (SS-574) following the vessel's arrival to take part in the joint naval exercise RIMPAC '92.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F6fJok3L.jpg&hash=a3d53c47db3f941aadde70778a8792d976bbd91a)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2017, 10:57:13 AM
QuoteThe guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale, the guided-missile frigate USS Gary, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley perform a straits transiting exercise in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 12, 2010

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.defense.gov%2Fdodcmsshare%2FWeekInPhotos%2F2010-12%2Fhires_101212-N-6006S-074d.jpg&hash=cf8c73addbe2c57dee2fc108fd5637129655b7b1)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 19, 2017, 06:19:36 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 19, 2017, 10:49:22 AM
Stern launch of a Martin BM-1 torpedo bomber of VT-1S off USS Lexington (CV-2).

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FdGvdNwR.jpg&hash=ab7e390016111bea10389910928eb119c39c5a94)

Another great one!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2017, 11:10:09 AM
QuoteUSS Macon inside Hangar One at Moffett Field, California

(https://i.redd.it/gtetbmyjh15z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2017, 11:13:01 AM
QuoteSMS Budapest, an Austro-Hungarian Monarch-Class Coastal Defence Ship

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kuk-marine-museum.net%2Fimages%2Fphoto%2Fsms_budapest_1.jpg&hash=4e01aa8a68d85e23928c5dede69c2d6c8379366e)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 22, 2017, 11:17:55 AM
QuotePervert plugs hole and stops sinking of the USS Queen of France, Charleston harbor, 1780

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fc8.alamy.com%2Fcomp%2FCRJM6R%2Fman-in-captain-hat-holding-toy-ship-in-bathtub-CRJM6R.jpg&hash=886537e7dcbda919079f0c70e49e498a5577e850)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 22, 2017, 05:43:51 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 22, 2017, 11:10:09 AM
QuoteUSS Macon inside Hangar One at Moffett Field, California

(https://i.redd.it/gtetbmyjh15z.jpg)

Magnificent!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2017, 06:12:51 PM
QuoteCasablanca-class escort carrier USS Thetis Bay with a deck full of Catalinas (accompanied by other planes such as Wildcats) en route to Alameda, California where the aircraft will be refurbished in order to be returned to the front, 8 July 1944.

(https://i.redd.it/yiq1lhyq8n4z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2017, 06:17:02 PM
QuoteHMCS Huron (DDE-216) enters Valletta, Malta sometime during the 1950's.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F90iPeJD.jpg&hash=ea7cee6405db2347a4cf05ef0f5711a6a868b819)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 23, 2017, 09:37:16 AM
Last photo of Yorktown, CV-5
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 24, 2017, 05:51:22 PM
QuoteAircraft carriers HMS Eagle (R05), HMS Bulwark (R08), HMAS Melbourne (R21) and HMS Victorious (R38) during Exercise Showpiece, Malaysia, 1965

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 24, 2017, 05:54:30 PM
QuoteUSS Iowa inside floating drydock ABSD-2, Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 28 Dec 1944

(https://i.redd.it/1nj9rxia1f5z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 26, 2017, 11:30:38 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth (RO8) departing Rosyth dockyards under tow

(https://i.imgur.com/OnkTJgZ.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 26, 2017, 11:31:51 AM
^ Damn, and I was so close to there a few weeks ago. I'll have to head back over there and take some pics.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 26, 2017, 11:34:48 AM
https://mobile.twitter.com/QEClassCarriers

https://www.facebook.com/royalnavy/videos/10155448983283205/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on June 26, 2017, 11:37:33 AM
I ain't usin' no fancy socially me-day-uh stuff, but thanks for the links anyway! Those do look cool.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 27, 2017, 08:54:03 AM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/11855/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-royal-navys-new-carrier-and-its-maiden-voyage
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on June 28, 2017, 06:37:31 AM
San Francisco is an awkward place.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/3-tales-of-gigantic-aircraft-carriers-getting-11248158.php&cmpid=fb-premium
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 12:21:40 PM
HMS QE runs on Windows XP

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/107389-royal-navys-new-35bn-aircraft-carrier-runs-windows-xp/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 28, 2017, 12:45:12 PM
well hopefully they wont need Minesweeper. ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 12:48:55 PM
^lol. They'll be able to run Harpoon.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: DoctorQuest on June 28, 2017, 01:10:44 PM
But can they run Cruise Ship Simulator?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 28, 2017, 04:57:49 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 28, 2017, 12:48:55 PM
^lol. They'll be able to run Harpoon.

Im sure if they do he who shall not be named will correct the errors.....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 05:01:44 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on June 28, 2017, 04:57:49 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 28, 2017, 12:48:55 PM
^lol. They'll be able to run Harpoon.

Im sure if they do he who shall not be named will correct the errors.....

The death knell of the RN. They'd disband the Fleet just to avoid the endless discussion.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on June 28, 2017, 05:03:36 PM
Quote from: mirth on June 26, 2017, 11:30:38 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth (RO8) departing Rosyth dockyards under tow

(https://i.imgur.com/OnkTJgZ.jpg)
It's an ugly fucker  :2funny:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 05:07:41 PM
The ski ramp doesn't do it any favors aesthetically.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 28, 2017, 06:01:35 PM
Maybe there'll be snow bunnies skiing down the ramp at the launch ceremony.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 07:28:11 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FzBrVZWI.jpg&hash=61b86211ddb15ae700b7e051b405f6d793b4c2a8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 28, 2017, 07:31:27 PM
It's good to have a second island. Makes Kamikazes all cross-eyed so they miss.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 07:32:50 PM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth on second day sea trials, escorted by HMS Sutherland and HMS Iron Duke

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 07:34:27 PM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth from the bridge of HMS Iron Duke

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on June 28, 2017, 07:36:40 PM
Funny... I remember HMS Iron Duke being a bit... larger. What say you Bawb? Is it just me?

Still, one cannot have enough miniguns mounted on one's rails.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 07:37:21 PM
Yeah, that's not exactly Jellicoe's flagship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 08:01:21 PM
QuoteShipbuilders use a torque wrench to tighten a stud for the tail cap on a propeller shaft for Gerald R. Ford (CVN78) , October 2013

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fgcaptain.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F10%2FDCS13-471-267.jpg&hash=52298c509316ac29388e62038e4f0d73bcc3e7b6)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 28, 2017, 08:04:43 PM
(https://i.redd.it/dextv4wwv96z.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on June 28, 2017, 08:32:27 PM
^Michael Bey saw that, thought about his next T-film, and just splooged.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on June 29, 2017, 04:56:21 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 28, 2017, 07:36:40 PM
Funny... I remember HMS Iron Duke being a bit... larger. What say you Bawb? Is it just me?

Still, one cannot have enough miniguns mounted on one's rails.

It does seem to have shrunk a little, yes.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 29, 2017, 11:50:07 AM
QuoteItalian submarine Todaro-class/U-212A loading a 533 mm WASS Black Shark torpedo

(https://i.redd.it/utqmofjvnk6z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 29, 2017, 11:51:30 AM
QuoteUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower pulling into Halifax harbour June 27 2017

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on June 29, 2017, 11:51:40 AM
Quote from: mirth on June 29, 2017, 11:50:07 AM
QuoteItalian submarine Todaro-class/U-212A loading a 533 mm WASS Black Shark torpedo

(https://i.redd.it/utqmofjvnk6z.jpg)
lol - it isn't going to carry many of them, eh?  :idiot2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 29, 2017, 11:58:51 AM
The pressure hull is bigger than you'd think from the photo. According to Wikipedia, the Todaro/212s can carry up to 13 torps.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 30, 2017, 11:13:27 AM
QuoteThe aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVAN 65) turns sharply to starboard while undergoing tactical maneuvers during a shakedown cruise in the Atlantic Ocean

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcollections.naval.aviation.museum%2Femuwebdoncoms%2Fobjects%2Fcommon%2Fwebmedia.php%3Firn%3D42561&hash=2333f7f051d116752c4eb81edeeef5a828798100)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 01, 2017, 08:48:33 AM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/150334035@N07/34811986913/in/dateposted/

Digitised color footage of Japanese carriers.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 03, 2017, 01:41:14 PM
QuoteThe Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.defense.gov%2Fdodcmsshare%2Fnewsphoto%2F2011-09%2Fhires_110920-N-VN693-109.jpg&hash=86deac82e9045a3b96cde83dbd189ec3ff7e7f5a)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 03, 2017, 01:43:49 PM
QuoteUSS Forrestal underway while on duty in waters off Vietnam in July of 1967.

(https://i.redd.it/mflhgyhl867z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 04, 2017, 06:00:57 PM
looks a lot better when its not on fire.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 05, 2017, 07:58:11 AM
USS Forest Fire
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 05, 2017, 11:36:54 AM
QuoteUSS Honolulu (CL-48) in a floating dry dock on Oct 30, 1944. She suffered torpedo damage while providing gunnery support during the Philippine Invasion.

(https://i.imgur.com/pne0Qwh.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 05, 2017, 11:38:03 AM
(https://i.redd.it/s7i275vfek7z.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 05, 2017, 11:39:41 AM
QuoteChinese naval Z-9 helicopter prepares to land aboard the People's Liberation Army (Navy) frigate CNS Huangshan (FFG-570) as the ship conducts a series of maneuvers and exchanges with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F170616-N-ZW825-722.JPG&hash=687f80f8f68849d28255fe29aa9c59afbf7f7a0c)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 05, 2017, 11:45:56 AM
Gallery of a Virginia class sub under construction

https://imgur.com/a/C1b8A
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 05, 2017, 07:13:10 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 05, 2017, 11:38:03 AM
(https://i.redd.it/s7i275vfek7z.jpg)

Very impressive firepower arrangement on the nelson and Rodney... as long as they remembered to always check six.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 05, 2017, 07:15:59 PM
I'm curious to see how they'd play in General Quarters. That is a lot of firepower.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 07, 2017, 11:35:15 AM
QuoteUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) anchored in Halifax Harbour as part of the Canada 150 anniversary celebration

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 14, 2017, 06:37:51 AM
The Italian battleship, Roma, is known for being sunk by a German Fritz-X glide bomb.
Here is an interior photo spread of a really attractive ship.  Officer's quarters look more like a cruise ship than a working combat vessel.

https://argunners.com/seldom-interior-images-of-italys-wwii-battleship-roma-2/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 14, 2017, 07:09:48 PM
the Germans came up with the form follows function of design.
the Americans went with function at all costs.
the Italians told both of them to go fuck themselves, it's all about design.

any modern Ferrari looks better then a Vette or an Audi r8.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2017, 03:13:04 PM
QuoteRussian Borei-class ballistic missile submarine and Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine

(https://warsawinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/%C2%A9-PAVEL-KONONOV-PAP-EPA.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 15, 2017, 03:21:00 PM
QuoteThe guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) leads the way with the guided missile destroyers USS McFaul (DDG 74), USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), USS Cole (DDG 67), and the guided missile cruisers USS Cape St. George (CG 71) and USS Anzio (CG 68)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.defense.gov%2Fdodcmsshare%2Fnewsphoto%2F2005-03%2F050305-N-4158S-001.jpg&hash=b0cc84a47bbc364501cdf8cca2fde37664218c3a)
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Post by: mirth on July 16, 2017, 07:58:59 AM
QuoteSubmarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) tends to the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Pasadena (SSN 752)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 16, 2017, 08:03:37 AM
Yorktown off Okinawa 18 March, 1944.
A Japanese Judy dive bomber came out of the clouds dead ahead of the ship.The bomb struck on the starboard (right) side of the signal bridge on the O-5 level. If not for the delay fuse, Admiral Radford and many of his staff could have been killed. Fortunately for the admiral, the bomb passed through that deck, down through 20mm battery No. 7 and exploded off the side of the ship about the level of the 2nd deck. As a result of the bomb and explosion, 3 men (one officer and two enlisted) were killed and 18 wounded.

One of the sailors survived a HUGE piece of shrapnel.
https://www.patriotspoint.org/news-and-events/japanese-bomb-and-ghost-bomb-strike-yorktown/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 16, 2017, 08:28:17 AM
QuoteJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force's (JMSDF) latest Izumo-class helicopter destroyer DDH-184 Kaga is pictured before a handover ceremony for the JMSDF by Japan Marine United Corporation in Yokohama, Japan, March 22, 2017.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.reutersmedia.net%2Fresources%2Fr%2F%3Fm%3D02%26amp%3Bd%3D20170322%26amp%3Bt%3D2%26amp%3Bi%3D1177517773%26amp%3Br%3DLYNXMPED2L08M&hash=3b11bf831fa6dfff9f207217ea2e6a05698e6e08)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 18, 2017, 11:58:02 AM
QuoteUSS New York (ACR-2), off New York City during the victory fleet review after the Spanish–American War, August 1898.

(https://i.redd.it/eq8w7oc97caz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 18, 2017, 11:59:29 AM
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) at Sydney, Australia. 1965.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fjcsnavy.weebly.com%2Fuploads%2F1%2F4%2F1%2F6%2F141695%2F6465421_orig.jpg&hash=b5d3a504ac4aaa7268c06bb02fc49832f00c19ae)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 19, 2017, 06:46:20 AM
Captain Isaac Hull escapes a british squadron in the USS Constitution.

A side effect of this escape was Captain Philip Broke, HMS Shannon, determined to take an american frigate.  He ultimately captured Chesapeake of Boston.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 20, 2017, 09:01:13 PM
QuoteUSS Los Angeles (ZR-3), top, and USS Saratoga (CV-3), bottom, January 27th, 1928.


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Post by: mirth on July 20, 2017, 09:02:49 PM
QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CVA-43) steams past USS Ranger (CVA-61) in the South China Sea, 24 March 1965, during the early days of the air campaign against North Vietnam.

(https://i.redd.it/f6km0uxm7maz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 21, 2017, 06:51:59 AM
The Rogers steaming on the Columbia River.
Mount St. Helens eruption is in the background.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 22, 2017, 07:55:32 AM
German BB Hindenburg at Scapa Flow.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on July 22, 2017, 11:32:31 AM
A submersible battleship? Cool!   <:-)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 22, 2017, 03:02:04 PM
Scuttled by her own crew (along with a number of other crewed but interned German ships) in a surprise act of defiance against the British right after the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_in_Scapa_Flow


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on July 23, 2017, 08:35:39 AM
Quote from: mirth on July 16, 2017, 08:28:17 AM
QuoteJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force's (JMSDF) latest Izumo-class helicopter destroyer DDH-184 Kaga is pictured before a handover ceremony for the JMSDF by Japan Marine United Corporation in Yokohama, Japan, March 22, 2017.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.reutersmedia.net%2Fresources%2Fr%2F%3Fm%3D02%26amp%3Bd%3D20170322%26amp%3Bt%3D2%26amp%3Bi%3D1177517773%26amp%3Br%3DLYNXMPED2L08M&hash=3b11bf831fa6dfff9f207217ea2e6a05698e6e08)

Whoa. They name ships after old IJN ones? Nice.

Of course, this Kaga is far different from the old Kaga, but still...interesting.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 23, 2017, 09:49:13 AM
the new Kaga isnt much smaller then the old one.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on July 23, 2017, 11:06:01 AM
The new Kaga has displaces less than the old but is actually 2 feet longer.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 23, 2017, 11:21:40 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVqGCNRzxTI&feature=share

Early war newsreel on the Royal Navy.  Some very good shots of dive bombing in the Med.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2017, 11:34:51 AM
QuoteTyphoon-class SSBN "Dmitriy Donskoy" crossing underneath the Storebælt bridge on the way to St. Petersburg

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FTTqFr2I.jpg&hash=5a99e7b3a08ce1938f56bf8a03f46c82c69c0813)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2017, 11:36:21 AM
QuoteClass-leader USS Spruance (DD-963) positioned the floating drydock at the Ingalls shipyard, Pascagoula, Mississippi, while being prepared for builders' trials, ca. January 1975.

(https://i.redd.it/0jrl7i1iu9bz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2017, 11:40:06 AM
QuoteIndefatigable-class battlecruiser HMS New Zealand at Lyttleton, New Zealand.

(https://i.redd.it/hk157dy6zxaz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2017, 11:41:49 AM
QuoteCrew manning the forward HACS Mk III director on HMS Revenge (06), 1940

(https://i.redd.it/69ivvrt550bz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2017, 11:43:39 AM
QuoteU.S. Sixth Fleet ships at anchor in Augusta Bay, Sicily, 17 March 1965. The large carrier at right is USS Saratoga (CVA-60). Other ships include an Essex-class CVA, two CLG's, two DLG's, six DD's, two AO's and other auxiliaries/merchant ships.

(https://i.redd.it/o7aq4oip60bz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 23, 2017, 01:38:19 PM
QuoteRepublic of the Philippines Navy ship BRP Humabon (PF 11), steams in formation as part of exercise Balikatan 2010 (BK 10). She is the last Cannon DE is service. She is due to be retired in late 2017.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on July 24, 2017, 04:22:26 PM
http://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/07/21/no-urinals-on-the-new-navy-aircraft-carrier/

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on July 24, 2017, 04:45:20 PM
By Poseidon's Beard! The next thing you know, they'll be cancelling the rum ration.  :arr:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 24, 2017, 04:47:38 PM
Real sailors just piss over the side
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on July 24, 2017, 04:56:59 PM
After checking the direction of the wind.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on July 24, 2017, 05:00:36 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 24, 2017, 04:47:38 PM
Real sailors just piss over the side

And now they dont leave the seat up.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 24, 2017, 05:05:53 PM
Quote from: bob48 on July 24, 2017, 04:56:59 PM
After checking the direction of the wind.


The smart ones anyway.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 25, 2017, 09:56:10 PM
1200 pound steam plant.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 26, 2017, 11:17:05 AM
QuoteThe USS Bataan (LHD 5) transits the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Operations, Jul. 6, 2017

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F170706-N-EB034-0047.JPG&hash=5839c67ae7521f19d2d153c28695a328e794ae58)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 26, 2017, 11:35:24 AM
QuoteThe German battlecruiser SMS Moltke (firing salute, left), and the cruisers SMS Stettin and SMS Bremen at Hampton Roads, Virginia (USA), on 3 June 1912.

(https://i.redd.it/z6ce1vk5pxbz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2017, 11:46:15 AM
QuoteGerald R. Ford (PCU 78), left, and USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) sit pierside at Naval Station Norfolk, May 22, 2017. Photo Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 07:12:53 PM
Holy crap! That's a great pic for scale comparison.  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 27, 2017, 07:21:13 PM
the perspective is making the Ford look so much larger.  there isnt that much size difference.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 07:25:46 PM
Well, that's one fat ass she's got.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2017, 07:29:41 PM
HMS Hood

(https://i.redd.it/gei5t3v2k6cz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2017, 07:31:27 PM
QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CVA-43), as seen from USS Schenectady (LST-1185), probably off California in the early 1970s

(https://i.redd.it/isk2hhksm6cz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 07:51:19 PM
Quote from: mirth on July 27, 2017, 07:29:41 PM
HMS Hood

(https://i.redd.it/gei5t3v2k6cz.jpg)

Looks pretty good when it's not full of holes.....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2017, 07:52:10 PM
It was really one big hole.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on July 27, 2017, 07:57:06 PM
Still... they too much water in...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2017, 12:06:35 AM
Quote from: mirth on July 27, 2017, 07:31:27 PM
QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CVA-43), as seen from USS Schenectady (LST-1185), probably off California in the early 1970s

(https://i.redd.it/isk2hhksm6cz.jpg)

Im guessing a damage control exercise with the rudderless plane.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on July 28, 2017, 12:33:14 AM
I love this thread  :notworthy:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 29, 2017, 02:38:03 PM
German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz.

(https://i.redd.it/mczgwwrbijcz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 30, 2017, 08:09:59 AM
QuoteThe oiler USS Taluga (AO-62) refueling USS North Carolina (BB-55), March 1945

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/d2/79/f4/d279f401c122a00604f8dc122e64e47d.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on July 30, 2017, 08:10:33 AM
A hole snipe, who became a mustang, reminisces about his ships, and good comments about bringing back mothballed ships.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/12821/making-steam-the-life-and-times-of-a-u-s-navy-chief-engineer?xid=fbshare
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 30, 2017, 08:13:47 AM
QuoteUSS Gerald R. Ford at sea, showing off the distinctively wide stern

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F5hxM7vG.jpg&hash=5731a7685b855e3c3dc26e00a34702385853fc99)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 30, 2017, 10:44:54 AM
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ohio-class-submarines-facts-600-54.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 31, 2017, 11:02:54 AM
QuoteBattleship USS UTAH (BB-31) in South Boston drydock, 1929

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 31, 2017, 11:05:59 AM
QuoteGerman torpedo boat T-157 in the 1920's.

(https://i.redd.it/6fdjm6msnxcz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 31, 2017, 11:09:49 AM
QuoteUSS Indianapolis (CA-35) departing Apra Harbor, Guam, on July 27, 1945 bound for Leyte Gulf. This is likely the last photo ever taken of her before she was sunk.


(https://i.redd.it/pexmudxwyscz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 01, 2017, 10:57:25 AM
QuoteOn July 28, 2017 Lt. Cmdr. Jamie 'Coach' Struck of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron(VX) 23 performed the first arrested landing and catapult launch of off USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78).


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 01, 2017, 11:01:17 AM
QuoteAerial view of Charlestown Navy Yard and USS Constitution; Boston, Massachusetts; taken June 24, 1934

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 02, 2017, 09:21:48 AM
(https://i.redd.it/3g1mhvrtf5dz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 02, 2017, 07:14:59 PM
QuoteThe ships of Task Force 58 at anchor at Ulithi Atoll

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 02, 2017, 07:16:52 PM
QuoteBritish troops boarding the destroyer HMS Vanquisher (D54) at low tide from the Mole at Dunkirk, May 1940

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 04, 2017, 11:23:54 AM
QuoteHMS Hibernia departs Malta for the breakers, 1902. First-rate ship of the line launched 1804.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 04, 2017, 11:26:04 AM
QuoteUSS Independence (CVA-62) going under the Manhattan Bridge, New York, 1959.

(https://i.redd.it/kwuh74578mdz.jpg)

QuoteUSS Constellation passes under the Brooklyn Bridge with folding mast, 1962.

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http://turnstiletours.com/the-brooklyn-bridge-and-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-too-close-for-comfort/ (http://turnstiletours.com/the-brooklyn-bridge-and-the-brooklyn-navy-yard-too-close-for-comfort/)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 04, 2017, 11:28:58 AM
QuoteHMAS Newcastle (FFG 06) performing a hard turn in choppy seas as her port side seems to partially fall below the waves, July, 2017

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 06, 2017, 08:39:55 AM
QuoteUSS Altamaha (CVE-18) operating with the blimp K-29 on February 24, 1944, in a test probably off the Hawaiian coast. K-29 is just taking off after having landed on Altamaha.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 06, 2017, 08:41:11 AM
QuoteVirginia-class nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser USS Arkansas (CGN-41) underway in the Atlantic on 1 September 1980.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 06, 2017, 12:45:23 PM
Never saw this before.  Guess it could be photoshopped, but hope it is not.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 08, 2017, 11:37:25 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth alongside USS George H.W. Bush

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 08, 2017, 11:41:33 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth , USS George H. W. Bush and their escorts sail off Scotland

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 08, 2017, 11:43:33 AM
(https://i.redd.it/09axv5ok5cez.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on August 08, 2017, 10:30:22 PM
WOW!!    :D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 09, 2017, 11:17:07 AM
QuoteFrench armored cruiser Dupuy de Lôme. circa 1890

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 09, 2017, 11:19:17 AM
QuoteGerman mine-laying submarine off Heligoland, WWl. Date not certain.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 09, 2017, 11:20:38 AM
QuoteUSS Cowpens (CVL-25) during Typhoon Cobra. (December 1944)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on August 09, 2017, 03:00:25 PM
Makes me seasick just looking at that pic.  :P
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on August 09, 2017, 04:01:38 PM
Jeeeeebus that's a rolling swell....   :hide:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 09, 2017, 07:19:26 PM
That's only thirty or forty degrees. 
Nothing at all.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 09, 2017, 07:23:11 PM
Yeah, try the DEs that were rolling through 70 degrees.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 10, 2017, 11:31:01 AM
QuoteIndian Navy corvette INS Kora

(https://i.imgur.com/7NnN5AU.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 11, 2017, 09:27:18 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth at sunset, as seen from HMS Iron Duke

(https://i.redd.it/chjhtwpra3fz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 11, 2017, 11:40:15 AM
QuoteUSS Colorado (BB-45), less than two months after her commissioning and before her maiden voyage to Europe. November 1923

(https://i.imgur.com/myOZ9RF.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 11, 2017, 11:41:35 AM
QuoteThe Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS California

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 11, 2017, 09:11:13 PM
QuoteJapanese aircraft carrier Shinano underway during her sea trials.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shinano.jpg/1920px-Japanese_aircraft_carrier_Shinano.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 12, 2017, 06:59:57 PM
QuoteUSS Bismarck Sea, underway, 24 June 1944

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 12, 2017, 07:01:10 PM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 12, 2017, 07:03:25 PM
QuoteHMAS Melbourne undergoing a damage control drill, March 3, 1960

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 13, 2017, 09:30:07 AM
HMS Queen Elizabeth

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 13, 2017, 09:33:55 AM
QuoteHMS Implacable. Her sister, HMS Indefatigable, shrugged off a direct hit by a kamikaze to her deck and resumed flight ops within 40 minutes


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QuoteFrom armouredcarriers.com:

At 0728, HMS Indefatigable was hit by the 550lb bomb-carrying Zeke.

The kamikaze slammed into the carrier on the forward crash barrier where the flight deck joined with the island. The exploding bomb and aircraft lashed out over the armoured deck and smashed the sickbay, briefing room and a second flight deck crash barrier..

Burning fuel ignited and washed over the steel deck and into the island in a sheet of flame. Some spilled into the hangar below.

But the 250kg (550lbs) bomb did relatively little damage, perhaps expending itself in forcing the deck armour down.

The island fires were quashed within four minutes.

Eight men had been killed immediately and 16 wounded. Six would die later. Among the dead were Indefatigable's Lieutenant Commander (Flying), an Air Engineering Officer, the Flight Deck Medical Officer and many in the Operations Room.

The hangar fire (nothing more than a smoldering coil of rope) was quickly drenched and there was no need to activate the hangar salt-water spray systems.

Damage control parties worked furiously to restore the flight deck to operation.

Flight activity was suspended for only 37 minutes as the crew contained – then made good – the damage. At 0816, Indefatigable landed her first Seafire with only one crash barrier in place.

One of Indefatigable's USN Liaison Officers famously (and anonymously) encapsulated his feelings of the experience in a media report from that time (several journalists were with the fleet) which has since been widely quoted:

"When a kamikaze hits a US carrier, it's six months repair at Pearl. In a Limey carrier it's a case of "sweepers, man your brooms".
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 13, 2017, 10:45:23 AM
The supporters of the armored deck, ignore the long term effects of damage to the armored box, and it's limitations.

http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-030.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 13, 2017, 10:56:09 AM
It's a topic of debate to be sure. The armored deck served a purpose in that the Brit carriers were often able to withstand kamikaze strikes and remain on station afterward.

http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-042.php
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 13, 2017, 07:26:49 PM
well when you only build a few carriers instead of a few hundred certain upgrades are available.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 13, 2017, 08:27:36 PM
QuoteUSS John C. Stennis pulling into Bremerton,Washington.Earlier this morning.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 13, 2017, 08:29:17 PM
QuoteSailors conduct night replenishment at sea aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Cole

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2017, 11:17:03 AM
QuoteUSS Wichita (CA-45) riding out a storm off Iceland. 1941/42. Photo taken from a seaplane tender. PBY in the foreground.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2017, 11:22:32 AM
QuoteFootage from Typhoon Cobra. December, 1944.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2017, 11:27:20 AM
QuoteA British carrier and battleship patrol the rough North Sea

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 14, 2017, 11:28:08 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/yBoLdco.gif)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 14, 2017, 05:56:50 PM
Consider the poor crews on destroyers in that swell.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on August 14, 2017, 07:54:12 PM
Quote from: besilarius on August 14, 2017, 05:56:50 PM
Consider the poor crews on destroyers in that swell.
or worse, the flower class corvettes
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 15, 2017, 12:08:12 AM
I think we can all agree that anything under 30,000 tons would be no bueno.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on August 15, 2017, 06:54:19 AM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on August 15, 2017, 08:27:49 AM
^ Such a freakin' classic. That song always gives me chills.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 15, 2017, 08:33:54 AM
Quote from: Steelgrave on August 15, 2017, 08:27:49 AM
^ Such a freakin' classic. That song always gives me chills.

+1
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 15, 2017, 11:13:22 AM
QuoteAkula-class submarine

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 15, 2017, 11:14:52 AM
(https://i.redd.it/qmvze9mswwfz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 15, 2017, 11:16:02 AM
QuoteGerman submarine U-35 sinks SS Parkgate. On June 1st, 1916, Parkgate, on a voyage from Matla to Gibraltar in ballast, was sunk by gunfire by the German submarine U 35. 16 lives were lost. A shot from the 105mm deck gun to hasten her sinking.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: WallysWorld on August 16, 2017, 03:42:18 PM
HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives home: HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives at Portsmouth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhN7HuiGsnk)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on August 16, 2017, 04:00:00 PM
^I know she doesn't have any aircraft until 2021 (couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery) - but not putting engines in is FUBAR  ;D
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 17, 2017, 02:19:53 PM
QuoteItalian battleship Dante Alighieri in Taranto. Pre-dreadnought battleship and first built with her main armament in triple-gun turrets. It served as a flagship during WWI, but saw very little action.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 17, 2017, 02:21:16 PM
QuoteMinehunter HMS Hurworth passes HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth Harbour.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 17, 2017, 02:35:17 PM
QuoteUSS Ranger, USS Constellation, USS Kitty Hawk and USS Independence all awaiting their fate (Mothball fleet - Bremerton,Washington)

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 17, 2017, 04:17:27 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 17, 2017, 02:21:16 PM
QuoteMinehunter HMS Hurworth passes HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth Harbour.

(https://i.redd.it/07mxhe19nbgz.jpg)

if you squint really hard you can see a civilian drone on the flight deck.   :2funny:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 17, 2017, 04:19:00 PM
I wonder why we dont sell those carriers to the Indians?
I mean how hard could the sales pitch be.... They work!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 17, 2017, 04:21:20 PM
And it would really piss off the Chicomms
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 17, 2017, 04:34:00 PM
how many Kitty Hawks do you have to trade in for a new Ford class?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 17, 2017, 04:48:12 PM
I'd be happy if we had a couple of Kittyhawks still in service.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 19, 2017, 08:21:43 AM
QuoteHMS Nabob (D77) lies dead in the water after being torpedoed by German submarine U-354 in the Barents Sea, 22 August 1944.

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Quote
HMS Nabob (D77) was a Bogue-class escort aircraft carrier which served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944. The ship was built in the United States as USS Edisto (CVE-41) (originally AVG-41 then later ACV-41) but did not serve with the United States Navy. In August 1944 the ship was torpedoed by the German submarine U-354 while participating in an attack on the German battleship Tirpitz. Nabob survived the attack, but upon returning to port, was considered too damaged to repair. The escort carrier remained in port for the rest of the war and was returned to the United States following it. Nabob is one of three Royal Navy escort carriers built in the United States which is listed as lost in action (2 sunk and 2 heavily damaged and never repaired) during World War II.

The ship was sold for scrap by the United States but found a second life when purchased and converted for mercantile use under her British name, Nabob. Later renamed Glory, the ship was sold for scrapping in 1977.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nabob_(D77)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 19, 2017, 08:24:21 AM
QuoteUSS Randolph (CV-15) alongside a repair ship at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 13 March 1945, showing damage to her after flight deck resulting from a Kamikaze hit on 11 March.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 19, 2017, 08:26:12 AM
QuoteHMS Hannibal in 1854. A 90 gun 2nd rate ship of the line , served in the Crimean War and Italian War of Independence. Survived until 1904.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 19, 2017, 08:27:42 AM
QuoteTench-class submarine USS Pickerel (SS-524) surfacing at a 48-degree up angle, during tests off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 1 March 1952. USN photo.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 21, 2017, 06:22:15 PM
French Battleship, Jean Bart, in 1950.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eLBGbmEyq0&feature=youtu.be

Exercising the turrets at about 10:30. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 22, 2017, 11:23:09 AM
QuoteUSS Texas, after her commissioning in 1914

(https://battleshiptexas.org/wp-content/themes/bsot/images/timeline/1914/2.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on August 22, 2017, 11:50:45 AM
Quote from: mirth on August 15, 2017, 11:13:22 AM
QuoteAkula-class submarine

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What are those huge big "booms" on the tail of Russian subs?

Nevermind...container for towed array

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akula-class_submarine
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 22, 2017, 11:52:27 AM
Housing for the towed sonar array.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 23, 2017, 11:21:47 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 23, 2017, 11:23:53 AM
QuoteHMS Aboukir leaving Malta.

(https://i.redd.it/b0vbwpfsdihz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on August 23, 2017, 12:17:46 PM
Theodore goes gangster.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 23, 2017, 02:27:00 PM
its the Gus Navy!

Quote from: mirth on August 23, 2017, 11:21:47 AM
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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Fitz505 on August 23, 2017, 03:52:15 PM
   At first I thought it was photo shopped, but it turns out, it's a Danish Navy tug transporting a modular turret. Have to admit, I would have loved to see the recoil effect.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 23, 2017, 06:49:33 PM
Quote from: Windigo on August 23, 2017, 12:17:46 PM
Theodore goes gangster.

LOL- I was thinking 'Theodor the Psychokiller Tugboat'
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on August 23, 2017, 07:14:44 PM
Call me Boaty McBoatface just one more time. I dare ya, punk.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 23, 2017, 11:43:46 PM
the axe is a great touch.
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Post by: bob48 on August 24, 2017, 06:35:10 AM
What is it, and to whom does it belong.......and for what purpose?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 24, 2017, 03:28:50 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/d6f3f37.png)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 25, 2017, 01:11:57 AM
kinda sad its larger then the Royal Navy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 25, 2017, 05:59:37 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 25, 2017, 01:11:57 AM
kinda sad its larger then the Royal Navy.

It's also a whole lot closer the proverbial fan.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 29, 2017, 04:49:09 PM
QuoteUSS Indianapolis (CA-35). As recently discovered by Paul Allen and team, photo one of the heavy cruiser's 250-ton triple Mk 14 8″/55 gun turrets.

(https://i.redd.it/88b84o9nfqiz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 29, 2017, 04:51:21 PM
QuoteUSS Mississippi (BB-41) in the Elizabeth River off Portsmouth, Virginia. The ship had just completed a two year long modernization overhaul at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Aug 17, 1933.

(https://i.imgur.com/gTnntYr.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 29, 2017, 05:32:20 PM
QuoteSide profiles of USS Jimmy Carter versus USS Seawolf

(https://i.imgur.com/xZkPGKg.jpg)

http://www.hisutton.com/SSN-23.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 29, 2017, 05:39:01 PM
QuoteGuided missile cruiser USS Long Beach. First nuclear powered surface combatant. It's RIM-2 Terrier SAM launchers are clearly visible here

(https://i.redd.it/a22sxl8f4iiz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 29, 2017, 05:42:50 PM
QuoteUSS Long Beach (CGN-9). Looking from stern, Tomahawk ABLs, Harpoon Launchers, and two Phalanx CIWS are visible.

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 29, 2017, 06:03:32 PM
USS North Carolina (BB-55) hits the Ark Restaurant while being moved into her berth as a museum ship. Wilmington, North Carolina, 1961.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on August 30, 2017, 06:58:45 AM
Guilio Cesare departing Taranto around 1937.
Like the swing bridge to the right.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2017, 07:00:58 AM
QuoteMachine gun position on the German R-class Zeppelin 'LZ 63', 1916-17

(https://i.redd.it/5jbkgunszsiz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2017, 11:45:45 AM
QuoteJapanese carrier Zuiho damaged during the Battle of Cape Engano, 25. October 1944

(https://i.redd.it/9uyx9zz5nuiz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 30, 2017, 05:53:35 PM
^Note the false turret and superstructure painted on the flight deck: "NME dive bombers move along, nothing to see here, just a lowly cruiser".
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2017, 05:55:49 PM
Heh. Didn't quite work out.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2017, 07:54:49 PM
QuoteHMS Ocean preparing to depart HMNB Devonport on 29th August 2017 for a final deployment before her scheduled decommissioning date of 31st March 2018

(https://i.redd.it/7hjyz11n3xiz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 30, 2017, 07:56:16 PM
QuoteSubmarine Chaser SC718 being unloaded from the Liberty Ship SS Willard Hall, at Albert Quay Belfast, October 1943

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Post by: mirth on August 30, 2017, 07:58:21 PM
QuoteBow view of the V-3 (SS-165) in dry dock # 1 at Mare Island. April 11, 1929.

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Post by: Barthheart on August 30, 2017, 08:10:27 PM
Quote from: mirth on August 30, 2017, 07:56:16 PM
QuoteSubmarine Chaser SC718 being unloaded from the Liberty Ship SS Willard Hall, at Albert Quay Belfast, October 1943

(https://i.redd.it/9j2madc17yiz.jpg)

Man, it took balls to chase subs in the tiny tub....  :o
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Post by: mirth on August 31, 2017, 07:37:15 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/903233558445219842
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Post by: bbmike on August 31, 2017, 09:16:20 AM
Had to look up Leonard Roy Harmon. Glad I did.  O0
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Post by: mirth on September 01, 2017, 10:06:33 AM
QuoteUSS STILETTO (1887-1911)  firing a torpedo from her bow tube, about 1890.

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Post by: besilarius on September 02, 2017, 09:46:26 AM
Monkey Fist from the 1970s.
The traidtional way to get lines across from one ship to another was for a hefty boatswain's mate to sling one across.
Now, they are shot across with line guns that use a blank.  When blanks are in short supply, there is always the monkey fist.

Throwing the fist is a little practiced art.  You swing it over your head to build momentum at the call, "Stand by to Bolo."
When the speed seems high enough, the command, "BOLO!" is given and the boatswain hurls it at the receiving ship.
They need to release it with a little upward arc.  Otherwise, if you release it in a flat line, it will wrap around your neck and choke the life out of you.
Another reason all boatswains carry a sharp knife.
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Post by: besilarius on September 03, 2017, 08:01:28 AM
Asheville Class Gunboat USS Benicia refuels from USS Ranger in what must be the slowest UNREP in history,c1971.
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Post by: mirth on September 07, 2017, 11:26:43 AM
QuoteUSS America (LHA-6) with F-35Bs aboard

(https://i.redd.it/s2gkv6t5eekz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on September 07, 2017, 11:30:00 AM
QuoteUSS Missouri (BB-63) at anchor in Sydney Harbor for the celebration of the Royal Austrailian Navy 75th anniversary.

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Post by: mirth on September 07, 2017, 11:39:56 AM
QuoteHMS Prince of Wales at Rosyth, August 2017

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Post by: mirth on September 07, 2017, 11:43:16 AM
QuoteCommissioning day for USS Scorpion (SSN-589), July, 29, 1960. In the background is USS Triton (SSRN-586).

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Post by: Staggerwing on September 07, 2017, 06:52:20 PM
 :(


Phil Ochs wrote a very poignant song about the Scorpion, blending in themes from Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the Flying Dutchman.
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Post by: mirth on September 07, 2017, 07:00:53 PM
yeah
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Post by: Staggerwing on September 07, 2017, 07:13:05 PM
Quote from: mirth on September 07, 2017, 07:00:53 PM
yeah

Quite moving, wasn't it?
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Post by: mirth on September 07, 2017, 07:19:03 PM
The only one lost since SUBSAFE was implemented.
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Post by: mirth on September 08, 2017, 11:10:18 AM
QuoteUSS Lexington (CV-2) firing her 55-caliber 8-inch guns, 27 Jan 1928. View is from the flight deck level, aft of her island looking forward.

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Post by: mirth on September 09, 2017, 05:53:50 PM
QuoteUSS Gudgeon (SS-567) arrives at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 1958 after circumnavigating the globe.

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Post by: mirth on September 09, 2017, 05:54:50 PM
QuotePensacola-class cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) during modernization at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 1935.

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Post by: bbmike on September 09, 2017, 06:13:56 PM
Didn't even know there was a Pensacola class. I should go check out the mode (http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/attractions/aircraft-exhibits/item/?item=usspensacola_model)l when I'm in Pensacola later this month.
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Post by: mirth on September 10, 2017, 12:25:33 PM
QuoteUSS Arizona enroute from San Pedro to San Francisco. May, 1932

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Post by: mirth on September 10, 2017, 12:27:49 PM
QuoteReplica trireme OLYMPIAS


(https://i.imgur.com/lApJ5Fp.jpg)



(https://i.imgur.com/0Wd2tFY.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on September 10, 2017, 12:50:27 PM
Sea trials of Olympias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcsrNrRkQis
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Post by: mirth on September 11, 2017, 10:55:41 AM
QuoteMyōkō class heavy cruiser Ashigara in 1937.

(https://i.redd.it/qgoytaa3x8lz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on September 11, 2017, 10:59:33 AM
QuoteHMS Raleigh after she ran aground on August 8, 1922 off L'Anse Amour, Newfoundland. She was declared a total loss.

(https://i.imgur.com/ME2mCCP.jpg)



QuoteHMS Raleigh was a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was commissioned as part of the British North Atlantic squadron in 1921. Within in a year of commissioning the ship was paid off after having run aground off Labrador. The vessel was eventually destroyed with explosives in 1926.
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Post by: mirth on September 11, 2017, 11:01:36 AM
QuoteUSS Pensacola (CA-24) View of projectile damage sustained at Iwo Jima. Photo was taken on 25 May 1945 while drydocked at Mare Island, CA


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Post by: mirth on September 12, 2017, 11:48:25 AM
QuoteUSS Midway (CVA-41) launching Skywarriors shortly after her 1957 modernization program, notably adding the angled flightdeck and heavy-duty catapults.

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Post by: mirth on September 12, 2017, 11:50:02 AM
QuoteThe fleet entering Golden Gate, c.1908

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Post by: mirth on September 12, 2017, 11:52:16 AM
QuoteChief petty officers (CPO) and CPO selectees stand in formation on the USS Midway Museum flight deck in San Diego, Sep. 8, 2017 in observance of the 14th annual CPO Pride Day. USN photo.

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Post by: mirth on September 13, 2017, 08:46:00 AM
QuoteUSS Tarawa (CVS-40),in her anti-submarine role July, 1957. Never modernized, she retained her straight deck until she was scrapped in 1968

(https://i.imgur.com/dTYu4sY.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on September 13, 2017, 05:43:22 PM
QuoteOne of only two confirmed photos of the IJN Shinano, the largest carrier of WW2, Taken by a photorecon B-29 in November 1944 over the Yokosuka Navy Arsenal.


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Post by: bob48 on September 13, 2017, 05:46:31 PM
I seem to remember reading that it is still the largest ship ever sunk by a submarine.
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Post by: mirth on September 13, 2017, 05:48:28 PM
Tis indeed.
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Post by: mirth on September 14, 2017, 10:51:40 AM
QuoteThe flight deck of Centaur-class aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, 1982.

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Post by: Staggerwing on September 14, 2017, 08:56:57 PM
^Talk about crowd control!
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Post by: besilarius on September 17, 2017, 07:47:00 AM
HMS Bulwark in Venice, 1969.
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Post by: mirth on September 17, 2017, 11:22:35 AM
QuoteA view into the well deck of the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) as it provides hurricane relief assistance off of Key West

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Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 06:59:03 AM
QuoteHMS King George V undergoing refit in a dry dock at Rosyth, Scotland 1940

(https://i.redd.it/s4lxwo7qjpmz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 07:01:19 AM
QuoteHMS Ark Royal (R09) with a full deck sometime between 1956-58

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/HMS_Ark_Royal_%28R09%29_MOD_45140150.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 07:03:52 AM
QuoteA Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet Sortieing from Wilhelmshaven, 1910


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Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 07:06:02 AM
QuoteThe patrol missile hydrofoils USS Aquila (PHM-4), front, and USS Gemini (PHM-6), center, lie moored with a third unidentified PHM. The Coast Guard surface effect ship USCGC Shearwater (WSES-3) is underway in the background. Location not certain, possibly the Keys. November 1989.

(https://i.redd.it/aq1ewktf8rmz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 11:18:35 AM
QuoteCleveland-class Light Cruiser USS Santa Fe pulls alongside Essex-class Aircraft Carrier USS Franklin as it lists towards its starboard side after suffering two direct hits from a pair of armour piercing bombs, dropped by a Japanese plane. Near Okinawa. March 19, 1945.

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Post by: mirth on September 20, 2017, 11:28:32 AM



http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14483/watch-russias-only-operational-battlecruiser-launch-a-massive-shipwreck-anti-ship-missile
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 20, 2017, 04:27:24 PM
that was pretty much their whole training budget for the year.
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Post by: bob48 on September 20, 2017, 04:31:52 PM
Mirth, that is a very dramatic photo.
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Post by: mirth on September 20, 2017, 06:22:17 PM
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/daily_picdump_2621_640_high_24.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
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Post by: Staggerwing on September 20, 2017, 07:20:35 PM
Tumblehome baby!
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Post by: BanzaiCat on September 21, 2017, 06:25:59 AM
For some reason I thought King George V was sunk in the Pacific, so I checked her out and found this pic of her:

QuoteHMS King George V, photographed with a huge hole in her bows, after the battleship had collided with HMS Punjabi in dense fog on 1 May 1942, at Seydisfjord, Iceland.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/HMS_King_George_V_after_collision.jpg)

That bow, though.  :o

The ship that hit her, the HMS Punjabi, a destroyer, was cut in half and sunk pretty quickly. The USS Washington had to go right over her sinking remains and was damaged by detonating depth charges.
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Post by: Staggerwing on September 21, 2017, 06:30:57 AM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on September 21, 2017, 06:25:59 AM
For some reason I thought King George V was sunk in the Pacific

You might be thinking of the HMS Prince of Wales, which was part of the same class. It was sunk, along with the Repulse, by Japanese land based bombers.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on September 21, 2017, 06:56:20 AM
Yep, that was the one I was confusing.
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Post by: besilarius on September 23, 2017, 02:18:04 PM
USS Pittsburgh lost its bow in a typhoon on Juen 5, 1945
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Post by: mirth on September 24, 2017, 07:35:32 AM
USS West Virginia before and after her 1944 refit

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AAR of her participation in the Battle of Surigao Straits.

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/logs/BB/bb48-Surigao.html
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Post by: mirth on September 25, 2017, 07:29:40 AM
USS North Dakota leaving for the Fore River for her trial trip off Maine coast [1014 x 800]

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Post by: mirth on September 26, 2017, 11:38:33 AM
QuoteUSS Bennington sails past USS Arizona - 1958

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Post by: mirth on September 26, 2017, 11:38:58 AM
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Post by: mirth on September 27, 2017, 06:36:53 AM
QuotePortland Rose Festival in 1908 when the Mosquito Squadron visited the city. Destroyers Preble, Perry and Farragut (back), and the torpedo boats Fox and Davis here were among the ships in attendance

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Post by: mirth on September 27, 2017, 11:58:47 AM
QuoteOcean Breeze aground off Chile after breaking anchor chain in storm

(https://i.imgur.com/lOCGY9U.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on September 29, 2017, 07:42:28 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/913745249821974529
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Post by: mirth on October 01, 2017, 10:10:09 AM
QuoteThe superstructure of french battleship Richelieu in 1946.

(https://i.redd.it/t9a4o0r4n7pz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 01, 2017, 10:11:00 AM
QuoteThe Italian armored cruiser Marco Polo during World War I, sporting a camouflage scheme that featured a fake torpedo boat and patrol craft painted on her side.

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Post by: mirth on October 01, 2017, 10:12:54 AM
(https://i.redd.it/ac085rhna1pz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 01, 2017, 10:15:34 AM
QuoteSailors aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie man the rails and render honors to USS Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor survivors

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Post by: mirth on October 01, 2017, 10:17:19 AM
QuoteNATO drill Brilliant Mariner 2017, Toulon, France


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Post by: mirth on October 01, 2017, 10:21:25 AM
QuoteChurchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales on his way to meet with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Atlantic Conference in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. Aug 1941. Four months, Prince of Wales would succumb to Japanese torpedo-bombers near Singapore.

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Post by: mirth on October 01, 2017, 10:56:44 AM
QuoteItalian midget submarine at Sevastopol, circa 1942


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Post by: mirth on October 01, 2017, 10:59:02 AM
QuoteUSS Iowa (BB-61) steaming out to sea from Wonsan Harbor after a day's shore bombardment of enemy installations inside the harbor on 27 Apr 1952.

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Post by: mirth on October 04, 2017, 06:07:03 PM
QuoteHMS Furious, 1933

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Post by: mirth on October 04, 2017, 06:10:21 PM
QuoteUSS Coral Sea, 1953

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6182/6069129636_a090c4278d_b.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on October 04, 2017, 06:13:14 PM
Those Savages look like they're recreating the Doolittle Raid.
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Post by: mirth on October 04, 2017, 06:13:38 PM
QuoteUSS Theodore Roosevelt in drydock with her missile tubes exposed

(https://i.redd.it/78eg8c0esmpz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 07, 2017, 08:27:49 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/916572576649969664
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Post by: mirth on October 07, 2017, 05:52:34 PM
QuoteHMS King George V secondary armament detail.

(https://i.redd.it/w6bxdbiupeqz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 07, 2017, 05:53:29 PM
QuoteShell damage to the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger after being engaged by British warships at the Battle of Jutland

(https://i.imgur.com/6Mk1vC7.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 07, 2017, 05:55:33 PM
QuoteHydrofoil research ship USS Flagstaff (PGH-1) off the coast of Florida, 1971


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Post by: mirth on October 07, 2017, 06:00:17 PM
QuoteUSS Forrestal (CVA-59) during the Suez Crises, 1956.

(https://i.imgur.com/pBHfbSD.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 08, 2017, 04:49:25 PM
QuoteUSS McCain loaded abroad M/V Treasure for transport to Japan for repair

(https://i.imgur.com/JArkhul.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 08, 2017, 08:20:18 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/rjd4GXC.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 10, 2017, 07:55:24 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/917726463759212544
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Post by: mirth on October 10, 2017, 11:50:57 AM
QuoteHMS Dragon transiting the Strait of Corryvreckan

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLm5C9oXkAE4IjQ.jpg)
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Post by: BanzaiCat on October 10, 2017, 12:11:41 PM
^ Huh. The markings on the front of the hull, at first I thought they were graffiti (lol), but then looking more closely...

I didn't know Her Majesty's Navy decorated their ships like that. Is this unusual for the RN?
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Post by: mirth on October 10, 2017, 12:19:04 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on October 10, 2017, 12:11:41 PM
^ Huh. The markings on the front of the hull, at first I thought they were graffiti (lol), but then looking more closely...

I didn't know Her Majesty's Navy decorated their ships like that. Is this unusual for the RN?

It is highly unusual

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/welsh-dragon-returns-bows-cardiff-11351214
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Post by: BanzaiCat on October 10, 2017, 12:20:42 PM
Damn. Nice!
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Post by: mirth on October 10, 2017, 05:38:17 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15029/modernization-funds-slashed-for-russias-notoriously-rickety-aircraft-carrier
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Post by: besilarius on October 11, 2017, 06:58:24 AM
1932 amateur video of Saratoga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-RSEtVWJw
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Post by: Staggerwing on October 11, 2017, 07:27:35 AM
Quote from: besilarius on October 11, 2017, 06:58:24 AM
1932 amateur video of Saratoga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-RSEtVWJw

Nice find Bes!
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Post by: mirth on October 11, 2017, 06:12:47 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15060/us-navy-plans-to-cut-cruisers-by-half-amid-reports-one-became-like-a-floating-prison
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 11, 2017, 06:38:36 PM
well that was a fucking depressing read.
I really dont see the point of TIco's anymore though.  what can they do that a Burke cant?  which is the more capable and cheaper to operate hull?
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Post by: mirth on October 11, 2017, 06:42:44 PM
I'm all for retiring the Ticos, but they need to step up Burke production. The Burkes are already filling gaps created when the Navy retired the Perrys and screwed the pooch with the LCS.
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Post by: mirth on October 12, 2017, 05:47:43 AM
QuoteUSS Copahee (CVE-12) left the Garapan anchorage off Saipan on 8 July 1944 with a load of captured Japanese planes (13 Zekes and 1 Kate) and equipment (37 engines) to be used for intelligence and training purposes, and arrived in San Diego on 28 July.

(https://i.imgur.com/hC84fzL.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 12, 2017, 05:49:30 AM
QuoteThe USCGC Eastwind in her post World War 2 configuration while breaking ice

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcoastguard.dodlive.mil%2Ffiles%2F2015%2F05%2FEastwind_1.jpg&hash=bc5caffad348ea8f813741fc77dba038ab6e3632)
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Post by: mirth on October 12, 2017, 07:57:33 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/918458790390960129
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Post by: mirth on October 14, 2017, 04:28:04 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/919106789836230657
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Post by: mirth on October 14, 2017, 08:03:39 PM
QuoteThe USS Macon at Moffett field near Mountain View, California

(https://i.redd.it/chb8uea8qvrz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 14, 2017, 08:04:46 PM
USS John S. McCain DDG 56 being transported to Yokosuka, Japan, for repairs on the back of the MV Treasure

(https://i.imgur.com/f4BEevi.jpg)
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Post by: DoctorQuest on October 14, 2017, 08:36:03 PM
Whoa. And I thought moving a house was impressive.
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Post by: Staggerwing on October 14, 2017, 10:15:39 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 14, 2017, 08:03:39 PM
QuoteThe USS Macon at Moffett field near Mountain View, California

(https://i.redd.it/chb8uea8qvrz.jpg)

:smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
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Post by: mirth on October 15, 2017, 10:58:12 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/XUX5ONM.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 15, 2017, 10:59:18 AM
QuoteA tug alongside the submarine S-48 (SS-159) after partially sinking in 60 feet of water, December 1921

(https://i.redd.it/31hpaj024zrz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 15, 2017, 11:01:15 AM
QuoteGerman Imperial Navy's High Seas Fleet dockside at the navy facility at Wilhelmshaven, sometime during WW1. The dreadnought in the foreground is SMS Helgoland, namesake of her class

(https://i.imgur.com/sR8EU9Y.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on October 16, 2017, 10:32:46 AM
QuoteUSS Shenandoah (ZR-1) moored to the mast of USS Patoka (AO-9) at Bar Harbor, Maine, 2 to 5 July 1925

(https://i.redd.it/sivsdbfr07sz.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on October 16, 2017, 06:36:52 PM
^
When the U SS Shenandoah broke in two during heavy weather Lieutenant Commander Charles Rosenthal organized the remaining crew on board the bow section and they 'free ballooned' it to a safe landing. He would later end up as commanding officer on both the USS Los Angeles (the USN's most successful rigid airship) and also the USS Akron, one of the USN's two 'flying aircraft carriers'.
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Post by: mirth on October 16, 2017, 06:52:18 PM
Wing, the airships seem to be your thing. Any books you recommend?
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Post by: Staggerwing on October 16, 2017, 07:20:24 PM
if you can find it through interlibrary loan I recommend 'Up Ship' By Rosenthal himself. As far as I know, it's been out of print since forever but still a good read. ILL is how I got a chance to read a copy.

I'll throw out a few more titles once I get a chance to go through a few storage boxes. The memory is not what it used to be... though I recall that at least one of my zeppelin books was published by Naval Institute Press. 'Sky Ships' maybe?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 16, 2017, 07:21:40 PM
Thanks man!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 16, 2017, 10:29:04 PM
Fighter pilots have weird senses of humor.
Gene Valencia (CO of the Mowing Machine) had a squadron boss who disliked him intensely. 
When the squadrom commander was on leave, Valencia put an ad in a Manila newspaper that said commander would pay ten cents each for coconuts delivered to his house on the date of his return.
The commander was never able to find out who pulled the prank.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 17, 2017, 06:21:39 AM
^ ha, that's awesome!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 17, 2017, 07:47:02 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/920268211244978176
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 18, 2017, 06:49:02 AM
Same navy, different worlds.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 18, 2017, 05:42:09 PM
QuoteHMS Rorqual, the most successful minelaying submarine of World War II. Her mines sank 35,951 tons of shipping, including 5 torpedo boats/destroyers, one submarine chaser, two water tankers and six freighters. She also sank another 21,000 tons with gun and torpedoes.

(https://i.redd.it/m8wdmyzb6lsz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 20, 2017, 08:10:15 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/921274834084093952
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 20, 2017, 07:15:29 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimagesvc.timeincapp.com%2Fv3%2Ffoundry%2Fimage%2F%3Fq%3D60%26amp%3Burl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fs3.amazonaws.com%252Fthe-drive-staging%252Fmessage-editor%25252F1500314977103-fegeg444.jpg&hash=14d0bed57f742481b1aac8527bc78852b28a1d0c)

^ USS Nimitz from the US, INS Vikramaditya from India, and the JS Izumo from Japan

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/12531/indian-navy-mig-29ks-make-low-approaches-to-uss-nimitz-during-malabar-drills
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 21, 2017, 11:16:03 AM
The High Seas Fleet practicing.  The destroyers and TBDs were trained to pass through the line of dreadnaughts.
My understanding is the Grand Fleet had their destroyer squadrons pass through the bigger gaps between the squadrons, not through the line within the squadrons.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2017, 03:14:28 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922002135859986432
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2017, 06:40:58 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922008389462487040 (https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922008389462487040)



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilly_naval_disaster_of_1707
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2017, 09:19:14 AM
QuoteUSS Kearsarge in Boston, c. 1900

(https://i.imgur.com/MHvdKU3.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 22, 2017, 09:30:18 AM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 07:51:27 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922443813204971520
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 11:26:19 AM
QuoteSealed reactor sections from 77 nuclear submarines, seen in Trench 94 at the Hanford Reservation in 2003.

(https://i.imgur.com/G8ddYdx.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 11:27:13 AM
QuoteFrench Carrier La Fayette (R-96), the ex-USS Langley (CVL 27) at Mers-el-Kebir, 1950's.

(https://i.imgur.com/ea5TWyM.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 11:28:23 AM
QuoteCarriers Wasp (CV 18), Yorktown (CV 10), Hornet (CV 12), and Hancock (CV 19) anchored in Ulithi Atoll as seen from the carrier Ticonderoga (CV 14). December, 1944.

(https://i.imgur.com/wevxqJm.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 11:30:01 AM
QuoteOhio class submarines USS Wyoming (SSBN-742) and USS Maine (SSBN-741) at General Dynamics, Groton, CT., 16 July 1994

(https://i.redd.it/40fuln9wsgtz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 23, 2017, 11:31:42 AM
QuoteUSS Pinckney sails through the Arabian Gulf

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 24, 2017, 06:57:47 AM
Intrepid takes a kamikaze, 25 November, 1944.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 24, 2017, 07:49:37 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922802503082758149
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 24, 2017, 11:25:19 AM
QuoteFrench & British ships at Toulon: bottom to top: the French aircraft carrier LAFAYETTE; RFA TIDERANGE; HMS EAGLE; the French cruiser GEORGES LEYGUES; the French aircraft carrier ARROMANCHES (ex-HMS COLOSSUS); and the French anti-aircraft cruiser COLBERT, 7th October 1956.


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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 24, 2017, 02:53:15 PM
This is cool

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15410/himars-goes-to-sea-us-marines-now-fire-guided-artillery-rockets-from-ships
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 24, 2017, 06:28:39 PM
Duke of York and KG V
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 24, 2017, 06:38:09 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 24, 2017, 02:53:15 PM
This is cool

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15410/himars-goes-to-sea-us-marines-now-fire-guided-artillery-rockets-from-ships


Quote"Box O'Rockets"

Love it!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on October 24, 2017, 09:08:22 PM
All of Germany's submarines are currently down.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2017/10/20/all-of-germanys-submarines-are-currently-down/

QuoteCOLOGNE, Germany ― The German Navy's six-strong fleet of submarines is completely out of commission after the only operational sub had an accident off the coast of Norway on Sunday.

The U-35 was moved into ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems' shipyard in Kiel after a rudder blade was damaged during a diving maneuver, the newspaper Kieler Nachrichten reported. The submarine was scheduled to participate in exercises in the Skagerrak, the strait between southern Norway, southeast Sweden and Denmark.

The U-35 is a 212A-class boat, the same type that TKMS will build for Norway under a multibillion-dollar deal announced early this year. Italy also operates two boats of the class.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2017, 11:42:52 AM
QuoteHMS Inflexible in 1881 showing 1 of her centrally placed turrets and the outer and inner structures

(https://i.redd.it/dsi2dvlii6uz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 26, 2017, 06:29:42 PM
QuoteUSS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71) prepares to launch FM-2 Wildcat fighters during the action of the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944. In the center distance, Japanese shells are splashing near USS White Plains (CVE-66).

(https://i.imgur.com/iPDF4Ua.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 27, 2017, 11:05:07 AM
QuoteVirginia-class battleship USS Georgia (BB-15) being launched at Bath Iron Works, Maine, 1904

(https://i.redd.it/krgimlyn39uz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 27, 2017, 06:01:07 PM
its like they built it in someones back yard.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on October 28, 2017, 06:02:09 AM
Its another one of Tuna's unfinished kits.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 28, 2017, 06:15:37 AM

"Noah!... I want you to build me a Pre-dreadnought!"
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 28, 2017, 07:09:37 AM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15542/russia-supposedly-bringing-back-giant-ekranoplans-for-arctic-missions
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 28, 2017, 10:04:32 AM
QuoteLanding a 155 mm gun at Sedd-el Bahr during the Gallipoli Campaign.

(https://i.imgur.com/tE1wMNE.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 28, 2017, 10:08:40 AM
QuoteUSS Constitution during mast stepping, Boston, 1930

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4458/37625947226_887d1599df_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 28, 2017, 10:12:02 AM
A Salty Sea Story:

Now shipmates this ain't no shit. Late in the fall of '66 we found
ourselves off Yankee Station, enjoying libs in dear old Olongapo City,
aka "Sailors' Disneyland." Now you know the bar girls always enjoined
us not to be "butterfly boys:" you set up with a girl and you're not
expected to do the horizontal dance with anyone else.

My base of operations was the Tri-V Club, about halfway down on the
right hand side. Mila was my ...ahem... special friend. But one night
I thought I'd see what was going on elsewhere in town so I dropped in
to New Pauline's and had, well, an interesting evening. I vaguely
recalled getting a hickey or two in the process.

On the way back to the ship, I thought I'd have a beer at the Tri-V,
get three sticks of monkey meat and then call it a night. Sooooo I
sauntered in to the Tri-V, plopped down, and asked for a San Miguel.
No sooner had I taken my second swig than Mila appeared and sat down.
Pleasantries exchanged, she suddenly snapped "What this?" and pulled
my trop white shirt to one side – to reveal a line of hickeys from
earlobe to shoulder, kinda sorta like a red drippy epaulet!

Before I could say anything, she picked up an empty beer bottle and
broke it on the table edge, and with her other hand pulled out and
whirled open one huge 11" butterfly knife. Aptly named... "You
summabeech, gonna keel you!" she howled, and I grabbed my white hat
and sprinted for the door, she hard on my heels.

Down Magsaysay Drive I ran, screams and yells not far behind me. As I neared the guard shack, I fumbled for my pocket. "Fuck the ID,
buddy!" shouted the Marine guard. "She's gaining on you!" The crowds were making a hole for me, clapping rhythmically and chanting "Go! Go! Go!" Redoubling
my efforts, I skidded past the shack just as the (thrown) half bottle
smashed to twinkling shards against one of the columns holding the
shelter up.

Mila stormed off muttering as I hauled out my DD2N and displayed it.
"Whoo, pal, musta been good libs," commented the gyrene. "Anytime you
come back just ahead of a blade and a broken bottle you KNOW you had a
helluva time," I panted.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 28, 2017, 03:23:28 PM
USS Katahdin, a coastal defence ram.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Katahdin_(1893)

I continue to blame Admiral Tegetthof for winning the battle of Lissa with ram tactics.  Leading a generation of naval designers down a black hole.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 28, 2017, 07:31:11 PM
Ram tactics worked pretty well against the Enemy in the Battle of River Blackwater Estuary, with a 2-1 kill ratio. Admittedly, there was only one ram present, so...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 29, 2017, 10:47:19 AM
Ram tactics could be very successful in a small engagment.  Fast, nimble vessels always maneuver better, and faster, than heavyweights.
Making the choice that every major warship should be a ram is akin to Ernst Udet decreeing that all Luftwaffe bombers had to be dive bombers.  It was unnecessary and made some promising designs unworkable.
As it turned out, arming all heavy ships with rams was an utter waste.  The only heavy ships sunk by ram were in the same navy as the ramming ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 29, 2017, 11:54:18 AM
An Arado 196 seaplane being taken out of it's hangar.
Guess this is Tirpitz, might be Bismarck.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2017, 11:56:10 AM
QuoteUSS Delaware (BB-28) in drydock number 4 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1910

(https://i.redd.it/n6mypqhw6ouz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2017, 11:57:18 AM
QuoteScouting Force at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 2 Feb 1933. Warships moored are (from left to left center) USS Augusta (CA-31), USS Chicago (CA-29) and USS Chester (CA-27). USS Northampton (CA-26) lies alongside the dock in the photo center.

(https://i.redd.it/r3ih98g0zouz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2017, 12:01:32 PM
QuoteDamaged twelve-inch gun of the fore turret of the Russian battleship OREL, shortly after she was captured by the Japanese in the Battle of Tsushima, 28 May 1905. This photograph graphically illustrates the construction of a "built up" gun. Japanese photograph, inscribed: "To the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt, from Lloyd C. Griscom."

(https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-66000/NH-66268/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1437691956993.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2017, 12:03:00 PM
QuoteUSS Florida (SSGN-728) arrives at Souda Harbor, Greece, Island of Crete, 2013

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3705/8793142345_39e2324881_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2017, 12:05:47 PM
QuoteHMS Royal Sovereign undergoing maintenance at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 1941

(https://i.redd.it/jjx84golwguz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2017, 12:12:50 PM
QuoteUSS Augusta, USS Midway, USS Enterprise, USS Missouri, USS New York, USS Helena, and USS Macon in the Hudson River, New York - 27 October 1945.


(https://i.redd.it/fbloyl0gmfuz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2017, 12:13:37 PM
QuoteMusashi being struck by a bomb, forward of #1 turret, Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944.

(https://i.redd.it/9asg9x9seduz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 29, 2017, 12:15:05 PM
QuoteClemson-class destroyer USS Farragut (DD-300) steaming at high speed during trials. Probably photographed in the Santa Barbara Channel, California, on 22 May 1920.


(https://i.redd.it/dvtuuujxzhuz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 29, 2017, 02:20:33 PM
Quote from: besilarius on October 29, 2017, 10:47:19 AM
Ram tactics could be very successful in a small engagment.  Fast, nimble vessels always maneuver better, and faster, than heavyweights.

PT109 disagrees.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on October 29, 2017, 02:53:53 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on October 29, 2017, 02:20:33 PM
Quote from: besilarius on October 29, 2017, 10:47:19 AM
Ram tactics could be very successful in a small engagment.  Fast, nimble vessels always maneuver better, and faster, than heavyweights.

PT109 disagrees.

The ramming part sure worked in that case.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 29, 2017, 07:32:48 PM
It helped a lot that Re d'Italia had no way on, being in the middle of going astern.
And PT-109 was idling quietly trying to hear, since in the pitch dark night they couldn't see for any distance.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 30, 2017, 06:47:31 AM
8" gun, USS New York, 1899.
The open gun deck kind of freaks me out.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 30, 2017, 08:41:47 AM
QuoteHMS Hermes returns home to Portsmouth from the Falklands war in 1982

(https://i.redd.it/iassv3aiyvuz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 31, 2017, 11:09:44 AM
QuoteHMS Duke of York leads HMS Nelson, HMS Renown and HMS Formidable during Operation Torch, sometime in November of 1942.

(https://i.imgur.com/eozO4R0.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 31, 2017, 11:12:42 AM
QuoteThe German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper abandoned in dry dock at Kiel, Germany, May 1945

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fnews%2F2017%2F04%2F18%2FTELEMMGLPICT000126203344_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqzj9dKJAZTzFWci18Oz9RyHJiEIqextzo3Xg_cMTdUd0.jpeg&hash=258d2cf58b92e6da4da466060e078a28d50b67de)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on October 31, 2017, 01:35:19 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15608/delivery-of-russias-refit-nuclear-battlecruiser-delayed-but-progress-looks-impressive
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 01, 2017, 11:04:27 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/I9nXf6e.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 01, 2017, 06:14:40 PM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth escorted by HMS Dragon, 1st November 2017

(https://i.imgur.com/Zviny3y.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 01, 2017, 06:16:22 PM
QuoteUSS Springfield (CLG 7) during a highline transfer with USS Saratoga (CV 60) while in the Mediterranean, 1960

(https://i.redd.it/3p3238ky3dvz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 01, 2017, 06:18:43 PM
QuoteHawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Effingham (D98) after the modernization of 1937-1938.

(https://i.redd.it/dbsrx8uxb7vz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 03, 2017, 07:54:35 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/926346994125344768
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 03, 2017, 11:40:38 AM
QuoteHMS Furious in August 1941 with four Hurricanes on her flight deck.

(https://i.imgur.com/C0flCIA.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 03, 2017, 11:45:29 AM
QuoteHMS Furious shortly following its initial conversion and in dazzle paint scheme. An SSZ class blimp is on the after deck.

(https://i.imgur.com/nZDiKsf.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 03, 2017, 11:47:57 AM
QuoteDiadem-class protected cruiser HMCS Niobe being readied for WW1 in August 1914 at HMC Dockyard Halifax dry-dock.

(https://i.redd.it/njyu5b5a1pvz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 04, 2017, 08:49:20 AM
The cruiser Haguro under attack in Rabaul, on the day after Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2017, 04:47:51 PM
QuoteThe Russian flagship Tsarevitch passing HMS Victory, 1915

(https://i.redd.it/kownfb458zvz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2017, 04:49:08 PM
QuoteAircraft hanger of the Japanese submarine I-401, 20 September 1945

(https://i.redd.it/lwoqfbja80wz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 04, 2017, 04:57:03 PM
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/weekend-afternoon-randomness-39-photos-2514.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on November 04, 2017, 08:04:30 PM
New Uber service?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 05, 2017, 06:47:41 AM
QuoteUSS George Washington (CVN 73) near Guam, September 2012

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F120908-N-TX154-095.jpg&hash=c4da1ebcdec6a8cd1ff57d7434b6df7e405aa6be)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 06, 2017, 08:51:59 AM
https://twitter.com/Capt_Navy/status/926802788813885440
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on November 06, 2017, 02:04:22 PM
^ That almost looks like the backdrop for a board game.

The carrier one above it is nice, thanks. I appropriated it to use as my desktop background.  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 07, 2017, 12:33:05 PM
QuoteThe French pre-dreadnoughts Démocratie, Justice, Veritè and Mirabeau being scrapped in Vado Ligure, Italy, 1922.

(https://i.redd.it/p5wbu3owkjwz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 07, 2017, 12:35:02 PM
QuoteE2 Hawkeye of VAW124 lands on USS George H.W. Bush after Patrol

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on November 07, 2017, 12:41:54 PM
That pic just raised a question that I've never thought of before... why in the Island not closer to the "take-off" end of the ship and further away from the "landing and sometimes crashing" part of the ship?
It doesn't, from that pic, appear to be centralized.... even so you'd think they'd want the important bits further away from the explodey bits....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 07, 2017, 12:44:50 PM
I think it's a deck space issue.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 07, 2017, 05:02:20 PM
and there are lots of explodey bits all over the place.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 08, 2017, 12:33:18 PM
(https://i.redd.it/fxj9lm3fmrwz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 08, 2017, 12:34:57 PM
A formation of F2H-2 Banshees of Fighter Squadron (VF) 11 pass over the carrier Kearsarge (CVA 33) steaming in the waters off Korea. October 29th, 1952

(https://i.imgur.com/BLnY1He.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bayonetbrant on November 08, 2017, 07:36:19 PM
https://news.usni.org/2017/11/06/7-u-s-aircraft-carriers-simultaneously-underway
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 09, 2017, 12:21:33 PM
QuoteGerman Prinz Eugen Collision with Leipzig. At 2004 hours on 15-Oct-1944, the Prinz Eugen returned from an operation off Memel, the heavy cruiser accidentally rammed the light cruiser Leipzig. Took 14 hours before it was considered safe to separate both ships.

(https://i.redd.it/f1qmrqevyxwz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 09, 2017, 12:26:51 PM
QuoteThe Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100), assigned to the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, transits a stormy South China Sea.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F171105-N-VR594-0248.JPG&hash=1ac79f51c810b29ced0017790627e2ae72a6f77c)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on November 09, 2017, 12:30:09 PM
QuoteUSS Tecumseh (SSBN-628) entering the floating drydock USS Richland (AFDM-8), 11 March 1965

(https://i.redd.it/2h0yn18ndtwz.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 09, 2017, 05:24:41 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 09, 2017, 12:26:51 PM
QuoteThe Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100), assigned to the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, transits a stormy South China Sea.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F171105-N-VR594-0248.JPG&hash=1ac79f51c810b29ced0017790627e2ae72a6f77c)

these days its safest when a Burke is behind you.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on November 09, 2017, 07:38:44 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 09, 2017, 12:26:51 PM
QuoteThe Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100), assigned to the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, transits a stormy South China Sea.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F171105-N-VR594-0248.JPG&hash=1ac79f51c810b29ced0017790627e2ae72a6f77c)

Several hours later fighters from the Nimitz engaged a flight of Mitsubishi A6M3s.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 09, 2017, 11:22:55 PM
and then the Burke runs into the Akagi?
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Post by: mirth on November 12, 2017, 07:17:03 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16010/these-are-the-images-of-three-u-s-supercarriers-in-formation-youve-been-waiting-for
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Post by: bbmike on November 12, 2017, 07:29:26 PM
On a side note, it really is too bad they didn't get the submarines to surface for this PHOTOEX, but then again, considering where they are operating and how prominent this exercise is, they were probably keeping close tabs on underwater "spectators."

:2funny:
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Post by: besilarius on November 13, 2017, 08:08:58 PM
Conte di Cavour.  12 November, 1940
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Post by: Staggerwing on November 13, 2017, 09:07:17 PM
The Japanese learned a lot from that. A year and a month later they upped the ante.
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Post by: mirth on November 16, 2017, 12:28:26 PM
QuoteJapanese Battleship Hyuuga underway. Note the large flight deck on the aft end of the ship that replaced two gun turrets.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Battleship-carrier_Ise.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 16, 2017, 12:31:50 PM
QuoteShips with "a bite". Clever camouflage on the bows of MTB's at HMS HORNET, Gosport, 4 JUNE 1944.

(https://i.redd.it/brvtut0wk2yz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 16, 2017, 12:34:53 PM
QuoteUSS Florida sails into Souda Bay

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F141105-N-JE719-050.JPG&hash=b92a277d23c8dfb26fdafb567334dee92be5aba1)
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Post by: mirth on November 16, 2017, 12:37:28 PM
QuoteThe aircraft carriers Midway (CVA 41), Kearsarge (CVS 33), and Hancock (CVA 19) lead other ships of the First Fleet as they pass under the Golden Gate Bridge upon return from deployments.

(https://i.imgur.com/wvnvJsb.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 16, 2017, 12:41:46 PM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth seen here before entering her homeport

(https://i.redd.it/f1z7h7fa8dyz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 16, 2017, 12:48:49 PM
QuoteThe flight deck of the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA 42) as seen from an aircraft on approach for recovery on board the carrier. 1965

(https://i.imgur.com/iQDeDCV.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 17, 2017, 08:07:41 AM
QuoteFrench battleship Strasbourg lies scuttled in Toulon harbour as part of a planned effort by her crew to avoid being turned over to the Italian Navy. Nov. 1942.

(https://i.redd.it/b3psuoryugyz.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on November 18, 2017, 10:13:11 AM
http://www.navygeneralboard.com/facts-battleship-tirpitz/

Not a great article, b ut some interesting factoids about Tirpitz.
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Post by: mirth on November 23, 2017, 04:48:36 PM
QuoteThe Royal Navy's first nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Dreadnought (S101) Southampton, 1965.

(https://i.redd.it/p6tf6tzpjdzz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 24, 2017, 12:44:13 PM
QuoteA crane moves the lower stern into place on the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) at Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding in Newport News, Va, 22 June 2017.

(https://i.imgur.com/7bJEvKJ.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 24, 2017, 12:46:01 PM
QuoteThe heavily damaged French battleship Jean Bart, in Casablanca on November 16, 1942

(https://i.imgur.com/4Ctm8A2.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on November 26, 2017, 04:52:17 PM
Wreck of the battleship Yamshiro photographed by an ROV from the Petrel.

https://www.facebook.com/rvpetrel/?hc_ref=ARRiEE3l51mF9ADEcNx4IVYG1yeTnPHCs6Z-ITHuPvik5Qz4ddY3nypxdNYw4AejpMQ

Yamashiro is upside down and the bow is folded back over the hull.
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Post by: mirth on November 26, 2017, 05:57:50 PM
QuoteSoviet experimental submarine "Forel", sole member of the Beluga class, used to test hull designs and new propulsion systems.

(https://i.imgur.com/KbT6zLa.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 26, 2017, 05:59:17 PM
QuoteA project 690 or Bravo-class submarine. The class was designed for ASW training, thus the hull was reinforced to be able to take the direct impact of practice torpedos

(https://i.imgur.com/P2KsqFH.jpg)
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 27, 2017, 12:16:12 AM
that must be a fun job.....   ???
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Post by: mirth on November 27, 2017, 10:34:55 AM
Serving on a Russian sub probably isn't all that fun even when you aren't being used for target practice.
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Post by: mirth on November 27, 2017, 12:01:00 PM
QuoteUSS Alabama (BB-60) fitting out at Norfolk. The ex-battleship Kearsarge (AB-1) is moored next to the Alabama for lifting the 16" gun barrels into place. Main and secondary gun turrets are being fabricated and the smoke indicates that some of the boilers have been lit off. July 3, 1942

(https://i.imgur.com/RCecYy1.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 27, 2017, 12:03:09 PM
QuoteKitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) steaming off Honolulu enroute to Pearl Harbor. May 1964.

(https://i.redd.it/yj1del5w9g001.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 27, 2017, 12:10:53 PM
QuoteVietnamese Kilo-class submarines

(https://i.imgur.com/OkiX1hz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 27, 2017, 12:12:36 PM
(http://)

(https://i.imgur.com/lRovfe5.jpg)


More in album here: https://imgur.com/a/y8XBe
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Post by: mirth on November 27, 2017, 12:13:40 PM
QuoteHnlms Evertsen conducts a high speed turn in the gulf of Aden.

(https://i.redd.it/680x1djc50001.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 27, 2017, 12:17:28 PM
QuotePhotograph taken from a TARPS equipped F-14 Tomcat showing the Soviet carrier Kiev underway in the Mediterranean Sea. c.1990.

(https://i.imgur.com/InVMhxS.jpg)
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Post by: Airborne Rifles on November 27, 2017, 12:38:12 PM
Quote from: mirth on November 26, 2017, 05:59:17 PM
QuoteA project 690 or Bravo-class submarine. The class was designed for ASW training, thus the hull was reinforced to be able to take the direct impact of practice torpedos

(https://i.imgur.com/P2KsqFH.jpg)

In Soviet Russia, blanks shoot you!
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Post by: mirth on November 29, 2017, 07:25:44 PM
QuoteUSS New York (BB-34) off Hampton Roads, Virginia on 11/14/44 escorted by tugs. She had just completed a refit at Norfolk Navy Yard which included new 3" gun directors (Mark 50) one above the bridge and the other atop her stub mainmast.

(https://i.imgur.com/R17Wmaq.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on November 29, 2017, 07:28:47 PM
http://militaryhistorynow.com/2017/11/29/a-fatal-first-voyage-how-europes-mightiest-warship-foundered-moments-into-her-inaugural-cruise/
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Post by: besilarius on November 30, 2017, 07:54:41 PM
A catalogue of photos taken on HMS Victorious during the Bismarck chase.
This is apparentlky from 2012, but just found it.  The modern text is rot.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2247003/Bismarck-receiving-torpedo-Rare-photos-chronicle-race-sink-pride-Hitlers-fleet.html
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Post by: mirth on December 05, 2017, 12:02:27 PM
QuotePanoramic view of Japanese warships gathered off the coast of Okinawa

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4520/26908142569_f592777fcb_o.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on December 06, 2017, 07:29:59 AM
Prinz Eugen
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Post by: mirth on December 06, 2017, 12:13:19 PM
QuoteAdmiral-class ironclad battleship HMS Howe.

(https://i.redd.it/xqqxxhq1d5201.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 07, 2017, 07:10:10 PM
QuoteUSS Missouri (BB-63) shortly before being launched, Brooklyn Navy Yard 1944.

(https://i.redd.it/sd0kfj9wjc201.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 07, 2017, 07:11:48 PM
QuoteUSS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Arabian Gulf. Theodore Roosevelt and its carrier strike group are deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of maritime security operations to reassure allies and partners and preserve the freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Anthony J. Rivera (Released) Dec. 6, 2017.

(https://i.redd.it/scc8dgorvk201.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on December 11, 2017, 07:40:42 AM
"Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there."

USS Washington in drydock at Pearl Harbor after collision.
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Post by: mirth on December 13, 2017, 02:08:43 PM
QuoteUSS Shenandoah (ZR-1) at NAS San Diego, 1924

(https://i.redd.it/7qu68wgpcl301.jpg)
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Post by: bob48 on December 13, 2017, 03:17:42 PM
You'll never get me up in of those new-fangled things!

Great picture, Mirth!
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Post by: mirth on December 14, 2017, 12:31:47 PM
QuoteAircraft from Carrier Air Wing 11 drop live ordnance during a flight demonstration as part of Tiger Cruise aboard USS Nimitz (CVN -68) in the Pacific Ocean, Dec. 1, 2017. USN photo.

(https://i.redd.it/shli91ioam301.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 15, 2017, 08:22:29 AM
QuoteUSS Saratoga (CV-3) passing through the Gaillard Cut in the Panama Canal, Feb 1928.

(https://i.imgur.com/mUilqsF.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on December 16, 2017, 10:08:49 AM
USS Iowa December 15, 1943 seventy four years ago today with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt aboard.

Love that Durante nose on the Iowas.
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Post by: mirth on December 17, 2017, 11:06:06 AM
QuotePorter-class destroyer USS Phelps (DD-360) off the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, circa November 1944. She is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 3d.

(https://i.redd.it/sr7pgyydeb401.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 17, 2017, 06:23:38 PM
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/942511516791668736
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Post by: mirth on December 18, 2017, 07:55:54 AM
QuoteThe Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) photographed soon after completion, circa late 1938 or early 1939

(https://i.redd.it/3zboslbk9k401.jpg)
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Post by: bayonetbrant on December 18, 2017, 12:06:59 PM
Rebuilding the Russian Navy

https://medium.com/dfrlab/putinatwar-latest-additions-to-the-russian-navy-f422b3e52e36
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 18, 2017, 03:04:46 PM
not impressed
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Post by: mirth on December 18, 2017, 03:18:33 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on December 18, 2017, 03:04:46 PM
not impressed


+1
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Post by: Steelgrave on December 18, 2017, 08:15:54 PM
I'm much more concerned over the rise of the Chinese Navy. Unlike Putin, the Chinese actually have the cash to build things.
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Post by: mirth on December 18, 2017, 08:47:24 PM
The Chinese have a ways to go, but you are quite right Steelie.
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Post by: mirth on December 19, 2017, 10:33:20 AM
QuoteHMS Tiger in drydock c. 1916–17

(https://i.imgur.com/9U9R7H6.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on December 19, 2017, 08:46:58 PM
^That's one of the the ones that didn't go 'splody at Jutland.
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Post by: Windigo on December 20, 2017, 03:39:13 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on December 19, 2017, 08:46:58 PM
^That's one of the the ones that didn't go 'splody at Jutland.

Splody is bad, but I hear from BoB that 'panning ' is worse.
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Post by: mirth on December 20, 2017, 10:18:15 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17140/almost-all-of-the-uks-surface-combatants-are-in-port-while-germany-has-no-working-subs
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Post by: besilarius on December 22, 2017, 07:42:27 AM
The famous photo of "Murderer's Row" at Ulithi atoll investigated.

http://www.navyhistory.org/2015/09/historical-murderers-row-photograph-at-ulithi-update/

Some folks have way too much time on their hands.
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Post by: mirth on December 24, 2017, 06:29:13 AM
Typhoon and Borei class SSBNs

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Eo2qn-IC0bQ/Wj3Xugt1kmI/AAAAAAACpJU/RJqzucKRSHQTip09yS6JLUNbfUWvdDU_ACLcBGAs/s1600/cutie.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 26, 2017, 08:20:50 AM
QuoteTyphoon class SSBN "Dmitriy Donskoy" next to Kirov class battle cruiser "Pyotr Velikiy"

(https://i.imgur.com/uwnG4OT.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 26, 2017, 11:50:49 AM
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/945689815940395009
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Post by: Staggerwing on December 26, 2017, 07:25:02 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 26, 2017, 08:20:50 AM
QuoteLast Operational Typhoon class SSBN "Dmitriy Donskoy" next to Last Operational Kirov class battle cruiser "Pyotr Velikiy"

FIFY.




Still, they are like magnificent aquatic dinosaurs.
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Post by: Airborne Rifles on December 26, 2017, 07:29:40 PM
I think a second of the Kirovs is being modernized to be brought back into service.
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Post by: Staggerwing on December 26, 2017, 07:52:59 PM
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on December 26, 2017, 07:29:40 PM
I think a second of the Kirovs is being modernized to be brought back into service.

It's true, the Admiral Nakhimov has started a refit. After that Pyotr Velikiy herself will be modernized.

I was just having some fun at the expense of the Russian Navy.  :))
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Post by: mirth on December 27, 2017, 11:27:48 AM
QuoteA snowy night aboard the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) this Christmas Eve. December 24, 2017

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F171224-N-BR087-003.JPG&hash=5d1bc0a9b2f2826fde9744cc7ed86f892e78842f)
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Post by: mirth on December 27, 2017, 11:31:21 AM
QuoteRussian ship, Vice-Admiral Kulakov being escorted through the English Channel by British ships

(https://i.imgur.com/3cvmkXV.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 27, 2017, 11:37:55 AM
QuoteRussian Delta IV SSBN

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRy9kDGXUAATCTw.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 27, 2017, 11:39:33 AM
QuoteLead ship of her class, submarine Sirena of the Regia Marina in 1942.

(https://i.redd.it/kcqk1q3x52601.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 27, 2017, 11:45:27 AM
QuoteUSS Albany (CG-10) sailing off the coast of Florida, 1972

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4579/37555053105_a90463ccbd_o.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on December 27, 2017, 05:28:19 PM
Carrier decks.
Never a dull day.
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Post by: Staggerwing on December 27, 2017, 07:16:02 PM
Quote from: mirth on December 27, 2017, 11:45:27 AM
QuoteUSS Albany (CG-10) sailing off the coast of Florida, 1972

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4579/37555053105_a90463ccbd_o.jpg)

Looks like the V mothership is about to emerge over off the starboard side.
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Post by: besilarius on December 28, 2017, 10:35:16 PM
Panzerschiff Deutschland damaged by a Spanish Republican Air Strike on May 29th, 1937.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 29, 2017, 01:29:07 AM
looks horrible....   ::)
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Post by: besilarius on December 29, 2017, 08:34:44 AM
Yes.  You can see the crew are just in shock at the extent of the damage.
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Post by: Staggerwing on December 29, 2017, 06:54:07 PM
All that poor, poor teak.
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Post by: mirth on December 30, 2017, 05:00:58 PM
QuoteUSS Devilfish (SS-292) being sunk as a target by USS Wahoo (SS-565) at San Francisco, CA., 14 August 1968

(https://i.redd.it/m68cl3zzkx601.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 30, 2017, 05:06:26 PM
QuoteGerman Submarine SM UB-110 that was sunk and salvaged in 1918. There were plans to restore her as a fighting unit but the The Armistice on 11th November 1918 caused her to be scrapped.

(https://i.redd.it/3n3sdgaf9o601.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 31, 2017, 10:08:28 AM
QuoteA rare photo of HMS Rodney as she braves heavy seas on the hunt for Bismarck, May 26, 1941. Taken by a crew member of HMS King George V.

(https://i.redd.it/ol4qkys6o7701.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on December 31, 2017, 10:09:54 AM
QuoteUSS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) transits the Hood Canal as the boat returns to its home port at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, 2017

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4587/25526700368_184525104a_o.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on January 01, 2018, 05:44:42 PM
Mirth, have to congratulate you.  The Rodney picture is new to me and is a great shot.
Hope there are others from the crewman who took it.
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Post by: besilarius on January 04, 2018, 07:43:34 AM
UB88, a WW1 German U-Boat
The U.S. Navy got her after the war, was brought to California, sunk during target practice in January 1921 off of Long Beach.
Not sure why she was taken to California.  Testing?
The wreck was found in 2003
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Post by: besilarius on January 04, 2018, 07:48:16 AM
http://pigboats.com/ww1/ub88.html

More history of UB88 and a lot of pictures of the internal engineering.
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Post by: mirth on January 04, 2018, 12:06:47 PM
QuoteDelfin-class (Delta IV) SSBN "Tula" (K-114)

(https://i.redd.it/lwv4d91a8x701.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on January 04, 2018, 04:51:18 PM
https://thechive.com/2018/01/04/terror-of-falling-off-an-aircraft-carrier-in-0400-darkness-24-photos/
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Post by: mirth on January 05, 2018, 12:16:43 PM
QuoteUSS Albany (CG-10) fires two RIM-8 Talos and one RIM-24 Tartar missile in the Atlantic, 1963

(https://www.navysite.de/cg/images/cg10_5.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on January 05, 2018, 12:17:34 PM
QuoteCruiser USS Richmond during the sea trials off Philadelphia, Nov 1923

(https://i.redd.it/35c584ayc8801.png)
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Post by: OJsDad on January 10, 2018, 02:11:40 PM
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/951168247134588933
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 08:57:17 AM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17535/new-frigate-program-heats-up-as-u-s-navy-says-it-will-pay-nearly-1b-per-ship
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 12:29:56 PM
QuoteB-52 Bomber Buzzes The Soviet Aircraft Carrier Kiev

(https://i.imgur.com/QvM8gEq.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 12:30:55 PM
QuoteHMS Ocean (L-12) sailing with an air wing of Apache, Chinook, and Merlin helicopters. Mediterranean Sea, 2016

(https://i.redd.it/9oib2x9q7f901.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 12:31:55 PM
QuoteHMS Hood under construction at the John Brown Shipyard, 1919

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi97.servimg.com%2Fu%2Ff97%2F16%2F27%2F68%2F37%2Fhms_ho36.jpg&hash=0953ddcb66b03db7d4b5b774ddb17fa86a20edf4)
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 12:33:30 PM
QuoteHMS Hood leaving the John Brown Shipyard for the first time, probably 1920

(https://i97.servimg.com/u/f97/16/27/68/37/hms_ho31.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 12:35:18 PM
QuoteHMS Rodney's torpedo handling room, date unknown

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi97.servimg.com%2Fu%2Ff97%2F16%2F27%2F68%2F37%2Fwnbr_111.jpg&hash=e53d2404a00477027c2e84d03de1cb9a8dbc2caf)
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 12:37:50 PM
QuoteBattle Group Charlie centered on USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70) underway December 14, 1986


(https://i.imgur.com/3R7NEuN.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 12:40:08 PM
QuoteHMS Agamemnon bombarding the Dardanelles Straits in WW1

(https://i.redd.it/861e23srl9901.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 12:43:56 PM
Interior of Italian Battleship Roma

(album at link - https://imgur.com/a/RSMpp)

(https://i.imgur.com/u9Tew0t.jpg)
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Post by: Windigo on January 11, 2018, 01:02:30 PM
Regarding pics of the Hood - man them are some ugly lines   :cowboy:
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Post by: mirth on January 11, 2018, 06:22:07 PM
Quote from: Windigo on January 11, 2018, 01:02:30 PM
Regarding pics of the Hood - man them are some ugly lines   :cowboy:

Funny you would say so as she was considered one of the best looking ships of her day.
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Post by: Windigo on January 12, 2018, 11:48:28 AM
Quote from: mirth on January 11, 2018, 06:22:07 PM
Quote from: Windigo on January 11, 2018, 01:02:30 PM
Regarding pics of the Hood - man them are some ugly lines   :cowboy:

Funny you would say so as she was considered one of the best looking ships of her day.

those turrets look like a cheese block after my 2nd wife cuts some off for a drunken late night snack
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Post by: Windigo on January 12, 2018, 11:50:56 AM
sweet lines everywhere

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navsource.org%2Farchives%2F01%2F016138b.jpg&hash=569df8214af1323318d5084ac3aff188595889ff)
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Post by: mirth on January 12, 2018, 01:23:09 PM
https://twitter.com/PHDockyard/status/951829938721705991
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Post by: besilarius on January 13, 2018, 09:15:03 AM
Another fine - nayvul - day at the office.
Keep the water level up in the condensers and don't salt up the feed bottom.
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Post by: mirth on January 14, 2018, 09:35:40 AM
(https://kek.gg/i/5Tt4cy.jpeg)


(https://kek.gg/i/7yWgQB.jpeg)


(https://kek.gg/i/3-W25.jpeg)

Quote
This is a turret face from the Shinano's turrets before she was converted into a carrier. It was pierced at point blank range by the newest model US 16 inch Mark 7 gun. To quote Navweaps,

QuoteAt about 40,000 yards, the U.S. Navy 16"/50 firing a 16" Mark 8 Mod 6 AP projectile (the later Mod 7 and Mod 8 designs were post-WWII, so I usually do not count them and they were no better ballistically, to my knowledge) will hit at about 45° downward angle and 1607 feet/second (489.8 m/sec). Just as with a point blank hit at 2500 feet/second (762 m/sec) and 45° obliquity, this hit too will barely hole the plate as the projectile is hitting at 0° (normal) obliquity, though not completely penetrate it. Any slight barrel wear will lower the muzzle and striking velocities and no holing will occur at these or any other ranges, as mentioned. However, this is so far above any real fighting range (even with radar it is hard to see the target due to the earth's curvature interfering, especially in any kind of imperfect seeing conditions) that I do not even consider it in my computations, while putting the gun barrel up to almost touching the enemy turret is also a pipe dream in real life! Thus, no holing or complete penetrations, ever, though possibly some cracking of the plate and possible jamming of the turret if the crack-off plate piece is dislodged badly enough.

    Therefore, these plates are the only warship armor plates that could not be completely penetrated by any gun ever put on a warship when installed leaning back at 45°, as they were in the actual turrets!!! Even to completely hole the plate all the way through at that inclination requires a brand new 16"/50 Mark 7 or German 38cm SK C/34 gun at point-blank range firing the latest versions of their respective AP projectiles; it might be cracked at a lower striking velocity, but no hole put entirely through it! And they said guns had completely overmatched all armor - not so!!!


PDF of test results - http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a955281.pdf
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 14, 2018, 02:45:03 PM
QuoteMartin T4M Torpedo bombers launching from the deck of the USS Lexington (CV-2), 1931

(https://i.imgur.com/X2YwhzQ.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 14, 2018, 02:46:17 PM
QuoteUSS Flasher (SSN-613) slides down the launching ways at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 22 June 1963

(https://i.redd.it/m2lk5eaidq901.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 14, 2018, 03:07:19 PM
QuoteHMS Warspite, Rodney, and Nelson at port at South Mole, Gibraltar Harbor - 1933

(https://i.redd.it/0smbft3fni901.jpg)

Same location today

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.savetheroyalnavy.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2FDeath-of-the-Royal-Navy-greatly-exaggerated-1014x487.jpg&hash=b5ceaf0a40dc046c7ae418b8f3cbd0917b6b9483)

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 14, 2018, 03:08:47 PM
QuoteHMS Hood at John Brown and Co. Shipyard, 1919-1920.

(https://imgur.com/gobdqLC.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on January 14, 2018, 06:32:53 PM
Wall Street Journal article on MSN news feed

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/german-engineering-yields-new-warship-that-isnt-fit-for-sea/ar-AAuAMwV?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

German Engineering Yields New Warship That Isn't Fit for Sea

QuoteBERLIN—Germany's naval brass in 2005 dreamed up a warship that could ferry marines into combat anywhere in the world, go up against enemy ships and stay away from home ports for two years with a crew half the size of its predecessor's.

First delivered for sea trials in 2016 after a series of delays, the 7,000-ton Baden-Württemberg frigate was determined last month to have an unexpected design flaw: It doesn't really work.

Defense experts cite the warship's buggy software and ill-considered arsenal—as well as what was until recently its noticeable list to starboard—as symptoms of deeper, more intractable problems: Shrinking military expertise and growing confusion among German leaders about what the country's armed forces are for.

A litany of bungled infrastructure projects has tarred Germany's reputation for engineering prowess. There is still no opening date for Berlin's new €6 billion ($7.2 billion) airport, which is already 10 years behind schedule, and the redesign of Stuttgart's railway station remains stalled more than a decade after work on the project started. Observers have blamed these mishaps on poor planning and project management, which also figured in major setbacks for several big military projects.

But experts say military efforts have also been hampered by the lack of a strategic vision for Germany's armed forces, resulting in vague, hard-to-execute briefs. Before the frigate project foundered, a contract to build a new helicopter hit snags, costs for a new rifle overran and an ambitious drone project simply failed to get off the ground.

German military procurement is "one hell of a complete disaster," said Christian Mölling, a defense-industry expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin. "It will take years to sort this problem out."

The naval fiasco, on a project with a €3 billion price tag, is particularly startling since Europe's largest exporter relies on open and secure shipping lanes to transport its goods.

The F-125 frigate program was supposed to deliver Germany's four largest military ships of the postwar era, fitted with cutting-edge software allowing high operability with a skeleton crew.

But after the ship failed sea trials last month, naval officials refused to commission it. The German Navy said the Baden-Württemberg's central computer system—the design centerpiece allowing it to sail with a smaller crew—didn't pass necessary tests. The Kieler Nachrichten, a daily in the German Baltic fleet's home port of Kiel, has reported problems with its radar, electronics and the flameproof coating on its fuel tanks. The vessel was also found to list to the starboard, a flaw a project spokesman says has been corrected. The Baden-Württemberg is now set to return to port next week for an "extended period," the navy said.

A spokesman for Thyssenkrupp, the lead company on the project, said it still planned to deliver the ship this year. "The frigate-class 125 is a newly designed, technically sophisticated ship with highly complex new developments—including new technologies," the spokesman said. "Delays can never be completely ruled out."

A spokesman for the military procurement office said it was levying financial penalties from Thyssenkrupp for late delivery, but he declined to provide further details.

Even if the ship can be fixed, however, some naval experts worry it would struggle to defend itself against terrorist groups supplied with antiship missiles. And in the face of a Russian naval buildup in the Baltic Sea, it lacks its predecessor's sonar and torpedo tubes, making it a sitting duck for submarines.
Those failings, they say, result from Germany's military brass never settling on a defined brief for the vessel.

When planning began in 2003, naval staff wanted an all-rounder that could tangle with Russian destroyers in the Baltic and serve as a base for humanitarian missions in tropical waters. Then, in 2005, they decided the ship didn't need all of its predecessor's heavy weaponry and should focus more on attacking enemies on land, including by ferrying marines into combat. Given Russia's aggressive stance in the Baltic Sea, naval experts say that now appears to have been a miscalculation. The ship's great weight—already almost twice that of the frigate model it is replacing—makes adding further weapons very difficult.

"These problems stem from Germany not having a strategic vision for its military," said Ronja Kempin, defense-industry expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin.

Defense experts say the frigate fiasco also shows the navy, German military engineers and the government's defense-procurement body, after years without big projects to manage, has lost the expertise to bring these to fruition.

"Too complicated, too ambitious, too badly managed." Marcel Dickow, a weapons-procurement expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, said of the frigate. "They threw money at the project without thinking it through."

The spokesman for Germany's military procurement office said while the ship project posed an "enormous challenge" for the contractors, ​its design specifications were "unambiguous and precise." He added that the contractors have to solve outstanding problems with the vessel. "The [German military] will not take over the ship until all acceptance trials have been successfully completed," he said.

German military spending is now rising rapidly to meet the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's agreed commitment of 2% of gross domestic product. The defense budget is set to climb to €38.5 billion in 2018 from €37 billion in 2017 and €35.1 billion in 2016.

But this growth follows years of fiscal attrition that have degraded the government's capacity to manage ambitious military projects. And while German firms like Heckler & Koch AG and Rheinmetall are market leaders in rifles, tanks and howitzers, competence in larger, more complex systems has eroded during the lean years.

"There's a whole generation of German engineers who haven't worked on a major defense project," said Mr. Mölling, the defense expert. "It's not that they lost this skill; they never learned it."

Engineering graduates shun weapons manufacturers in favor of "sexier" employers like conglomerate Siemens AG or car maker BMW AG, which offer better pay and career prospects, according to Mr. Mölling.

Likewise, defense companies have failed to attract the graduates needed to develop sophisticated new systems that are increasingly centered on software, said Sandro Gaycken, a director at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin.

Berlin could have bought warships from U.S., U.K. or French shipyards, but the government chose German bidders to buoy employment at German shipyards, according to Ms. Kempin, the defense expert.

Kiel-based naval engineer Lothar Dannenberg, who wasn't involved directly in the frigate project, blamed its failures largely on what he said was the incompetence of the procurement office. "We were left shaking our heads," he said.

Write to William Wilkes at william.wilkes@wsj.com
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 15, 2018, 07:09:02 AM
Come back, Fritz Todt.
All is forgiven.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 15, 2018, 08:14:50 AM
If Putin wants Europe, it's his for the taking, it seems. :(
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 15, 2018, 07:02:36 PM
It's all up to Poland now.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 15, 2018, 10:22:24 PM
then God help the Russians.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: WallysWorld on January 15, 2018, 10:49:10 PM
I was reading about this new German ship the other day on Wikipedia:  Baden-Württemberg-class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg-class_frigate)

"The F125 Baden-Württemberg-class frigates currently has several problems. These problems include a persistent 1,3° list to starboard[5] and the fact that the ship is dramatically overweight, which would limit its performance, increase its cost of operation, and most importantly, negatively impact the Deutsche Marine's ability to add future upgrades to the somewhat sparsely outfitted vessel."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 16, 2018, 07:42:43 AM
USS Wilkes DD 441 was rammed ina fog by an oiler in April, 1942.
To repair the keel, the ship was cut in two and then reattached.  Ever after, the crew claimed there was always a two degree list to port, and that they could spot Wilkes in any anchorage from her list.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 16, 2018, 12:20:38 PM
Quote from: WallysWorld on January 15, 2018, 10:49:10 PM
I was reading about this new German ship the other day on Wikipedia:  Baden-Württemberg-class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg-class_frigate)

"The F125 Baden-Württemberg-class frigates currently has several problems. These problems include a persistent 1,3° list to starboard[5] and the fact that the ship is dramatically overweight, which would limit its performance, increase its cost of operation, and most importantly, negatively impact the Deutsche Marine's ability to add future upgrades to the somewhat sparsely outfitted vessel."

Yeah, it's got some problems

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17185/the-german-navy-has-decided-to-return-their-new-frigate-to-the-ship-store-this-christmas
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 16, 2018, 12:21:27 PM
QuoteUSS Carney (DDG 64) is entering Bosphorus after a week long exercises w/ regional allies & partners in Black Sea - Jan 13, 2018

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4720/39642312602_5ba7db2435_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 18, 2018, 08:38:11 PM
https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/954018773480148992
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: trailrunner on January 18, 2018, 08:40:01 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 18, 2018, 08:38:11 PM
https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/954018773480148992

I should be spending a day on DDG 1000 or 1001 this spring.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 18, 2018, 08:43:57 PM
Quote from: trailrunner on January 18, 2018, 08:40:01 PM
I should be spending a day on DDG 1000 or 1001 this spring.

lucky bastard!  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 19, 2018, 12:03:12 PM
QuoteUSS Lexington (CV-2) supplying power to Tacoma, Washington after drought prevented Cushman Dam from providing hydropower to the city, 1929

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3850/15092430930_53d2d295f1_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 19, 2018, 12:05:10 PM
QuoteFive Royal Navy Hawker Sea Hurricanes and a single Supermarine Seafire lined up in the hangar of HMS Argus (I-49), with several mechanics working on them, circa 1942-1944

(https://i.imgur.com/4rb3rum.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on January 19, 2018, 12:28:12 PM
^
That looks cramped!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on January 19, 2018, 09:33:06 PM
Quote from: mirth on January 18, 2018, 08:43:57 PM
Quote from: trailrunner on January 18, 2018, 08:40:01 PM
I should be spending a day on DDG 1000 or 1001 this spring.

lucky bastard!  O0

+100
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 21, 2018, 05:33:45 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17853/fire-at-russias-vladivostok-submarine-base-sure-doesnt-look-like-an-exercise
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bbmike on January 21, 2018, 05:39:35 PM
^Ha! And I mean that in a nice way.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 21, 2018, 06:19:44 PM
That base tends to go boom on a regular basis. :DD
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on January 21, 2018, 06:41:45 PM
In Putinist Russia, diesel burns you!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on January 21, 2018, 06:46:10 PM
Or perhaps, in Putinist Russia, damage controls you!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on January 21, 2018, 06:50:16 PM
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on January 21, 2018, 06:46:10 PM
Or perhaps, in Putinist Russia, damage controls you!

Ha, much better. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 22, 2018, 07:38:15 AM
QuoteSpruance class destroyer USS Peterson (DD-969) near a Soviet survey ship and Victor III class submarine. The Victor ran afoul of the Peterson's towed array sonar.

(https://i.redd.it/08admtsgfib01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 22, 2018, 07:39:31 AM
QuoteVictor class submarine transiting on the surface

(https://i.redd.it/ywb6jimpeib01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 22, 2018, 01:12:08 PM
https://www.coderednews.com/uss-little-rock-canada-ice-2018-01
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on January 22, 2018, 04:11:14 PM
Time to reinstitute the rum ration for Yank Ships.... well one anyway.   :cowboy:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 23, 2018, 09:17:09 AM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17891/this-video-of-a-russian-nuclear-icebreaker-blasting-by-some-guys-and-their-trucks-is-nuts
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on January 23, 2018, 01:23:05 PM
(https://scontent.fyzd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26910711_1897027140342121_53449841184981984_o.jpg?oh=ae63ffca3ca5645302966cf62052bca7&oe=5ADF2D51)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on January 23, 2018, 03:46:45 PM
Damn but the Hornet is an awesome looking aircraft
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 24, 2018, 08:13:33 AM
A great pic that could only be made better with the inclusion of modernized F-14s.  :'(
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 24, 2018, 08:25:09 PM



https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/24/u-s-coast-guard-ice-breakers-work-their-way-up-kennebec-river-wednesday-morning/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 24, 2018, 09:57:27 PM
https://twitter.com/StratSentinel/status/956335838761283586
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on January 25, 2018, 01:21:44 AM
believed.....   
that ship has a sub underneath it, several aircraft following it and a dozen Harpoons targeting it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 25, 2018, 06:05:12 AM
QuoteGuided-missile cruiser USS South Carolina (CGN-37) cuts through the water of the Atlantic Ocean during a transit to the Mediterranean Sea, 9 October 1997

(https://i.redd.it/hhzye4jma3c01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 25, 2018, 07:26:01 AM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on January 25, 2018, 01:21:44 AM
believed.....   
that ship has a sub underneath it, several aircraft following it and a dozen Harpoons targeting it.

...and I wonder how many of our assets that 30-year-old Commie trawler can actually detect.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on January 25, 2018, 08:55:45 AM
Quote from: mirth on January 24, 2018, 09:57:27 PM
https://twitter.com/StratSentinel/status/956335838761283586

Where are those Somali pirates when you really need them?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 26, 2018, 05:50:46 AM
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vYDWG58VSuM/maxresdefault.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on January 26, 2018, 06:17:07 AM
Ivan: Let's see how much shit we can put on one plane and have it still fly!
Yuri: And make it float too!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 26, 2018, 07:25:00 AM
Ha, that reminds me of the Robin Williams bit where God created a platypus. I imagine Ivan and Yuri had a similar discussion! ;D



"Hokay, comrades, let's take an airplane...da...da...let's put on floating hull, da...hey, am Commissar, what you going to do? ...hokay, is plane, but it float on water and have giant rocket engines. Hey Wright Brothers...(middle finger)..."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 28, 2018, 09:07:43 AM
QuoteImperial Russian submarine Akula and armoured cruiser Ryurik, 1913.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Akula%26Ryurik1913.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on January 29, 2018, 06:45:39 AM
Perhaps this was posted already, as it came up a year ago, but it's pretty hilarious nonetheless. ;D

http://weirdrussia.com/2016/10/23/russian-aircraft-carrier-meme/

(http:///%3E%20PREV%20ARTICLE%20NEXT%20ARTICLE%20%3Cbr%20/%3EPhoto%20via%20telegraph.co.uk%3Cbr%20/%3EPhoto%20via%20telegraph.co.uk%3Cbr%20/%3ERecent%20report%20about%20the%20Russian%20aircraft%20carrier%20Admiral%20Kuznetsov,%20that%20billowed%20smoke%20as%20it%20passed%20through%20the%20North%20Sea%20and%20the%20English%20Channel,%20became%20an%20inspiration%20for%20jokes%20on%20the%20Internet.%20Some%20named%20this%20occurrence%20%22the%20happy%20steamship%20weekend%22.%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E30%20year%20old%20ageing%20aircraft%20carrier%20was%20envisioned%20as%20%22the%20latest%20display%20of%20Russian%20power%20projection%22.%20Well,%20the%20move%20appears%20to%20have%20backfired.%3Cbr%20/%3E%22Photos%20and%20videos%20captured%20by%20international%20media%20showed%20the%20vessel%20billowing%20large%20plumes%20of%20black%20smoke,%20drawing%20jokes%20on%20social%20media%20that%20the%20steam-powered%20ship%20was%20actually,%20a%2019th%20century%20relic%20fueled%20by%20coal.%22%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cbr%20/%3EMoreover,%20a%20firefighting%20vehicle%20was%20spotted%20on%20the%20deck%20of%20the%20carrier,%20in%20case%20of%20the%20water%20shortage%20in%20the%20sea.)

(https://i1.wp.com/weirdrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/aircraftcarriermeme5.jpg?w=692)

(https://i0.wp.com/weirdrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/aircraftcarriermeme1.jpg?w=510)

(https://i0.wp.com/weirdrussia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/aircraftcarriermeme9.jpg?w=640)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 29, 2018, 07:52:06 AM
Interesting site for toobers.

http://www.hisutton.com/

Lots of links to click and I have no idea how secure this site is.  Be watchful.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 29, 2018, 08:48:18 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/957971645104381952
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 29, 2018, 12:21:05 PM
QuoteNorth Korean Shershen-class torpedo boat

(https://i.imgur.com/hYn9gIa.png)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on January 31, 2018, 07:38:16 PM
USS Missouri (BB-63) and USS Missouri (SSN-780)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimagesvc.timeincapp.com%2Fv3%2Ffoundry%2Fimage%2F%3Fq%3D70%26amp%3Bw%3D1440%26amp%3Burl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftimedotcom.files.wordpress.com%252F2018%252F01%252Fjs11.jpg%253Fquality%253D85&hash=3a28ed8b5de84601f6d28b6b089d0ae736865a06)

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18069/two-mighty-mos-submarine-uss-missouri-meets-its-battleship-namesake-in-hawaii
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 01, 2018, 05:18:27 AM
QuoteB1B Lancers streak over USS Theodore Roosevelt and JMSDF "Helicopter Destroyer" JS Ise.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.navy.mil%2Fmanagement%2Fphotodb%2Fphotos%2F171112-N-KR702-166.JPG&hash=21fae36f16c0c8f39c1690df001922ea3163a848)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 02, 2018, 10:34:15 AM
https://twitter.com/ShawJacquie/status/959383842082709504
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 04, 2018, 01:24:46 PM
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/959506773332852737
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on February 04, 2018, 01:43:39 PM
Reserve fleet, San Diego, 1950.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVDI30qU0AA4rS6.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 04, 2018, 01:51:30 PM
For the longest time you couldn't see good quality copies of an old 1950s television show, The Silent Service.
Youtube has  a few now, and here is one on the USS Barb, and commander Gene Fluckey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywf8iwmCyMQ

Definitely showing its age, but the blowing up of the train does compare with Fluckey's written story in Fire Down Below.
It was always reported that Admiral Charley Lockwood fought to make the stories as accurate as possible.  The actor portraying Fluckey was partly chosen because of the large ears.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 04, 2018, 03:09:18 PM
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on February 04, 2018, 01:43:39 PM
Reserve fleet, San Diego, 1950.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVDI30qU0AA4rS6.jpg)

That looks like one of those bag-o-toys ads in the back of old comics:

'Super-sized fleets of ships! Wage pitched battles at sea right on your living room floor!"

They're even still attached to their sprues!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 05, 2018, 07:48:48 AM
QuoteDDG 1001 running high speed turns during acceptance trials off the coast of Maine. Feb 2018

(https://i.imgur.com/ucg7Mr1.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 05, 2018, 07:50:04 AM
QuoteH-46 "Sea Knight" helicopter hovers over hydrofoil USS Plainview (AGEH-1) during personnel transfer, 1972

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5566/15318093211_10089f159e_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 05, 2018, 08:58:35 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 05, 2018, 07:48:48 AM
QuoteDDG 1001 running high speed turns during acceptance trials off the coast of Maine. Feb 2018

(https://i.imgur.com/ucg7Mr1.jpg)

It just trying to get the hell away from Maine!  :arr:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 06, 2018, 09:01:19 AM
Damn, that thing swerves like a sports car.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 06, 2018, 07:47:12 PM
That could come in handy if it goes through a time vortex and suddenly emerges to find the IJN Musashi lobbing 18" shells at it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 07, 2018, 02:43:35 PM
QuoteTarantul-class corvette

(https://78.media.tumblr.com/ade1651f36a0d386c885c59afd63fbe2/tumblr_p1jh55FuMo1vdqfjoo1_1280.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 07, 2018, 02:46:32 PM
QuoteHMS Terror in 1916

(https://i.imgur.com/uVNAlp1.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 07, 2018, 02:49:11 PM
QuoteHMS Rodney departs from the yard upon her completion, August 22, 1927.

(https://i.redd.it/lsedublsfse01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 07, 2018, 03:43:26 PM
The Rodney sure was an odd-looking one.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 07, 2018, 04:26:37 PM
And her sister ship, HMS Nelson. Odd due to the position of the 3 main turrets being for'ard (extra points for the nautical term).

I always thought that they looked really powerful. I can remember doing the Airfix kit when I was a kid - 1:600 scale IIRC.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 07, 2018, 05:08:39 PM
It does look intimidating. There's a scenario in the game Atlantic Fleet that's a favorite of mine - the Bismark versus the Rodney, another British battlewagon, and a British heavy cruiser. The Rodney looks like she can sink Bismark with just one salvo.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on February 07, 2018, 05:13:25 PM
I was thinking that the Terror was a bit of an odd duck myself.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 07, 2018, 05:15:31 PM
It was an Erebus Class Monitor, built in WW1.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 07, 2018, 05:45:26 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18318/shock-trials-or-no-the-navys-newest-supercarrier-is-still-an-unreliable-debacle
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on February 07, 2018, 05:49:38 PM
@ BoB

wow that was a rabbit hole...

from HMS Rodney and Nelson to HMS King George V, then a piqued curiousity about fire control systems

Ship gun fire-control systems/directors
Fire Control Tables
Radar, analogue, individualized, centralized, AA firecontrol systems.... good lord!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 07, 2018, 05:50:53 PM
Fascinating stuff, innit.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: trailrunner on February 07, 2018, 06:16:10 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 07, 2018, 05:45:26 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18318/shock-trials-or-no-the-navys-newest-supercarrier-is-still-an-unreliable-debacle

I met with two staffers today about these issues.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on February 07, 2018, 06:16:37 PM
Quote from: bob48 on February 07, 2018, 05:50:53 PM
Fascinating stuff, innit.
yup, radar was a game changer regarding surface action
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 07, 2018, 07:22:36 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 07, 2018, 02:43:35 PM
QuoteTarantul-class corvette

(https://78.media.tumblr.com/ade1651f36a0d386c885c59afd63fbe2/tumblr_p1jh55FuMo1vdqfjoo1_1280.jpg)

There's one of those at Battleship Cove in Fall River, MA. She was given to the US by the German Navy after Reunification. If any of you East Coast grogs are down that way you should definitely check it out.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on February 07, 2018, 08:54:24 PM
An article that is a huge fun read.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/baddest.htm
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 07, 2018, 09:32:33 PM
^Don't the Iowas always win?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 09, 2018, 09:46:05 AM
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/hrnm/education/brick-by-brick.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 09, 2018, 10:01:42 AM
Quote from: trailrunner on February 07, 2018, 06:16:10 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 07, 2018, 05:45:26 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18318/shock-trials-or-no-the-navys-newest-supercarrier-is-still-an-unreliable-debacle

I met with two staffers today about these issues.

There's a lot of stupid in that article (that the article is revealing, not the writer of it), but what's especially galling are the electrical issues outlines.

QuoteThere's a serious underlying concern about the ship's main power generation system, as well, which is necessary to keep all of these components running. Before delivering Ford to the Navy, Newport News Shipbuilding reported a failure in a transformer attached to one of the ship's four main turbine generators.

According to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, the Navy, not wanting to delay getting the ship any further, approved the use of an existing transformer design it already used for other applications as a substitute. It conducted no testing to determine if this component would work properly with the rest of the carrier's electrical systems.

That's...quite literally frigging insane.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: trailrunner on February 09, 2018, 06:56:33 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on February 09, 2018, 10:01:42 AM

There's a serious underlying concern about the ship's main power generation system, as well, which is necessary to keep all of these components running. Before delivering Ford to the Navy, Newport News Shipbuilding reported a failure in a transformer attached to one of the ship's four main turbine generators.

According to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, the Navy, not wanting to delay getting the ship any further, approved the use of an existing transformer design it already used for other applications as a substitute. It conducted no testing to determine if this component would work properly with the rest of the carrier's electrical systems.


I know the details of that incident.  That wound up causing a huge problem that will be fixed when the ship is back in port in April.  And that is going to require some major surgery on the ship and will be very expensive to fix.

Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 09, 2018, 08:00:02 PM
Quote from: trailrunner on February 09, 2018, 06:56:33 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on February 09, 2018, 10:01:42 AM

There's a serious underlying concern about the ship's main power generation system, as well, which is necessary to keep all of these components running. Before delivering Ford to the Navy, Newport News Shipbuilding reported a failure in a transformer attached to one of the ship's four main turbine generators.

According to the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, the Navy, not wanting to delay getting the ship any further, approved the use of an existing transformer design it already used for other applications as a substitute. It conducted no testing to determine if this component would work properly with the rest of the carrier's electrical systems.


I know the details of that incident.  That wound up causing a huge problem that will be fixed when the ship is back in port in April.  And that is going to require some major surgery on the ship and will be very expensive to fix.



Great. A brand new 13 billion dollar carrier already in need of major repair  ::)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 09, 2018, 09:31:35 PM
a first of class ship with more new tech in one go then ought to have been allowed.  from where I sit Im surprised more isnt fucked up.  its literally the testbed for the next 50+ years of carrier design and that isnt cheap.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 09, 2018, 09:36:20 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 09, 2018, 09:31:35 PM
a first of class ship with more new tech in one go then ought to have been allowed.  from where I sit Im surprised more isnt fucked up.  its literally the testbed for the next 50+ years of carrier design and that isnt cheap.

Your excuse for everything. I'm not buying it.  Our procurement is effed.  We are fielding fewer carriers than ever. Wanna screw around with a technology test bed? Fine. Keep building Nimitzses in the meantime. It's not like we were falling behind with the tech.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 09, 2018, 11:58:57 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18385/only-u-s-heavy-icebreaker-is-falling-apart-on-antarctic-mission
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2018, 10:15:50 PM
QuoteHMS Dragon in dry dock - 2018

(https://i.redd.it/l6zb9emlomf01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2018, 10:16:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/s4Kxuyu.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 11, 2018, 10:17:46 PM
QuoteA portside view of Colossus-class battleship HMS Hercules.

(https://i.redd.it/d4934ln09lf01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 11, 2018, 10:30:45 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 11, 2018, 10:16:48 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/s4Kxuyu.jpg)

Not a safe ship to be near if your plane's wings were sporting Hinomarus.


Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 12, 2018, 12:20:05 PM
QuoteUSS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) at Pearl Harbor, November 30th 1967.

(https://i.redd.it/cxgk3k2hosf01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 12, 2018, 12:25:48 PM
Quote'Ermack' and 'Apraxin' in the ice, 1899

(https://i.imgur.com/xMj2Btv.jpg)

http://blog.twmuseums.org.uk/the-icebreaker-ermack-a-great-tyne-built-ship/ (http://blog.twmuseums.org.uk/the-icebreaker-ermack-a-great-tyne-built-ship/)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 13, 2018, 08:49:52 AM
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/963102416299331584
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on February 14, 2018, 08:28:26 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 09, 2018, 09:36:20 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 09, 2018, 09:31:35 PM
a first of class ship with more new tech in one go then ought to have been allowed.  from where I sit Im surprised more isnt fucked up.  its literally the testbed for the next 50+ years of carrier design and that isnt cheap.

Your excuse for everything. I'm not buying it.  Our procurement is effed.  We are fielding fewer carriers than ever. Wanna screw around with a technology test bed? Fine. Keep building Nimitzses in the meantime. It's not like we were falling behind with the tech.

QuoteWhen it began the program to develop a new carrier more than a decade ago, the Navy relied heavily on a concept called "concurrency," whereby it would hire contractors to begin work immediately on production without having a final design fleshed out or its components tested.

This seems to be the biggest issue.  You can do this with smaller systems, land vehicles, some aircraft, but trying this with a $13B ship is just beyond stupid.

As Mirth stated, stick with some new Nimitz carriers until these new systems are ready. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2018, 12:48:24 PM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth with the Rock of Gibraltar in the background

(https://i.imgur.com/TOwLu6t.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 14, 2018, 01:19:12 PM
..waiting to land on its complement of Fairy Swordfish and Gloucester Gladiators, no doubt.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2018, 01:19:47 PM
Quote from: bob48 on February 14, 2018, 01:19:12 PM
..waiting to land on its complement of Fairy Swordfish and Gloucester Gladiators, no doubt.

:2funny:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on February 14, 2018, 01:20:30 PM
It has nice lines   :nerd:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 14, 2018, 07:16:24 PM
https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/02/14/it-isnt-the-shock-testing-of-ford-that-should-worry-you
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: trailrunner on February 14, 2018, 08:09:04 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 14, 2018, 07:16:24 PM
https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/02/14/it-isnt-the-shock-testing-of-ford-that-should-worry-you

When we briefed the staffers the last couple of weeks on the raw numbers behind the "At the current reliability, EMALS has a 9 percent chance of completing the 4-day surge..." the staffers kept thinking that we had misplaced a decimal place.  The inability to isolate a broken launcher is going to be another big problem operationally.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 15, 2018, 08:23:24 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/964127216232816640
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 15, 2018, 12:40:32 PM
QuoteSouthampton class CL sailing at speed alongside a County class CA, likely sometime around 1937.

(https://i.redd.it/95d3qfg7hdg01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 15, 2018, 12:41:49 PM
QuoteBow damage to the Light Cruiser HMS Liverpool after being torpedoed by Italian bombers, October 14 - June 26, 1941.

(https://i.imgur.com/E4qMvy5.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 15, 2018, 06:56:19 PM
QuoteDunkirk: The wreck of the French destroyer L'Adroit on the beach at La Panne after being attacked by Stuka dive bombers

(https://i.redd.it/6m0k06fr9dg01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 16, 2018, 07:00:35 AM
I remember my dad saying that he saw that when he was at Dunkirk.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 17, 2018, 10:52:36 PM
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/964938650474766337
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 17, 2018, 10:57:05 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18582/one-of-these-five-ships-will-become-the-u-s-navys-next-frigate
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 18, 2018, 08:09:28 AM
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/964924794360815616
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 18, 2018, 08:56:04 AM
QuoteSailors moor the ballistic missile submarine USS Maine in Bangor, Washington, Sept. 21, 2012

(https://media.defense.gov/2018/Feb/16/2001879280/-1/-1/0/120921-N-LP168-057.JPG)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 18, 2018, 09:09:27 AM
^Mirth, is that you back there, peeking out from behind that yellow crane truck?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 18, 2018, 09:11:47 AM
Heh. You spotted me :P
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 18, 2018, 09:17:37 AM
We need B_C to 'shop up a 'Where's Mirthie?' picture book.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 18, 2018, 09:21:48 AM
Don't give him ideas
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 19, 2018, 12:33:21 PM
Too late
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 20, 2018, 10:47:30 AM
QuoteAircraft carrier HMS Furious at anchor alongside unknown battleships and an airship, sometime in her 1920's layout, unknown location.

(https://i.redd.it/dm1nw8simdh01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 20, 2018, 10:48:42 AM
QuoteView of the superstructure of the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during her 1937-1941 rebuild.

(https://i.redd.it/nn5eih95odh01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 20, 2018, 10:54:16 AM
QuoteProtected Cruiser HMS Challenger braving rough seas, unknown date and location

(https://i.redd.it/gm2xy1a5ldh01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 20, 2018, 10:58:08 AM
QuoteIJN Yamato rolls over and explodes after being attacked by torpedo and dive bombers. She was hit by at least 11 torpedoes and six bombs before going under.

(https://i.imgur.com/TJgoToG.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 21, 2018, 10:37:21 AM
QuoteUSS Connecticut (BB-18)

(https://i.imgur.com/kQIfI15.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/kQIfI15.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on February 21, 2018, 11:15:45 AM
Gotta love the hood ornaments on those babies!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 21, 2018, 11:17:05 AM
I bet you wouldn't say that if they dangled you over the bows (that's the sharp end) to clean it! ;)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on February 21, 2018, 11:20:03 AM
I know which is the pointy end, Bawb. Don't you have a deck to swab?  :arr: :arr: :arr:  O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 21, 2018, 11:21:23 AM
ooh-arr matey. I do feel a bit nautical!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on February 21, 2018, 11:22:49 AM
Ha! Best warn Mrs. Bawb!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on February 21, 2018, 11:25:11 AM
I will. She's in the galley.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 21, 2018, 11:26:16 AM
Quote from: mirth on February 18, 2018, 09:21:48 AM
Don't give him ideas

I just don't know what to use as mirthie in said books.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 21, 2018, 06:26:25 PM
QuoteRevenge-class battleship HMS Royal Oak (08) in drydock showing her prominent anti-torpedo bulges or blisters added in the early 1920's. They were designed to reduce the effect of torpedo detonations and improve stability at the cost of widening her beam by over 13 feet.


(https://i.redd.it/0v9w1vghblh01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 21, 2018, 06:28:02 PM
QuoteMontebello, a 118 gun French first-rate ship of the line, laid down at Toulon in 1810, here circa 1850 when she was fitted with an experimental steam engine

(https://i.redd.it/gjrx4n5d6kh01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 22, 2018, 12:36:45 PM
QuoteFrench Ironclad Hoche, circa 1900

(https://i.redd.it/ol4tz8vmfrh01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 24, 2018, 12:21:21 PM
QuoteAn MH-60S Seahawk prepares to land aboard the Sea Fighter during flight deck certification off the coast of San Diego

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.defense.gov%2Ftransformation%2Fimages%2Fphotos%2F2005-12%2FHi-Res%2F051209-N-7676W-013.jpg&hash=c6787787c3d18df9843a289e11b84ce5a7d337c9)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 24, 2018, 12:22:57 PM
(https://i.redd.it/mac1tqs6myh01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on February 25, 2018, 09:39:00 PM
Pictures of some of the recreational areas of a Russian Typhoon-class sub. I'd heard that since they were designed to remain at sea for extended periods that the ships had been designed with a sauna and a pool. Turns out that was correct, although the pool is a small one.

http://russianambience.com/inside-giant-russian-typhoon-class-submarine-tk-17-arkhangelsk/ (http://russianambience.com/inside-giant-russian-typhoon-class-submarine-tk-17-arkhangelsk/)

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fokidokismoki.trash-russia.com%2Fstatic%2Fimgs%2F2014%2F05%2Finside-giant-russian-typhoon-class-submarine-tk-17-arkhangelsk-12.jpg&hash=0e692081af2d9e8d004e9a3ff1d2beb94fa40f31)

As a parent, I also appreciate the Huggies brand cardboard diaper box stuffed into the arcade game:

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fokidokismoki.trash-russia.com%2Fstatic%2Fimgs%2F2014%2F05%2Finside-giant-russian-typhoon-class-submarine-tk-17-arkhangelsk-11.jpg&hash=321f0ee77668e08b5459f852322602dde242f225)

More at the link.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 25, 2018, 10:05:10 PM
Those aren't arcade games- they're training simulators.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on February 26, 2018, 10:47:29 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 25, 2018, 10:05:10 PM
Those aren't arcade games- they're training simulators.

You're correct. Formally Top Secret documentation shows a Russian nuclear war simulation in action below.

(https://hothardware.com/Image/Thumbnail/?width=696&height=415&imageFile=/ContentImages/NewsItem/36332/content/Atari_Missile_Command.png)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 26, 2018, 02:52:35 PM
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on February 26, 2018, 05:43:05 PM
Was the FSF-1 ever put into production? I'm guessing no since a Wiki article says it was under development until 2008.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 26, 2018, 05:55:42 PM
Think it was just a testbed.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 27, 2018, 12:14:25 PM
QuoteHMCS Iroquois firing a Sea Sparrow missile.

(https://i.imgur.com/AomQw5l.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 27, 2018, 12:17:12 PM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth and RFA Tidespring meet up at sea for refuelling

(https://i.redd.it/yj41vaq1nqi01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 27, 2018, 12:18:11 PM
QuoteBattleships HMS Barham and HMS Ramillies fire off a salute with the Battleship Dunkerque in the background, dressed up with a White Ensign, Spithead Fleet Review, 1937.

(https://i.redd.it/onyscgus6ri01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 27, 2018, 12:20:04 PM
QuoteKönigsberg-class light cruiser SMS Stettin, veteran of the Battle of Heligoland Bight, guided by a tug.

(https://i.redd.it/n0o5706d2ri01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 27, 2018, 12:26:06 PM
QuoteA starboard beam view of the Vermont (BB-20) with a flying boat in the foreground.

(https://i.imgur.com/LYZpBeF.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on February 27, 2018, 07:38:46 PM
Quote from: mirth on February 27, 2018, 12:18:11 PM
QuoteBattleships HMS Barham and HMS Ramillies fire off a salute with the Battleship Dunkerque in the background, dressed up with a White Ensign, Spithead Fleet Review, 1937.

(https://i.redd.it/onyscgus6ri01.jpg)

Three years later The Royal Navy shelled the crap out of Dunkerque and her sister ship Strasbourg at Mers-el-Kébir because the Vichy wouldn't surrender them.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on February 28, 2018, 12:48:49 PM
QuoteSecond of two Lion-class battlecruisers, HMS Princess Royal.

(https://i.redd.it/096wpa05zxi01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 01, 2018, 02:00:25 PM
QuoteRussian salvage ship Kommuna. Commissioned in 1915, still serving dutifully with the Russian Black Sea Fleet

(https://cdni.rbth.com/rbthmedia/images/2018.01/original/5a6714b115e9f952c9537100.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 08:54:51 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/969570585650098177
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 10:44:25 AM
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/969591125936918530
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 12:10:51 PM
QuoteUSS INDIANA (BB-58) off Norfolk prior to her shakedown cruise.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FaVLV0if.jpg&hash=64831b547b8fdb1e79f7c5be9b167685e5d71b95)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 12:12:45 PM
HMS Nelson

(https://i.imgur.com/KvjbsVD.jpg)

more - https://imgur.com/a/ry2Jf
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 12:23:44 PM
QuoteView of the DN-1, the Navy's first airship, at Naval Aeronautic Station Pensacola on November 7, 1917.

(https://i.redd.it/vbn2w5nmb0j01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 12:25:47 PM
QuotePainting of the Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), conducting flight ops as a ghost ship in company with USS Nimitz (CVN-68). The painting celebrates the commissioning of Nimitz 50 years after the first squadron operation off Langley in 1925. Artist R.G. Smith.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcollections.naval.aviation.museum%2Femuwebdoncoms%2Fobjects%2Fcommon%2Fwebmedia.php%3Firn%3D16008651&hash=3954f44d66c8e92bb7514e102584350ff8ded723)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 02, 2018, 08:42:51 PM
QuoteR.G. Smith

Thanks for the heads up Mirth. Just checked out his stuff. Damn, but it's good. http://www.rgsmithart.com/index.php
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 02, 2018, 08:49:25 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 02, 2018, 08:42:51 PM
QuoteR.G. Smith

Thanks for the heads up Mirth. Just checked out his stuff. Damn, but it's good. http://www.rgsmithart.com/index.php (http://www.rgsmithart.com/index.php)


O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 04, 2018, 09:20:55 AM
QuoteThe United States Pacific Fleet anchored off San Francisco, circa 1930's. At 4:13pm. Shown are 6 battleships, 4 cruisers and the sister aircraft carriers USS Lexington (CV-2), Saratoga (CV-3) (with stripe) as well as tiny USS Langley (CV-1).

(https://i.imgur.com/M2SXXBy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 06, 2018, 12:27:37 PM
QuoteUSS John F. Kennedy docking in Malta, 2004

(https://i.redd.it/fgyn3av43zj01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 06, 2018, 12:29:08 PM
Tomcats  :'( :'( :'(
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2018, 03:43:39 PM
tomcats, a6s and vikings.....  a proper air wing.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on March 06, 2018, 03:49:45 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2018, 03:43:39 PM
tomcats, a6s and vikings.....  a proper air wing.


The Soviets Putinites are happy to see all of those gone
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 06, 2018, 04:03:02 PM
Getting rid of the Vikings was really dumb.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2018, 06:19:52 PM
to be fair the commies dont have many subs these days.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2018, 06:20:40 PM
Illustration for a book project 'Spacecraft of the First World War' by Mike Doscher. It depicts an Italian vessel, the 'Ottaviano Augusto' experiencing something very peculiar indeed.

(https://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/2018/mike_doscher/mike_doscher_01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 06, 2018, 06:44:45 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2018, 06:19:52 PM
to be fair the commies dont have many subs these days.

Every pissant country has Kilos or those AIP U-boots these days.

And the Viking was useful for a lot more than ASW anyway. They pulled the ASW gear from them quite awhile before they retired them.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 08, 2018, 01:07:51 PM
QuoteThe USS Enterprise, USS Vicksburg, and the USS Porter participate in an replenishment at sea with the USNS Supply while under way in the Atlantic Ocean

(https://media.defense.gov/2012/Mar/27/2001170608/-1/-1/0/500722-J-POM90-270.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 08, 2018, 01:10:31 PM
QuoteUSS Nimitz (CVN 68) entering dry dock 6 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton for a 15-month overhaul.

(https://i.redd.it/w8x2jcvarck01.png)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 08, 2018, 07:33:14 PM
^Had to go in and have the Zeros scraped off the windshield after that peculiar weather.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 08, 2018, 07:36:35 PM
^well played
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on March 09, 2018, 08:23:38 AM
The seismic ship Ramform Titan.

(https://www.legendaryfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the-widest-ugliest-ship-in-the-world-is-the-triangular-ramform-titan-seismic-ship.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bbmike on March 09, 2018, 09:06:03 AM
^That must be a Tholian ship.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 13, 2018, 12:53:28 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19179/two-of-the-navys-youngest-perry-class-frigates-are-set-to-be-sunk
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2018, 01:44:07 PM
https://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/hook-and-release-180955352/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on March 14, 2018, 01:58:05 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 14, 2018, 01:44:07 PM
https://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/hook-and-release-180955352/

That is one crazy job!  :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2018, 02:06:54 PM
Quote from: Barthheart on March 14, 2018, 01:58:05 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 14, 2018, 01:44:07 PM
https://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/hook-and-release-180955352/

That is one crazy job!  :o


Yeah it is and mostly done by 20 year olds.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2018, 02:27:06 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19237/navy-ditches-its-plan-to-upgrade-34-destroyers-with-hybrid-electric-drives
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2018, 07:34:12 PM
QuoteFrench aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle carrier

(https://i.redditmedia.com/r0XUg1bMLuNugHGJMa0yE4pemJfv_A_nhZYF4RTBj30.jpg?w=1024&s=3d215ccc90d47b2371797353e5252dfa)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 14, 2018, 07:39:00 PM
Quote"The Commander-in-Chief's Flag-Ship at Spithead: the 'Iron Duke.'" Illustrated London News, July 18, 1914

(https://i.redd.it/qw4xy3dfksl01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 15, 2018, 08:57:04 AM
QuoteUSS Shenandoah (ZR-1) moored at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, October 1924

(https://i.redd.it/18uql4b66tl01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 15, 2018, 08:59:15 AM
QuoteUSS Macon (ZRS-5) in flight

(https://i.redd.it/baaz0cqsckl01.jpg)


QuoteFun (?) fact: Aside from the name near the stern, you can tell the Akron and Macon apart by their condensers (The vertical black stripes above each prop). Macon's were flush with the hull, while Akron's stuck out slightly.

EDIT: You can also see here the design flaw that played a big part in Macon's demise. Ahead of the leading edge of the lower fin, you can see a black port in the skin along the lower keel. running up from that, you can see the outline of one of the ship's main frame rings. Macon's (and Akron's) original design called for a shallower, longer fin that would extend to that ring. The Navy overruled this because they wanted to be able to see the windows of the auxiliary bridge (in the bottom of the lower fin) from the control gondola around the curve of the hull. This meant that the fin was only attached to two frame rings and that its leading edge was only attached to a minor, intermediate ring. When the ship was caught in a storm off California, it is likely that the upper fin was ripped partially away, breaking framing and bracing wires and tearing the rear gasbags.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 15, 2018, 06:55:44 PM
 :smitten: x2
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 15, 2018, 08:07:43 PM
^Check USS Macon's hangar bay opening just in front to the first set of engines- it looks as if there is a Curtis F9C scout/fighter ready for launch:


(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/85/83/ed/8583ed3a84e2d2133e9ad1ba97730f59.jpg)


Eventually, when the pilots became proficient enough in mid-air launches and recoveries their F9C Sparrowhawks' undercarriage were removed to increase speed and endurance. After that they literally had no place to go but back to the mothership. Like TIE Fighters...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2018, 03:57:45 AM
QuoteUS Submarines USS Hartford (SSN-768) and USS Connecticut (SSN-22) surface together in the Arctic Circle

(https://i.redd.it/bchhgqdu9ml01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2018, 04:00:51 AM
QuoteUSS Baltimore, CA-68, being broken up at Zidell Ship Dismantling, Portland, OR, Sept, 1972

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/ZIDELL%27S_SHIP_WRECKING_YARD_WITH_FREEWAY_AND_SKYLINE_IN_BACKGROUND_-_NARA_-_545147.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2018, 04:01:41 AM
Illustrious-class aircraft carrier HMS Victorious in Pearl Harbor, march 1943.

(https://i.redd.it/bq0pq83iccl01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2018, 04:02:36 AM
QuoteUSS Ranger (CV-4), circa mid-1930's. Note the starboard funnels which would fold down at a 90 degree angle during flight operations. Another three funnels were on the port side.

(https://i.imgur.com/IoazUbu.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2018, 04:06:27 AM
QuoteOffshore Patrol Vessel HMS CLYDE before a bank of fog from a nearby glacier. King Edward Point, South Georgia

(https://i.redd.it/5ynfedfse7l01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2018, 04:11:14 AM
QuoteMV-22 Osprey on the deck of French LHD Tonnerre during joint deployment Bois Belleau 100, 2018

(https://i.imgur.com/eUa8DRT.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 16, 2018, 04:15:55 AM
QuoteUSS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) at anchor in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 22 March 1950. On deck are aircraft of Carrier Air Group 17, including F2H-2 Banshee and F4U-5 Corsair fighters, AD-4 Skyraider attack planes and two Sikorsky HO3S helicopters, of which one is just lifting off.

(https://i.redd.it/015ekq5uzuk01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 17, 2018, 07:32:04 PM
https://twitter.com/border9999/status/974970471467896834
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 18, 2018, 04:52:24 PM
QuoteUSS Shoup and USS William P Lawrence getting set to RAS from USNS Richard E Byrd predawn, SCC 2018

(https://i.redd.it/oh6cyearp9m01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 18, 2018, 04:56:00 PM
QuoteConcentration of fleet at Ulithi Atoll as seen by aircraft from USS Cumberland (AV 17), altitude of 2,000 feet, Southern Anchorage, looking North Photograph, February 8, 1945.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FrXiWT6D.jpg&hash=b4cf2f8e000c3dd50faddaf432ef955a6c329b4f)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bbmike on March 18, 2018, 06:23:13 PM
 :o
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on March 18, 2018, 06:29:38 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 18, 2018, 04:56:00 PM
QuoteConcentration of fleet at Ulithi Atoll as seen by aircraft from USS Cumberland (AV 17), altitude of 2,000 feet, Southern Anchorage, looking North Photograph, February 8, 1945.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FrXiWT6D.jpg&hash=b4cf2f8e000c3dd50faddaf432ef955a6c329b4f)

A lot of ships are overlapping their hexes and I see a bunch of overstacking besides. Typical 4x "Stack of Doom" here.   8)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bbmike on March 18, 2018, 06:44:18 PM
^  :2funny:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 18, 2018, 07:44:26 PM
seems a lot higher then 2000 feet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 19, 2018, 06:36:58 AM
Pretty good CGI on Midway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_5sK6VK0Hg
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: JudgeDredd on March 19, 2018, 07:57:55 AM
Quote from: besilarius on March 19, 2018, 06:36:58 AM
Pretty good CGI on Midway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_5sK6VK0Hg
That was entertaining  :notworthy:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 19, 2018, 11:15:50 AM
 :bd:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 19, 2018, 03:54:17 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19394/qatar-is-getting-this-unique-amphibious-mother-ship-and-radar-picket-vessel-mash-up
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 20, 2018, 11:25:33 AM
QuoteHMAS Sydney and 4 Hawker Sea Furies

(https://i.redd.it/csrr7167zmm01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2018, 12:06:31 PM
QuoteChinese aircraft carrier Liaoning arrives in Hong Kong waters on July 7, 2017

(https://i.imgur.com/GqGlK9M.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 21, 2018, 02:06:48 PM
a lot loss smoky then the russian version.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on March 21, 2018, 02:24:32 PM
Looks like a photo taken from a submerged USS Jimmy Carter. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 21, 2018, 03:25:00 PM
there must be a lot of ship under water as it looks very top heavy
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 21, 2018, 05:28:12 PM
It looks very lumpy.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on March 21, 2018, 05:40:36 PM
my mother-in-laws gravy was like that.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on March 21, 2018, 06:08:50 PM
Looks like a giant harpoon magnet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 21, 2018, 06:18:53 PM
Or a Mk 48 magnet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on March 21, 2018, 06:29:43 PM
Or, eventually, a ordinance-drone swarm magnet.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Steelgrave on March 21, 2018, 06:40:04 PM
It's a nice looking ship. It won't be an hour after bullets start flying, but for now....it's a nice looking ship. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 22, 2018, 11:37:37 AM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19509/royal-navy-will-retrofit-type-45-destroyers-to-keep-them-from-breaking-down
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on March 24, 2018, 08:04:12 AM
Interesting contrast for the inscriptions.
No wonder the Romans won.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2018, 08:05:21 PM
QuoteUSS South Dakota sails in formation with escorting destroyers during the Battle of Santa Cruz

(https://i.imgur.com/rlNGGcP.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2018, 08:24:46 PM
QuoteLeahy-class guided missile cruiser USS England (CG-22), Pacific Ocean, 10 January 1983

(https://i.redd.it/fhdt2ujlvpn01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2018, 08:26:03 PM
QuoteUSS Chanticleer (ASR-7) a submarine rescue ship. In April and May 1945, divers from her made 296 dives on the wreck of the IJN Nachi, salvaging radar equipment, code books, maps of Japanese fortifications on Luzon and other documents

(https://i.imgur.com/djZukNT.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 25, 2018, 08:31:55 PM
QuoteUSS Saratoga (CV-3) docked in New York, sometime during the 1930's.

(https://i.redd.it/gtpyez9y5in01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 29, 2018, 11:34:58 AM
QuoteUSS Hancock (CVA-19) underway, circa 1957. AJ-2 Savages from VAH-6 "Fleurs" are amidships, AD Skyraiders aft. Destroyers USS Samuel N. Moore (DD-747) and USS Maddox (DD-731) are to starboard and port of Hancock, respectively.

(https://i.imgur.com/lEHx1Ol.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 30, 2018, 11:46:26 AM
Quote"IJN CV Akagi undergoing trials off Iyonada, 17 June 1927. Early in her career, she was fitted with three flight decks; the two lower decks were later plated over in a mid-1930s refit. "

(https://i.redd.it/lq70m21g7uo01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on March 30, 2018, 11:48:29 AM
QuoteKing George V-class battleship HMS Duke of York fires her 14 inch guns at German battleship Scharnhorst during the Battle of the North Cape, 1943.

(https://i.redd.it/t426noecowo01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 30, 2018, 01:13:49 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 30, 2018, 11:46:26 AM
Quote"IJN CV Akagi undergoing trials off Iyonada, 17 June 1927. Early in her career, she was fitted with three flight decks; the two lower decks were later plated over in a mid-1930s refit. "

(https://i.redd.it/lq70m21g7uo01.jpg)

its a theme with them...

(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/60/94/d5/6094d530b12295c8fa465dc43e1dfa32--star-blazers-sci.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 30, 2018, 02:13:15 PM
Looks like a flying freeway overpass.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 02, 2018, 10:59:26 AM
QuoteJapanese aircraft carrier Akagi and battleship Nagato at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan, 15 Aug 1927.

(https://i.redd.it/p8c16c21y3p01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 03, 2018, 09:44:55 AM
QuoteVanguard class submarine returns from patrol to HM Naval Base Clyde. March 2018

(https://i.redd.it/yiu8l1p5mmp01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 03, 2018, 09:46:22 AM
QuoteHMS Warspite fresh from her 1937 refit

(https://i.redd.it/1jxhqq3mxop01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 03, 2018, 09:48:12 AM
QuoteGerman heavy cruiser Deutschland, lead ship of her class, during the Spanish Civil War.

(https://i.redd.it/mcxcb9xoihp01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 04, 2018, 07:30:50 PM
USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000)

(https://i.imgur.com/xvtjAsQ.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 04, 2018, 07:34:48 PM
QuoteA view of the stern of Bismarck as she was en route to Brunsbüttel on 15 September 1940.

(https://i.redd.it/5tb8a1o5sxp01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 04, 2018, 07:39:18 PM
QuoteUSS Lancaster (right) was a USN screw sloop-of-war during the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War. Seen here at Villefranche, France in 1889 with ADMIRAL DUPERRE (French), COLBERT (French), CRIDENT (Russian cruiser), ADMIRAL BAUDIN (French), and FAUCON (French).

(https://i.redd.it/mzxt508lxyp01.jpg)
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Post by: trailrunner on April 04, 2018, 08:15:35 PM
Quote from: mirth on April 04, 2018, 07:30:50 PM
USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000)

(https://i.imgur.com/xvtjAsQ.jpg)

I am spending a day on this ship next week. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 05, 2018, 06:47:07 AM
The aircraft hangar of the Brooklyn class light cruiser USS Honolulu (CL-48).

After being lowered through a hatch on the stern, aircraft rolled on rails to their section of the hangar. The Brooklyn class cruisers could operate up to four aircraft.

Both sides of the hangar feature fold down racks. A good thing for the sailors who like to fall asleep to the smell of Avgas.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Airborne Rifles on April 05, 2018, 10:31:53 AM
The hangar deck on the Kirov-class battlecruisers looks like it follows a similar concept:

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VGKMs_YO5Lg/WPTW-O_BcoI/AAAAAAAACWI/0WxM27LMTwccDgCtvN0dIla-6R2m2xIBwCLcB/s1600/227975-17840-71.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 05, 2018, 07:42:01 PM
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on April 05, 2018, 10:31:53 AM
The hangar deck on the Kirov-class battlecruisers looks like it follows a similar concept:

(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VGKMs_YO5Lg/WPTW-O_BcoI/AAAAAAAACWI/0WxM27LMTwccDgCtvN0dIla-6R2m2xIBwCLcB/s1600/227975-17840-71.jpg)

AR, have you heard of this series?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov_(novel_series)

I have not yet read any but am very tempted.
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Post by: Airborne Rifles on April 06, 2018, 07:23:00 AM
^ I've looked at them but never picked them up. I'm definitely intrigued by a series of novels where the Russians look to be the protagonists.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on April 06, 2018, 09:11:21 AM
Kirov has intrigued me too but the price point needs to go down on the first one - I know it's only 5 bucks for a Kindle version, which isn't bad, but a lot of authors have their first book in a series at a very low price, say 0.99 or 1.99. It looks very similar to Destroyermen or Axis of Time but I think it's still very intriguing too.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 06, 2018, 10:57:02 AM
QuoteUSS Mississippi (BB-41) plows her way through heavy seas while on patrol in the Atlantic. October 01, 1941

(https://i.redd.it/i7orcm1oz6q01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 06, 2018, 06:27:37 PM
Interesting photo.  BatDiv 3 was based in Iceland during the Neutrality Patrol.
Fearing another Bismarck type surface raid into the Atlantic, Mississippi, Idaho, and New Mexico were placed to block the Denmark Straits of cruise north of Scotland.
At the time, the biggest worry was Scharnhorst and Gneisnau trying.  By sending three BBs, it was considered there would always be two ready to steam.
Less thought was given to how the 21 knot BBs would intercept the 3o knot BCs, but there wer torpedo squadrons in Iceland.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2018, 07:14:14 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/982589067203416065
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 07, 2018, 07:18:34 AM
HMS Vanguard

(https://i.imgur.com/vL9dnQd.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 08, 2018, 10:14:24 AM
QuoteUSS Nimitz, INS Vikramaditya and JS Izumo  during Malabar Exercise '17

(https://i.redd.it/3isy636m7oq01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 08, 2018, 11:32:53 AM
QuoteRoyal Navy monitor HMS LORD CLIVE in the North Sea, 1918.

(https://i.redd.it/c9ndoqpa6hq01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 08, 2018, 11:59:37 AM
That is one mean-ass-lookin' barge...
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 09, 2018, 12:02:26 PM
QuoteThe launch of USS North Dakota at Quincy, Massachusetts 10 november 1908.

(https://i.redd.it/347wcs8lxwq01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on April 09, 2018, 12:03:54 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 08, 2018, 11:59:37 AM
That is one mean-ass-lookin' barge...
Monitor indeed.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 11, 2018, 11:37:48 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/WRDUrUY.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 11, 2018, 11:40:24 AM
QuoteH-46 "Sea Knight" helicopter hovers over the foil-borne hydrofoil research ship USS Plainview (AGEH-1) during personnel transfer, December 1972.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5566/15318093211_10089f159e_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 12, 2018, 11:11:19 AM
QuoteA port bow view of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS SOUTH CAROLINA (CGN-37)

(https://i.imgur.com/p3Tzd0t.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 13, 2018, 11:06:49 AM
QuoteReturning veterans of the Pacific fill the hangar deck of USS Enterprise (CV 6) as it stopped in Pearl Harbor preparatory to moving to the United States. This is how the carrier looks at night when some of the 1,200 enlisted passengers prepare for bed, 22 September 1945.


(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5596/15321475062_36dbe6eb4c_o.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on April 13, 2018, 11:09:31 AM
QuoteBalao-class submarine USS Cusk (SSG-348) firing a JB-2 Loon missile, 15 May 1951

(https://i.redd.it/d86cqlc5uir01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on April 13, 2018, 11:23:34 AM
Quote from: mirth on April 13, 2018, 11:09:31 AM
QuoteBalao-class submarine USS Cusk (SSG-348) firing a JB-2 Loon missile, 15 May 1951

(https://i.redd.it/d86cqlc5uir01.jpg)

That suuuuure looks like a V-1....
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 13, 2018, 11:26:52 AM
The cool thing is we developed it during the war and nearly used them against Germany and Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic-Ford_JB-2
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Barthheart on April 13, 2018, 02:16:06 PM
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/the-weekend-is-in-sight-now-we-just-dgaf-11.png?w=641&h=800)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on April 13, 2018, 06:33:56 PM
He's all out of Grey Poupon?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on April 18, 2018, 05:57:31 AM
Swan diiiive!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 18, 2018, 11:45:32 AM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20201/the-next-america-class-amphibious-assault-ship-will-almost-be-in-a-class-of-its-own
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 19, 2018, 06:47:57 AM
Converted ships of the line used as training barracks.
Think these are in Portsmouth, UK, around 1910.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on April 19, 2018, 06:56:45 AM
Gun crews man a pair of Driggs-Schroeder 1-pounders in the fighting top,each gun is manned by a gunner and a loader..Second Class Battleship USS Texas c1897.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 19, 2018, 11:39:46 AM
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard launches a Sea Sparrow missile

(https://i.redd.it/mhmg6grguus01.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on April 19, 2018, 11:44:28 AM
QuoteItalian aircraft carrier, Cavour, 550

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3600/13047147353_5de590da60_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on April 19, 2018, 04:25:06 PM
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/987076618479947777
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Post by: mirth on April 21, 2018, 07:34:58 PM
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/293/31821107564_d90355afa5_o.jpg)
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Post by: BanzaiCat on April 21, 2018, 08:26:05 PM
It looks like a fortress out of an 80s sci-fi movie.
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Post by: mirth on April 21, 2018, 08:59:30 PM
https://twitter.com/FineScale_mag/status/987846205744050176
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Post by: Labbug on April 25, 2018, 04:19:03 PM
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/25/first-drone-warship-joins-us-navy-nearly-every-element-classified.html
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 25, 2018, 09:17:14 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20419/navy-could-extend-the-life-of-uss-nimitz-past-50-years-to-maintain-12-carrier-fleet
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 26, 2018, 07:25:29 PM
QuoteSoviet cruiser Admiral Ushakov entering Taranto, 1973

(https://i.redd.it/ksk2wn1xn7u01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on April 26, 2018, 07:31:34 PM
QuoteFrench Battleship Courbet along side the Château de Brest

(https://i.redd.it/vmon00p8w2u01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 06, 2018, 10:59:10 AM
QuoteHunter's Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California. USS Ranger (CVA-61) (in dry dock), USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), and the USS Hancock (CVA-19) (left). - August 1971.

(https://i.redd.it/f8pj6ahw49w01.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on May 06, 2018, 11:00:56 AM
QuoteJapanese battleships Fuso, Yamashiro, Ise and Hyuga of the 1st and 2nd Battleship Divisions viewed from Nagato while departing Hashirajima for gunnery practice, May 5, 1942

(https://i.redd.it/1k8kegg5n0w01.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on May 06, 2018, 11:03:28 AM
QuoteU.S. Pacific Fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor after the conclusion of Fleet Problem XXI, May 3, 1940

(https://i.redd.it/5rj1otolywv01.jpg)


QuoteThe aircraft carrier Yorktown (CV-5) and eight battleships are moored alongside the eastern edge of Ford Island. Hickam Army Air Field is visible above Battleship Row in the center distance. This photograph also shows two more battleships and many cruisers, destroyers and other Navy ships also present, most of them moored in groups in East Loch, in the foreground. A few of the destroyers are wearing experimental dark camouflage paint.

This photo was taken four days before President Roosevelt ordered the fleet to remain in Pearl Harbor instead of returning to San Diego as a possible deterrent against Japanese aggression in the Pacific.

Photograph comes from the collections of the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, photo Id 80-G-411120.
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Post by: mirth on May 06, 2018, 11:06:05 AM
QuoteBattleship squadrons I & II of the German High Seas Fleet anchored in Kiel, circa 1911-14

(https://i.redd.it/1b4yp2cl9lv01.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on May 06, 2018, 07:59:05 PM
QuoteA stunning overhead of the USS Wasp carrying F-35Bs alongside the USS Dewey during an UNREP

(https://i.redd.it/vq02cl8wmbw01.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on May 07, 2018, 08:16:17 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/993478127107133440
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Post by: mirth on May 07, 2018, 09:04:23 AM
QuoteThis photo, taken 76 years ago, shows the Japanese Carrier Shokaku under dive-bomber attack during the Battle Of The Coral Sea

(https://i.redd.it/m14gayechfw01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2018, 09:05:18 AM
QuoteThe flight deck of the Japanese carrier Shokaku after she had sustained bomb damage in the Battle Of The Coral Sea

(https://i.redd.it/sk84vc3ejfw01.png)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2018, 09:42:46 AM
(https://i.redd.it/k4azr0bhofw01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2018, 09:46:28 AM
QuoteJapanese suicide torpedo found on Saipan after the end of the war

(https://i.redditmedia.com/luEbZPUUzWXE1kmkREtjn6-uz8UMu9J1A9e4LtXdHfA.jpg?w=1024&s=9f320e454099ea1279e059bcc74e2066)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 07, 2018, 03:31:53 PM
https://twitter.com/WarshipPorn/status/993587869360025600
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Post by: mirth on May 08, 2018, 09:50:17 AM
QuoteFormation of U.S. Navy battleships


(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7483/15978305196_0eb996d933_o.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on May 08, 2018, 07:22:13 PM
Gotta love the Curtis Flying Boat photobombing the shot.
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Post by: mirth on May 08, 2018, 07:23:49 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 08, 2018, 07:22:13 PM
Gotta love the Curtis Flying Boat photobombing the shot.

O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: bob48 on May 09, 2018, 05:28:46 AM
Quote from: mirth on May 08, 2018, 07:23:49 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 08, 2018, 07:22:13 PM
Gotta love the Curtis Flying Boat photobombing the shot.

O0
:bd:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on May 09, 2018, 06:56:23 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 07, 2018, 08:16:17 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/993478127107133440

Didn't they find some weapons in the cargo hold. 
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 09, 2018, 07:26:02 PM
Rumor has it, She was chock-full of contraband (USA still neutral) munitions going to the Allies so she probably wasn't riding so high above the waterline as the pic suggests.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 10, 2018, 07:06:33 AM
QuoteUSS Lake Champlain (CV-39) at anchor at Norfolk, Virginia (USA), with aircraft of Carrier Air Group 150 (CVG-150) on board, Aug 1945.

(https://i.imgur.com/QbDbD3r.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 10, 2018, 07:11:12 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/994550174000320513
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Post by: mirth on May 10, 2018, 07:22:46 AM
Quote"Japanese model of Pearl Harbor, showing ships located as they were during the 7 December 1941 attack. This model was constructed after the attack for use in making a motion picture. The original photograph was brought back to the U.S. from Japan at the end of World War II by Rear Admiral John Shafroth, USN."

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/PearlHarborMockUp.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on May 10, 2018, 06:12:10 PM
Do you have another source for that Pearl Harbor pic? All I see is a 'deleted'-type message.
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Post by: bob48 on May 11, 2018, 07:36:04 AM
Same for me.
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Post by: BanzaiCat on May 11, 2018, 08:17:36 AM
Works now  :bd:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2018, 08:21:32 AM
The interwbez are vast and mysterious.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: OJsDad on May 11, 2018, 10:00:31 AM
A New Battleship for the Navy? Why This Could Be China's Biggest Military Nightmare

Kind of a fluff piece, but interesting. 

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/new-battleship-the-navy-why-could-be-chinas-biggest-military-25767


QuoteThe U.S. Navy will never again be a dreadnought fleet of big-gun battleships. But it is time to reexamine the role of armor in naval architecture. Even the most forward-leaning offensive operation needs a few tough linesmen who can take a beating and stay in the game. A future battleship would give the Navy— and by extension the president—warfighting options other than the total annihilation of the enemy. Regular FONOPs already demonstrate the need for such options. The A2/AD threat will likely generate even more dangerous missions that only a durable battleship of the future can safely perform.

In World War II, the Japanese super-battleships Yamato and Musahi each mounted nine 18.1-inch guns, the largest naval guns ever deployed, but they never sank a single American ship. In a conflict decided by naval aviation, Yamato and Musahi were used mainly as flagships and troop transports. Despite their huge armaments, they were steel dinosaurs from an earlier strategic age.

But how do you sink a steel dinosaur? The answer is: "with difficulty." It took eleven torpedoes and six bombs to sink the Yamato. The Musahi took nineteen torpedoes and seventeen bombs. And at the time they were sunk, both ships were already limping along on patch-up repairs from earlier torpedo strikes. They may have been strategically useless, but the Yamato and Musahi were almost (if not quite) indestructible.

Naval construction requires decades of advance planning, and naval planners are always at risk of fighting the last war. Since the end of World War II, U.S. naval planning has revolved around the aircraft carrier. But world wars are few and far between, and other missions abound. When it comes to countering the rise of China, some of the most frequent missions are freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) requiring no fighting at all.

Over the last several years China has become increasingly aggressive in asserting illegal maritime claims in the South China Sea. In response, the United States regularly conducts FONOPs, sailing destroyers within twelve nautical miles of China's artificial islands to repudiate Beijing's claims to sovereign territorial waters. So far, China has been sensible enough not to challenge any of these operations.

But a destroyer is a fragile fish. In June last year the USS Fitzgerald was put out of action by a collision with a container ship, with the loss of seven lives—on the destroyer. Then in August the USS John S. McCain was nearly sunk by an oil tanker. Ten sailors lost their lives. The tanker suffered no injuries. Leaving aside the issue of poor seamanship, these two collisions illustrated a potentially more serious shortcoming of today's naval ships: poor survivability. Navy ships used to threaten oil tankers, not the other way around.

The U.S. Navy certainly needs the firepower provided by its awesome carrier strike groups and its flimsy, but nonetheless formidable, guided missile destroyers. But it also needs ships that can take a punch and keep on sailing. That kind of toughness is likely to become an even more important quality as China develops its precision strike capacities. Soon it may become too dangerous to sail an unarmored ship in the South China Sea.

Stealth is one way to keep from getting hit, and the United States leads the way in the development of stealthy destroyers. But stealth defeats the purpose of a FONOP, which is to be seen. An old-fashioned battleship is a ship to be seen—and in a big way. But there's no need for the Navy to build an old-fashioned battleship in the twenty-first century when it can build a new-fashioned battleship instead.

A contemporary battleship would combine advanced armor materials with automated damage control to produce a ship that is virtually unsinkable. Its offensive armaments might be mission-specific, but its key attribute would be survivability. It would be a ship that could be put in harm's way in the reasonable expectation of coming home in one piece.

This "battleship of the future" could solve the challenge posed by China's emerging anti-access / area denial (A2/AD) strategy for excluding the United States from the western Pacific. China is rapidly expanding and improving its networks of onshore, offshore, undersea, and space-based sensors to the extent that it will soon be able to see everything that moves between the Chinese mainland and the first island chain formed by Japan, Okinawa, Taiwan, and the Philippines. And improvements in precision weaponry will increasingly mean that China will be able to hit anything it can see.

America's response has been a shifting set of tactical plans successively labeled as AirSea Battle, JAM-GC and Third Offset. What these plans all have in common is the idea that the best defense is a good offense: instead of defending against Chinese A2/AD attacks, they propose that the United States strike first to take out the command-and-control networks that tie China's sensors to its precision munitions. The problem is that this implies the immediate escalation of any A2/AD scenario into a full-scale war.

That's where the battleship of the future comes in: it would give the United States a defensive option for limited conflict. For example, a future battleship could respond to Chinese provocations by disabling Chinese seabed sensors or cutting Chinese undersea cables. It could survive being rammed by enemy ships—a favorite tactic of the Chinese and North Koreans. And if A2/AD did escalate into a shooting war, it could operate in the danger zone while U.S. offensive actions turned the tables.

The U.S. Navy will never again be a dreadnought fleet of big-gun battleships. But it is time to reexamine the role of armor in naval architecture. Even the most forward-leaning offensive operation needs a few tough linesmen who can take a beating and stay in the game. A future battleship would give the Navy— and by extension the president—warfighting options other than the total annihilation of the enemy. Regular FONOPs already demonstrate the need for such options. The A2/AD threat will likely generate even more dangerous missions that only a durable battleship of the future can safely perform.

Salvatore Babones is an associate professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 11, 2018, 11:22:13 AM
QuoteHMS Rodney silhouetted against the early morning sun, with an aircraft carrier in the background. Hvalfjord, Iceland, Nov. 1941.

(https://i.redd.it/71epv4ccf8x01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 11, 2018, 10:49:16 PM
Quote from: mirth on May 10, 2018, 07:22:46 AM
Quote"Japanese model of Pearl Harbor, showing ships located as they were during the 7 December 1941 attack. This model was constructed after the attack for use in making a motion picture. The original photograph was brought back to the U.S. from Japan at the end of World War II by Rear Admiral John Shafroth, USN."

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/PearlHarborMockUp.jpg)

would be awesome if that guy walking towards the shore on the right was the future Godzilla actor.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 11, 2018, 11:00:27 PM
as for a future battleship....  I can kinda see it.

baffle zones of chobham armor with kevlar sheets lining bulkhead walls.
8 or more CWIS with 8 RAM lauchers, VLS cells around the edge of the deck and outside the armored hull and for shits and giggles some Zumwalt turreted 8" guns.  we could even say fuck it and make it nuclear powered and add the then current generation of laser systems.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 11, 2018, 11:17:50 PM
oddly, the book thats waising my monitor to a nice level is U.S. Battleships  Naval Institute Press   :-*
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Post by: besilarius on May 12, 2018, 09:02:06 AM
Star, this sounds a lot like Jerry Boorda's proposal of an armoury ship.  Just thoroughly armored.
This article for 1995 gets at the kernel of the idea.  Naturally the aviation admirals felt this threatened their turf and it went nowhere.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/03/us/aircraft-carrier-may-give-way-to-missile-ship.html
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 12, 2018, 12:48:57 PM
I laughed at the "who would want to fire 500 Tomahawks" line.
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Post by: Windigo on May 14, 2018, 12:18:13 PM
The Akademik Lomonosov, a floating nuclear power plant.... I want one!
(https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/MBWja9_YINlBrQxPfIFMujHi_DE=/0x0:1000x667/1220x813/filters:focal(420x254:580x414)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/59609045/9d1d104f1da66fb3c5c7e665a4e74ff4.0.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: BanzaiCat on May 15, 2018, 07:27:05 AM
Hey, look! A portable environmental disaster!
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 15, 2018, 07:55:41 AM
In Putin's Russia, Chernobyl disaster comes to you!
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Post by: BanzaiCat on May 15, 2018, 07:57:59 AM
"Relax, Comrade Trump. Is only make benefit friend visit to Washington D.C.! Must have berth closest to your White House on Potomac River, please."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 17, 2018, 09:47:57 AM
QuoteA K-type blimp lands on USS Sicily (CVE-118), circa April 1949

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Post by: Staggerwing on May 17, 2018, 06:29:11 PM
^The New England Air Museum has the control car from one of those K-Blimps. It's freaking ginormous- the size of a double-decker bus.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 18, 2018, 08:33:30 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) silhouetted by the setting sun whilst on sea trials

(https://i.imgur.com/rFAdhpu.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 23, 2018, 08:35:55 AM
https://twitter.com/nukestrat/status/999213779161419776
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 23, 2018, 02:16:11 PM
But they were tryimg to test launch all 20 and only 4 worked.
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Post by: mirth on May 24, 2018, 03:28:54 AM
QuoteHMS Nelson docked in Rosyth, sometime in 1944.

(https://i.redd.it/e24e9y80ffz01.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 24, 2018, 03:32:26 AM
QuoteDamage sustained to the bow of USS Nevada (BB-36), photographed five days after the Pearl Harbor attack.

(https://i.imgur.com/IMlgJEy.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 24, 2018, 03:34:16 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/999551069045719040
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 24, 2018, 06:12:32 PM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/999789748871872514 (https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/999789748871872514)
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Post by: mirth on May 25, 2018, 09:47:16 AM
QuoteIJN Akagi conducting flight operations, April 1942

(https://i.imgur.com/OeiyUux.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on May 27, 2018, 08:26:32 AM
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/9c9857ba6cb9f7992dc932f89975cf31_width-600wtmk.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=920)
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Post by: besilarius on May 28, 2018, 07:07:18 AM
WOW!  Very impressive.
Thanks for posting this.
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Post by: Staggerwing on May 28, 2018, 07:21:32 AM
^^ Is that St Petersburg?

What's the name of the tall ship?
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Post by: mirth on May 29, 2018, 08:22:03 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 28, 2018, 07:21:32 AM
^^ Is that St Petersburg?

What's the name of the tall ship?

I don't have any details. Saw the pic on Chive. Thought it looked cool.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on May 29, 2018, 11:11:26 AM
QuotePLAN CV16 and CV17 at Dalian Shipyard

(https://i.imgur.com/u5buPdz.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on May 29, 2018, 12:27:42 PM
QuoteJapanese carrier Amagi capsized at Kure Harbor, 1946

(https://i.redd.it/z1433u3s6t011.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 01, 2018, 01:40:19 AM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21233/its-official-the-navys-next-anti-ship-cruise-missile-will-be-the-naval-strike-missile
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 01, 2018, 07:20:42 AM
QuoteUSS New Orleans missing her bow arrives under her own power in Tulagi, Dec 1942

(https://i.redd.it/kwmyktahi6111.jpg)
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Post by: Windigo on June 01, 2018, 10:21:53 AM
She has an interesting story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Orleans_(CA-32) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Orleans_(CA-32))
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Post by: mirth on June 03, 2018, 11:03:43 AM
QuoteUSS West Virginia (BB-48) and the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, seen from the loaded, narrow flight deck of the airplane carrier USS Langley (CV‑1) moored at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in May 1927.

(https://i.redd.it/z9hpcqeg6s111.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 03, 2018, 03:35:29 PM
QuoteUSS Louisville (CA 28) entering North River, New York, May 31, 1934

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5497/18702238700_154bd53cd6_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 04, 2018, 08:04:46 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/1003610069282385920
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Post by: mirth on June 04, 2018, 08:13:55 AM
QuoteCollier Jupiter before conversion to the aircraft carrier Langley.

(https://i.redd.it/c77z44fwzy111.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 06, 2018, 07:16:56 PM
QuoteThe unfinished German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, here kept by the Soviets, April 1947

(https://i.redd.it/u55kdpfhad211.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 06, 2018, 07:21:55 PM
QuoteUSS Lake Champlain and USS Essex at Quonset Point Naval Station in Quonset, RI

(https://i.redd.it/ow5iyc8k5g211.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 06, 2018, 07:26:43 PM
Quote901 class fast combat support ship

(https://i.imgur.com/UGuPkod.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 06, 2018, 07:28:47 PM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth (00)

(https://i.imgur.com/HRDvpmu.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 06, 2018, 07:31:42 PM
QuoteThe Italian scout cruiser Sparviero ("Sparrowhawk") docked in 1919. Ordered in 1913 by the Romanian Navy from an Italian shipyard, she was requisitioned during construction by the Regia Marina for use in World War I. In 1920 she was delivered to the Romanian Navy and named Mărășești.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naviearmatori.net%2Falbums%2Fuserpics%2F10071%2FSparviero.JPG&hash=4ab908330d7bee2fc93d70a212c5fe4def119d00)
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Post by: mirth on June 06, 2018, 07:32:57 PM
QuoteUSS Yorktown (CV-5) underway with her air group on the flight deck, 4 June 1942, probably about 0630-0730 hrs, following recovery of her morning search and respotting the flight deck with her strike group.

(https://i.redd.it/v89vftwl34211.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 06, 2018, 07:34:20 PM
QuoteUSS Spinax, a Tench Class sub, after her conversion to a radar picket submarine, 1947

(https://i.redd.it/xizwn7w996211.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 06, 2018, 07:51:10 PM
QuoteFollowing the Battle Of The Coral Sea, the crew of carrier Yorktown repair bomb damage

(https://i.redd.it/zbup0fr8yz111.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 07, 2018, 07:15:43 AM
QuoteGraf Spee and U-35 incident. On June 1938 while on a fleet parade, the U-35 was overrun by the Graf Spee which propeller blades chopped the sub outer hull, no casualties occurred

(https://i.redd.it/onjtdcyi8k211.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 07, 2018, 06:41:08 PM
QuoteUSS Mississippi (BB-41) plows her way through heavy seas during a storm in the Atlantic, October 01, 1941

(https://i.imgur.com/xp5lziO.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on June 07, 2018, 07:17:47 PM
Bat Div 3 was deployed to Hvilfjord in Iceland during the Neutrality Patrol.
The question was asked of the British of who they could reasonably get into contact with.
Admiral Dalrymple-Hamilton, formerly of HMS Rodney, was OIC Iceland.  He supposed it would either be Tirpitz and eitherScharnhorst or Gneisenau, possibly assisted by  the Admiral Scheer.
The captain of one of the american ships pointed out that they didn't mind the odds, but how could they intercept the german squadron, with a speed of 30 knots, with the New Mexicos, with a speed of 21?
Dalrymple-Hamilton smiled across the table and said, "Catalinas."
He had all the PBYs fitted with torpedo rails.
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Post by: mirth on June 08, 2018, 07:11:18 AM
QuoteInside the hangar of the USS Langley, circa 1920. It y could carry as many as 42 aircraft, 30 being the average. The larger plane in the foreground is a Douglas DT torpedo bomber, with its wings removed. Other aircraft are Vought VE-7s.

(https://i.redd.it/eip07sflbr211.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 08, 2018, 11:44:44 AM
QuoteUSS Milwaukee (CL-5) off NYC, August 1943.

(https://i.imgur.com/MLIO4VD.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 10, 2018, 11:10:14 AM
QuoteThe Italian motor torpedo boat MAS 15 and the coastal torpedo boat 67 PN during World War I.

(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naviearmatori.net%2Falbums%2Fuserpics%2F14438%2F1433254309.jpg&hash=14821b4ada62279d05697639bc3425d38d679cde)
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Post by: mirth on June 10, 2018, 04:35:27 PM
QuoteUSS Saratoga (CV-3) sinking in Bikini Lagoon after she was fatally damaged by the Baker Day underwater atomic bomb test, 25 July 1946. Her hull number is visible at the front of her flight deck; air is escaping from her submerged hull; oil is streaming away to starboard.

(https://i.redd.it/a7ua4xx598311.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 11, 2018, 09:02:41 AM
QuoteHMS Argus during Operation Torch in 1942, below 5 Sea Hurricanes and a Seafire lined up in the hangar.

(https://i.redd.it/u1prbgh8md311.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 11, 2018, 12:30:16 PM
QuoteUSS St. Louis (CL-49) after the Battle of Kolombangara, showing torpedo damage to her bows, July 1943

(https://i.redd.it/75oh7qo0ae311.jpg)
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Post by: Windigo on June 11, 2018, 12:31:11 PM
That could have been worse
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Post by: mirth on June 11, 2018, 01:45:48 PM
QuoteHMS Victorious with escorts in exercise Shop Window, 1965.

(https://i.redd.it/57xidtq3qe311.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 11, 2018, 07:46:02 PM
HMS Superb, a Bellerophon-class dreadnought, is guided down the River Tyne by steam paddle-wheel tugboats, May 25th, 1909. She would be commissioned five days later. To the right is the training ship Wellesley, formerly the 70 gun third rate HMS Boscawen (laid down in 1826).

(https://i.imgur.com/F8EUTwp.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 11, 2018, 07:50:20 PM
QuoteUSS Hewitt (DD 966) cutting off USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in the Arabian Gulf 1996

(https://i.redd.it/0fb3h9afeb311.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on June 12, 2018, 06:25:38 AM
Said with a deep, Scottish brogue, "Corrr-rpen November-rr is a var-ry DAIN-gerrrous manuever-rr."
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Post by: mirth on June 12, 2018, 07:42:27 AM
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1006513960860946432
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Post by: mirth on June 12, 2018, 06:29:33 PM
QuoteFlight deck of USS Saratoga (CV-3) as seen from an aircraft that has just taken off, circa 1928.

(https://i.redd.it/dih1vabksm311.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 12, 2018, 06:30:39 PM
QuoteScharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper, in Trondheim, Norway, 11.06.1940

(https://i.redd.it/m5ke2tcd7n311.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on June 12, 2018, 07:57:29 PM
Diagram of a turret on HMS Nelson.
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Post by: mirth on June 12, 2018, 07:58:39 PM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth moored in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, receiving a visit from Cdre Andrew Bretton, Commander UK Carrier Strike Group, on board a Merlin HC.3A


(https://i.redd.it/09v4gzzr7n311.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 12, 2018, 08:01:58 PM
Origins of the 21-gun salute

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/heritage/customs-and-traditions/twenty-one-gun-salute.html
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Post by: mirth on June 13, 2018, 05:02:04 PM
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1007017140904480769
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Post by: Staggerwing on June 13, 2018, 06:00:14 PM
 :o
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Post by: mirth on June 14, 2018, 11:06:13 AM
QuoteArrangement of the flight deck and hangar elevator on the French aircraft carrier Bearn

(https://i.redd.it/6qp2bwa70s311.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 14, 2018, 12:40:49 PM
QuoteRoyal Navy, M1 sub, with 12 inch gun

(https://i.imgur.com/J4aaRSk.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on June 15, 2018, 06:33:21 AM
Have to wonder about the overpressure on the crew and the hull integrity?
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Post by: mirth on June 15, 2018, 11:00:04 AM
QuoteFrench aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle wrapped in the French flag before her launch. Brest, 1994


(https://i.redd.it/7piophssb6411.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 15, 2018, 11:03:39 AM
QuoteGerman cruiser Prinz Eugen after the war tied up in Boston harbor before being sent to the Pacific for nuclear testing, January 1946.

(https://i.redd.it/w0h0n62e40411.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 15, 2018, 11:07:06 AM
QuoteThe U-219 with camouflage in Stettin.

(https://i.redd.it/ukzxyrk49y311.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on June 17, 2018, 08:27:39 AM
http://www.gunplot.net/vietnam/hobartvietnam.html

HMAS Hobart attacked by US Air Force off Vietnam.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 18, 2018, 08:01:51 AM
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1008688321105682433
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Post by: mirth on June 18, 2018, 11:09:40 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth in build (right), compared to HMS Illustrious, the vessel she's replacing (left).

(https://i.redd.it/c9luxhkrjq411.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 18, 2018, 11:14:06 AM
QuoteHMS Barham (04) refueling in Souda Bay, February 1941.

(https://i.imgur.com/uwwrt7q.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 18, 2018, 11:16:07 AM
QuoteSteel Beach Picnic, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) May 28, 2017

(https://cdn.dvidshub.net/media/thumbs/photos/1705/3434835/1000w_q95.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 18, 2018, 11:18:42 AM
QuoteJapanese heavy cruiser Mogami (after her conversion to an aviation cruiser) escorting aircraft carriers of the First Moblie Fleet through the San Bernardino Strait before the Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 15, 1944. Photograph taken from the heavy cruiser Maya. Behind Mogami are the aircraft carriers (from left) Shokaku, Zuikaku, Taiho (First Carrier Division) Hiyo, and Junyo (Second Carrier Division).

These ships are underway for the "A GŌ" Operation together with the carriers of Vice Admiral Jisaburō Ozawa's Force. The aircraft carrier force was passing off Samar Island, through the San Bernardino Strait. At the time, Mogami carried three Type 0 three-seat reconnaissance and two Type 0 two-seat spotter seaplanes on the after flight deck.

By the end of the Battle of the Philippine Sea on June 20, the carriers Taiho, Shokaku and Hiyo would all be sunk. Shokaku and Taiho (on her first operation) would be sunk through the action of the U.S. submarines USS Cavalla and USS Archerfish, respectively.


(https://i.redd.it/v3aw687nth411.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 18, 2018, 12:31:03 PM
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1008748713307725825
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Post by: Airborne Rifles on June 18, 2018, 07:16:59 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/35643699_1651284118312308_3519434049317765120_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=2bb7ef6cb132eae04de82ba5c38428a5&oe=5BBD1ECD)

Obviously not real  :D
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Post by: mirth on June 18, 2018, 07:20:10 PM
Ha! Excellent!
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Post by: Staggerwing on June 18, 2018, 08:02:27 PM
Simply dazzling!
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Post by: mirth on June 18, 2018, 08:08:45 PM
The Bedazzler!
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on June 18, 2018, 10:09:23 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/8c/1d/c5/8c1dc56bea245eaec2a41424d78959a7--arnold-schwarzenegger-the-picture.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 19, 2018, 07:54:00 AM
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/1009041898185592832
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Post by: mirth on June 19, 2018, 08:03:30 AM
QuotePrinz Eugen (center) under repair in the Lofjord; next to her, on her starboard side, is the repair ship Huascaran; Admiral Scheer is also moored behind anti-torpedo nets, 1942.

(https://i.imgur.com/aMOQL22.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 19, 2018, 12:01:03 PM
QuoteUSS Gambier Bay (CVE 73) bracketed by shells from the Japanese fleet that the Seventh Fleet Carrier Escort Group fought off in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Japanese cruiser is seen on the right horizon, 25 October 1944.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5588/15298061456_d8206ab0bf_o.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 20, 2018, 08:58:47 AM
QuoteThe crew of the British aircraft carrier HMS Ocean (R-68) on deck for an inspection by Field Marshal Earl Alexander, Defense Minister of Great Britain, on 14 June 1952. A light cruiser is off to the right.

(https://i.imgur.com/bQ26ymy.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 20, 2018, 09:00:43 AM
QuoteSoviet sailors have a violin night aboard cruiser Kalinin, 1955

(https://i.redd.it/9mqgmilx75511.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 21, 2018, 06:28:06 AM
QuoteOmaha-Class Light Cruisers lay a smoke screen during maneuvers, circa 1930.

(https://i.redd.it/zaxwtwkz5a511.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 21, 2018, 06:33:53 AM
QuoteSMS Lothringen passing under the Levensau Bridge of the Kiel Canal before the First World War.

(https://i.imgur.com/0QIaZDd.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 21, 2018, 09:19:57 AM
QuoteGerman sailors going ashore in Trondheim after their ship Gneisenau was torpedoed by HMS Clyde

(https://i.redd.it/f3wcqg96sc511.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 22, 2018, 11:28:55 AM
QuoteHMCS Warrior (R-31) in Vancouver, British Columbia, sometime around 1946-47.


(https://i.imgur.com/OZAXrEn.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on June 23, 2018, 07:58:46 AM
USS Belknap shortly after colliding with the Kennedy.
When she finally made it to the Philadelphia yard, there was a friend at the yard.  He had never seen it when there was absolute silence before.  Everyone stopped to stare.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 24, 2018, 07:40:03 AM
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1010862622114287617
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 24, 2018, 07:41:43 AM
(https://i.redd.it/aupx0rh27v511.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 24, 2018, 09:59:57 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth at anchor off Dartmouth, the home of RN Officer training

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Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 24, 2018, 10:02:24 AM
QuoteHMS Implacable entering Vancouver Harbour on 11 Oct 1945, repatriating a compliment of Canadian POWs

(https://i.imgur.com/Ii1ZHir.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on June 24, 2018, 11:34:24 AM
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1010923057492439043
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Post by: mirth on June 24, 2018, 12:02:19 PM
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38), HMS Ark Royal (R09), and HMS Hermes (R12) sailing together, 1960


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Post by: mirth on June 24, 2018, 12:48:34 PM
QuoteHMS Courageous

(https://i.redd.it/q1eugyypcz511.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 26, 2018, 09:40:16 AM
QuoteGerman armored cruiser SMS Prinz Heinrich in 1902, probably while fitting-out

(https://i.imgur.com/8QTHRUF.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 27, 2018, 09:39:06 AM
QuoteUSS Pogy (SS-266) being launched into the Manitowoc River, Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI., 23 June 1942

(https://i.redd.it/30o7g31ynj611.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 28, 2018, 07:30:39 AM
QuoteLaunch of the IJN Tosa, Dec 18, 1921. She'd be used as a target in accordance to the Washington Naval treaty, and later scuttled.

(https://i.imgur.com/1rkOB3f.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on June 28, 2018, 07:32:20 AM
QuoteU.S. Navy protected cruiser, USS Chicago, starboard view (1893)

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Post by: mirth on June 28, 2018, 07:33:38 AM
QuoteSubmarine tender USS Holland (AS-3) tending to 7 V-boats


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Post by: Airborne Rifles on June 29, 2018, 07:23:10 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/36346028_241163183359207_4388786617448398848_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=cbd7e0289e765ee8addd4b4e5505c6b4&oe=5BB2C1B0)

"Destroyer" Kaga and submarine escorts.
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Post by: Staggerwing on June 29, 2018, 07:36:52 PM
Is she represented in the CMANO database yet, with her eventual Mach 1.6 "helicopters"?
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Post by: Airborne Rifles on June 30, 2018, 06:48:17 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on June 29, 2018, 07:36:52 PM
Is she represented in the CMANO database yet, with her eventual Mach 1.6 "helicopters"?

Yep  :)
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Post by: Staggerwing on June 30, 2018, 08:13:37 AM
Then I'll bet that the PLAN has bought a few copies by now.
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Post by: mirth on July 01, 2018, 08:34:08 AM
QuoteHeavy cruiser USS Pensacola (CA-24), nicknamed the "Grey Ghost"

(https://i.redd.it/u5pbdzf33c711.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on July 02, 2018, 06:48:52 AM
QuotePostcard of French central-battery ironclad Redoutable from Saigon, French Indochina in 1908

(https://i.redd.it/jw56rtujaf711.jpg)
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Post by: bob48 on July 02, 2018, 06:58:13 AM
What a great picture!
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 02, 2018, 11:00:52 AM
Didn't you take it?
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Post by: bob48 on July 02, 2018, 11:09:10 AM
No I did not - look, its still there, hanging on Windi's wall.
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Post by: mirth on July 02, 2018, 11:47:52 AM
Quote from: bob48 on July 02, 2018, 11:09:10 AM
No I did not - look, its still there, hanging on Windi's wall.

:DD
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Post by: mirth on July 02, 2018, 11:54:17 AM
QuoteUSS Pennsylvania after being hit by 1 torpedo while anchored at Buckner Bay, August 12th, 1945

(https://i.redd.it/0lf3bc2ohi711.jpg)

QuoteShe anchored in Buckner Bay in Okinawa alongside Tennessee. On 12 August a Japanese torpedo plane penetrated undetected and launched a torpedo at Pennsylvania, which lay at anchor. Hit well aft, Pennsylvania suffered extensive damage. The torpedo's impact caused a hole of approximately 30 ft (9.1 m) in diameter in her stern. Twenty men were killed and ten, including Admiral Oldendorf, injured.[14][15] Many compartments were flooded and Pennsylvania settled heavily by the stern. The flooding was brought under control by Pennsylvania's repair parties and with the prompt assistance of two salvage tugs. The following day, she was towed to shallower water where salvage operations continued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Pennsylvania_(BB-38)#1945
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Post by: mirth on July 02, 2018, 11:57:47 AM
QuoteJapanese submarines in Yokosuka

(https://i.redd.it/0qorzgajng711.jpg)
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 02, 2018, 03:34:33 PM
fixed

Quote from: mirth on July 02, 2018, 11:57:47 AM
QuoteJapanese deep see research vessels in Yokosuka

(https://i.redd.it/0qorzgajng711.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on July 03, 2018, 08:41:55 AM
QuoteJMSDF Ayase (DE-216), Oct 1, 1986

(https://i.imgur.com/k05xJa6.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on July 04, 2018, 06:05:37 PM
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fusnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil%2Ffiles%2F2017%2F04%2FAmerica-Independence-Freedom-1-776x1024.jpeg&hash=18e88ea9b0cf2bc0e0da2ec17fb930f1abf5886b)

http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2015/07/04/america-independence-and-freedom-three-great-names-that-go-great-with-navy-ships/ (http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2015/07/04/america-independence-and-freedom-three-great-names-that-go-great-with-navy-ships/)
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Post by: besilarius on July 05, 2018, 06:43:43 AM
Reserve Fleet 1919.

The house on the right is the Commandant's quarters and I think it is still there.
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Post by: mirth on July 05, 2018, 07:16:27 AM
https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/1014133070100860928
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Post by: besilarius on July 14, 2018, 06:12:27 AM
So different than the typical boiler plate.
By all accounts, Forrestal did sweat all the details.  Unfortunately, it became too much and he took his own life.
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Post by: OJsDad on July 17, 2018, 03:45:42 PM
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/1019314508727308288
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Post by: besilarius on July 23, 2018, 07:23:33 AM
Old Smokey's boiler.
July 18,2018, boiler from Russian carrier Kuznetsov is removed to be replaced.
That is one heavily used boiler.  My worry would be that if the external housing was allowed to become so degraded, what is the internal structure like?

If Admiral Bulkely, head of the Board of Inspection and Survey, saw this, people would be disciplined, or out of the Navy, that day.
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Post by: Staggerwing on July 23, 2018, 05:50:07 PM
It looks like a sad turtle with no legs. Maybe that's why he's so sad...
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Post by: mirth on July 25, 2018, 05:49:00 PM
QuoteBattleship Yamato under the Golden Gate Bridge, from The Man in High Castle Season 3 trailer

(https://i.redd.it/j4tbjltjy3c11.png)
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Post by: mirth on July 25, 2018, 08:05:54 PM
QuoteUS Navy battleships in formation in San Diego, California, 23 August 1935


(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3887/15143858558_955a8cd445_o.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on July 25, 2018, 08:11:24 PM
^ Classified Ad: "Tree Fort Fleet seeks Pagoda Fleet for spirited competition"
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Post by: mirth on July 25, 2018, 08:13:50 PM
ha!
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Post by: besilarius on July 26, 2018, 03:48:29 PM
A training torpedo stuck in the hull of the Hotel-class nuclear submarine K-178, just over the submarine's nuclear reactor. Oct 1988
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 26, 2018, 05:33:58 PM
opps  ::)
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Post by: mirth on July 27, 2018, 09:30:36 AM
QuoteA Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat from Escadrille 1F prepares to land on the French carrier Arromanches (R95) operating in the Gulf of Tonkin, 1953.

(https://i.imgur.com/2JAtaeq.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2018, 11:24:12 AM
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer JS Izumo (DDH-183)

(https://i.imgur.com/MF6BuUe.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on July 27, 2018, 11:30:33 AM
Steel Beach on HMS Hermes

(https://laststandonzombieisland.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/steel-beach-party-on-hms-hermes-note-sea-harrier-and-sea-king.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on July 27, 2018, 06:18:33 PM
Is that an Irn Bru there under that Glasgow Festival advert?
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Post by: Airborne Rifles on July 27, 2018, 10:02:12 PM
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/37895804_2060724424244840_8895912601947471872_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=0665e334ba11ff534fb10e325dfbf533&oe=5C0D6054)
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Post by: mirth on July 29, 2018, 10:59:53 AM
^ha!
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Post by: mirth on July 29, 2018, 11:01:56 AM
QuoteCrewmen check the packing of a slide extension of 16" gun on USS New Jersey (BB-62) while she is undergoing reactivation at Bayonne, NJ, 3 November 1950.

(https://i.redd.it/di6tlp6nftc11.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on July 29, 2018, 11:05:32 AM
QuoteHMS Formidable with crash barrier erected.

(https://i.redd.it/cy7ze647ipc11.jpg)
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Post by: mirth on July 30, 2018, 10:52:31 AM
(https://i.redd.it/vaa9lg46k3d11.jpg)
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Post by: bob48 on July 30, 2018, 11:21:03 AM
Now, if only we could afford that many...............
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Post by: bbmike on July 30, 2018, 12:00:41 PM
^  :2funny:
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Post by: Windigo on July 30, 2018, 12:49:30 PM
Quote from: bob48 on July 30, 2018, 11:21:03 AM
Now, if only we could afford that many...............

sub them out with Folland Gnats ... you could have 50 of the little things swarming the threat
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Post by: bob48 on July 30, 2018, 12:51:34 PM
And we still have a couple of Fairy Swordfish............
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Post by: Windigo on July 30, 2018, 12:56:54 PM
damn good planes... considering their speed

damn things would be pretty stealthy too   ;)
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Post by: Barthheart on July 30, 2018, 12:57:54 PM
Except for the racket they make....
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Post by: bob48 on July 30, 2018, 01:23:01 PM
Well, the Italians don't like 'em for sure.
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Post by: Windigo on July 30, 2018, 02:38:55 PM
A pain in the butt for the german navy now and then too  :D
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Post by: Staggerwing on July 30, 2018, 06:46:08 PM
The Fairey Swordfish- they called it the 'Stringbag' because, just like Granny's string bag shopping bag, it could carry just about anything you asked of it and more and get all of it to where you needed it to be.


Quote from: Windigo on July 30, 2018, 02:38:55 PM
A pain in the butt for the german navy now and then too  :D

Quite literally. Captain Lindemann found out the hard way...

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Post by: besilarius on July 30, 2018, 07:21:24 PM
Before america was in World War II, a naval officer was seconded to a british carrier, to observe air operations.
The Swordfish had such a low stall speed, that it could fly into a headwind at low speed and it appeared to be hovering in place.
The american officer was watching this surprising ability and he asked,  "Who makes that plane."
"Oh, Faireys."
He stared at the brit, "Of course, they do."
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on July 31, 2018, 08:12:21 AM
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1024271006498807809
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Post by: bob48 on July 31, 2018, 09:33:31 AM
Quote from: besilarius on July 30, 2018, 07:21:24 PM
Before america was in World War II, a naval officer was seconded to a british carrier, to observe air operations.
The Swordfish had such a low stall speed, that it could fly into a headwind at low speed and it appeared to be hovering in place.
The american officer was watching this surprising ability and he asked,  "Who makes that plane."
"Oh, Faireys."
He stared at the brit, "Of course, they do."

I've heard that story before.

Made me think that aircraft recognition was not high on the training curriculum :-)
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Post by: Windigo on July 31, 2018, 10:46:51 AM
Good write-up on the Fairy Swordfish in Wikipedia.   :bd: :bd:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 01, 2018, 08:20:46 AM
QuoteHMS Hood and HMS Glowworm (H92) in Scapa Flow, March 1940.

(https://i.redd.it/0ohje9ukygd11.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 01, 2018, 08:21:56 AM
QuoteHMS Hermes (95) at Pearl Harbor, 1924.

(https://i.imgur.com/0CcHQa9.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 01, 2018, 08:23:55 AM
QuoteUSS Albuquerque (SSN 706) approaches USS Frank Cable (AS 40) in Sattahip Bay, March 10, for tended support during its visit to Thailand.

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8245/8550492248_2dd24424d8_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 02, 2018, 11:18:25 AM
http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2018/07/20/uss-robin-when-the-cno-needed-a-royal-navy-carrier-part-i/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 02, 2018, 11:29:19 AM
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth and USS George H. Bush with escorts

(https://i.imgur.com/Ut8E9aB.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 02, 2018, 06:12:18 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22607/the-navy-could-need-more-than-15-years-and-over-1-5b-to-scrap-uss-enterprise
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: mirth on August 03, 2018, 10:27:52 AM
QuoteJS Atago (DDG-177)

(https://i.imgur.com/fbOp2Ev.jpg)
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Post by: OJsDad on August 04, 2018, 09:53:43 AM
Quote from: mirth on August 02, 2018, 06:12:18 PM
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22607/the-navy-could-need-more-than-15-years-and-over-1-5b-to-scrap-uss-enterprise

Reading that article and the talk about how bad US Naval shipyards are at the moment, you can see the need for increase defense spending just to get those, and many other areas of neglect throughout the DOD back to where they need to be. 
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Post by: besilarius on August 05, 2018, 08:37:43 AM
Sorry for the scan quality
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Post by: mirth on August 05, 2018, 05:03:27 PM
QuoteHMS Superb fitting out on the River Tyne, circa winter/spring 1909.

(https://i.imgur.com/0JPoclz.jpg)
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Post by: Staggerwing on August 05, 2018, 05:49:34 PM
Hey look- it has it's own floating Carefree Small BuildingTM!
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Post by: bob48 on August 06, 2018, 05:11:57 AM
Armstrong Vickers was located just a couple of miles up river from where I live. All gone now, obviously :-)
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Post by: OJsDad on August 06, 2018, 12:11:56 PM
http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/the-war-zone/22639/this-is-the-only-photo-of-a-u-s-navy-supercarrier-being-sunk?source=dam
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Post by: trailrunner on August 06, 2018, 04:08:18 PM
Quote from: OJsDad on August 06, 2018, 12:11:56 PM
http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/the-war-zone/22639/this-is-the-only-photo-of-a-u-s-navy-supercarrier-being-sunk?source=dam

I've used photos of that sinkex in my briefings. One of the guys on my team was on the ship when it took the first hit.  The reason it took four weeks is that for the first shots, we were trying to get as much data as possible, so there was a lot of instrumentation to download and deliberation between shots.

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Post by: OJsDad on August 06, 2018, 04:13:05 PM
I figured it the four weeks was on purpose and that not all the shots were meant to sink her. I'm also thinking there were important things missing like avgas and munitions.
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Post by: mirth on August 08, 2018, 02:04:46 PM
http://ussnautilus.org/blog/the-lucky-cribbage-board/
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Post by: Windigo on August 08, 2018, 02:23:44 PM
... getting only two points on a last card 31 is bullshit.
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Post by: besilarius on August 08, 2018, 06:45:03 PM
Neat-O.
Never heard of this.
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Post by: Staggerwing on August 08, 2018, 07:06:45 PM
That is a cool story!
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Post by: bob48 on August 09, 2018, 04:39:53 AM
^+100  :bd:
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Post by: besilarius on August 13, 2018, 06:00:45 PM
Projected advances in underwater drones.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-the-us-navy-could-transform-nuclear-submarines-23207
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Post by: besilarius on August 13, 2018, 06:11:37 PM
Canadian corvette ramming a Uboat.
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Post by: Staggerwing on August 13, 2018, 06:14:00 PM
Wow!  :o

That pic is a real find!
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Post by: besilarius on August 17, 2018, 06:21:32 AM
Narwal rides out Hurricane Hugo:

In 1989, residents of the East Coast braced for a potential hurricane strike as Hurricane Hugo passed over the Lesser Antilles as a strong Category 4/5 storm on September 17th and began turning northwest. The eye of the hurricane, originally forecast to head directly for the eastern Florida coast, took an unexpectedly northern turn the next day, and the National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane watch for the South Carolina coast.

Meanwhile, the Narwhal, among many other valuable Navy assets docked at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, prepared for a possible direct hit to the Lowcountry by the impending storm. Of the 28 floating assets in harm's way at Charleston, half were withdrawn from the base and sent to sea, out of the storm's path. The Narwhal and a number of other vessels did not have this option, however; they were not deemed seaworthy for a variety of reasons, mostly related to routine maintenance work/ dry docking. In the Narwhal's case, she was in dry dock for an impending massive refueling and overhaul operation, and although her nuclear reactor was offline, concerns arose about how to best secure the berths for her and the other boats in the face of expected 140+ knot winds.

Extra thick mooring cables were secured to provide what was hoped to be enough redundancy to keep the Narwhal safely tied up at pier. However, as the strong Category 4 winds of Hugo bore down on Charleston late in the evening of September 21st, the men assigned to keeping the Narwhal safely tucked away were shocked to see the combination of a 20-foot storm surge and catastrophic winds buckle and break all of its mooring cables but one—a tenacious aft night rider. The Narwhal, with her crew aboard, was tossed around by the giant storm and began to dangle away from the pier into the middle of the Cooper River. The men aboard the Narwhal felt somewhat helpless as the waves and winds buffeted the huge submarine around, stymieing any efforts to gain independent control of her movements. The topside duty was secured once the waves began crashing onto the steel beach too high, endangering those crewmembers valiantly trying to maintain watch under extreme weather conditions. All topside personnel were brought down below, the hatches were secured, and the watch was moved to the periscope. Shortly thereafter, Narwhal's final umbilical cord to the pier was cut when the final mooring cable broke loose. The Narwhal was underway, but she was perilously out of control.

As luck would have it, Mother Nature granted the Narwhal a short reprieve from the storm as the crisis was unfolding. As the submarine was foundering in the Cooper, the winds suddenly abated with the arrival of the hurricane's eye over the shipyard shortly after midnight on September 22nd. Two tugboats were deployed during this brief lull in the storm to engage the Narwhal and help her return to the pier. Unfortunately, time was the enemy, and the tugboats had to turn away on their approach as the calm conditions vanished once again. The back wall of the hurricane had abruptly arrived, along with the return of battering winds in excess of 130 knots with higher gusts to 150 knots.

Realizing that his mighty submarine was powerless against the littoral juggernaut that was Hugo, the CO of the Narwhal, Captain Daniel L. Whitford, made an unconventional and audacious decision. As the winds continued to ramp up, threatening the safety of his crew, Whitford announced, "We can either ride out the storm and wind up on shore, or we can sink it right here." During the height of the tempest—the most powerful hurricane ever to strike the East Coast north of Florida at that time—the CO gave the order to submerge. The Narwhal was going to ride out the remainder of the storm at the bottom of the Cooper River.

And so, operating solely on battery power (the reactor had already been shut down), the klaxon sounded out two shrill bursts: "Dive! Dive!" The ballast tanks were flooded and the Narwhal silently sank to the river bed, where she spent the remainder of the night as the raging storm passed over. The crew could not use the snorkel for air exchange because the cooling water ports along the bottom of the hull would have clogged with mud; they would have to make due with just the ambient air on board when they dove. Reducing the number of active watch personnel helped to minimize the overnight oxygen consumption, so that those not on duty could rest and conserve air. The Corpsman ("Doc") checked the air quality constantly during the night to make sure that dangerous atmospheric conditions didn't develop. The oxygen and carbon dioxide levels did deviate from acceptable values on the Narwhal that night, but not to a threshold that required emergency intervention. As long as fresh air was coming in a few hours, the crew would be fine.

Everything electrical was shut off except for minimal lighting, in order to decrease the load on the ship's batteries. Communication between compartments was conducted on the sound powered ship's phones—the 2JV communications system. The depth at the river bottom was no more than 25 feet, such that the top of the Narwhal's sail and fairwater planes protruded above the waterline. Those personnel on periscope watch were able to observe the effects of the storm. The river was littered with capsized boats, mangled buoys and other flotsam, and the land was dark except for the occasional blue glow of another transformer exploding. It was a surreal scene.

When dawn broke, imagine the disbelief of those who had ridden out the storm from the safety of the base when they looked toward the river to see the top of the conning tower of the Narwhal breaking above the water surface! Or, even stranger still, the perspective of the USS Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633G), as it cruised up the mouth of the Cooper from Charleston Harbor, to come upon the top of sail of a sister submarine right there in the middle of the river, seeming to stand as both sentry and symbol of survival. The crew of the Narwhal had indeed used the unlikely refuge of the river bottom to successfully ride out the storm.

The ultimate soundness of the CO's decision to sink to the bottom of the Cooper River was tested when it was time for the Narwhal to surface that morning. The submarine was embedded in tenacious silt that made engine start with both forward and reverse way EOT commands completely ineffective in dislodging the submarine from its muddy cradle. However, the A-gangers and nukes fellows put their heads together and came up with an ingenious idea to run a hose from the low-pressure blower to fill the ballast tanks both fore and aft. By methodically blowing the ballast tanks in an alternating pattern, the hull slipped free of the river bed, and the Narwhal surfaced and returned to the pier.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: DoctorQuest on August 17, 2018, 03:08:14 PM
That is an amazing story. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Airborne Rifles on August 19, 2018, 01:02:58 PM
Kursk

(https://i.redd.it/i5b0bgdhgwg11.jpg)
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Post by: besilarius on August 26, 2018, 01:03:50 PM
Probably too late.
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Post by: besilarius on August 31, 2018, 06:08:01 AM
Fire on the Conyngham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5U8Yvc6WMc
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Post by: Windigo on August 31, 2018, 10:38:20 AM
German submarine U-889 surrendering to the Fairmile motor launch Q117 of the Royal Canadian Navy off Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 13 May 1945. The Royal Canadian Navy removed U-889's crew following the U-Boat's surrender at Shelburne, Nova Scotia. On this, its first war patrol, the submarine had left Germany in March, stopping in Norway before heading into the Atlantic in early April. It surrendered before it could carry out orders to attack shipping off the port of New York.


(https://i.redd.it/vicydnkp4o901.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 31, 2018, 06:02:08 PM
Photobombed by a PBY O0
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: DoctorQuest on August 31, 2018, 07:33:38 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 31, 2018, 06:02:08 PM
Photobombed by a PBY O0

Lol! I saw that, too.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on August 31, 2018, 08:12:12 PM
Quote from: DoctorQuest on August 31, 2018, 07:33:38 PM
Quote from: Staggerwing on August 31, 2018, 06:02:08 PM
Photobombed by a PBY O0

Lol! I saw that, too.

Before someone takes me to task I shall quickly say that it is probably a 'Canso', not a PBY, since it is most likely in Canadian service. Still  O0 though.
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Post by: besilarius on September 05, 2018, 06:07:15 AM
(May 27, 1977) President Jimmy Carter and Adm. Hyman G. Rickover, Retired, Director, Division of Naval Reactors, U.S. Energy Research Development Administration and Deputy Commander for Nuclear Propulsion, operate the bow and stern planes during a cruise aboard the nuclear powered submarine USS Los Angeles (SSN 688). Photo archived at Naval History

They were not friends.  Rickover was too acerbic to relax with a mere lieutenant when Carter was in service.
Also, Rickover did not want his nukes to be distracted by things like children.  His comments on "bird hatching" were very derogatory.
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Post by: besilarius on September 09, 2018, 12:41:43 PM
Had always wondered what the aft structure on the flight deck of Kaga was in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHHNMxpoa-I

Did any other carriers have this unusual after elevator?  Never had heard anything about one.
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Post by: besilarius on September 13, 2018, 08:41:25 PM
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/KillersandtheKilled.html

Hunting Uboats in the Atlantic.  The rhetoric is a bit over the top, but the film is good.
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Post by: besilarius on October 01, 2018, 06:18:45 AM
Wing tanks moved the CG aft so holding the stick aft for half a second too long on cat release gave you this result.

USS Midway about 1966.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on October 09, 2018, 06:26:51 AM
Preparing for Normandy.  Uss Henrico's boat.
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Post by: besilarius on December 16, 2018, 03:25:27 PM
Uss St Louis takes a Long Lance.
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Post by: Staggerwing on December 16, 2018, 06:06:03 PM
ouch
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Post by: Steelgrave on December 18, 2018, 08:59:52 AM
Japan is poised to put its first aircraft carriers to sea since World War II, refitting its Izumo-class warships to carry US-designed F-35B fighter jets, the government announced Tuesday.

(https://i.imgur.com/MF6BuUe.jpg)

Japanese helicopter destroyer JS Izumo (DDH-183)

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/asia/japan-aircraft-carriers-intl/index.html

Yeah, nobody saw this one coming, right?     8) ::) ;D


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Post by: Windigo on December 18, 2018, 03:38:37 PM
So how many called this a year or two or three back?... I remember Goat-Fury calling it, but there were others

Tip o the hat to you all    <:-)  :notworthy:
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Post by: Staggerwing on December 18, 2018, 06:52:27 PM
There were quite a few of us, as I recall.
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Post by: Steelgrave on December 18, 2018, 09:09:07 PM
Not to mention calling it a "destroyer" in the first place. I'm certain that fooled the Chinese and Russians completely   8)
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Post by: Windigo on December 19, 2018, 02:34:14 PM
Quote from: Steelgrave on December 18, 2018, 09:09:07 PM
Not to mention calling it a "destroyer" in the first place. I'm certain that fooled the Chinese and Russians completely   8)

You don't know if you don't try.
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 19, 2018, 06:20:30 PM
the things only bigger slightly smaller then the original Akagi FFS   :2funny:
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Post by: besilarius on January 02, 2019, 09:06:33 AM
When a Soviet tattletale followed one of our carriers, sailors find creative ways to salute the sailors of other nations.
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Post by: besilarius on January 21, 2019, 07:12:19 AM
World War I ASW.
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Post by: besilarius on January 24, 2019, 06:54:17 AM
Fifth Battle Squadron.  Photo taken from HMS Barham.
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Post by: besilarius on January 26, 2019, 12:43:41 PM
https://www.facebook.com/HistoryBites/videos/288623028678544/?t=31

Reputed to be the only color footage of Pearl Harbor.
Hadnever heard or seen this, so not sure of provenance.
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Post by: besilarius on February 02, 2019, 09:37:12 AM
Life and Death of the Hornet.

http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/Hornet.html

Very nice movie of the Hornet, with good coverage of the Doolittle bombers.
Sorry I only found this today.  Only up for a few more days.
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Post by: besilarius on February 10, 2019, 11:55:20 AM
Carrier Independence during Typhoon Cobra.  Photo is mislabeled as Hancock.

No wonder three DDs foundered.
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Post by: besilarius on February 23, 2019, 02:09:20 PM
this rare picture, which shows the I. FSG (SMS Seydlitz, Lützow, Derfflinger, Moltke and von der Tann) during the Lowestoft Raid in April 1916 under the command of Rear Admiral Friedrich Boedicker. The battle cruisers were accompanied and supported by several light cruisers from the II. FSG and two complete torpedo - boat flotillas (translates into 16). The Lowestoft - raid was start of a new campaign initiated by the new CIC of HSF, Admiral Scheer.
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Post by: WallysWorld on February 23, 2019, 04:40:16 PM
Quote from: besilarius on January 26, 2019, 12:43:41 PM
https://www.facebook.com/HistoryBites/videos/288623028678544/?t=31

Reputed to be the only color footage of Pearl Harbor.
Hadnever heard or seen this, so not sure of provenance.
That footage is shown in the first episode of the excellent Smithsonian Channel series "The Pacific War in Color":  The Pacific War in Color (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKvNVDR9_PE)
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Post by: besilarius on March 01, 2019, 07:01:50 AM
Louis XIV's Soleil Royale.
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Post by: besilarius on March 02, 2019, 09:25:05 AM
Twelve pounder firing a blank.
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Post by: Staggerwing on March 02, 2019, 10:44:36 AM
Softening up the defenders in the bungalow?
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Post by: besilarius on April 27, 2019, 05:37:34 PM
Battlefleet and Langley anchored at Culebra, PR.
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Post by: Windigo on May 01, 2019, 10:33:57 AM
Looking at that cute little flat-top/seaplane tender.... pretty wild where that technology/doctrine would go in 15 short years
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Post by: besilarius on August 18, 2019, 07:14:20 AM
Boy, that left a mark.
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Post by: besilarius on September 11, 2019, 05:52:10 AM
Fair video on interwar development in destroyers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rlLlsYQ6lQ&fbclid=IwAR08IUGNPI6U0QTxMG_FnMKOri6KGS-D2DQJM5_zCxzoCx6hwH9XmixDRko
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Post by: besilarius on September 19, 2019, 06:42:45 AM
HMS Suffolk during the 1940 Norway campaign was bombed in Scapa Flow, and took on 1500 tons of seawater.
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Post by: besilarius on September 20, 2019, 06:50:58 AM
Prince of Wales leaves Rosyth.
As usual, the yard left a lot unfinished.  The wardroom is very posh.  Reminds me of pictures of the Italian battleship Roma's wardroom.  That worked out well.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7484261/HMS-Prince-Wales-bomb-site-Sailors-board-3-2bn-warship-slam-crew-quarters.html
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Post by: besilarius on September 22, 2019, 06:30:19 AM
French armored cruiser, Edgar Quinet.  1914 was escorting troops from North Africa and might have mixed it up with Goeben.
Six stacks, Forty boilers (!), square portholes, and one wine tank.
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Post by: besilarius on September 25, 2019, 06:41:32 AM
USS Arizona newsreel.  First seven minutes are pre war activities.
Knew an old Bosun mate who had served on Arkansas before the war.  They kept the crew busy, because idle hands, etc.etc.
He said twice a week, just to give the crew things to do, the fire hoses would be collected and taken topside to be scrubbed down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc8-S6CnnNU&fbclid=IwAR2b1VSWuy2vMbrX12WNE9jk8YjolWtCEJWa0gIsLWiQtE9xnho_s390ev4
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Post by: Windigo on September 25, 2019, 11:24:58 AM
Quote from: besilarius on September 20, 2019, 06:50:58 AM
Prince of Wales leaves Rosyth.
As usual, the yard left a lot unfinished.  The wardroom is very posh.  Reminds me of pictures of the Italian battleship Roma's wardroom.  That worked out well.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7484261/HMS-Prince-Wales-bomb-site-Sailors-board-3-2bn-warship-slam-crew-quarters.html

I actually like her lines .... FWIW
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Post by: besilarius on October 01, 2019, 01:36:21 PM
Missouri sends love letters to the Republican Guard in Iraq.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilfxMnYHQNk&fbclid=IwAR2fL9Liq5jCJs_q_BZN4x4sijnhVjCUGTwpSEle2nSfv78Z9VXNSGJFRIw
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Post by: besilarius on October 02, 2019, 03:54:15 PM
B52D overflies the Kiev, about 1983. 
Rumored that they opened the bay doors while approaching.  Got quite serious reprimands.
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Post by: besilarius on October 03, 2019, 02:06:46 PM
USS Olympia tour.  Hard hat tour visiting hard to reach sections on October 19.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cruiser-olympia-hard-hat-tour-tickets-72141303581
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Post by: besilarius on October 04, 2019, 06:32:47 AM
Akagi during the Indian Ocean raid.  Hiryu and Soryu are to the left and back behind the battlecruisers are Shokaku and Zuikaku.
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Post by: Windigo on October 04, 2019, 10:47:17 AM
Single file?

for the photo op?
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Post by: besilarius on October 04, 2019, 12:49:23 PM
Good question.   Maybe while going through the Malayan Straits near Singapore?  Bottlenecks tend to make force commanders very cautious.
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Post by: besilarius on October 06, 2019, 10:50:11 AM
HMS Nelson equipped with UP Launchers on her main turrets.
UP or "Unrotated Projectile" Launchers were 20 round rocket launchers designed to form a protective barrier against attacking aircraft. Rockets were fired 10 at a time.

the UP rockets were not direct fire weapons.

Once they reached a preset distance from the ship they would deploy a mine suspended from three parachutes via a length of wire. Aircraft that flew into the wires would detonate the mine. The idea was that that launchers could create an aerial minefield around the ship.

However, the minefield was rarely dense enough to provide an obstacle to attacking aircraft. In addition, the slightest wind could disperse the mines over a wide area, even onto friendly ships and even back onto the ship that launched them. Last but not least, the supply of rockets stashed aboard a ship posed a significant fire hazard. During her final battle, HMS Hood took a hit on her boat deck that ignited her UP rockets, causing a large fire.

Though an interesting concept, the weapon was largely ineffective and quickly removed from British ships in 1941 in favor of additional AA guns.
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Post by: besilarius on October 08, 2019, 06:35:18 AM
On October 3, 1943, Aircraft from USS Ranger sank five German ships and damaged three more in Operation Leader, the only U.S. Navy carrier operation in northern European waters during World War II. Defying enemy shore batteries and warships lurking in Norwegian waters, a combined United States and British naval force that included a strongly escorted American aircraft carrier, struck a surprise blow at German merchant shipping in the Norwegian "leads" or inner waterways in the Bodoe area. German naval units in Norway, where the powerful battleship Tirpitz was lying in a fjord somewhere northeast of Trondheim, refusing to accept the obvious challenge to come out and fight. The only opposition was by enemy anti-aircraft fire and by two German planes, both of which were destroyed by fighters that took off from the American carrier, USS Ranger. Three planes from the carrier were shot down by enemy anti-aircraft fire.
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Post by: besilarius on October 10, 2019, 06:23:28 AM
October 10, 2019. Houston, Texas. Currently...
Our USS Texas now listing 9° ...

It's past the point where bandaids will help.  The longer Texas delays real work, the more expensive the whole bill will be.
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Post by: Steelgrave on October 10, 2019, 07:57:56 PM
Quote from: besilarius on October 10, 2019, 06:23:28 AM
October 10, 2019. Houston, Texas. Currently...
Our USS Texas now listing 9° ...

It's past the point where bandaids will help.  The longer Texas delays real work, the more expensive the whole bill will be.

Damn, that's sad. I've walked the Texas many times and even have a pic of my Mom as a teenager sitting on the barrel of one of the side guns over the water!

Is there a preservation fund or any relief in sight?
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Post by: besilarius on October 12, 2019, 09:49:42 PM
Austro Hungarian battleship Szent Istvan sinks on 11 June, 1918.  Sistership Tegetthof standing by.
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Post by: besilarius on October 15, 2019, 07:12:21 AM
That will leave a mark.

A little wire brushing, a little red lead...
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Post by: besilarius on October 16, 2019, 02:02:38 PM
 The battleship California was launched at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo in 1919. The ship failed to stop in the channel and continued across coming to rest in the mud on the Vallejo side, smashing into a dock before stopping. There were young boys sitting on the pilings to watch the launching and they dived out of the way.
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Post by: besilarius on October 21, 2019, 11:43:26 AM
1952, living conditions on an aircraft carrier.

https://www.facebook.com/RankerAnatomicallyCorrect/videos/255521422046332/?t=3
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Post by: besilarius on October 22, 2019, 07:16:40 AM
Russia has once more decided to proceed with the long delayed refurbishment and upgrade of its nuclear-powered Kirov class battlecruiser the 28,000 ton Admiral Nakhimov.

https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsurf/articles/20191022.aspx

This is probably more about finding work for shipyard workers and having prestige for Russia, than a real need of the fleet.
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Post by: besilarius on October 24, 2019, 07:59:10 AM
A comparison of British and American anti-aircraft fire control systems in World War II.

This Committee's major conclusion in regards to destroyers was that high level bombers would only be passing the destroyers on their way to strike at capital ships and that they would not be attacking the destroyers directly. An analysis in this report showed that attacking aircraft flying at a height of 5,000 feet and at a distance of 5,000 yards (1,525 m and 4,570 m) would only be 18 degrees above the horizon. For that reason, the Committee concluded that 'future destroyers should not be fitted with a dual purpose armament' and recommended a maximum main gunnery elevation of only 40 degrees.

No analysis of HACS would be complete without a brief mention of the contemporary USA's Mark 37 Gunfire Control System (GFCS), some of which were also supplied to the Royal Navy. In British terms, these were "HA/LA" systems, that is, they were intended for use against both aircraft and surface targets. This system was first introduced into service on the destroyer USS Sims (DD-409) in early 1940 and was quickly adopted for all new US warship construction of destroyer size and larger. Some auxiliaries built pre-war were also equipped with this unit. The Mark 37 GFCS differed from previous US directors by having the analog computer and stable vertical mounted below decks in order to reduce the size and weight of the director itself. An important feature of this system was that AA time fuzes were automatically - and continuously - set in the shell hoists, which not only eliminated a source of human error, but also meant that the rate of fire was not affected by the skill and speed of a human fuze setter, thus allowing faster firing cycles. This feature allowed ships to fire whatever barrels were ready at any given time, again resulting in an appreciably faster rate of fire. This continuous fuze setting also meant that these ships could fire a 'rolling barrage' pattern that followed the aircraft target as it moved through the sky, unlike the 'once and done' barrage pattern.

Full comparison:   https://www.quora.com/Were-British-warships-as-effective-in-thwarting-Japanese-Kamikaze-attacks-as-American-warships-were/answer/Trent-Telenko
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Post by: besilarius on October 30, 2019, 07:19:44 AM
A colorised version of a photo of the Texas.  Came out very nice.
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Post by: Staggerwing on October 30, 2019, 07:38:50 PM
Any idea when that was taken? I'm guessing mid 40's since she is sporting an awful lot of light guns.
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Post by: besilarius on October 30, 2019, 07:53:07 PM
Will see if I can find the photo, should have that info.
Believe the original was from 1944 and after a refit?  Would guess when she visited New York for upkeep in September 1944.
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Post by: besilarius on October 31, 2019, 06:47:02 AM
Aircraft carriers Zuikaku (foreground) and Kaga underway to Pearl Harbor. November 1941.
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Post by: besilarius on October 31, 2019, 07:19:18 AM
heavy cruisers USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), USS Pensacola (CA-24) and USS New Orleans (CA-32) (listed from left to right) nested together at Pearl Harbor, 31 October 1943. Ford Island is at the left, with the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) under salvage at the extreme left, just beyond Salt Lake City's forward superstructure. Note the radar antennas, gun directors and 8-inch guns on these three heavy cruisers. Two New Mexico-class battleships are visible in the background between Pensacola and New Orleans.
The Treaty cruisers were built to stay within the 10,000 ton limit and were quite limited as a result.  For example, Japanese heavy cruisers, like Ashigara, is now rated as 17,000 tons.  Also, there was a difference of doctrine.  US cruisers were designed for long range action, while the IJN designed for night fighting.
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Post by: besilarius on November 03, 2019, 07:32:08 AM
Fifty miles off Honshu.
USS Franklin being assisted by Light Cruiser Santa Fe.  19 March, 1945
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Post by: besilarius on November 06, 2019, 07:19:37 AM
In May of 1961, the carrier Antietam was transformed into the launching platform for stratospheric balloons, in the framework of the fifth and last mission of NAVY's medical research manned balloon program denominated "Stratolab".
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Post by: besilarius on November 10, 2019, 12:41:55 PM
On 10 November 1966, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) collided with the USS Essex (CVS-9) while running submerged about 350 miles east of Morehead City, North Carolina, during underway replenishment exercises. Both ships returned to port unassisted. The submarine received extensive damage to its sail area and went to New London, The carrier sustained an open hull cut in the bow area and proceeded to Norfolk, Virginia.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08571.htm

The Nautilus was a real game changer for ASW.  Old sailors told stories of how it could run away from destroyers.  At the time of her introduction, sonar couldn't operate at more than about sixteen knots.  So she could just crank it up and even though this made her very noisy, the destroyers couldn't follow and hear.Think I've mentioned there was an old, salty Quartermaster E8 at Surface Warfare school in Newport.  He told the story that her sound signature was very distinctive.  After she was tracked once, you could always ID her.  The navy tried for years to discover this anomoly.  It finally was fixed when the coffee urn in the Goat Locker was replaced.  The grounding arrangement was not done correctly and caused a harmonic vibration that sonar picked up.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 12, 2019, 08:25:52 AM
First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.

San Francisco dukes it out with BB Hiei.   "a barroom brawl after the lights had been shot out".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Battle_of_Guadalcanal

A great illustration of unprepared leadership and lack of training.  Admiral Callaghan was the senior officer, but had not been engaged with the enemy before.  He distrusted radar and tried to fight the night battle by visual. 
During the night battle three members of San Francisco's crew won Medal of Honors.  Lcr Schonman, the Damage Control Assistant, who saved the ship from sinking, Lcdr McCandless who took over after all the bridge crew was killed, and  24 year old Boatswain Mate Reinhardt Keppler.

For extraordinary heroism and distinguished courage above and beyond the call of duty while serving aboard the U.S.S. San Francisco during action against enemy Japanese forces in the Solomon Islands, 12–November 13, 1942. When a hostile torpedo plane, during a daylight air raid, crashed on the after machine-gun platform, KEPPLER promptly assisted in the removal of the dead and, by his capable supervision of the wounded, undoubtedly helped save the lives of several shipmates who otherwise might have perished. That night, when the hangar was set afire during the great battle off Savo Island, he bravely led a hose into the starboard side of the stricken area and there, without assistance and despite frequent hits from terrific enemy bombardment, eventually brought the fire under control. Later, although mortally wounded, he labored valiantly in the midst of bursting shells, persistently directing fire-fighting operations and administrating to wounded personnel until he finally collapsed from loss of blood, aged 24. His great personal valor, maintained with utter disregard of personal safety, was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 17, 2019, 12:21:30 PM
The Coral Sea had a certain style.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on November 17, 2019, 05:53:06 PM
Destroyer Escort USS Fiske broken in two and sinking in the North Atlantic after being torpedoed by German submarine U-804, 2 August 1944.
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Post by: besilarius on November 25, 2019, 07:25:38 AM
HMS Coventry rolling over after a missile strike in the Falklands.
She rolled over about twenty minutes after being struck twice.  The Royal Navy training school, HMS Raleigh, took this to heart and in their exercises,  the trainees have to save the ship in about 27 minutes.

In a show of stiff upper lip, the crew in liferafts sang Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Monty Python.
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Post by: JudgeDredd on November 25, 2019, 11:05:02 AM
Quote from: besilarius on November 25, 2019, 07:25:38 AM
HMS Coventry rolling over after a missile strike in the Falklands.
She rolled over about twenty minutes after being struck twice.  The Royal Navy training school, HMS Raleigh, took this to heart and in their exercises,  the trainees have to save the ship in about 27 minutes.

In a show of stiff upper lip, the crew in liferafts sang Always Look on the Bright Side of Life by Monty Python.
Wasn't it a failed strike too? The actual missiles didn't go off iirc. Just the flames from the motor that set the ship on fire.

Nope - I think I may have been thinking about another ship. Coventry was struck by bombs in San Carlos
QuoteCoventry was struck by three bombs just above the water line on the port side. One of the bombs exploded beneath the computer room, destroying it and the nearby operations room, incapacitating almost all senior officers. The other entered the forward engine room, exploding beneath the junior ratings dining room where the first aid party was stationed, and the ship immediately began listing to port. The latter hit caused critical damage as it breached the bulkhead between the forward and aft engine rooms, exposing the largest open space in the ship to uncontrollable flooding.[5] Given the design of the ship, with multiple watertight compartments, two hits virtually anywhere else might have been just survivable. The third bomb did not explode.

It was HMS Sheffield, and I read older accounts (prior to 2015) as a report in 2015 suggests the missile did explode
QuoteThe initial Ministry of Defence (MOD) Board of Inquiry on the sinking of Sheffield concluded that, based upon available evidence, the warhead did not detonate.[22] However, some of the crew and members of the task force believed that the missile's 165 kilograms (364 lb) warhead had detonated.[15] This was supported by a MOD re-assessment of the loss of Sheffield, which reported in summer 2015. In a paper delivered to the RINA Warship Conference in Bath in June 2015, it was concluded that the Exocet warhead did indeed detonate inside Sheffield, with the results supported by analysis using modern damage analysis tools not available in 1982 and evidence from weapon hits and trials conducted since the end of the Falklands campaign.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 01, 2019, 12:09:02 PM
Puget Sound Navy Museum
· Yesterday ·

On this day in 1942, USS New Orleans (CA 32) was hit by a torpedo off Guadalcanal. Her entire bow was torn away.

The ship struggled to stay afloat, and limped back to Guadalcanal for temporary repairs. The fix included a bow fashioned of palm tree logs. After stopping in Sydney, Australia for further repairs, New Orleans made her way to Bremerton. Because of her condition, she had to make the journey while sailing backwards.

By the time she arrived in Bremerton, a new bow had already been built for her using plans from her sister ship, USS Astoria. When New Orleans arrived at the shipyard, it was discovered that the new bow was out of line by just one-eighth of an inch. Soon USS New Orleans was able to return to the fleet.

This photo was taken at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, between the removal of her temporary bow and the installation of the new one.
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Post by: besilarius on December 02, 2019, 08:32:37 AM
Norway has released its investigation report on the November 2018 loss of a frigate because of a collision.

What sank the frigate unexpectedly was slight damage that the ship was designed to handle. But safety features did not work. The collision revealed design defects in these new Nansen class frigates. The lost ship was nine years old and collided with a tanker for some immediately obvious reasons. The bridge watch made several mistakes (moving too fast, misidentifying other ships and general inability to deal with the situation) that led to the collision. The Nansen class ships were, on paper, difficult to sink. But a key safety feature (the stuffing boxes that sealed the bulkhead opening for the propeller shaft during flooding) did not work and the flooding spread to other parts of the ship that would have been watertight if the stuffing boxes had worked. This sort of thing has been encountered before, where ship design features that were supposed to prevent the spread of flooding but didn't. The loss of the Norwegian frigate had many similarities with the loss of the Titanic in 1912.

https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htlead/20191201.aspx
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 04, 2019, 01:06:10 PM
Why carrier aircraft have to be built to be stronger than land based planes.
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Post by: besilarius on December 07, 2019, 09:13:19 PM
78 years ago today...

Back aboard Enterprise, Admiral Halsey had just poured himself a second cup of coffee when his aide dashed into the cabin. "Admiral, there's an air raid on Pearl!" Halsey's first thought was that the Army, which had been scheduled to conduct a readiness exercise the week before, was taking things too far. He leapt to his feet, telling his aide to radio Kimmel that the Army was "shooting down my own boys!" A second aide entered with a message direct from Admiral Kimmel: "AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NO DRILL."

Officer of the Deck Lieutenant John Dorsett ordered General Quarters. 19-year old Seaman Jim Barnill, one of Enterprise's four buglers, sounded the staccato notes of "Boots and Saddles." Twenty-eight year old First Class Bosun's Mate, Max Lee, played his pipe over the 1MC then called "General Quarters! General Quarters! All hands man your battle stations!" Lee's enlistment was almost up. After the war, he remembered that he then turned to OOD Dorsett and said "We're at war and I'll never get out of the Navy alive."

Dick Best remembered coming onto the flight deck shortly after general quarters had been called and looking up at the island. "The first thing I saw was the biggest American flag I had ever seen, flying from the masthead and whipping in the wind. It was the most emotional sight of the war for me."

(Excerpt from: "I Will Run Wild: the Pacific War From Pearl Harbor to Midway" - coming next spring by Thomas Cleaver)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 08, 2019, 12:16:34 PM
Ship's store price list on the Big Mamie.
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Post by: Windigo on December 10, 2019, 03:53:15 PM
Hey Bessy,
have I ever thanked you for your great posts? If I haven't, I say now thanks for posting great stuff!


:notworthy: :notworthy:
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Post by: besilarius on December 10, 2019, 04:33:14 PM
'
Thanks.  For me the finding of these little gumdrops of history keeps me going.  I hope the group finds this stuff fun and useful.
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Post by: besilarius on December 12, 2019, 09:31:18 PM
Royal Navy battleships in heavy seas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F63nXdepNxk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1A1HPdWh_jS6aBOpFX9kWpn8LemTCtRbQbrgeIN5fXCYPbLz82Z-9D3o4
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Post by: besilarius on December 17, 2019, 09:56:50 PM
On September 27, 1941, Nelson was hit by an Italian torpedo during an air attack forcing it to return to Britain for repairs.
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Post by: DoctorQuest on December 17, 2019, 10:36:02 PM
Quote from: Windigo on December 10, 2019, 03:53:15 PM
Hey Bessy,
have I ever thanked you for your great posts? If I haven't, I say now thanks for posting great stuff!


:notworthy: :notworthy:

+1!!  O0
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Post by: besilarius on December 18, 2019, 07:58:18 AM
Thanks, Doctor.  Very happy you enjoy it.
It's really strange how this stuff fascinates me.  My dad never talked at length about the war, until near the end, so it's an obsession to learn more about it.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 19, 2019, 08:51:40 AM
USS Pittsburgh lost it's bow during a typhoon on 4 June, 1945.
Not a man was lost.
After a seven-hour battle, the storm subsided, and Pittsburgh proceeded at 6 knots (11 km/h) to Guam, arriving on 10 June. Her bow, nicknamed "McKeesport" (a suburb of Pittsburgh), was later salvaged by the tugboat Munsee and brought into Guam. The 104-foot section of bow broke off owing to poor plate welds at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, in April 1943.

With a false bow, Pittsburgh left Guam on 24 June bound for Puget Sound Navy Yard, arriving 16 July. Still under repair at war's end, she was placed in commission in reserve on 12 March 1946 and decommissioned on 7 March 1947. The typhoon damage also earned her the nickname "Longest Ship in the World" as thousands of miles separated the bow and stern.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8no6NMRiok
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Post by: besilarius on December 24, 2019, 09:50:53 AM
Discussion of teething issues on Chinese carrier Shandong.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3043042/smaller-fighter-jet-force-expected-chinas-new-aircraft-carrier
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 26, 2019, 09:17:12 AM
Bomb impacts on Enterprise, August 1942

https://imgur.com/GUrPZOA
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Post by: besilarius on December 27, 2019, 08:24:13 AM
Battleships steaming in column off the California coast during the 1920s. The three leading ships are (in no particular order) USS Colorado (BB-45), USS Maryland (BB-46), and USS West Virginia (BB-48), followed by USS Tennessee (BB-43) and three older battleships.

Photograph taken from USS California (BB-44).
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on December 30, 2019, 08:21:46 AM
Economic reality is putting the brakes on Chinese carrier expansion.

https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htnavai/20191229.aspx
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: besilarius on January 01, 2020, 09:23:04 PM
HMS Liverpool after crossing the Atlantic, passing through the  Panama Canal and heading up to California with a temporary bow to reach  the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for repairs. Her bow was badly damaged  when an Italian SM.79 Sparviero torpedo bomber found its mark on 14  October 1940 as the ship made for Alexandria, Egypt - 30 killed, 35 more  wounded.
Taken under tow from the stern a fuel fire had further  compromised the structural integrity of the bow. The subsequent  combination of drag and turbulence removed it completely on the first  day of a two day reverse journey to Alexandria. Once there she was given  a temporary bow fix and sent on her way to California, where she was  photographed above and made anew. The ship survived another torpedo hit  from the same type of aircraft in June 1942.
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Post by: besilarius on January 02, 2020, 09:35:44 PM
Nice discussion of naval armor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEFjl0buiM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2BOuQnZmZMCsd-iuS0MRrnBhQujemtsicSUKW3CTRS5cihy6YdiNsQENA
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Post by: besilarius on January 04, 2020, 03:55:41 PM
Nice group.
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Post by: besilarius on January 04, 2020, 09:33:25 PM
The ships repaired after Pearl Harbor.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4014694/The-13-U-S-Navy-ships-RETURNED-service-Pearl-Harbor.html
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Post by: besilarius on February 02, 2020, 06:33:33 PM
Navy film on 1988 ASW.

http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/TrackingThreat.html

Toonces, is this representative of what is presently sent out on weather track?
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2022, 10:26:12 PM
new IJN frigate.  this thing is smoother then my freshly shaved nuts!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRxCcYgWQAAmZyF?format=jpg&name=large)
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Post by: Gusington on May 03, 2022, 06:32:32 AM
Hey you can't call it the IJN!!
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Post by: Tripoli on May 03, 2022, 02:24:21 PM
I probably need to contribute some photos to this board:  Here's one I took of the USS Blue Ridge in Bali in February 2002:
(https://i.imgur.com/KdrtVlT.jpg)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: steve58 on May 03, 2022, 02:43:29 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on May 02, 2022, 10:26:12 PM
new IJN frigate.  this thing is smoother then my freshly shaved nuts!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRxCcYgWQAAmZyF?format=jpg&name=large)

Not even rivets for the rivet counters?   :nerd:
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Post by: bobarossa on May 03, 2022, 04:14:51 PM
I want to know how the seamen throw the mooring lines out those tiny holes in the sides  ;)
And is that the smokestack at the top or a giant phallic symbol?
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Post by: Sir Slash on May 04, 2022, 09:49:14 AM
AS-DICK?  :2funny:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Tripoli on May 23, 2022, 09:07:10 PM
Slava and Krivak in the Med.  I think this was taken in 1988

(https://i.imgur.com/AYBxk3A.jpg)
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Post by: Gusington on May 23, 2022, 09:13:24 PM
Wow, almost looks like 1888. I feel ancient :/
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Post by: Tripoli on May 23, 2022, 09:45:32 PM
It is ancient.  We used Hasselblad cameras (I believe it was the 500?) using wet film.  The dust specks are on the observation window of the P-3.  The haze is typical of the Mediterranean 
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 09, 2022, 12:45:09 AM
https://twitter.com/i/status/1556602683779592192
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 17, 2022, 08:23:53 PM
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/keep-it-simple-japan-shows-how-get-shipbuilding-right-204271
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Post by: Tripoli on December 29, 2022, 09:00:53 AM
The link below is the gCaptain article on "Year in Review: Maritime Photos of 2022"  It's mostly a collection of interesting photos of ships in various forms of distress:
https://gcaptain.com/year-in-review-maritime-photos-of-2022/?subscriber=true&goal=0_f50174ef03-ae414af270-170465134&mc_cid=ae414af270&mc_eid=28239a3349
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 04, 2023, 09:18:58 PM
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/us-navy-nuclear-propulsion-plant-operator-explains-when-a-submarine-reactor-can-be-run-at-higher-than-100-and-why-the-105-on-the-reactor-ordered-in-the-hunt-for-red-october-movie-would-not-be-worth-a/amp/
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 30, 2023, 05:01:09 PM
(https://scontent-mia3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/337679644_739801764189124_6407569594815751543_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=101&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=_Ll-1EbFPQ0AX93OHCx&_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-1.xx&oh=00_AfDM4Xk2lbBIftOGelBOy2A1uyClWj4BKRm1x9tBXbdGCQ&oe=642BD090)
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 08, 2023, 03:55:33 PM
a supposed size comparison between a Ford class and whatever chinas building.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtKlK4vXwAkX0oq?format=jpg&name=large)
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Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 11, 2023, 01:07:59 PM
I think they,ll need these sailors as infantry sooner.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russias-accident-prone-aircraft-carrier-has-now-crew
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Post by: Sir Slash on April 11, 2023, 02:02:53 PM
Shouldn't have any problem finding a crew. If it were a choice between the carrier or, 'Volunteering' for the Ukraine, I know which one I would pick.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on April 11, 2023, 04:07:06 PM
dont know how much choice there is for them.
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Post by: Gusington on April 11, 2023, 08:06:49 PM
'Die' or 'die a little later'?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Sir Slash on April 13, 2023, 10:16:50 PM
Burial at sea or just burial?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on July 17, 2023, 06:47:58 PM
https://twitter.com/i/status/1680888265086255104
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Post by: Windigo on July 18, 2023, 12:25:02 PM
That is a metric shit-tonne of water displaced by that initial kaboom.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 29, 2023, 09:43:20 AM
https://warontherocks.com/2023/08/carrier-strike-groups-should-be-ready-to-go-dark-in-conflict/

these issues didn't seem to be a major problem during the Cold War before everything went wi-fi.
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Post by: Sir Slash on August 29, 2023, 10:24:21 AM
We argued-out this subject extensively in the, 'South China Sea Heats-Up' thread when the report was first published as I recall. Pretty scary that at the first sign of conflict, the U.S. Carrier Groups may have to bug-out to east of Guam to be safe from attack.  :HideEyes:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 29, 2023, 11:02:37 AM
I don't thats the case.  if we can hide a carrier in a fjord a few hundred miles from Murmansk for weeks we can maneuver around the chinese.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Tripoli on August 29, 2023, 04:38:17 PM
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 29, 2023, 09:43:20 AMhttps://warontherocks.com/2023/08/carrier-strike-groups-should-be-ready-to-go-dark-in-conflict/

these issues didn't seem to be a major problem during the Cold War before everything went wi-fi.

It wasn't a big deal.  We practiced EMCON ALPHA routinely in the mid-1980's, and day to day ops were frequently BRAVO.  However, it takes practice, so I would be getting started now if I were working up battlegroups.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 30, 2023, 05:25:09 PM
the latest chinese carrier has been lunched.

(https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1242278487/photo/cruise-ship-with-aircraft-carrier-appearance-in-china%C3%A2s-guangzhou.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=jqVNMaYRjDFNr9g3SEgaO-AKjXmwsqtV_ud088NsMos=)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on August 31, 2023, 11:47:57 PM
shudder  :HideEyes:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F46NVRHXoAADPOn?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Staggerwing on September 01, 2023, 05:19:44 AM
There's a lot of crap on deck considering the sea-state.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Sir Slash on September 01, 2023, 10:28:42 AM
Wonder what the price of eggrolls are on that Chi-Carrier?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Uberhaus on September 02, 2023, 03:23:53 AM
Quote from: Sir Slash on September 01, 2023, 10:28:42 AMWonder what the price of eggrolls are on that Chi-Carrier?
Taiwan.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 11, 2023, 06:33:26 PM
so remember a while back when a lot of people were complaining about all the rust on a US destroyer that had been deployed for almost a year....

well.

heres Vanguard class after 6 months.  :buck2:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5vHVgMXkAAm0BF?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5vHX1TXIAALork?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5vHUbfXUAASC9j?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Gusington on September 11, 2023, 07:36:22 PM
Wow that is amazing. How does that happen?
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on September 12, 2023, 10:45:04 AM
I had no idea nuke subs like to play in such shallow water/the mud.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 12, 2023, 06:21:42 PM
Quote from: Gusington on September 11, 2023, 07:36:22 PMWow that is amazing. How does that happen?

by going very slow and VERY VERY quietly.   :evil:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Gusington on September 12, 2023, 07:45:45 PM
Creepy  :ninjameditate:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on September 12, 2023, 08:17:38 PM
its literally the job.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 26, 2023, 10:19:17 AM
pretty good write up.

https://warontherocks.com/2023/10/the-sinking-submarine-industrial-base/
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 28, 2023, 08:04:36 AM
https://twitter.com/i/status/1717962244032524379
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Gusington on October 28, 2023, 03:45:23 PM
^Holy crap  :buck2:
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Redwolf on October 28, 2023, 03:55:38 PM
^Good flying weather.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on November 03, 2023, 02:27:32 PM
today in history:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-BnQSEagAAJFXI?format=png&name=900x900)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on December 07, 2023, 08:57:31 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GAvAes8XsAE39Nt?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Tripoli on December 07, 2023, 09:31:17 AM
Some more background on the image above.  Although the hulls of USS CASSIN (DD-372) and USS DOWNES (DD-375) were destroyed, much of the engineering plant and weapons were still usable.  The USN, in a remarkable showing of what might be termed "institutional cussedness", stripped these usable parts and built entirely new destroyers around these pieces, recommissioning them with the same name and hull numbers of the original DDs.    https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/pearl-harbor-raid/attacks-in-the-navy-yard-area/uss-pennsylvania--cassin-and-downes-during-the-pearl-harbor-atta.html#:~:text=Naval%20History%20and%20Heritage%20Command,-Social%20Media&text=Also%20in%20the%20drydock%2C%20side,that%20badly%20strained%20their%20structure.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on February 01, 2024, 10:49:36 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFQRjC5WMAAI6LB?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on February 29, 2024, 01:21:59 PM
Canada's Oppurtunity to get a Real Navy? (https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/britain-s-navy-may-be-forced-to-sell-off-the-hms-prince-of-wales/ss-BB1j5toj?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=fac902be24684c75a63846e1ba19c4fc&ei=10)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 03, 2024, 10:35:14 PM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHyVW-sXAAAZeFg?format=jpg&name=medium)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 04, 2024, 04:15:37 PM
I would hate doing that.... too much dependency on too many other people for your safety.
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 06, 2024, 06:37:33 PM
finally out of drydock.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH_eSW-XAAAdgjN?format=jpg&name=large)

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GH_eSW7XAAA4prB?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 11, 2024, 02:48:13 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIUlP1gW0AAdV_c?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: ArizonaTank on March 11, 2024, 12:10:57 PM
It may still be true that the "Navy gets the gravy and the Army gets the beans," but the Army still has boats.

https://www.facebook.com/7thTBX/posts/pfbid029ARCix6JMPKvtyDd4k4LFo4QWdFf3dcDUo5M3G3w7jMS5p2ZkqxsR13exhe4kJyyl (https://www.facebook.com/7thTBX/posts/pfbid029ARCix6JMPKvtyDd4k4LFo4QWdFf3dcDUo5M3G3w7jMS5p2ZkqxsR13exhe4kJyyl)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: Windigo on March 12, 2024, 02:06:02 PM
I'd say the water's cold.




Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 11, 2024, 02:48:13 AM(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIUlP1gW0AAdV_c?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Ships!
Post by: GDS_Starfury on March 14, 2024, 12:09:39 AM
an honest question here.

why is another carrier being named after Kennedy?