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That ship looks like it's loaded for... er, bear!
Is that the Kuznetzov in the backgound?
yup. Mirth is feeling red today.
Always loved the Kirov Class.
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OMG! It's the top of an OGRE emerging from the ocean!
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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.
Kitty Hawk in heavy seas.
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.
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
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.
Makes me think of those poor bastards who did Atlantic convoy duty in those tiny corvettes and subchasers in WWII.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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Are those Hawker Sea Fury's on deck?
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.
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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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That ski jump must add some interesting effects to severe weather/high wave condition operations.
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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!
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Im going to cry....
Thing of beauty innit?
I need a hug...
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Who the Hel brings a spear-gun to a submarine fight?
James Bond
Or a SEAL.
Not my favorite Bond flick. Wayne Newton was awesome though. "Bless you my child".
I couldnt find the Roger Moore one.
or I didnt bother to look long enough. ::)
HA! Never say Never Again is on now. Bond vs subs with a speargun!
and its even Sean Connery!
^IIRC, isn't that the movie that couldn't use the classic 'Bond' style opening credits because of some contractual bullshit?
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.
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.
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A classic!
IIRC all three are nuclear reactor powered- USS Enterprise, USS Long Beach, and... South Carolina?... California? One of the California class anyway.
Bainbridge IIRC.
yup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bainbridge_(CGN-25)
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
Me neither. France is part of NATO. Aren't they are a little sensitive about arms exports to such countries?
I'm sure the sensitive bits like radars and electronics will be russian and fitted out in russia.
1.7B for two Mistrals seems like a deal.
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.
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.
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... ???
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.
guess whats getting floated today? ;D
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Can't be the Izumo, can it? I thought that puppy was already in the water. The island looks similar though.
whatever it is its going to take out the blue crane on the right as it slides by
CVN-78 and it won't hit the crane.
how big?
this big:
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note that it clears the crane. ;)
Them guys on the right is teeny-tiny.
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
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.
Quote from: Steelgrave on October 12, 2013, 12:31:29 PM
What are we naming her? I don't recall.
USS Gerald R Ford
Here's what she'll look like when she steps out to play:
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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.
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
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When does she get wet? How long till she gets her first rail-gun?
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/
Ok, just noticed the report that she should be in the water by the end of the month.
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.
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That is quite the ship.
Get this, the first captain of the DDG-1000?
James Kirk
http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg1000/Pages/bio1.aspx#.UmZ7Apzt5EQ
He needs to change his middle name to Tiberius.
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
whatever nickname the XO had got changed to Spock.
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.
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.
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Royal Marines are allowed helicopters???
thats French.
even worse
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!
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
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?
its a Dauphin. pretty badass heli actually. USCG uses them all over the place.
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
we use them in Alaska....
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Iowa?
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.
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thats just sexy.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 01, 2013, 08:39:08 PM
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thats just sexy.
No one is making a model kit of her yet. I found that a bit surprising.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 01, 2013, 08:39:08 PM
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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...
Very interesting profile. Good to see low radar profile hulls looking nice. Things have come a long way since Sea Shadow.
thank the Swedes. ;)
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.
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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.
and magnetized stone.
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.
snicker
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Isn't there supposed to be a Drednok cleaning out that thing or something? :)
Is that some kind of GI Joe cartoon reference?
:o
yes
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.
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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
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Tirpitz!
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.
Tirpitz! Send in the Tall-Boys
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Amazing that we carry more ships - the Soviets/Russians are known for making bigger everything.
yeah, its amazing what 70 years of actual combat cruises can teach a navy. ;)
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)
^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.
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.
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.
Or the Atlantic for that matter.
Nice little infographic for the Zumwalt
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600 feet long? Sheesh.
makes one wonder why they just dont call them crusiers. though I would prefer the return of the term battlecruiser. 8)
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.
its a funding game with names. far easier to get money for destroyers then crusiers and, in the case of the Japanese, aircraft carriers. ;)
I still maintain the notion that 'Dreadnought' would be the most fitting term. 8)
I would put the old Kirov class in that catagory or perhaps an arsenal ship.
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^That reminds me: I have to check on the status of my Ogre Deluxe edition order.
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Quote from: mirth on December 03, 2013, 10:07:34 PM
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where did you find this? Ive read about US Navy Sinkex's before but finding images is a bitch.
found it on Reddit. I didn't know that they had sunk a Tico. That's Valley Forge.
Reddit. On that path lies madness.
For some, all paths end in madness ;-)
^^^ that should be the GH motto.
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Brit CV Queen Elizabeth under construction:
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Great pic find Mirth!
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.
ask Windy. he served on both.
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
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Outstanding Mirth.
Any chance there is a cache of more photos someplace?
Thanks so much for sharing this image.
I would love to make it over to Portsmouth some day to see the Victory. I saw the Constitution in Boston once.
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
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.
Don't tell me - let me guess - there are 69 photo's, right?
The ice cube mask designed to cure a hangover is new to me.
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.
Wow. How cool would it be to book the Captain's Quarters for a dinner?
All 4 Iowas together.
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http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hms-nelson-cuts/query/HMS
1926 newsreel on HMS Nelson.
Very detailed WWI Uboat film for the homefront.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUNVKWydEeg&feature=youtu.be
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!
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.
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.
Could be - or maybe the only one sunk whilst at sea, rather than in a 'protected' harbour.
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...
Ohio during her conversion to SSGN:
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now that looks cool.
wrong thread for that sort of thing *sniff*
everyone knows those aren't ships
Whatever floats your boat. ;)
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.
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
Certainly nothing wrong with that plan. :)
BEST SIG LINE EVAH!!!!
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oh look a new Japanese destroyer. ::)
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Hey now.
its photos like that that give Chinese Admirals nightmares. 8)
I look forward to the day when the Japanese start operating F-35s off their 'destroyers'.
and both those ships are as big as their WW2 relatives.
Interesting lines to her bow.
USS Caron. Explosives test that wasn't intended to sink her.
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Fuck you China.
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That's s postcard to send to China. ;D
Oh, come on now. China probably manufactures 80-90% of what's in those ships in the first place. ::)
No they dont. :)
Ah, and THAT'S why they cost so damn much to build. ;D
it is.
Nevada circa 1927
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Colorado
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Harry S Truman, Turkish frigate Gediz and Italian carrier Garibaldi
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That's an old picture judging by what's on the Truman's flight deck.
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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.
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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. ::)
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thats a cool one! does the Navy even dock ships in NYC anymore?
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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?
Great top down look at a 51!
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.
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Cool!
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Nice shots there Mirth. Those Kirov class look huge! Good thing they can only keep a few of them in service.
they only built two.
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.
can't believe none of y'all checked this out...
http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=9325.0
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. ;)
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Quote from: mirth on February 26, 2014, 07:34:04 PM
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I'd put some Phalanxes on the bottom too.
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Jap carriers and nuclear cruisers.
quite the range Mirth.
It's a ship...
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Ok, well maybe this one was a better choice:
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Quote from: GDS_Starfury on February 28, 2014, 10:27:23 PM
Jap carriers and nuclear cruisers.
quite the range Mirth.
I am versatile.
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Quote from: mirth on March 01, 2014, 12:17:22 PM
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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.
And our destroyers are now larger then that batteship.
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Quote from: bob48 on March 01, 2014, 02:19:56 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 01, 2014, 12:17:22 PM
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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
^Rollocks!
Nothing but the Rollocks (does a poor rowboat make).
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http://www.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=4229536&convertTo=USD
16 inch, MK 7 gun tubes up for auction.
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.
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/)
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Quote from: mirth on March 06, 2014, 06:44:36 PM
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Nicely placed shot low on her hull.... good thing she didn't get through
Quote from: mirth on March 06, 2014, 06:51:18 PM
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I'll have to dig around for it but I recently saw an incredible model of this ship.
Who was she?
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 12, 2014, 06:18:33 PM
Who was she?
Bouvet, French Jauréguiberry-class battleship.
USN Nuclear Cruisers
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I was just going to ask 'Japanese?' when I saw the photo caption.
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found the model pics.
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http://www.network54.com/Forum/110741/thread/1372238430/Sedd%FClBahir
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Excellent photos, Mirth.
Thanks for posting.
Quote from: mirth on March 14, 2014, 11:16:08 AM
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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.
I get just the opposite reaction.
they know theyre watching 65000 tons of battleship drive by.
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/
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Old school...
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^very nice
Wow! It there a higher rez version available? That would look awesome printed and framed.
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.
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QuoteNorth Carolina (BB-55) is diving deep into heavy green seas while operating with TG.38.3 on 12 December 1944.
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Last naval shore bombardment of World War 2 (http://imgur.com/a/5kzww)
QuoteFrench battleship Jean Bart visiting New York, 1955.
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how about some captions and context Mirth.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on March 18, 2014, 06:41:00 PM
how about some captions and context Mirth.
Because I love you...done.
Coral Sea and New Jersey off Vietnam circa 1969.
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Kongō in drydock. Yokosuka, 1930.
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Prinz Eugen in Boston Harbor after the war.
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Lady Lex early 1942
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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.
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maybe a theme park/hotel like they did with the old russkie carriers in China years ago? Weird.
those are pretty shitty welds on that thing
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.
Im not sure theyre even welds.
my bet is on Chinese gorilla glue.
I kinda have to give the Iranians credit for even building something that shitty.
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 ....
how about a big-ass walrus sleeping on a Russian sub
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lol nice find.
'Comrade, oh Comrade! NATO capitalistic opportunist wreckers have resorted to using sea cows to shit all over us!
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Quote from: endfire79 on March 25, 2014, 05:56:11 PM
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They dropped in to add their seal of approval.
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Cuban Osa II missile boat, 1984.
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USS Santa Fe (CL-60) during Typhoon Cobra
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USS Cowpens (CVL-25) during Typhoon Cobra.
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HMS Ark Royal with the replica of the Mayflower mid-Atlantic June 1957.
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Flicker Stream of the Queen Elizabeth Class Carriers under construction (http://www.flickr.com/photos/qeclasscarriers/)
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USS Delaware (BB-28) in heavy seas, 1914.
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USS Saugatuck (AO-75) refuels USS Massachusetts (BB-59) off Japan, 20 April 1945.
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Quote from: mirth on March 27, 2014, 05:48:57 PM
USS Delaware (BB-28) in heavy seas, 1914.
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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.
American submarines at their advanced base in the Mariana, March 1945.
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I think the ameros built the best looking subs
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....
Bauhaus rule #1: form follows function.
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The U.S. Navy's first three carriers; USS Langley (CV-1), USS Saratoga (CV-3), and USS Lexington (CV-2). Bremerton, Wash. 1929
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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.
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. ;)
I'm sure when the time comes, they'll find room for a squadron of STOL F-35s.
Even better!
No launching or arrester gear on them. Their decks are supposedly rated for 35's though.
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.
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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)
Only $89.
Tennessee, 1930.
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British Med Fleet in Malta. 1939.
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For a flyspeck on the map of the Mediterranean, Malta never ceases to amaze me with how large it actually is.
S-300F magazine in a Russian cruiser
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HMS M1, a WWI-era British submarine armed with a 12in gun
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USS Carpenter (DDE-825) Carpenter during a Formosa Straits patrol, August 1953.
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Italian carrier Cavour with escorts, Indian ocean 2013.
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Soviet battleship Paris Commune bombarding German army units that were besieging Sevastopol, December 1941.
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Quote from: mirth on April 07, 2014, 11:15:00 AM
HMS M1, a WWI-era British submarine armed with a 12in gun
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truly a WTF were they thinking
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".
those S-300 cells look pretty unprotected. where did you find that?
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
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
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truly a WTF were they thinking
They were thinking the same thing as the French, apparently:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Surcouf
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...
I've seen pics of Surcouf before. The Brit sub was new to me.
so you like to barrels?
I & II Squadrons of the High Seas Fleet in Kiel:
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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?
you might want to check the Naval Institute Press for books.
USS Des Moines, Venice 1958
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Thatsa one-a bigga Wata Taxi!
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HMS Benbow leads two of her sisters.
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Broadside view of HMS Dreadnought.
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Lexington in Hawaiian waters, 1932.
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USS Bennington after being hit by a typhoon off Okinawa. June 5, 1945.
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Escort carriers steam through heavy seas in the Pacific, 1945
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HMS Royal Oak in rough seas.
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Quote from: mirth on April 21, 2014, 11:40:03 AM
USS Bennington after being hit by a typhoon off Okinawa. June 5, 1945.
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WOW! :o
Iirc that typhoon sunk 20+ ships.
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.
Footage from the June '45 Typhoon.
USS Nebraska at Norfolk, VA, April 1918.
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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)
Quote from: mirth on April 23, 2014, 11:31:06 AM
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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.
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.
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. :)
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
USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) pulls away after taking on fuel in heavy seas.
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I was on her for fleet week a few years back.
Havhingsten (Sea Stallion ) on a test run in 2007.
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Come on guys, it's a ship. Right?
Yes it is!
It needs a striped sail and rows of shields for proper presentation though.
and we need to tie Gus to the front.
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)
that was the exact scene in my mind!
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Odd-looking ducks ain't they?
I think theyre pretty cool.
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more Iranian carrier shots
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QuoteUSS De Haven (DD-727) buries her fo'c's'le during unrep off the Korean coast. Operation Chromite, September 15, 1950.
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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
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.
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that is one reason I would never be a navy man*
*OK so that term, navy man, may be mutually exclusive
you can be the cabin boy.
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
USS Massachusetts - A look inside one of her turrets. August 1898
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USS Antietam with an Avenger from it's air group banking overhead, July 1945.
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USS Colorado (BB-45) with the NYC skyline in the background, 1932
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Italian carrier Cavour
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Another pic of the French Submarine Cruiser Surcouf.
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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.
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Honda Point Disaster. The largest peacetime loss of Navy ships in US history.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_Disaster
Quote from: mirth on May 09, 2014, 12:05:04 PM
Honda Point Disaster. The largest peacetime loss of Navy ships in US history.
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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.
Quote from: mirth on May 09, 2014, 09:44:56 AM
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It looks as if the bow should have a roll-back door for unleashing hoards of wet-suited Bond-villains in high-speed Zodiaks.
Danish Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate smashes through high seas
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jeeze thats a shit pile of metal
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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Israeli Dolphin Class Submarine Surfacing
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Enterprise at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor being readied prior to the Battle of Midway
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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?
Emergency blow of the ballast tanks, staged for the photo op.
looks like a reverse belly flop, at least american subs (in the pics) pop up with a little more grace and style than that
that depends on when during the maneuver you take the photo.
Manning the yards on the USS Atlanta in Boston Harbor, 1890
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Armored Cruiser Seattle anchored at San Diego, 1923
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Tirpitz
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Operation Crossroads Baker. 21 KT atomic detonation 90 feet underwater. Nagato, Pensacola-class cruiser, and Prinz Eugen visible (among others).
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(Click for full-size image)
USS Saratoga (CV-3) passing through the Culebra Cut of the Panama Canal enroute to the Pacific. February 7th, 1928.
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Quarterdeck of HMS Hood awash.
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German High Seas Fleet entering Scapa Flow for internment.
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Three sailors getting smoked out on USS North Dakota (BB-29) circa 1913
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^Those pics should give Windy an ecohard-on.
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
the day afer California legalized pot in San Diego.
Quote from: mirth on June 02, 2014, 11:18:19 AM
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US landing craft at Okinawa
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I just want to be that country again. :-\
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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^Nice find, Bob!
Engine room of USS Massachusetts (BB-2). 1898.
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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'?
Skywarrior. The Destroyer was the USAF version developed from the Skywarrior.
Thanks, Mirth, I was not aware of that.
if theyre stopped with arrestor wires, why are the tyres smoking, are brakes been applied too?
The Broncos was doing test landings without a wire and take offs without a catapult. It's a VSTOL aircraft.
'cause Bawb's a VSTOL guy.
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
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. :(
Landing Craft Infantry approaching Utah/Omaha beaches
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USS Idaho (BB-42) traverses Panama
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Any idea what year that was? She still has the early 'wickerworks' (Lattice Masts).
he's lucky he knows what day it is.
Not sure on the year on the Idaho pic.
This is Hood traversing the canal in 1924.
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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).
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.
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.
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)
very interesting article. thanks. O0
Thanks, Al!
Shots of the new Japanese carrier Izumo
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silly boy... its a helicopter destroyer. :P ::) :2funny:
I'm sure that's how the Chinese think of it too :P
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
Wait until you see it transform into a gigantic PLAN-smashing robot that launches stealthy super cruising Zero MkII fighters from it's torso.
Ha! Funny cause it's true!
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.
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.
HMS Hood - 1891
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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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Dreadnought Yamashiro launches a biplane from her turret-top flight-deck, 1922.
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Salvaged turret from the battleship Mutsu
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Seen like that, it looks like part of a fallen Jaeger.
thats pretty cool.
French frigate Latouche-Tréville (D646) fighting heavy seas in the Bay of Biscay
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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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But they do give some cover to an elevator.
At least they're not calling it a destroyer!
The Brits prefer "through-deck cruisers" when referring to their "not an aircraft carrier" aircraft carriers.
Right, their 65,000-ton cruiser... lol. ::)
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seen from where on USS Los Angeles?
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...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Los_Angeles_%28ZR-3%29
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
And that big tower on the USS Patoka is there for the Los Angeles to hook onto:
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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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Interior of a Japanese midget sub (with apologies to Gus)
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Another angle
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Another shot of Patoka. This time with USS Shenandoah moored to her.
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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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well that missile went to shit! and that Long Beach rendering is really friking cool!
"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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USS Wyoming (M-10), an Arkansas-class monitor near Mare Island, California. 1902.
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USS Intrepid before and after the installation of her angled flight deck.
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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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Yeah, this is a great thread. Just looking at that Monitor - not much freeboard on it.
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.
USS Remey (DD-688)
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Enlisted Berthing Deck aboard USS Boston, a protected cruiser. Circa 1888.
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26 May 1944, PT-126 "Acey Deucey" replenishing the day before attacking Sandakan harbor with seven other PTs.
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A Kingfisher being recovered by USS South Dakota during WWII.
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Avengers on USS Bogue.
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Quote from: mirth on July 15, 2014, 06:39:22 PM
Avengers on USS Boag.
Err... USS Bogue? the Baby Phat-top?
oops.
Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy transiting the Suez Canal.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth, recently floated out of drydock.
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USS Chicago CG-11 seen from USS Ranger.
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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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USS Truxtun decommissioning ceremony at PSNS, 1994
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And Truxtun being broken up at PSNS.
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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.
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....
Needs more turrets w/ triple BFGs...
thats a Kirov class. ya know how many missiles are on that thing?
Can't fire em when you're sunk
not such an easy thing I would imagine. that thing has more CWIS bumps then pining has genital warts.
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... ;)
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
back in your hole boy.
USS Chicago at the launching of USS Maine, 1889
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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?
feet above the keel for draft.
http://www.fromthedeckchair.com/2013/05/30/cruise-101-know-your-hull-markings/
Ah... so...
Royal Navy's 5th Battleship Squadron in rough seas. Circa WWI.
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HMS Queen Elizabeth, 1944.
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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!
She started out as this
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And was converted to
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#2 might be more lethal but #1 is way more sexy.
USS Oregon (BB-3) torpedo tube and torpedoes, c1900.
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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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QuoteBrand new Elco PT boats of Squadron 2 off NYC, November 1941.
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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.
Town-class light cruiser HMS Sheffield in 1942.
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USS Key West (SSN-722) at Periscope Depth, RIMPAC 2004.
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^ That is just a cool picture.
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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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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Damage to the USS San Francisco after colliding with a seamount at 35kts in 2005.
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Ships of Task Force 11 turn in unison, July 1942.
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USS Enterprise (CV-6) tied up at NAS North Island, 1940.
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USS Kearsarge (BB-5) the only USN battleship not named after a state.
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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.
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.
WWI era French submarine transport Kanguroo
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Cool.
USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) Pearl Harbor, 1962
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Article with lots of nice pics of DDG-1000
http://intercepts.defensenews.com/2014/06/zumwalt-ddg-1000-the-future-is-nearly-here/
Boston Navy Yard, April 1960.
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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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USS Atascosa with PT boats as deck cargo
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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.
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Look closely at the decks. You're going to make Star sad again. :(
Poor Midway. No Tomcats for you!
:'(
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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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
Crew of USS Oklahoma cleaning her 14-inch guns circa 1916.
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Lexington transiting the Panama Canal in 1934.
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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.
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.
I knew they wouldn't escape your notice Wing. ;)
USS Mississippi, 1944. Note the large amount of AA.
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British Motor Torpedo Boat 219 launching torpedoes
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Emergency Blow Test, USS L Mendel Rivers
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I've never seen a sub fart before!! :)
Th Silent but Deadly Service.
^ROFL
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Somebody's b-day?
::)
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/whatever-you-do-dont-buy-your-aircraft-carrier-from-russia-e0f6707cb4ee
its borderline barbaric how we used to build these!
Trafalgar class submarine HMS Talent
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USS Fitzgerald launches two SM-2 missiles in the Philippines Sea
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CH-46 Sea Knight hovers over the USS George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), 1977
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Tirpitz in Altenfjord, Norway. July 1942.
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French carrier Béarn, 1938.
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Soviet Typhoon under construction.
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Amazing size. Good thing they only completed 6.
and they only have 1 left.
Where's that 1 operating from? And is it still in operational condition?
IIRC its up north and its being used as a testbed.
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.
This is impressive
http://wtkr.com/2014/09/19/navy-marks-4000th-ballistic-missile-submarine-patrol/
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.
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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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USS MIDWAY (CV-41) arriving at Pearl Harbor in 1991.
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thats gotta be fresh from a refit cycle.
Actually, Midway was retired the year after that picture. Now she's a museum ship somewhere.
Star is all :'( on the Tomcat, as am I, but the Intruder makes me :'( moreso.
There was an idea once to fit the Awg-9 to an Intruder and load it up with Phoenix's.
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
PT 117 running trials, August 1942
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Submarine S-8 coming into Charlestown Navy Yard, 1928.
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HMS Rodney passing under the Forth Bridge.
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no pics of the first through third?
gimme a second...
How about the bridge over the Firth of Fifth?
I've been over the Forth Rail Bridge a couple of times - its really impressive.
Not bad for a bridge about to turn 125 next year.
Dayum! I wonder if Windy has any pictures of it being built.
They built that bridge out of a witch! She was made of wood!
Does it weigh more than a duck?
Is that an African duck, or a European duck?
Lexington at anchor, 1938.
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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 :(
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Remains of SMS Emden at North Keeling Island
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USS Hancock (CV-19) test fires a SSM-N-8 Regulus cruise missile, 1954
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Quote from: mirth on October 15, 2014, 05:44:11 PM
Remains of SMS Emden at North Keeling Island
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Looks like she's been there a while. When was that pic taken?
French ships Mars (ex-Sceptre, ex-Masséna), Souverain and Eylau
Text: Our old warships now serving as barracks for our marine infantry.
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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
USS Enterprise (CVN 65) at launch
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Coronation Fleet review at Spithead, 1953
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Very impressive.
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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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.
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^fantastic pic!
you can just hear the vomit sloshing around.
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
More likely his watch would capsize the ship.
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http://imgur.com/a/4SJHx
^Transformer or Decepticon? Dear God, keep Michael Bay away from it. :crazy2:
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.
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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.
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).
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.
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.
True that..... ;D
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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Looks happy to see you.
Honestly, that exact thought went through my mind.
Of course! We're degenerates!
Flock of Stringbags over Ark Royal
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USS Missouri? Iowa?
Iowa at Ulithi Lagoon 1944.
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Dutch subs undergoing maintenance
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USS Michigan carrying the Advanced Seal Delivery System
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Full gallery - http://imgur.com/a/XMNPJ/layout/grid
Quote from: mirth on November 26, 2014, 11:29:56 AM
Dutch subs undergoing maintenance
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Making sure they're all ready for bear season?
Quote from: mirth on November 26, 2014, 11:29:56 AM
Dutch subs undergoing maintenance
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Tidy looking yard.
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QuoteHMS M2 Submarine Aircraft Carrier with a Parnall Peto seaplane taking off
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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?
it didnt have a caption or a reference. Im guessing those parts were used once upon a time for active units.
Wild. That's a lot of types in one pic.
those cant all be nukes.
theres a lot of DEs in that shot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_submarine_classes_of_the_United_States_Navy
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.
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).
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Certain a light touch with respect to infrastructure.
thats a post retirement shot.
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Badum-tish?
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Nice! Here she is as she was in the Age of Wickerworks:
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QuoteRussian Pr. 949A Oscar II SSGN K-266 Oryol in Zvezdochka Shipyard, Severodvinsk 2014
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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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glad to see the Red in Red Banner Fleet stands for Rust. ;D
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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GDS - That's an awesome photo of the Idaho.
QuoteGunfire damage to the U.S.S. San Francisco after the Battle of Guadalcanal - November 13 1942
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QuoteThe Great White Fleet lies off Old Point Comfort
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Whoa...
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?
It's the Anchorage, one of the San Antonio class LPDs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Anchorage_%28LPD-23%29
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.
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.
Illustrious and Queen Elizabeth
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QuoteHMS Britannia (l) and HMS Hindostan (r) as cadet training ships, Dartmouth, England.
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QuoteUSCGC Duane in the North Atlantic.
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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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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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(http://)
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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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French Navy in Toulon
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is that all of it? :buck2:
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlfAAycGIXk&feature=youtu.be
fish eye view of KGV.
Looks like fun.
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
Really tight fit. (Be careful not to get Star excited.)
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.
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.
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.
The cruiser Santa Fe in Typhoon Cobra.
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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LOL
a collection of World War I photos.
http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/wwisea/
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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.
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
http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/top-10-undiscovered-shipwrecks-wwii.html
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Yikes!
Halsey's typhoon?
USS Lunga Point, Oct. 1945. There is a second baby flattop right behind her.
http://www.navsource.org/archives/03/094.htm
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USS John C. Stennis about to travel back to 1941.
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http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/this-destroyer-is-the-worlds-largest-remote-controlled-1663603212
Took these pictures yesterday.
RSS Endurance. Singapore Landing Ship.
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Protector Unmanned Surface Vessel.
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Nice. And no snow to boot! Wonderful!
A collision at sea, can ruin your whole day. Thucydides, ca 434BC.
Why is the Wisconsin referred to as the WisKy?
HMS Warspite home page. Some pretty good paintings.
http://iainballantyne.com/warspite-100/ship-history/an-amazing-fighting-life-part-1/
Chinese pre-dreadnaught.
http://www.hksw.org/ting%20yuen.htm
^^^ good tour but I was hungry an hour later.
Radar Intecept Room Aboard USS Shangri-La (CV-38)
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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!
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.
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.
Not the old exhaust port ploy again :o
Kinky
A couple of rounds of Able-Able common, VT fuze should take out small boats like these.
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...
It's not like the carrier is sailing around unescorted. Those speedboats would never be allowed to close.
A few Seahawks with Hellfires would get the job done nicely.
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.
Proton torpedoes
Doh! Oh yes, silly me - fancy not knowing that.
No worries, Bob. Everyone knows that frying pans are the most destructive weapon ever created ;)
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.
^somebody needs to let Iran know :P
They'll be quite sad to find out after putting so much time into that giant fiberglass movie prop.
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
For all East Coast Grogs, this could be a lot of fun.
http://tallshipsphiladelphia.com/
16" Mark 7.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16%22/50_caliber_Mark_7_gun
Postwar movie on Pacific submarine operations.
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/SubPac.html
Bes, them's some cool links you've been posting. Keep it up!
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,
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we're going to have such cool looking starships.
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.
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.
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 19, 2015, 08:22:19 PM
Then we can make 'em all purty.
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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
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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)
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I recognize that ship. It's Lonetar's Winnebago!
Lonetar? The loner that goes around in his 'free candy' van, putting pine tar on kids' 'baseball bats?'
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Nice shot
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May be just the perspective, but the superstructure on Hermes looks massive.
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:
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Quote from: mirth on March 28, 2015, 11:59:56 AM
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Nice. ;)
It is odd to see Japanese carries in formation again though.....
^Let's hope the Chinese think so 8)
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.
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Quite a change from that to the New Jersey. That's the CL Brooklyn behind your grandfather's ship.
Double header
USS Iowa in the Gulf of Sidra, 1986. Conducting a Freedom of Navigation exercise
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A collision at sea can ruin your whole day. - Thucydides
Maybe it will buff out?
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!
USS Peleliu, last of the Tarawa-class Assault Ships. Decommissioned this week.
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Finally.
Now we can all sleep at night without fearing the Gamillons.
Lemme guess...
The NJ's Wave Motion Guns are slightly smaller than Yamato's but can fire twice as fast.
Quote from: mirth on April 01, 2015, 12:03:57 PM
USS Peleliu, last of the Tarawa-class Assault Ships. Decommissioned this week.
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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?
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)
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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?
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I hear we got one sub now that can actually fire torpedos
Without catching fire?!? :o
That's a Flight 10 upgrade.
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.
An icebreaker that catches fire when it contacts ice.
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
But it catches fire after every shot.
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?
USS Arizona in the 1930s.
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A US Navy blimp on patrol for submarines while an Atlantic convoy steams for Europe, 1943.
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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.
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Awesome.
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)...
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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.
Where's the VLS? Or the CIWS mounts?
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.
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.
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)
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)...
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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:
^
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.
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^Dude, we're too much alike. If you've slept with Gus' mother too, we may need to talk :coolsmiley:
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.
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???
Dude, you can't go from incest to the Cowboys. It's like going from ass to mouth.
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
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.
yes, yes is.
Sad day.
HMS Iron Duke
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Vietnamese submarines.
http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/
Brazilian Navy monitor Parnaíba (U17). Commissioned in 1938 and still in active service
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_monitor_Parna%C3%ADba_%28U17%29 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_monitor_Parna%C3%ADba_%28U17%29)
https://www.facebook.com/themighty/videos/661745047290733/?fref=nf
HCMS Bonaventure in a storm, 1959.
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Small gallery of pics here:
http://imgur.com/a/MHeZS (http://imgur.com/a/MHeZS)
Pieces of what will eventually be the next Ford-class aircraft carrier - John F. Kennedy (CVN 79)
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Quote from: mirth on April 30, 2015, 08:13:33 AM
HCMS Bonaventure in a storm, 1959.
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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
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
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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.
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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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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As a bonus, HMS Illustrious was there too, right across from Victory:
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Great pics! Thanks for sharing them.
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."
I've only been down to see HMS Victory once, but it really is most impressive.
We thought you served on her.
Powder monkey.
Final moments of USS America (CVN-66) :(
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Sad.
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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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?
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.
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:
That's an awesome story, Bes ;D
Richelieu, 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjtUYiylVo
French frigate Duquesne (D603)
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1-inch armor plate penetrated by a 15-inch shell.
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QuoteUSS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN-730) arrives home at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor following a strategic deterrent patrol. May 2015.
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https://www.facebook.com/NavyNuclear/videos/2644857284799/?fref=nf
Nuke sub engagement.
Essex Class Carrier Modernizations
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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)
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/
I knew some were missing. They should have consulted us here at Grogheads, we could probably have written the article :smitten:
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Things indeed get larger with age.
It ain't the size that counts, its.....well Hell, maybe it IS the size that counts :knuppel2:
USS Mississippi (BB-23)
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May 16, 1991.
Wisconsin's last fire mission.
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/watch-and-hear-the-last-time-the-battleship-wisconsin-f-1707956997
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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The old "Arky" visits Kiel.
QuoteKirov class battlecruiser firing Granit ASM
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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)
Somewhere in Valhalla the sailors of Taffy 3 are sharing pints with the crew of HMS Glowworm.
Russian Oscar II SSGN in dry dock
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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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Great pic! O0
That is a fuck ton of firepower.
Awesome pic. Is there any special reason why some ships have the flag flying on the port side and some on the starboard side?
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)
^ROFL
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!
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
^It's a Russian sub. They're just happy it isn't on fire and exploding.
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
In Soviet Russia sub sticks to barnacles!
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
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
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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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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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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Our navys newest pride and joy.
JMSDF Kongō (DDG-173) along with a host of Japanese and US ships
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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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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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Comparison of stealth warship hulls
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QuoteUSS Mobile Bay (CG 53) operates in the Persian Gulf, Sept. 20, 2011
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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.
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.
HMCS Victoria returns home from operations with the U.S. Navy in February. Note the total lack of fire O0
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Must be all the heat resistant tiles...
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
USS Idaho (BB-42)
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Admiral Kuznetsov
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Is that just before the USS Boise put a couple of Mk48s into Kuznetsov and sent her down into the icy North Atlantic deep?
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
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.
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?
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.
Good to know, thanks mirth.
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
Well they sail it around and pretend it's a carrier.
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.
The difference being that the Chinese are on their Langley and we have nearly a century of carrier ops under our belts.
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?
Per Official Chinese News?
Under.
The over/under is 100 pilots lost? I'll take the over.
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?
Not according to the PLAN.
That would be a kung pao landing.
QuoteUSS Josephus Daniels (DLG-27) and USS Belknap (DLG-26) under construction at Bath Iron Works in 1964.
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USS Edsall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Edsall_%28DD-219%29
Learn to scale the pics, Star!
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?
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.
Just realized I wrote "missile/railgun" when I meant "laser/railgun."
Quote from: mirth on July 22, 2015, 08:27:48 AM
Learn to scale the pics, Star!
Buy a real monitor Mirth.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 21, 2015, 11:32:03 PM
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gee that was tough
Wtf is that?
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.
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.
D'oh! Ninja'ed.
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QuoteType 89 torpedo being loaded onto Sōryū-class submarine of the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force
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USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) in heavy seas
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Electric Boat Co. Groton Connecticut, 1943.
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QuoteJustice on the Hudson, 1909. A Liberté class pre-dreadnought in town for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration.
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QuoteView of USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) from an aircraft approaching for landing, 1957
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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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Transiting the Panama Canal
When was that taken?
1984 if my recollection is correct.
Would that then be the USS Iowa?
Yes and Steven Seagal was the cook.
..
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!"
That's it. Is Erika Eleniak still alive?
If so I'm calling seniority privilege. We'll let you know when we need more towels.
Gary Busey is the XO. He's a little unstable, but as long as you don't get him pissed all is good.
Ford Class carrier
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Nice collection of WWI and WWII era military vessels
https://popgrotto.com/JoeHaupt/Militaria%20-%20World%20War%20I%20And%20World%20War%20II/Details
A Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk on USS Little Rock (CL-92) in heavy seas
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Just four months and 2 days after she was sunk!
Just how big is an Iowa turret?
QuoteLaunch preparations for USS Missouri (BB-63), Brooklyn Naval Yard, 1944.
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US Navy CVEs at anchor.
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HMS Ark Royal and the admiralty tug, Sprite, at Devonport.
Imagine some poor, lost schlub with his nose stuck in his smart phone. Looking up and coming face to face with Wiscy.
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I see nothing but targets.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on August 26, 2015, 07:59:36 AM
I see nothing but targets.
Silhouette templates for kill indicators.
Which ones are the Colony Ships?
they have colony pods everywhere.
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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
QuoteUSS Tennessee (SSBN_734) returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay Georgia, 2013.
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cool dolphins!
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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QuoteUSS Spruance (DDG 111) pulls away as USS Rushmore (LSD 47) approaches USNS Rainier (T-AOE 7), center and USS Peleliu (LHA 5)
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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
QuoteUSS William P Lawrence taking JP-5 from the USS John C Stennis
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Two Iowa class battleships in formation. USS Long Beach in the background.
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QuoteHMS Vanguard returns to HMNB Clyde
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Quote from: mirth on August 28, 2015, 11:24:07 AM
Two Iowa class battleships in formation. USS Long Beach in the background.
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Hate to be on the receiving end of that! :o
The Long Beach sure does have a satisfied glow about her, doesn't she?
Radiation does that.
QuoteWhite Oak trees are delivered to the USS Constitution in drydock for use in her restoration
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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
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.
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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.
Bawb remembers sailing from there to join Nelson before Trafalgar.
oo-ar!
Avast behind....
...duck hat....
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.
Somebody had to read the plans for him.
How many frying pans tall was it?
27 and an omelette pan (= 15.723 woks).
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.
So "cubit" is ancient Arimatheaic for "frying pan?"
^yes
Trust me. I studied under Professor Ravenswood.
And take back one frying pan to honor the God whose Ark this is.
Frakk you. Now I have to watch that movie again.
Afterwards, can I skip the next one and go straight to number 3?
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 ;)
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)
Dreadnoughts of the Royal Navy photo album
http://imgur.com/gallery/rk0Mv
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Fleetweek 1932 in NYC.
HMCS Magnificent in Halifax harbour when my dad served on her in 1952.
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^Cool pics, 40!
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)
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
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QuoteThe only functioning tank landing ship tank left in the world, LST-325 at Chattanooga, TN, 2014.
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QuoteUSS Halibut(SSGN-587) watches a Regulus missile fly away 25 Mar 1960.
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QuoteThe Big "O". Aerial view of USS Oriskany (CV-34) underway, probably during her maiden deployment and only Med cruise, May–October 1951.
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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
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Looks like fun!
Quote from: mirth on September 03, 2015, 11:39:37 AM
QuoteUSS Halibut(SSGN-587) watches a Regulus missile fly away 25 Mar 1960.
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Sweet find!
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.
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Well get this as the Grogferry to our future Grog Island fortress.
Japan launches its second Izumo-class "destroyer." They named her Kaga :coolsmiley:
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Next one to be named Akagi perhaps?
Seems like they are naming them after old provinces. So maybe not Akagi, but Shinano, Yamato, and Musashi would all be options.
I guess the connection I was making was to their WWII carriers. Didn't know where the names actually came from.
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.
Only two of the class are planned, so it's unlikely we'll see an Akagi or Shinano.
That's just because their putting their effort towards ships that turn in to giant robots.
I fully endorse that endeavor.
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.
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.
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.
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http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/mine/am305.htm
QuoteProject Lehi: USS King County (AG-157) with a mockup of the deck of USS Halibut on it, Testing the Regulus II missile system..
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Album here - http://imgur.com/a/mvJAN (http://imgur.com/a/mvJAN)
Cool! O0
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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:
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.
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.
Mean Harry passes Gibraltar
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.
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.
Very cool photos bes!
QuoteUSS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) being overflown by the Blue Angels.
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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."
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) after her refit. Sea Vixen and Buccaneers can been seen on her flight deck
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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
QuoteInside the hangar bay of USS Ronald Reagan
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QuoteHMS Vanguard "vents off" as she leaves HMNB Clyde in Scotland
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QuoteJune 15, 1953: Commonwealth carriers at Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation Review
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QuoteMissile loading onto a Delta III
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Is that at Kitsap?
Heerman and John C. Butler make smoke as they attack the Center Force off Samar.
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.
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.
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.
Or it's a whale fart
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QuoteAerial view of ships moored at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Exercise 2014
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It always amazes me the quality and detail of so many black and white photos.
That one of Victorious is particularly nice. Did you view it at full size? Some great details.
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
Looks like Fairey Fulmars on the flight deck.
Quote from: Staggerwing on September 14, 2015, 06:14:59 PM
Looks like Fairey Fulmars on the flight deck.
Good eye. They are Fulmars.
They have that looooong canopy just like the Fairey Battle.
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
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.
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.
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.
Damn mud flats.
Classic rail gun.
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?
A friend who is ordnance assures me that there are both barrels and liners in storage.
Had not heard of anyone denying it.
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.
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.
Turkish Sultana Yavuz. (SMS Goeben).
QuoteKGW-1 Loon missile explodes on the deck of USS Cusk(SSG-348) 7 Jul 1948
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Album - http://imgur.com/a/BvaHx
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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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?
Very odd.
its easier to move refugees to Europe that way. :P
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.
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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K-456 Tver
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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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QuoteStern view of battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) during sea trials after being modernized in 1982
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USS Oregon in drydock, 1913.
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BC Hiei, October 1941. Home waters.
Quote from: mirth on September 24, 2015, 11:46:07 AM
USS Oregon in drydock, 1913.
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I may print that out and frame it.
thats it? :o
the British Navy OOB.
Some thoughts on why Egypt is buying the Mistrals
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/why-is-egypt-buying-two-orphaned-mistral-class-aircraft-1732595299
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.
Bob served on her with Nelson.
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.
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.
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.
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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That thing looks tiny. I imagine the Atlantic crossing was a little long and cramped.
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.
Crew is 5 officers and 22 O/R from what I read.
that cant be it surely!
there most be shit loads still submerged - its almost a mini sub
I googled it :-)
QuoteHMS Iron Duke Vertical Seawolf launch
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QuoteUSS George Washington (CVN-73) underway in the Pacific Ocean. Sept. 2015.
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QuoteUSS Albany, CG-10 in Barcelona, 1979
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Predreadnought SMS Schlesien
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A little love letter from Bob Kane, creator of Batman, to the USS Iowa.
QuoteUSS Lafayette (SSBN-616) with extended telemetry mast used for Poseidon missile tests, ca. 1975.
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QuoteHMS Ark Royal leaving Gibraltar for the last time, wearing her paying off pennant, 2nd October 1978.
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Artist rendition of the cruiser Quincy during Savo Island.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on September 23, 2015, 11:02:01 AM
its easier to move refugees to Europe that way. :P
ouch!! LOL....
QuoteRussian Akula class submarine loading torpedo
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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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All 4 Iowa-class battleships operating together in the Virginia Capes area. (June 7, 1954)
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thats a lot of kaboom all in one row
QuoteUSS America (CVA-66), foreground, and USS Ranger (CVA-61) underway in the Gulf of Tonkin. Januray 1973.
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QuoteInvincible Class HMS Ark Royal in Portsmouth Naval Drydock
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QuoteFrench SSBN Le Triomphant departs Brest
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QuoteKilo-class B-800 Kaluga submarine returns to the base
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Gallery - http://imgur.com/a/u5QpO
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.
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.
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.
A collision at sea can ruin your whole day. - Thucydides, 323BC.
Leipzig and Prinz Eugen
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
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
Fantastic!
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Not as good as a VW though........
Laffey versus Hiei
Horsecock and Joe in the Goatlocker.
QuoteSpanish frigate Blas de Lezo (F-103) passing San Felipe castle in Ferrol, North Western Spain.
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Flickr Album from Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa : US Sixth Fleet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cne-cna-c6f/sets/72157647574803063
QuoteTyphoon class sub under construction. Two pressure hulls and the ICBM section between them clearly visible
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QuoteHMS Illustrious (86) in the Indian Ocean in August 1942
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Quote from: bob48 on October 13, 2015, 05:23:26 AM
Fantastic!
Did you serve aboard Henry V's flagship, bawb? ;)
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
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Very cool.
QuoteUSS Block Island (CVE-106) in North Atlantic seas 1952
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Sonia does Sussex.
http://lex-for-lexington.tumblr.com/post/131225255272/uss-edsall-impression-of-a-ki-51-sonia
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!
QuoteUS Atlantic Fleet in a gale, 1913.
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Diving on Musashi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwaaJeCjgjw
QuoteSMS Lützow, the flagship of Rear Admiral Franz von Hipper during the Battle of Jutland.
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QuoteShore party from the USS Onondaga, a double-turreted monitor launched 29 July 1863.
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QuoteUSS Indianapolis (CA 35) entering New York City, date unknown
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Well, we know the photo was taken sometime before July of 1945.
I actually think it's pre war.
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.
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Looks like a sweet gig (for back in the day).
QuoteHMS Ark Royal (R09) with Venoms, Hawks and Gannets on deck.
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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).
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QuoteHMS Lion (C34) at Malta, in 1961
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German naval paintings
http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/claus-bergen-marine-maler-im-ersten-und-zweiten-weltkrieg-fotostrecke-130623.html
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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Now, if the First Lieutenant had any sense of humor, they'd let the anchor go.
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...
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Constitution, New York, and Texas at Charleston, Mass shipyard, early 1930s
HMS Furious in 1918 with flight decks fore and aft of the superstructure.
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QuoteUSS ABSD-2 with USS Mississippi in the dock, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 12 Oct 1944
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USS Iowa in the same floating drydock shown above
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Quote3-inch guns in the stern gun tubs aboard the USS Essex, circa 1950.
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QuoteUSS Halsey (DLG/CG-23) following completion of her air warfare upgrade at Bath Iron Works. 1972.
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Midrats on the Yorktown in 1944.
QuoteRoyal Navy Vanguard Class submarine HMS Vigilant returning to HMNB Clyde after her extended deployment.
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Looks like a sea monster!
Quote from: Centurion40 on October 29, 2015, 10:05:58 AM
Looks like a sea monster!
Nessie made it out of the Loch.
QuoteUSS New York seen from the deck of USS Missouri, October 27th, 1945, in the Hudson River
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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!
man that was close to the end
QuoteThe Second Battleship Squadron of the German Navy sailing to the North Sea, circa 1911-14.
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QuoteFirst and Second Battleship Squadrons and Small Cruiser of the German Navy, in Kiel Harbor, Germany, circa 1911-14.
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QuoteHarry Truman watching the 1945 Navy Day celebrations in New York from the USS Missouri, October 27, 1945.
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Cool pic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61dzZo5Up0
A rather wet ride.
Warspite on the rocks.
On the way to the breakers, the grand old lady had one more adventure.
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.
Most theme parks have flume rides and log drops that do the trick for a wet one.
Turret Explosion on Battleship Michigan, 25 September 1916.
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.
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.
QuoteChristening ceremony at Bath Iron Works for USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115)
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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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QuoteLeander-class frigate HMS Cleopatra passing through the Corinth Canal, Greece in 1970.
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QuoteEscort Carrier USS Barnes transporting P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes across the Pacific, July 1, 1943
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Always wanted to try the Corinth canal, but the fuddy-duddies at Sixth Fleet were concerned about the sonar domes!
Can you imagine?
Maryland after a torpedo strike off Saipan. 10 July, 1944
Damn that's a BFH!*
* Also said by Star on several occassions
Video filmed from Prinz Eugen of the Denmark Strait.
https://www.facebook.com/fireflypls/videos/1710973809122193/?fref=nf
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/
IJN cruiser Nachi 5 November, 1944, Manila.
Looks like she is missing her bow in addition to that other... problem.
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.
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.
Gambier Bay getting a water washdown from 18" shells.
And the ship on the far right is the cruiser Chikuma.
IIRC, Gambier Bay didn't have long to live after that photo was taken.
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.
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
A female worker cleaning the rifling on a 15 inch rifle in Warwickshire.
Event on the USS Chopper.
http://diodon349.com/Stories/Stories_SS/The_Deep_Dive_of_the_USS_CHOPPER_SS_342.htm
USS Maddox during Halsey's Typhoon, 17 December, 1944.
Battleship Texas, steam plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdGo-54bknM
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.
Zumwalt in sea trials.
http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2015/12/07/largest-destroyer-built-navy-headed-sea-testing/76919816/
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.
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.
Walk Softly, and Carry a Big Stick.
The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads.
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.
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
X turret, HMS Tiger after Jutland
Old Soviet navy vs. new Russian navy.
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:2funny:
The end of Exeter.
Portsmouth harbor, 1919. Royal Sovereign and Victory
Floating Dock, Deptford, London. Approx 1845.
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.
Italian factory, Genoa, 1906
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
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 :-)
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.
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.
Look at all that bloody smoke! Who built the engines, Volkswagon?
Or maybe the Trabant factory.
For those who have never quite figured out what a 16" shell is equivalent to.
Nauticus museum in Norfolk, VA, USS Wisconsin.
#2 Fire room, USS Yorktown.
Christmas Day, 1940 on HMS King George V.
Giblet Soup? A Bawb specialty?
We had to make do. There was a war on, y'know!
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.
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.
QuoteHMS King George V viewed from beneath the 14 inch guns of HMS Anson, Scapa Flow - 15th January 1943.
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QuoteRussian Delta class submarine firing ballistic missile
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USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109)
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Cool charts. Where did you find them? Are there any more at the source?
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.
The cruiser chart is missing the Marbleheads.
A great class inspired by the govenors of Massachusetts.
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.
2 Million pounds for Dreadnaught in 1905.
Would be roughly 218 Million pounds today. Might be able to cover an F35/
That cruiser chart is cool, but that's some shitty Photoshop skills, making the bottom of it unreadable.
QuoteRIM-7 Sea Sparrow missile launched from Wasp-class amphibious assault ship
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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."
1100 crew on a cruiser?
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.
i refer you to the long beach and baltimore class
Quote from: undercovergeek on January 20, 2016, 02:37:22 PM
i refer you to the long beach and baltimore class
Not exactly modern ;)
^....neither is 'geek............
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.
fkng useless!! :D
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Almost as big as a Chinese Coast Guard cutter.
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The Tillman Battleship boondoggle.
These "maximum" BBs were derailed by the Washington Treaty.
http://myplace.frontier.com/~wellsbrothers/Battleships/TillmanBB.html
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.
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"
We are the Borg. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile".
Remember, the Captain's name is James Kirk. I can just imagine the bridge chatter, "Captain, thair be whales here!".
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!
Final take off and landing on the Sad Sara.
http://worldwarwings.com/uss-saratoga-got-one-final-landing-but-its-not-what-youd-think
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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Slava class cruiser in dry dock
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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.
Quote from: mirth on January 27, 2016, 12:10:24 PM
Slava class cruiser in dry dock
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The MiniMe completes that pic.
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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USS Iowa (BB-61)
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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.
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...
The Tchermans were surprised that the Whitehead torpedoes, manufactured prior to World War I, would still work.
QuoteOpen missile tubes for P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) on Kuznetsov class carrier
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QuoteHMS Rodney leaving the builder's yard, August 26th, 1927.
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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
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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.
Greased pigs on the USS Saratoga
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-time-when-the-uss-america-dropped-live-pigs-on-the-1756136949
QuoteUSS Nautilus (SSN-571) in 1958
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Laffey versus Aoba.
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
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Purty picture.
Captain's cabin, Uss Constitution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3w3-jSMB0
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. ;)
Constitution with angels.
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QuoteU.S. battleship Connecticut in 1909
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Nice! I may have to print that one out and frame it, me being a resident of the Nutmeg State and all... O0
Light cruiser Chester after Jutland.
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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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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Russia's sub fleet today:
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U boat, 1915, command station.
QuoteVirginia-class battleship USS Georgia (BB-15) departing from New York
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QuoteColorado-class battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48) after her modernization off Puget Sound Navy Yard, July 1944
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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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QuoteHMS "Hood" in the Lower East Chamber of the Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal. July 23, 1924.
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QuoteUSS Gemini firing a Harpoon anti-ship missile.
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QuoteHMS Glorious raising steam in 1917
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Quote from: mirth on February 14, 2016, 07:30:48 AM
QuoteUSS Gemini firing a Harpoon anti-ship missile.
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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)
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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))
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Cool! O0
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.
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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.
QuoteRoyal Australian Navy ships HMAS Darwin, Anzac and Warramunga sail into Jervis Bay.
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^Nice!
USS Vicksburg, guns blazing
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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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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Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 15, 2016, 07:23:25 AM
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American carriers give me a hardon :P
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Squall. Vladi's anti-Zumwalt design.
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.
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.
The rules were clunky, and the physical mechanics could be really hard on the knees, but god it was fun.
Volador test torpedo was a circular runner.
Same thing that sank the Tang.
Gambier Bay under fire from Chikuma (circled).
QuoteNorfolk waterfront at sunrise from across the river.
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QuoteUSS HALSEY (DDG 97) stands out of San Diego at sunset.
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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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...not Captain Wilkes, I hope...........
QuoteThe sun rises behind USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71). As photographed from JFK. Mar 2002. USN Photo.
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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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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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QuoteHMS Indefatigable nearing completion at Rosyth, 2nd March 1944.
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QuoteHMS Hermes off Hong Kong, 1930.
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QuoteCardboard model used to help plan the salvage of the USS Oklahoma after Pearl Harbor
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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)
Somethings are just too ugly... no pride in that Navy?
QuoteRoyal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette HMCS La Malbaie (K273) underway in choppy seas.
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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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QuoteHMS Courageous off Yugoslavia, 1929.
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QuoteGerman battleship SMS Lothringen photographed passing under the Levensau Bridge of the Kiel Canal before World War I
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QuoteUSS LST-806 beached at Palawan Island, Philippines, with a wrecked Japanese Aichi E13A Jake Float Plane
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Wonder what the british version of this would say?
QuoteHMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) with Grumman S-2 Tracker aircraft on deck. Late 60's.
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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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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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QuoteImperial Japanese Navy Myōkō-class heavy cruiser 'Ashigara' prior to the Spithead Coronation Fleet Review, May 19th 1937.
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Today's navy.
I blame it on Zumwalt.
QuoteUSS Florida and a bargeload of shells, Boston Navy Yard, 1922
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Ummmmm.... who was the naval genius that had the idea to have that second turret face into the ship!
as long as you dont fire youre ok
The Acme Ship Design Company?
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)
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.
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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
Quote from: Windigo on March 10, 2016, 11:28:33 AM
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HMS Goatfury?
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.
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^ Saw that pic. It disturbed me on a couple of levels.
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^ The goat looks awfully happy to have a radar array up its bum.
It's also standing directly over the vertical launch system
QuoteElectric Boat workers prepare Virginia-class attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786) for rollout. July 2015.
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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.
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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
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.
Nice to have them all lined up like that.... ???
I hope there's plenty of AA around :buck2:
At least they remembered to deploy the torpedo nets this time.
Someone remembered how the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
Yeah, but they tore down the DesSub Pub that used to be to the right.
A tragedy.
Every time a pub closes, an angel loses its wings.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/how-you-move-giant-submarines.html?src=fba&type=int&page=who
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.
So, the Russians don't trust their sailors to get their subs from one base to another over a distance of 10,000 KM
I think it's more that they don't trust the subs to make it.
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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QuoteAn A3J Vigilante and F-8 Crusader launch from the deck of the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65), ca. 1962.
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USS Alabama, third deck, Damage Control Central.
QuoteUSS Barton (DD722) on the measured mile off Rockland, ME 1943
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QuoteAn RAF Avro Vulcan makes a low pass over HMAS Melbourne (R21) during Exercise Bersatu Padu, South-East Asia 1970
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^ He's dropped his bomb somewhere :2funny:
I love the Vulcan!
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?
Looks like S-2 Trackers and an A-4.
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...
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
Wow, open tow sandals. Beat the steeltoes we had to wear.
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.
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
QuoteArleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG-82) patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean. Mar 2016.
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The Canadian hydrofoil ship: HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400)
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http://www.foils.org/brasdorp.htm
^Cool! Great site!
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
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.
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) leaving Sydney, Australia in 1967.
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QuoteJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force Hayabusa-class guided-missile patrol boat
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QuoteA Royal Navy Valiant Class Attack Submarine cruises off HMNB Clyde on 14 May 1986.
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Quote from: mirth on March 21, 2016, 11:59:40 AM
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) leaving Sydney, Australia in 1967.
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Aha! Now
that ship has Buccaneers on the flight deck!
(...along with something that looks suspiciously like a Fairey Gannet.)
^Truth be told, I posted that for you. And it is a Gannet forward of the Bucs.
Thankee!
You've earned redemption O0
QuoteUSS Daniel Webster (SSBN-626) Arriving at Pearl Harbor March of 1970
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QuoteAmerican Destroyers from 1864 to 2016
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QuoteMap of River Thames showing comparative range of naval guns firing upon London (Illustrated London News, 24 July 1909)
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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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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.
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^ very cool shot
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.
Brand new ship and you already got snow on it, tsk tsk tsk.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN1tOVzFrWY
9.2" naval gun.
QuoteUSS North Dakota during gunnery practice, 1921.
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Japanese post-strike damage estimate for Pearl Harbor, Dec 8th, 1941.
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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...
Very cool find.
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
Kido Butai damage at Midway.
http://www.midway42.org/TheBattle/IJNCarrierDamage.aspx
HMS Triumph, Trafalgar class SSN
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QuoteItalian navy COMSUBIN (combat divers) exiting a Type 212 (Todaro) class submarine while underwater.
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Irrespective of the rest of Italy's armed forces' percieved reputations, their Frogmen have always been the Bold Ones with the Brass Ones.
Some internal shots of Zumwalt.
http://www.defensenews.com/videos/defense-news/tv/2016/04/03/defense-news-tv-inside-the-destroyer-zumwalt/82585250/
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.
1/10 model the Yamato in the lobby of the Kure Maritime Museum.
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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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QuoteUSS Constellation CV-64 during the WestPac '68 Cruise
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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?
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.
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.
QuoteAudacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) in 1972
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QuoteFrench carrier battle group transiting Suez
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Italian aircraft carrier Cavour
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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.
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All the good snipes acted like bridge crew were glorified chauffeurs.
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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.
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.
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She looks like one buff cutter, and not at all afraid of some blue water.
In fact, she looks almost like... a destroyer.
no no no! this is a current Japanese destroyer:
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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...
This must be a new Japanese light cruiser then:
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This is their new Space Shuttle
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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.
QuoteOperation Sandy.USS Midway with a captured V-2 Rocket on her flight deck.
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QuoteRussian Delta class SSBN in dry dock
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QuoteUSS Toledo CA 133 launching a Regulus Missile, 1956
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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.
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They fired it from the flight deck?!? :o
Was von Braun on the same trip? ???
That's very cool, mirthie. Nice find.
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USS Randolph (CVA-15) in rough seas
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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.
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https://www.facebook.com/Shipwreckhunter/videos/1321910437824467/?fref=nf
16th century swedish ship Mars is explored. Looks like a movie scene.
Life at sea.
https://www.facebook.com/emmalynnwhitman/videos/10153886349713503/?fref=nf
There are times I actually miss this.
5th Battle Squadron
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QuoteUSS Constitution and Curtiss OC Observation Aircraft. Photographed during her 1931-34 cruise.
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Russian Kilo in drydock
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Great find, Mirth. Never have seen that one before.
USS Barry leaving the Washington Navy Yard today.
USS Iowa in drydock
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QuoteUSS Hunley (AS-31) at Holy Loch, Scotland with two ballistic-missile submarines alongside, 1963.
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QuoteView from the bridge of HMS Sheffield as she escorts an arctic convoy, 1943.
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Prinz Eugen kisses Leipzig
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Another nice glamor shot. O0
How close to Bath are you again? Not that you are biased or anything... 8)
HMS Victory is bulging.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-36254359
Rodney at work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3E80CRKcPg
Different shell handling than on Iowas.
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.
QuoteSoviet Yankee-class SSGN submarine K-420, Project 667M "Andromeda", during deconstruction process.
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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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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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Salvaging USS Oklahoma:
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Album here: http://imgur.com/a/8wbuO
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.
https://www.facebook.com/atelieruldemodelism/videos/1000932846624941/
Boys and their toys.
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.
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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What, the GHW Bush didn't have any Grey Poupon?
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?
^The French don't need to practice that
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.
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.
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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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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Only 3 poor buggers? I bet they were on a defaulters list :-)
What a bizarre looking ice formation...? :o Looks like a bunch of dinner plates frozen together... :idiot2:
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?
...and super-saturated solutions at low temperatures?
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)?
Savannah hit by a Fritz-X.
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.
Heh. There should be, but we're still the A-Team.
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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Are those smaller transport aircraft Electra Juniors? They look too small to be regular Electras or Lodestars.
Not 100% sure, they do look like Juniors. Could be Beechcraft 18s too.
QuoteFrench aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91)
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Missouri struck by a kamikaze on 11 April, 45.
Interesting debris.
Jean Bart after duking it out with Big Mamie.
Penicillin five dolla.
Luv you forever, Joe.
USS Harry S. Truman
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Seydlitz barrel after Jutland.
In hindsight, using the catapult may have been too much.
Glenn looks quite dashing there.
QuoteUSS Washington (BB-56) loading supplies in Iceland mid 1942
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/V-boats.jpg)
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.
pretty sure it had to do with latitude not time of year.
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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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QuoteBritish Fleet at Spithead, 1887
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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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Astute class subs under construction, UK.
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thats just a friking cool picture. O0
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) in dry dock at Newport News
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Oooh... shiny!
http://www.stena.ee/blog/kak-eto-ustroeno-podvodnaya-lodka-v-razreze
Some Russian efforts.
Talk about cramped working spaces.
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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QuoteUSS Ohio (BB-12) In drydock at MINS August 10, 1915
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QuoteUSS Haddo (SSN-604), a Permit-class submarine and a unit of Submarine Squadron Four based in Charleston, S.C.
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QuoteJapanese Kongo class guided missle destroyer JDS Chokai pulls up alongside the USS Kitty Hawk.
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^Most likely more deadly that the Battleship it was named after...
Certainly better against subs than her namesake was.
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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)
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and USS Ashland (LSD 48) in formation.
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QuoteUSS Winston Churchill (DDG 81) is overflown by a Spitfire whilst nearing Portsmouth. August 22, 2001.
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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/
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. ::)
QuoteOberon-class submarine HMCS OJIBWA (S72) on the syncrolift at Halifax, 1986.
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It's crewed by Redshirts? Shouldn't they be serving on the Victoria-class boats instead?
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/
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QuoteSoviet Gus Class hovercraft on the Amur River
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^Doesn't the DOD require Gus Team Seal to use only US-built equipment?
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.
QuoteBridge of the USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) in the South China Sea
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Size comparison of a Yamato turret, and a Tiger I.
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).
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Why Helena couldn't be saved.
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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)
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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QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CVA-43) returning from a 331-day deployment to Vietnam in 1965.
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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/
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The French battleship Bouvet in the Dardanelles, circa 1915
Cool pic. That tumblehome design looks a little iffy for rough seas though.
Looks a little iffy for high angle incoming shells too! :o
19153? Did technology take a slide 17,000 years in the future? :D
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)
so we start calling Windy Junior?
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on July 28, 2016, 10:13:48 AM
so we start calling Windy Junior?
Pet names are so cute.
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That looks expensive
it was being used as a target ship post WW2.
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.
Another view
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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.
^ 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.
Grape bug juice over cornflakes. A true gourmet experience, when the powdered milk was just too much.
QuoteAircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) sails through calm seas near Guam at sunset
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QuoteView from French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91)
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QuoteUSS Worcester (CL-144) testing her radiation washdown system - July 7, 1954
(https://i.imgur.com/SbQ05SF.jpg)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0D-ulUrMIo&feature=youtu.be
Tour of turret one on Iowa.
QuoteJapan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships during naval review
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QuoteVirginia-class attack submarine Minnesota (SSN-783) under construction in 2012.
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IJN heavy cruiser Nachi under carrier air attack. Sunk later that day in the Philippines.
HMS Gloucester under stuka attack off Crete.
Rough day at the office.
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.
QuoteLaunch of USS Washington (BB-47) - she would never be completed and was ultimately sunk as a gunnery target in 1924.
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QuoteHMS Victorious at Pearl Harbor, 1943.
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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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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.
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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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QuoteHeavy-lift vessel MV BLUE MARLIN delivers the damaged USS COLE (DDG-67) to Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 2000.
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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.
Intrepid's last shot
QuoteA MK-23 16 in. nuclear projectile for use on Iowa-class battleships
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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.
QuoteUSS Zumwalt departs Bath Iron Works on her way to Baltimore.
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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
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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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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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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QuoteUSS Dallas (SSN-700) is escorted while pulling into port. Jebel Ali, United Arab Emirates. Aug. 2016.
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The Dallas is still afloat!?!
....
Ah she's due for retirement in 2017... but still that's a long time fer a sub no?
Looks like something we found in a fan room on the Manley.
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.
Zumwalt making a port call in Newport, RI.
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QuoteUS Third Fleet prepares for the invasion of Leyte, 6 October 1944
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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...
he likes a good cavity search.
QuoteADM. Rickover waiting on the dive plane of USS Sculpin SSN-590
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frigate sailors do it with one big screw.
Tomahawk launcher on USS Florida, SSGN-728.
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I promise not to step.
What are the small black squares in the lower right that 2 of them don't need?
Electrical tape covering the scuffs from where somebody stepped.
the one with the yellow tape make big mushroom clouds.
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? ???
Rodney firing on the burning Bismarck.
Taken from KGV.
QuoteThe Charles de Gaulle's First deployment with a Rafale only air wing
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QuoteINS Vikramaditya, Indian Aircraft carrier
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QuoteUS & ROK Navy ships - Busan Naval Base
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QuoteUSS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) passing through the Panama Canal on her way to Bikini Atoll to participate in Operation Crossroads - March 1946
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QuoteJMSDF Soryu-class submarine SS-505 Zuiryū
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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
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She survived at least 2 atomic blasts.
I didn't realize we actually commissioned her into the USN.
DDG-1000 passing Fort Popham
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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/
Those paddlewheel carriers were such cool ships.
Oh boy - I had not seen anything about those before. How interesting.
:D
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-iN21u6nG8
Had to see this every year for safety.
QuoteFrench battleship Richelieu under the Brooklyn Bridge, February 1943
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QuoteHMS Victorious making way with a full load of Buccaneers, Sea Vixens and Wessex's
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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)
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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.
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Quotehttp://HMS Monarch, an Orion-class battleship, sailing down the Tyne, 1911.
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QuoteArmoured cruiser Pisa at high speed
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QuoteJapan's new Asahi-class destroyer (25DD) being launched
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Nice gallery of pics on board Harry S. Truman
http://imgur.com/a/GKTC4
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.
I figure the black smoke was because they switched her to coal.
Nice bow art on Dragon
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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:
That guy is smoking some serious shit.
QuoteWorcester class anti-aircraft cruiser
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http://navalanalyses.blogspot.com/2016/10/warships-of-past-worcester-class-anti.html
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
Pics of USS Eaton (DD-510) and USS Wisconsin (BB-64) after their collision
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QuoteBattleship France, last ship of the Courbet-class battleships, the first dreadnoughts built for the French Navy, in 1914.
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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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QuoteThe unfinished Italian aircraft carrier "Aquila" tied up at La Spezia sometime following Italy's surrender
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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/
QuoteUSS Alabama (BB-60) shortly before being commissioned, July 1942
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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.
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.
Toonces is my supplier.
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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QuoteThe Spanish dreadnought "Jaime I" docked at Tenerife, 5th May 1936
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Quotenaval guns undergoing maintenance at South Korean Navy depot
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QuoteTask Force 77 in formation off North Vietnam, March 1965.
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QuoteUSS Connecticut (BB-18) during speed trials, 1906
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QuoteTwo Charlemagne class battleships
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The Great White Fleet visited Chicago?
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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QuoteUSS Coral Sea (CV-43) underway as she approaches Naval Station, Pearl Harbor. Jan '81
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QuoteUSS Little Rock (CL-92) firing a Talos guided missile, May 1961
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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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QuoteItalian navy submarine Scirè under construction.
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QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer Hyūga (DDH-181) in Guam
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Yamamoto would have approved.
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer
still makes me laugh every time.
Quote from: GDS_Starfury on November 07, 2016, 07:49:32 PM
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer
still makes me laugh every time.
I know, right?
Nighttine trap on a carrier.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a23733/super-hornet-low-visibility-landing/
QuoteVarshavyanka-class (Improved Kilo) submarine mooring. Russian Pacific fleet.
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QuoteA British Blackburn Buccaneer bomber buzzes the Soviet battlecruiser Admiral Lazarev
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QuoteHMS Revenge, Ramillies, Royal Sovereign and Resolution, taken from their sister HMS Royal Oak in 1930.
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Canadian submarine HMCS Windsor goes into a dive (that it hopefully will recover from)
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^Diving is the easy part. Coming back up...that's the bitch 8)
QuoteUSS Ohio (SSGN-726) arriving in Busan, South Korea
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Looks like S.K. is the inspiration for W40K Hive Worlds.
Another day at the office.
Russian battlecruiser Pyotr Vileky transiting the Suez Canal:
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Of course, other captions may be more entertaining ;)
Suez pics are always cool!
USS Essex Plan of the Day (POD) for 22 Feb, 1944, strikes on Saipan and Tinian.
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.
QuoteUSS Macon (ZRS-5) under construction in the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation hangar at Akron, Ohio.
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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:
QuoteHMS Warspite fitting out, October 1914
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QuoteUSS South Dakota (BB-57) fitting out on the 1st of January, 1942.
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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
I guess the only ships which are bigger now are the carriers.
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
QuoteFrench Type 38 torpedo boats 321 and 315 on the Seine in 1922.
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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
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QuoteUSS New Mexico (BB-40) in her original configuration (top) and her post-1931-1933 modernization.
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So true.
^Heh. Nice.
QuoteU.S. Fleet moored in Pearl Harbor on 3 May 1940
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That's a different angle than usually shown. Nice find.
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).
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.
QuoteUSS Drayton (DD-366) off the West Coast in October 1941, as seen from a Navy Texan trainer
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Battlecruiser Seydlitz after Jutland.
Riding a little low.
IIRC, Of all the heavies at Jutland, isn't Seydlitz the ship which suffered the worst pounding while still making it home?
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
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.
QuoteUS Marine Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAV) depart USS Bataan (LHD-5), 2016
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As all snipes will tell you.
Not really sure if this belongs under Ships or under Planes.
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
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?
QuoteCanadian Sailors Play A Game Of Hockey On The Flight Deck Of HMCS Magnificent (CVL-21), 1948.
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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
Yes, it was one of our capital ships. Quite a large rowing boat, actually.
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?
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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Looks like you were missing a bracket on the closing img tag.
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Doh!
Photo taken by a Japanese plane of the moment after a torpedo hist HMS Exeter.
QuoteRoyal Navy's Grand Fleet in the Firth of Forth 1914
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QuoteThe "Tsesarevich", 1904, at Qingdao
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That looks like something orcs would build
"Waaaghovich!"
The Langley/Jupiter must have been really shallow draft. The Potomac has some tricky shallows.
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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QuoteScharnhorst and Gneisenau together in 1939
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QuoteHMS Victoria passing a swing bridge while en route from Armstrong Shipyard at Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, circa 1890.
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QuoteKing George V-class battleship HMS Duke of York as she leaves drydock at Rosyth.
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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.
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Not seen that picture before. I live about 5 miles away from there.
QuoteDaring-class destroyer HMS Diamond (D35) steaming past "Mayflower II". 1957.
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QuoteWeapon-class destroyer HMS Broadsword (D31) hard over under heavy wheel off the coast of Libya. May 1962.
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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.
QuoteWaiting for an air raid onboard the Canberra. Falklands conflict 1982.
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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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QuoteHMS Barham and the destroyers Mons (left) and Medusa, being fitted out at Clydebank, July 1915.
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QuoteRussian Oscar II class submarine
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QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth preparing for sea trials which are due to begin in the next few months.
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USS Begor (APD127) during the evacuation and demolition of Hungnam, Korea. 24 December, 1950
QuoteHauling lifeboats ashore while the RFA Sir Galahad burns in the background. Bluff Cove, Falklands. 1982.
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QuoteUSS Indiana (BB-1) at the Chicago World's Fair 1893
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QuoteUSS Forrestal in the Suez Canal. 1988
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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.
QuoteKongō in drydock, Yokosuka, Japan, 1930.
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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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QuoteUSS Antietam (CVS 36) moments after launching an F3D Skyknight and Grumman F9F Panther while underway in the Caribbean.
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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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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.
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.)
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QuoteBattleship Number 58, USS Indiana, in a South Pacific harbor, December 1942. Taken by a USS Saratoga (CV-3) photographer.
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QuoteUSS Indianapolis (CA-35) off Mare Island Navy Yard. July 10, 1945.
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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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Quote16 inch projectile and full 6 bag powder charge as used by BB-61 IOWA.
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HMS Kelly going down.
QuoteHMAS Melbourne (R21) launching Gannet aircraft while cruising with HMAS Vendetta and HMAS Voyager
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The Melbourne actually collided with and sunk one of those two destroyers.
Operation Verity, 1949.
Monty visits the fleet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPRIsq-DkJY
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) fires a Sea Sparrow missile during Valiant Shield 2016
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QuoteUSS Alabama (BB-60) anchored in Casco Bay, Maine, circa December 1942.
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QuoteHMS Vengeance in Florida
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from the failed Trident test?
Yeah, think so. That's Port Canaveral.
QuoteRussian battleship Oryol after Tsushima
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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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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....
I leave bigger holes.
When first scanning your post, it read as "I have bigger holes."
Too early in the morning to go on with this.
The end of aircraft carrier "bow prongs"
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7099/__trashed-9
QuoteJapanese Hayabusa-class guided missile patrol boat JS Kumataka (PG-827)
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Three? WTF three? Looks big enough for four.
like theres a chinese warship that can survive 2..... ::)
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
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.
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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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
the problem with those carriers is how much exposed ordinance they carry. missile engines dont respond well to explosions.
The Chinese were at least smart enough to ditch the SSMs that the Russkis carry on theirs.
HMS King George V
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QuoteUSS Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624) starts down the way at Mare Island on 22 February 1963
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QuoteHe-115 Aircraft Flies By A Scharnhorst Class Battleship And A German Destroyer During The Channel Dash, February, 1942.
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QuoteUSS Utah (BB-31), getting painted, May 4, 1929
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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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Plane being blown off the Lexington's flight deck by an explosion.
Entrance wound of Yorktown at Coral Sea.
QuoteQE class carrier compared to Invincible class
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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.
It is somewhat confusing to see starboard side elevators. Thought for a second the picture was reversed.
Don't the Nimitzs have elevators on the Starboard side in front of and behind the island?
Yes, had a brain fart.
F35 at the top of the ski jump.
^That's it!
QuoteUSS HANCOCK (CV-19) at a Pacific anchorage, 1944-45
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those are anchor lines... theys fishing.
1934 Fleet Maneuvers.
http://dvr-streaming.mirc.sc.edu/autogenerated/MVTN_23-987to23-988_r1of3_Mez1_CMS_588_Acc.m4v
QuoteNuclear powered Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine USS Benjamin Franklin (SSNB-640)
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QuoteHMS Benbow leading line astern
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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.
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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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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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QuoteDutch torpedo boat ARDJOENO, built by Yarrow in 1886
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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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https://warisboring.com/chinas-second-aircraft-carrier-is-almost-complete-aeefad0aa293#.9qxsfslbc
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
Damage from a near miss to Enterprise at Eastern Solomons.
QuoteUSS California (BB-44) drydocked after Pearl Harbor.
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Dud bomb found on West Virginia
QuoteConstruction of the 14 inch guns for USS New York (BB-34) and USS Texas (BB-35).
(https://i.redd.it/o0ll2g1dvyiy.jpg)
November 25,1944 kamikaze attack on Essex.
(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/a-kickin-time-for-military-monday-258.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
Some crew chief screwed up big time.
QuoteBattleship guns being manufactured at the Washington Navy Yard, 1917
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The building is still there, but all the equipment is long gone.
Quote from: mirth on March 03, 2017, 05:54:01 AM
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what the hell is that .... thing aft of the tower? I mean besides screwing up some sweet sub lines....
Chamber for Special Forces ops.
ahhh that's where they have the cow catapult... :bd:
Like I said.
HMS Valiant damage by Italian pigs. (Maila)
Shooting the sun with a sextant.
Phone call about 1972.
"Do you carry an A-10 Sextant?"
Gasp! "A what tent?"
QuoteHSwMS Vale (P155) in 1982
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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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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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USS Grayback preparing a Regulus missile for launch.
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.
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
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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
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QuoteAircraft carrier Houshou with landing biplane fighter underway off the coast of Shanghai, China 1932
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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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QuoteAircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) transits the Mediterranean Sea alongside aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91).
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QuoteGerman predreadnought battleship SMS Elsass in Kiel
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QuoteSeawolf-Class attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) and the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
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QuoteJapan's 2nd Izumo-class helicopter destroyer JS Kaga (DDH-184) was commissioned recently after its launch in 2015
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QuoteJMSDF Submarine Hakuryū (SS-503) visiting Guam in 2013.
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^ 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.
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.
Don't they have an Aegis-equipped vessel named Kongo as well? Rebooting the 'Yamato' can't be far off.
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
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?
Just add Gen5 VTOL.
Is there a legal/treaty reason they don't classify those DDH's as CVL's.
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.
then its a good thing they're destroyers.
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
QuoteUSS America (LHA 6) with a deck full of F-35Bs and MV-22 Ospreys
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Almost delusional, thinking mattresses would do much for bomb splinters.
I dunno man. You ever try sleeping on a real futon? I'd swear there is armor plating between the layers of packed cotton.
Probably not delusional for the guys on the receiving end.
QuoteHMS Barham followed by the battleship Malaya and the aircraft carrier Argus
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Carriers without islands just look.... weird.
HMS Dido entering Malta, 1944
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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Another shot of the Ford underway
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so clean and pretty. O0
Yes... no pesky aircraft to clutter up the deck.
Someday the F-35 will be ready
How soon is now?
QuoteHMS Nelson between the wars
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QuoteUSS Wyoming in dry dock, sometime between 1910 and 1915. She is showing her anti-destroyer 5" gun at the stern.
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QuoteNavy Blimp L-8 delivers B-25 parts to USS Hornet off San Francisco, April 4, 1942
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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.
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QuoteHMAS Melbourne (CVS-21), in company with HMAS Stalwart (D215), launches a Grumman S-2E Tracker, approx 1977
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https://www.facebook.com/100009366591039/videos/1836850336637168/
Adolph and Benito review the Italian Fleet.
Last voyage of the Iowa.
QuoteUSS Ronald Reagan (CNV 76) seen from the hangar of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
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QuoteFrench Aircraft Carrier Béarn in 1939
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QuoteUSS Wood (DD-317) aground on Angel Island, CA sometime in the 1920's.
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QuoteUSS Wisconsin towering over the streets of Norfolk, VA
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^That's a cool shot.
Yeah. I'm trying it as a desktop background.
Its impressive.
This is cool when viewed it at full size
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QuoteHSwMS Gotland in San Diego with USS Ronald Reagan in background
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National Archive video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12nDAg-oWZc
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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QuoteUSS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) transits the Philippine Sea
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QuoteOhio-class guided-missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN-727) arrives in Busan, South Korea
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QuoteArleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane
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QuoteWWII: German Activities: German submarine in full ride. Photographed by war reporter: Zuber. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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QuoteSoviet Navy riverine armoured gunboats S40 & 1124
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QuoteImperial Russian Navy submarine type AG in dry dock
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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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Quote from: mirth on April 25, 2017, 11:19:52 AM
QuoteUSS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) transits the Philippine Sea
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Duffle Blog says that the Vinson BG is really off 1941-era Pearl Harbor, ready to take on the Kito Butai.
I'll defer to Duffle Blog then.
https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/north-america/aircraft-carriers-bigger-better-1091
One admiral's opinion on carriers.
IJN carrier Amagi in Kure harbor, 1945
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.
Why is it covered in USN aircraft?
This was when Victorious was loaned to the USN as USS Robin
http://www.armouredcarriers.com/uss-robin-hms-victorious/
How interesting. I did not know that.
QuoteHMAS Ballarat and HMCS Ottawa and HMCS Winnipeg sailing together in a SE Asia deployment
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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!
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."
QuoteUSS Idaho (BB-42) at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Jan 2, 1945, she was just refitted with 10 - 5"/38 guns
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QuoteWaves break over the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) in the Pacific Ocean
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QuoteUSS Toucey (DD-282) underway at an unknown location
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QuoteUSS Monterey (CG-61) performs a high speed maneuver in the Arabian Sea, 2013
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One of the first chilled scuttlebutts. Made a big difference in engineering spaces and tropical climes. Tepid water is not so refreshing.
Russian mine defusing.
QuoteRoyal Navy battleships astern. HMS Marlborough first, HMS Benbow second. 1919. Imperial War Museum photo.
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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.
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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.
Cruiser chicago fouls the approach of a Tomcat.
David Eisenhower have the conn?
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.
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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!!!"
QuoteThe Italian destroyer leader Pantera in the 1920s
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QuoteUSS Idaho (BB-42) under way
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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.
QuoteUSS Kearsarge (LHD-3) passes One World Trade Center for NYC Fleet Week 2017
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This is my USS Kearsarge. No bloody A - B - C - or D!
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Quote from: bbmike on May 25, 2017, 06:03:38 PM
This is my USS Kearsarge. No bloody A - B - C - or D!
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Utopia Planitia looks a bit soggy in that pic.
Quote from: bbmike on May 25, 2017, 06:03:38 PM
This is my USS Kearsarge. No bloody A - B - C - or D!
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Love the reference.
as for the timeline though, thats more Bawbs Kearsarge.
Two Lone Ships, 1914.
https://www.facebook.com/GloMilStrat/videos/448958472104264/
Very short film on Russian Northern Fleet exercise.
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.
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QuoteVinson, Reagan and Ashigara
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QuoteBattleship SMS Bayern being re-floated for salvage. Scapa Flow, 1934
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QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyers Kaga and Izumo
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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.
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
I bet they could hold a 100+ Zeros.
Monitor versus Merrimack.
Skip to 45 for the combat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7wIDslzGQU
QuoteIJN Kaga, from the stern, with view of horizontal stacks
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6 May, 1964.
USS Decatur has an underway replenishment accident.
QuoteUSS Oriskany on fire October 1966.
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QuoteHMS Erin in a floating dry dock, circa 1918.
(https://i.redd.it/744mlw65lj2z.jpg)
QuoteDestroyer HMS BROKE in drydock at Tyneside showing damage sustained at the Battle of Jutland, 1916.
(https://i.imgur.com/pjets6t.jpg)
That's broke alright! :hide:
QuoteKamikaze Near Miss on USS Sangamon CVE-26 off Ryukyu Islands May 1945
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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.
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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.
they were excellent ELINT platforms.
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.
C'mon British cocoa isn't that bad. It would have been a real crime to waste tea though.
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.
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)
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Love the 'Spad' in the foreground.
They were life savers.
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.
QuoteRare aerial photo of Bismarck moving through the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal to the Baltic Sea, March 8, 1941.
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QuoteHangar deck of USS Lexington (CV-2) in March, 1928. The aircraft are Curtis F6C-3's of Fighter Squadron Five (VF-5).
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QuoteThe carrier Philippine Sea (CVA 47) returns to port carrying transport planes in addition to airplanes of her embarked air group, 8/9/1952.
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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.
That is a cool pic.
Yeah, its a good 'un. :bd:
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.
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?
Lets see now - hmmm, I'll need to go and check the manuscripts..........................
QuoteThe airship K-69 launches from the deck of the escort carrier Mindoro (CVE 120) c 1950.
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Stern launch of a Martin BM-1 torpedo bomber of VT-1S off USS Lexington (CV-2).
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USS Iowa (BB-4)
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QuoteUSS Lassen patrols the eastern Pacific Ocean, March 10, 2016
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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.
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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
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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).
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Another great one!
QuoteUSS Macon inside Hangar One at Moffett Field, California
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QuoteSMS Budapest, an Austro-Hungarian Monarch-Class Coastal Defence Ship
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QuotePervert plugs hole and stops sinking of the USS Queen of France, Charleston harbor, 1780
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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!
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.
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QuoteHMCS Huron (DDE-216) enters Valletta, Malta sometime during the 1950's.
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Last photo of Yorktown, CV-5
QuoteAircraft carriers HMS Eagle (R05), HMS Bulwark (R08), HMAS Melbourne (R21) and HMS Victorious (R38) during Exercise Showpiece, Malaysia, 1965
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QuoteUSS Iowa inside floating drydock ABSD-2, Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 28 Dec 1944
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QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth (RO8) departing Rosyth dockyards under tow
(https://i.imgur.com/OnkTJgZ.jpg)
^ Damn, and I was so close to there a few weeks ago. I'll have to head back over there and take some pics.
https://mobile.twitter.com/QEClassCarriers
https://www.facebook.com/royalnavy/videos/10155448983283205/
I ain't usin' no fancy socially me-day-uh stuff, but thanks for the links anyway! Those do look cool.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/11855/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-royal-navys-new-carrier-and-its-maiden-voyage
San Francisco is an awkward place.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/3-tales-of-gigantic-aircraft-carriers-getting-11248158.php&cmpid=fb-premium
HMS QE runs on Windows XP
http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/107389-royal-navys-new-35bn-aircraft-carrier-runs-windows-xp/
well hopefully they wont need Minesweeper. ::)
^lol. They'll be able to run Harpoon.
But can they run Cruise Ship Simulator?
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.....
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.
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:
The ski ramp doesn't do it any favors aesthetically.
Maybe there'll be snow bunnies skiing down the ramp at the launch ceremony.
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It's good to have a second island. Makes Kamikazes all cross-eyed so they miss.
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth on second day sea trials, escorted by HMS Sutherland and HMS Iron Duke
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QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth from the bridge of HMS Iron Duke
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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.
Yeah, that's not exactly Jellicoe's flagship.
QuoteShipbuilders use a torque wrench to tighten a stud for the tail cap on a propeller shaft for Gerald R. Ford (CVN78) , October 2013
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(https://i.redd.it/dextv4wwv96z.jpg)
^Michael Bey saw that, thought about his next T-film, and just splooged.
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.
QuoteItalian submarine Todaro-class/U-212A loading a 533 mm WASS Black Shark torpedo
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QuoteUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower pulling into Halifax harbour June 27 2017
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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:
The pressure hull is bigger than you'd think from the photo. According to Wikipedia, the Todaro/212s can carry up to 13 torps.
QuoteThe aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVAN 65) turns sharply to starboard while undergoing tactical maneuvers during a shakedown cruise in the Atlantic Ocean
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/150334035@N07/34811986913/in/dateposted/
Digitised color footage of Japanese carriers.
QuoteThe Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53)
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QuoteUSS Forrestal underway while on duty in waters off Vietnam in July of 1967.
(https://i.redd.it/mflhgyhl867z.jpg)
looks a lot better when its not on fire.
USS Forest Fire
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)
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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)
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Gallery of a Virginia class sub under construction
https://imgur.com/a/C1b8A
Quote from: mirth on July 05, 2017, 11:38:03 AM
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Very impressive firepower arrangement on the nelson and Rodney... as long as they remembered to always check six.
I'm curious to see how they'd play in General Quarters. That is a lot of firepower.
QuoteUSS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) anchored in Halifax Harbour as part of the Canada 150 anniversary celebration
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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/
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.
QuoteRussian Borei-class ballistic missile submarine and Typhoon-class ballistic missile submarine
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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)
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QuoteSubmarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) tends to the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Pasadena (SSN 752)
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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/
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.
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QuoteUSS New York (ACR-2), off New York City during the victory fleet review after the Spanish–American War, August 1898.
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QuoteHMS Victorious (R38) at Sydney, Australia. 1965.
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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.
QuoteUSS Los Angeles (ZR-3), top, and USS Saratoga (CV-3), bottom, January 27th, 1928.
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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)
The Rogers steaming on the Columbia River.
Mount St. Helens eruption is in the background.
German BB Hindenburg at Scapa Flow.
A submersible battleship? Cool! <:-)
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
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.
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Whoa. They name ships after old IJN ones? Nice.
Of course,
this Kaga is far different from the old Kaga, but still...interesting.
the new Kaga isnt much smaller then the old one.
The new Kaga has displaces less than the old but is actually 2 feet longer.
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.
QuoteTyphoon-class SSBN "Dmitriy Donskoy" crossing underneath the Storebælt bridge on the way to St. Petersburg
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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)
QuoteIndefatigable-class battlecruiser HMS New Zealand at Lyttleton, New Zealand.
(https://i.redd.it/hk157dy6zxaz.jpg)
QuoteCrew manning the forward HACS Mk III director on HMS Revenge (06), 1940
(https://i.redd.it/69ivvrt550bz.jpg)
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)
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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http://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/07/21/no-urinals-on-the-new-navy-aircraft-carrier/
By Poseidon's Beard! The next thing you know, they'll be cancelling the rum ration. :arr:
Real sailors just piss over the side
After checking the direction of the wind.
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.
Quote from: bob48 on July 24, 2017, 04:56:59 PM
After checking the direction of the wind.
The smart ones anyway.
1200 pound steam plant.
QuoteThe USS Bataan (LHD 5) transits the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Operations, Jul. 6, 2017
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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)
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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Holy crap! That's a great pic for scale comparison. :o
the perspective is making the Ford look so much larger. there isnt that much size difference.
Well, that's one fat ass she's got.
HMS Hood
(https://i.redd.it/gei5t3v2k6cz.jpg)
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)
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.....
It was really one big hole.
Still... they too much water in...
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.
I love this thread :notworthy:
German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz.
(https://i.redd.it/mczgwwrbijcz.jpg)
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)
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
QuoteUSS Gerald R. Ford at sea, showing off the distinctively wide stern
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(https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ohio-class-submarines-facts-600-54.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600)
QuoteBattleship USS UTAH (BB-31) in South Boston drydock, 1929
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QuoteGerman torpedo boat T-157 in the 1920's.
(https://i.redd.it/6fdjm6msnxcz.jpg)
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)
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).
QuoteAerial view of Charlestown Navy Yard and USS Constitution; Boston, Massachusetts; taken June 24, 1934
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(https://i.redd.it/3g1mhvrtf5dz.jpg)
QuoteThe ships of Task Force 58 at anchor at Ulithi Atoll
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QuoteBritish troops boarding the destroyer HMS Vanquisher (D54) at low tide from the Mole at Dunkirk, May 1940
(https://i.redd.it/atzw069icedz.jpg)
QuoteHMS Hibernia departs Malta for the breakers, 1902. First-rate ship of the line launched 1804.
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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/)
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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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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QuoteVirginia-class nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser USS Arkansas (CGN-41) underway in the Atlantic on 1 September 1980.
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Never saw this before. Guess it could be photoshopped, but hope it is not.
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth alongside USS George H.W. Bush
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QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth , USS George H. W. Bush and their escorts sail off Scotland
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WOW!! :D
QuoteFrench armored cruiser Dupuy de Lôme. circa 1890
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QuoteGerman mine-laying submarine off Heligoland, WWl. Date not certain.
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QuoteUSS Cowpens (CVL-25) during Typhoon Cobra. (December 1944)
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Makes me seasick just looking at that pic. :P
Jeeeeebus that's a rolling swell.... :hide:
That's only thirty or forty degrees.
Nothing at all.
Yeah, try the DEs that were rolling through 70 degrees.
QuoteIndian Navy corvette INS Kora
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QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth at sunset, as seen from HMS Iron Duke
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QuoteUSS Colorado (BB-45), less than two months after her commissioning and before her maiden voyage to Europe. November 1923
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QuoteThe Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS California
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QuoteJapanese aircraft carrier Shinano underway during her sea trials.
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QuoteUSS Bismarck Sea, underway, 24 June 1944
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QuoteHMAS Melbourne undergoing a damage control drill, March 3, 1960
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HMS Queen Elizabeth
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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".
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
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
well when you only build a few carriers instead of a few hundred certain upgrades are available.
QuoteUSS John C. Stennis pulling into Bremerton,Washington.Earlier this morning.
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QuoteSailors conduct night replenishment at sea aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Cole
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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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QuoteFootage from Typhoon Cobra. December, 1944.
QuoteA British carrier and battleship patrol the rough North Sea
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Consider the poor crews on destroyers in that swell.
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
I think we can all agree that anything under 30,000 tons would be no bueno.
^ Such a freakin' classic. That song always gives me chills.
Quote from: Steelgrave on August 15, 2017, 08:27:49 AM
^ Such a freakin' classic. That song always gives me chills.
+1
QuoteAkula-class submarine
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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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HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives home: HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives at Portsmouth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhN7HuiGsnk)
^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
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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QuoteMinehunter HMS Hurworth passes HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth Harbour.
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QuoteUSS Ranger, USS Constellation, USS Kitty Hawk and USS Independence all awaiting their fate (Mothball fleet - Bremerton,Washington)
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Quote from: mirth on August 17, 2017, 02:21:16 PM
QuoteMinehunter HMS Hurworth passes HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth Harbour.
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if you squint really hard you can see a civilian drone on the flight deck. :2funny:
I wonder why we dont sell those carriers to the Indians?
I mean how hard could the sales pitch be.... They work!
And it would really piss off the Chicomms
how many Kitty Hawks do you have to trade in for a new Ford class?
I'd be happy if we had a couple of Kittyhawks still in service.
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)
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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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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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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French Battleship, Jean Bart, in 1950.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eLBGbmEyq0&feature=youtu.be
Exercising the turrets at about 10:30.
QuoteUSS Texas, after her commissioning in 1914
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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
Housing for the towed sonar array.
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QuoteHMS Aboukir leaving Malta.
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Theodore goes gangster.
its the Gus Navy!
Quote from: mirth on August 23, 2017, 11:21:47 AM
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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.
Quote from: Windigo on August 23, 2017, 12:17:46 PM
Theodore goes gangster.
LOL- I was thinking 'Theodor the Psychokiller Tugboat'
Call me Boaty McBoatface just one more time. I dare ya, punk.
the axe is a great touch.
What is it, and to whom does it belong.......and for what purpose?
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kinda sad its larger then the Royal Navy.
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.
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.
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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)
QuoteSide profiles of USS Jimmy Carter versus USS Seawolf
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http://www.hisutton.com/SSN-23.html
QuoteGuided missile cruiser USS Long Beach. First nuclear powered surface combatant. It's RIM-2 Terrier SAM launchers are clearly visible here
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QuoteUSS Long Beach (CGN-9). Looking from stern, Tomahawk ABLs, Harpoon Launchers, and two Phalanx CIWS are visible.
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USS North Carolina (BB-55) hits the Ark Restaurant while being moved into her berth as a museum ship. Wilmington, North Carolina, 1961.
Guilio Cesare departing Taranto around 1937.
Like the swing bridge to the right.
QuoteMachine gun position on the German R-class Zeppelin 'LZ 63', 1916-17
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QuoteJapanese carrier Zuiho damaged during the Battle of Cape Engano, 25. October 1944
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^Note the false turret and superstructure painted on the flight deck: "NME dive bombers move along, nothing to see here, just a lowly cruiser".
Heh. Didn't quite work out.
QuoteHMS Ocean preparing to depart HMNB Devonport on 29th August 2017 for a final deployment before her scheduled decommissioning date of 31st March 2018
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QuoteSubmarine Chaser SC718 being unloaded from the Liberty Ship SS Willard Hall, at Albert Quay Belfast, October 1943
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QuoteBow view of the V-3 (SS-165) in dry dock # 1 at Mare Island. April 11, 1929.
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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
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Man, it took balls to chase subs in the tiny tub.... :o
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/903233558445219842
Had to look up Leonard Roy Harmon. Glad I did. O0
QuoteUSS STILETTO (1887-1911) firing a torpedo from her bow tube, about 1890.
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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.
Asheville Class Gunboat USS Benicia refuels from USS Ranger in what must be the slowest UNREP in history,c1971.
QuoteUSS America (LHA-6) with F-35Bs aboard
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QuoteUSS Missouri (BB-63) at anchor in Sydney Harbor for the celebration of the Royal Austrailian Navy 75th anniversary.
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QuoteHMS Prince of Wales at Rosyth, August 2017
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QuoteCommissioning day for USS Scorpion (SSN-589), July, 29, 1960. In the background is USS Triton (SSRN-586).
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:(
Phil Ochs wrote a very poignant song about the Scorpion, blending in themes from Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the Flying Dutchman.
yeah
The only one lost since SUBSAFE was implemented.
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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QuoteUSS Gudgeon (SS-567) arrives at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 1958 after circumnavigating the globe.
(https://i.imgur.com/UnJtbzI.jpg)
QuotePensacola-class cruiser USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) during modernization at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 1935.
(https://i.redd.it/jyig27lojukz.jpg)
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.
QuoteUSS Arizona enroute from San Pedro to San Francisco. May, 1932
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QuoteReplica trireme OLYMPIAS
(https://i.imgur.com/lApJ5Fp.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0Wd2tFY.jpg)
Sea trials of Olympias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcsrNrRkQis
QuoteMyōkō class heavy cruiser Ashigara in 1937.
(https://i.redd.it/qgoytaa3x8lz.jpg)
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.
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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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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QuoteThe fleet entering Golden Gate, c.1908
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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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QuoteUSS Tarawa (CVS-40),in her anti-submarine role July, 1957. Never modernized, she retained her straight deck until she was scrapped in 1968
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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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I seem to remember reading that it is still the largest ship ever sunk by a submarine.
Tis indeed.
QuoteThe flight deck of Centaur-class aircraft carrier HMS Hermes, 1982.
(https://i.redd.it/ebcm59au0ulz.jpg)
^Talk about crowd control!
HMS Bulwark in Venice, 1969.
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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QuoteHMS King George V undergoing refit in a dry dock at Rosyth, Scotland 1940
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QuoteHMS Ark Royal (R09) with a full deck sometime between 1956-58
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QuoteA Squadron of the German High Seas Fleet Sortieing from Wilhelmshaven, 1910
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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.
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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.
(https://i.imgur.com/dtyV8yH.jpg)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14483/watch-russias-only-operational-battlecruiser-launch-a-massive-shipwreck-anti-ship-missile
that was pretty much their whole training budget for the year.
Mirth, that is a very dramatic photo.
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Tumblehome baby!
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.
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.
Yep, that was the one I was confusing.
USS Pittsburgh lost its bow in a typhoon on Juen 5, 1945
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
USS North Dakota leaving for the Fore River for her trial trip off Maine coast [1014 x 800]
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QuoteUSS Bennington sails past USS Arizona - 1958
(https://i.redd.it/lu4pkf1wj8oz.jpg)
(https://i.redd.it/7lsbi3caz7oz.jpg)
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
(https://i.redd.it/q2ifrfjkueoz.jpg)
QuoteOcean Breeze aground off Chile after breaking anchor chain in storm
(https://i.imgur.com/lOCGY9U.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/913745249821974529
QuoteThe superstructure of french battleship Richelieu in 1946.
(https://i.redd.it/t9a4o0r4n7pz.jpg)
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.
(https://i.redd.it/zibwrr14m7pz.jpg)
(https://i.redd.it/ac085rhna1pz.jpg)
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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QuoteNATO drill Brilliant Mariner 2017, Toulon, France
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DK6D8NhXkAAHdOB.jpg)
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.
(https://i.redd.it/yv2yis1oxtoz.jpg)
QuoteItalian midget submarine at Sevastopol, circa 1942
(https://i.redd.it/bb7udyymm2pz.jpg)
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.
(https://i.redd.it/9j34skrbtxoz.jpg)
QuoteHMS Furious, 1933
(https://i.redd.it/iywurlovvupz.jpg)
QuoteUSS Coral Sea, 1953
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6182/6069129636_a090c4278d_b.jpg)
Those Savages look like they're recreating the Doolittle Raid.
QuoteUSS Theodore Roosevelt in drydock with her missile tubes exposed
(https://i.redd.it/78eg8c0esmpz.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/916572576649969664
QuoteHMS King George V secondary armament detail.
(https://i.redd.it/w6bxdbiupeqz.jpg)
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)
QuoteHydrofoil research ship USS Flagstaff (PGH-1) off the coast of Florida, 1971
(https://i.redd.it/szynmb0xcaqz.jpg)
QuoteUSS Forrestal (CVA-59) during the Suez Crises, 1956.
(https://i.imgur.com/pBHfbSD.jpg)
QuoteUSS McCain loaded abroad M/V Treasure for transport to Japan for repair
(https://i.imgur.com/JArkhul.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/rjd4GXC.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/917726463759212544
QuoteHMS Dragon transiting the Strait of Corryvreckan
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLm5C9oXkAE4IjQ.jpg)
^ 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?
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
Damn. Nice!
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15029/modernization-funds-slashed-for-russias-notoriously-rickety-aircraft-carrier
1932 amateur video of Saratoga.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF-RSEtVWJw
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!
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15060/us-navy-plans-to-cut-cruisers-by-half-amid-reports-one-became-like-a-floating-prison
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?
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.
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)
QuoteThe USCGC Eastwind in her post World War 2 configuration while breaking ice
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https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/918458790390960129
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/919106789836230657
QuoteThe USS Macon at Moffett field near Mountain View, California
(https://i.redd.it/chb8uea8qvrz.jpg)
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)
Whoa. And I thought moving a house was impressive.
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:
(https://i.imgur.com/XUX5ONM.jpg)
QuoteA tug alongside the submarine S-48 (SS-159) after partially sinking in 60 feet of water, December 1921
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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)
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)
^
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'.
Wing, the airships seem to be your thing. Any books you recommend?
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?
Thanks man!
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.
^ ha, that's awesome!
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/920268211244978176
Same navy, different worlds.
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)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/921274834084093952
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^ 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
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.
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922002135859986432
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922008389462487040 (https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922008389462487040)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scilly_naval_disaster_of_1707
QuoteUSS Kearsarge in Boston, c. 1900
(https://i.imgur.com/MHvdKU3.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922443813204971520
QuoteSealed reactor sections from 77 nuclear submarines, seen in Trench 94 at the Hanford Reservation in 2003.
(https://i.imgur.com/G8ddYdx.jpg)
QuoteFrench Carrier La Fayette (R-96), the ex-USS Langley (CVL 27) at Mers-el-Kebir, 1950's.
(https://i.imgur.com/ea5TWyM.jpg)
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)
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)
QuoteUSS Pinckney sails through the Arabian Gulf
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Intrepid takes a kamikaze, 25 November, 1944.
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/922802503082758149
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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This is cool
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15410/himars-goes-to-sea-us-marines-now-fire-guided-artillery-rockets-from-ships
Duke of York and KG V
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!
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.
QuoteHMS Inflexible in 1881 showing 1 of her centrally placed turrets and the outer and inner structures
(https://i.redd.it/dsi2dvlii6uz.jpg)
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)
QuoteVirginia-class battleship USS Georgia (BB-15) being launched at Bath Iron Works, Maine, 1904
(https://i.redd.it/krgimlyn39uz.jpg)
its like they built it in someones back yard.
Its another one of Tuna's unfinished kits.
"Noah!... I want you to build me a Pre-dreadnought!"
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15542/russia-supposedly-bringing-back-giant-ekranoplans-for-arctic-missions
QuoteLanding a 155 mm gun at Sedd-el Bahr during the Gallipoli Campaign.
(https://i.imgur.com/tE1wMNE.jpg)
QuoteUSS Constitution during mast stepping, Boston, 1930
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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.
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.
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...
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.
An Arado 196 seaplane being taken out of it's hangar.
Guess this is Tirpitz, might be Bismarck.
QuoteUSS Delaware (BB-28) in drydock number 4 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1910
(https://i.redd.it/n6mypqhw6ouz.jpg)
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)
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."
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QuoteUSS Florida (SSGN-728) arrives at Souda Harbor, Greece, Island of Crete, 2013
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3705/8793142345_39e2324881_o.jpg)
QuoteHMS Royal Sovereign undergoing maintenance at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 1941
(https://i.redd.it/jjx84golwguz.jpg)
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)
QuoteMusashi being struck by a bomb, forward of #1 turret, Sibuyan Sea, 24 October 1944.
(https://i.redd.it/9asg9x9seduz.jpg)
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)
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.
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.
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.
8" gun, USS New York, 1899.
The open gun deck kind of freaks me out.
QuoteHMS Hermes returns home to Portsmouth from the Falklands war in 1982
(https://i.redd.it/iassv3aiyvuz.jpg)
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)
QuoteThe German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper abandoned in dry dock at Kiel, Germany, May 1945
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http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/15608/delivery-of-russias-refit-nuclear-battlecruiser-delayed-but-progress-looks-impressive
(https://i.imgur.com/I9nXf6e.jpg)
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth escorted by HMS Dragon, 1st November 2017
(https://i.imgur.com/Zviny3y.jpg)
QuoteUSS Springfield (CLG 7) during a highline transfer with USS Saratoga (CV 60) while in the Mediterranean, 1960
(https://i.redd.it/3p3238ky3dvz.jpg)
QuoteHawkins-class heavy cruiser HMS Effingham (D98) after the modernization of 1937-1938.
(https://i.redd.it/dbsrx8uxb7vz.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/926346994125344768
QuoteHMS Furious in August 1941 with four Hurricanes on her flight deck.
(https://i.imgur.com/C0flCIA.jpg)
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)
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)
The cruiser Haguro under attack in Rabaul, on the day after Battle of Empress Augusta Bay.
QuoteThe Russian flagship Tsarevitch passing HMS Victory, 1915
(https://i.redd.it/kownfb458zvz.jpg)
QuoteAircraft hanger of the Japanese submarine I-401, 20 September 1945
(https://i.redd.it/lwoqfbja80wz.jpg)
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New Uber service?
QuoteUSS George Washington (CVN 73) near Guam, September 2012
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https://twitter.com/Capt_Navy/status/926802788813885440
^ 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
QuoteThe French pre-dreadnoughts Démocratie, Justice, Veritè and Mirabeau being scrapped in Vado Ligure, Italy, 1922.
(https://i.redd.it/p5wbu3owkjwz.jpg)
QuoteE2 Hawkeye of VAW124 lands on USS George H.W. Bush after Patrol
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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....
I think it's a deck space issue.
and there are lots of explodey bits all over the place.
(https://i.redd.it/fxj9lm3fmrwz.jpg)
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)
https://news.usni.org/2017/11/06/7-u-s-aircraft-carriers-simultaneously-underway
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)
QuoteThe Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100), assigned to the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group, transits a stormy South China Sea.
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QuoteUSS Tecumseh (SSBN-628) entering the floating drydock USS Richland (AFDM-8), 11 March 1965
(https://i.redd.it/2h0yn18ndtwz.jpg)
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.
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these days its safest when a Burke is behind you.
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.
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Several hours later fighters from the Nimitz engaged a flight of Mitsubishi A6M3s.
and then the Burke runs into the Akagi?
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/16010/these-are-the-images-of-three-u-s-supercarriers-in-formation-youve-been-waiting-for
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:
Conte di Cavour. 12 November, 1940
The Japanese learned a lot from that. A year and a month later they upped the ante.
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)
QuoteShips with "a bite". Clever camouflage on the bows of MTB's at HMS HORNET, Gosport, 4 JUNE 1944.
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QuoteUSS Florida sails into Souda Bay
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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)
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth seen here before entering her homeport
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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
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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.
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http://www.navygeneralboard.com/facts-battleship-tirpitz/
Not a great article, b ut some interesting factoids about Tirpitz.
QuoteThe Royal Navy's first nuclear-powered submarine, HMS Dreadnought (S101) Southampton, 1965.
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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.
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QuoteThe heavily damaged French battleship Jean Bart, in Casablanca on November 16, 1942
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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.
QuoteSoviet experimental submarine "Forel", sole member of the Beluga class, used to test hull designs and new propulsion systems.
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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)
that must be a fun job..... ???
Serving on a Russian sub probably isn't all that fun even when you aren't being used for target practice.
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
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QuoteKitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) steaming off Honolulu enroute to Pearl Harbor. May 1964.
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QuoteVietnamese Kilo-class submarines
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(http://)
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More in album here: https://imgur.com/a/y8XBe
QuoteHnlms Evertsen conducts a high speed turn in the gulf of Aden.
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QuotePhotograph taken from a TARPS equipped F-14 Tomcat showing the Soviet carrier Kiev underway in the Mediterranean Sea. c.1990.
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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!
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.
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http://militaryhistorynow.com/2017/11/29/a-fatal-first-voyage-how-europes-mightiest-warship-foundered-moments-into-her-inaugural-cruise/
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
QuotePanoramic view of Japanese warships gathered off the coast of Okinawa
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Prinz Eugen
QuoteAdmiral-class ironclad battleship HMS Howe.
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QuoteUSS Missouri (BB-63) shortly before being launched, Brooklyn Navy Yard 1944.
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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.
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"Indiana wants me, Lord I can't go back there."
USS Washington in drydock at Pearl Harbor after collision.
QuoteUSS Shenandoah (ZR-1) at NAS San Diego, 1924
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You'll never get me up in of those new-fangled things!
Great picture, Mirth!
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.
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QuoteUSS Saratoga (CV-3) passing through the Gaillard Cut in the Panama Canal, Feb 1928.
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USS Iowa December 15, 1943 seventy four years ago today with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt aboard.
Love that Durante nose on the Iowas.
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.
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https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/942511516791668736
QuoteThe Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (91) photographed soon after completion, circa late 1938 or early 1939
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Rebuilding the Russian Navy
https://medium.com/dfrlab/putinatwar-latest-additions-to-the-russian-navy-f422b3e52e36
not impressed
I'm much more concerned over the rise of the Chinese Navy. Unlike Putin, the Chinese actually have the cash to build things.
The Chinese have a ways to go, but you are quite right Steelie.
QuoteHMS Tiger in drydock c. 1916–17
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^That's one of the the ones that didn't go 'splody at Jutland.
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.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17140/almost-all-of-the-uks-surface-combatants-are-in-port-while-germany-has-no-working-subs
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.
Typhoon and Borei class SSBNs
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QuoteTyphoon class SSBN "Dmitriy Donskoy" next to Kirov class battle cruiser "Pyotr Velikiy"
(https://i.imgur.com/uwnG4OT.jpg)
https://twitter.com/Aviation_Intel/status/945689815940395009
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.
I think a second of the Kirovs is being modernized to be brought back into service.
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. :))
QuoteA snowy night aboard the USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) this Christmas Eve. December 24, 2017
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QuoteRussian ship, Vice-Admiral Kulakov being escorted through the English Channel by British ships
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QuoteRussian Delta IV SSBN
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QuoteLead ship of her class, submarine Sirena of the Regia Marina in 1942.
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QuoteUSS Albany (CG-10) sailing off the coast of Florida, 1972
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Carrier decks.
Never a dull day.
Quote from: mirth on December 27, 2017, 11:45:27 AM
QuoteUSS Albany (CG-10) sailing off the coast of Florida, 1972
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Looks like the V mothership is about to emerge over off the starboard side.
Panzerschiff Deutschland damaged by a Spanish Republican Air Strike on May 29th, 1937.
looks horrible.... ::)
Yes. You can see the crew are just in shock at the extent of the damage.
All that poor, poor teak.
QuoteUSS Devilfish (SS-292) being sunk as a target by USS Wahoo (SS-565) at San Francisco, CA., 14 August 1968
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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.
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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.
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QuoteUSS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735) transits the Hood Canal as the boat returns to its home port at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, 2017
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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.
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
http://pigboats.com/ww1/ub88.html
More history of UB88 and a lot of pictures of the internal engineering.
QuoteDelfin-class (Delta IV) SSBN "Tula" (K-114)
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https://thechive.com/2018/01/04/terror-of-falling-off-an-aircraft-carrier-in-0400-darkness-24-photos/
QuoteUSS Albany (CG-10) fires two RIM-8 Talos and one RIM-24 Tartar missile in the Atlantic, 1963
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QuoteCruiser USS Richmond during the sea trials off Philadelphia, Nov 1923
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https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/951168247134588933
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
QuoteB-52 Bomber Buzzes The Soviet Aircraft Carrier Kiev
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QuoteHMS Ocean (L-12) sailing with an air wing of Apache, Chinook, and Merlin helicopters. Mediterranean Sea, 2016
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QuoteHMS Hood under construction at the John Brown Shipyard, 1919
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QuoteHMS Hood leaving the John Brown Shipyard for the first time, probably 1920
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QuoteHMS Rodney's torpedo handling room, date unknown
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QuoteBattle Group Charlie centered on USS CARL VINSON (CVN-70) underway December 14, 1986
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QuoteHMS Agamemnon bombarding the Dardanelles Straits in WW1
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Interior of Italian Battleship Roma
(album at link - https://imgur.com/a/RSMpp)
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Regarding pics of the Hood - man them are some ugly lines :cowboy:
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.
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
sweet lines everywhere
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https://twitter.com/PHDockyard/status/951829938721705991
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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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
QuoteMartin T4M Torpedo bombers launching from the deck of the USS Lexington (CV-2), 1931
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QuoteUSS Flasher (SSN-613) slides down the launching ways at the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corp., Groton, CT., 22 June 1963
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QuoteHMS Warspite, Rodney, and Nelson at port at South Mole, Gibraltar Harbor - 1933
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Same location today
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QuoteHMS Hood at John Brown and Co. Shipyard, 1919-1920.
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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
Come back, Fritz Todt.
All is forgiven.
If Putin wants Europe, it's his for the taking, it seems. :(
It's all up to Poland now.
then God help the Russians.
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."
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.
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
QuoteUSS Carney (DDG 64) is entering Bosphorus after a week long exercises w/ regional allies & partners in Black Sea - Jan 13, 2018
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https://twitter.com/CavasShips/status/954018773480148992
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.
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
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)
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)
^
That looks cramped!
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17853/fire-at-russias-vladivostok-submarine-base-sure-doesnt-look-like-an-exercise
^Ha! And I mean that in a nice way.
That base tends to go boom on a regular basis. :DD
In Putinist Russia, diesel burns you!
Or perhaps, in Putinist Russia, damage controls you!
Quote from: Airborne Rifles on January 21, 2018, 06:46:10 PM
Or perhaps, in Putinist Russia, damage controls you!
Ha, much better.
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)
QuoteVictor class submarine transiting on the surface
(https://i.redd.it/ywb6jimpeib01.jpg)
https://www.coderednews.com/uss-little-rock-canada-ice-2018-01
Time to reinstitute the rum ration for Yank Ships.... well one anyway. :cowboy:
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17891/this-video-of-a-russian-nuclear-icebreaker-blasting-by-some-guys-and-their-trucks-is-nuts
(https://scontent.fyzd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/26910711_1897027140342121_53449841184981984_o.jpg?oh=ae63ffca3ca5645302966cf62052bca7&oe=5ADF2D51)
Damn but the Hornet is an awesome looking aircraft
A great pic that could only be made better with the inclusion of modernized F-14s. :'(
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/24/u-s-coast-guard-ice-breakers-work-their-way-up-kennebec-river-wednesday-morning/
https://twitter.com/StratSentinel/status/956335838761283586
believed.....
that ship has a sub underneath it, several aircraft following it and a dozen Harpoons targeting it.
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)
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.
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?
(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vYDWG58VSuM/maxresdefault.jpg)
Ivan: Let's see how much shit we can put on one plane and have it still fly!
Yuri: And make it float too!
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)..."
QuoteImperial Russian submarine Akula and armoured cruiser Ryurik, 1913.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Akula%26Ryurik1913.jpg)
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)
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.
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/957971645104381952
QuoteNorth Korean Shershen-class torpedo boat
(https://i.imgur.com/hYn9gIa.png)
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
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)
https://twitter.com/ShawJacquie/status/959383842082709504
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/959506773332852737
Reserve fleet, San Diego, 1950.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVDI30qU0AA4rS6.jpg)
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.
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!
QuoteDDG 1001 running high speed turns during acceptance trials off the coast of Maine. Feb 2018
(https://i.imgur.com/ucg7Mr1.jpg)
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)
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:
Damn, that thing swerves like a sports car.
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.
QuoteTarantul-class corvette
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/ade1651f36a0d386c885c59afd63fbe2/tumblr_p1jh55FuMo1vdqfjoo1_1280.jpg)
QuoteHMS Terror in 1916
(https://i.imgur.com/uVNAlp1.jpg)
QuoteHMS Rodney departs from the yard upon her completion, August 22, 1927.
(https://i.redd.it/lsedublsfse01.jpg)
The Rodney sure was an odd-looking one.
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.
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.
I was thinking that the Terror was a bit of an odd duck myself.
It was an Erebus Class Monitor, built in WW1.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18318/shock-trials-or-no-the-navys-newest-supercarrier-is-still-an-unreliable-debacle
@ 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!
Fascinating stuff, innit.
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.
Quote from: bob48 on February 07, 2018, 05:50:53 PM
Fascinating stuff, innit.
yup, radar was a game changer regarding surface action
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.
An article that is a huge fun read.
http://www.combinedfleet.com/baddest.htm
^Don't the Iowas always win?
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/hrnm/education/brick-by-brick.html
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.
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.
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 ::)
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.
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.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18385/only-u-s-heavy-icebreaker-is-falling-apart-on-antarctic-mission
QuoteHMS Dragon in dry dock - 2018
(https://i.redd.it/l6zb9emlomf01.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/s4Kxuyu.jpg)
QuoteA portside view of Colossus-class battleship HMS Hercules.
(https://i.redd.it/d4934ln09lf01.jpg)
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.
QuoteUSS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) at Pearl Harbor, November 30th 1967.
(https://i.redd.it/cxgk3k2hosf01.jpg)
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/)
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/963102416299331584
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.
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth with the Rock of Gibraltar in the background
(https://i.imgur.com/TOwLu6t.jpg)
..waiting to land on its complement of Fairy Swordfish and Gloucester Gladiators, no doubt.
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:
It has nice lines :nerd:
https://blog.usni.org/posts/2018/02/14/it-isnt-the-shock-testing-of-ford-that-should-worry-you
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.
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/964127216232816640
QuoteSouthampton class CL sailing at speed alongside a County class CA, likely sometime around 1937.
(https://i.redd.it/95d3qfg7hdg01.jpg)
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)
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)
I remember my dad saying that he saw that when he was at Dunkirk.
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/964938650474766337
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/18582/one-of-these-five-ships-will-become-the-u-s-navys-next-frigate
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/964924794360815616
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)
^Mirth, is that you back there, peeking out from behind that yellow crane truck?
Heh. You spotted me :P
We need B_C to 'shop up a 'Where's Mirthie?' picture book.
Don't give him ideas
Too late
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)
QuoteView of the superstructure of the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during her 1937-1941 rebuild.
(https://i.redd.it/nn5eih95odh01.jpg)
QuoteProtected Cruiser HMS Challenger braving rough seas, unknown date and location
(https://i.redd.it/gm2xy1a5ldh01.jpg)
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)
QuoteUSS Connecticut (BB-18)
(https://i.imgur.com/kQIfI15.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/kQIfI15.jpg)
Gotta love the hood ornaments on those babies!
I bet you wouldn't say that if they dangled you over the bows (that's the sharp end) to clean it! ;)
I know which is the pointy end, Bawb. Don't you have a deck to swab? :arr: :arr: :arr: O0
ooh-arr matey. I do feel a bit nautical!
Ha! Best warn Mrs. Bawb!
I will. She's in the galley.
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.
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)
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)
QuoteFrench Ironclad Hoche, circa 1900
(https://i.redd.it/ol4tz8vmfrh01.jpg)
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)
(https://i.redd.it/mac1tqs6myh01.jpg)
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.
Those aren't arcade games- they're training simulators.
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)
Was the FSF-1 ever put into production? I'm guessing no since a Wiki article says it was under development until 2008.
Think it was just a testbed.
QuoteHMCS Iroquois firing a Sea Sparrow missile.
(https://i.imgur.com/AomQw5l.jpg)
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth and RFA Tidespring meet up at sea for refuelling
(https://i.redd.it/yj41vaq1nqi01.jpg)
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)
QuoteKönigsberg-class light cruiser SMS Stettin, veteran of the Battle of Heligoland Bight, guided by a tug.
(https://i.redd.it/n0o5706d2ri01.jpg)
QuoteA starboard beam view of the Vermont (BB-20) with a flying boat in the foreground.
(https://i.imgur.com/LYZpBeF.jpg)
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.
QuoteSecond of two Lion-class battlecruisers, HMS Princess Royal.
(https://i.redd.it/096wpa05zxi01.jpg)
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)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/969570585650098177
https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/969591125936918530
QuoteUSS INDIANA (BB-58) off Norfolk prior to her shakedown cruise.
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HMS Nelson
(https://i.imgur.com/KvjbsVD.jpg)
more - https://imgur.com/a/ry2Jf
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)
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.
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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
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
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)
QuoteUSS John F. Kennedy docking in Malta, 2004
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Tomcats :'( :'( :'(
tomcats, a6s and vikings..... a proper air wing.
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
Getting rid of the Vikings was really dumb.
to be fair the commies dont have many subs these days.
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)
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.
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
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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)
^Had to go in and have the Zeros scraped off the windshield after that peculiar weather.
^well played
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)
^That must be a Tholian ship.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19179/two-of-the-navys-youngest-perry-class-frigates-are-set-to-be-sunk
https://www.airspacemag.com/multimedia/hook-and-release-180955352/
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
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.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19237/navy-ditches-its-plan-to-upgrade-34-destroyers-with-hybrid-electric-drives
QuoteFrench aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle carrier
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Quote"The Commander-in-Chief's Flag-Ship at Spithead: the 'Iron Duke.'" Illustrated London News, July 18, 1914
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QuoteUSS Shenandoah (ZR-1) moored at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, October 1924
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QuoteUSS Macon (ZRS-5) in flight
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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.
:smitten: x2
^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:
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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...
QuoteUS Submarines USS Hartford (SSN-768) and USS Connecticut (SSN-22) surface together in the Arctic Circle
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QuoteUSS Baltimore, CA-68, being broken up at Zidell Ship Dismantling, Portland, OR, Sept, 1972
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Illustrious-class aircraft carrier HMS Victorious in Pearl Harbor, march 1943.
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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)
QuoteOffshore Patrol Vessel HMS CLYDE before a bank of fog from a nearby glacier. King Edward Point, South Georgia
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QuoteMV-22 Osprey on the deck of French LHD Tonnerre during joint deployment Bois Belleau 100, 2018
(https://i.imgur.com/eUa8DRT.jpg)
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)
https://twitter.com/border9999/status/974970471467896834
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)
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.
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:o
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.
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A lot of ships are overlapping their hexes and I see a bunch of overstacking besides. Typical 4x "Stack of Doom" here. 8)
^ :2funny:
seems a lot higher then 2000 feet.
Pretty good CGI on Midway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_5sK6VK0Hg
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:
:bd:
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19394/qatar-is-getting-this-unique-amphibious-mother-ship-and-radar-picket-vessel-mash-up
QuoteHMAS Sydney and 4 Hawker Sea Furies
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QuoteChinese aircraft carrier Liaoning arrives in Hong Kong waters on July 7, 2017
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a lot loss smoky then the russian version.
Looks like a photo taken from a submerged USS Jimmy Carter.
there must be a lot of ship under water as it looks very top heavy
It looks very lumpy.
my mother-in-laws gravy was like that.
Looks like a giant harpoon magnet.
Or a Mk 48 magnet.
Or, eventually, a ordinance-drone swarm magnet.
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.
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/19509/royal-navy-will-retrofit-type-45-destroyers-to-keep-them-from-breaking-down
Interesting contrast for the inscriptions.
No wonder the Romans won.
QuoteUSS South Dakota sails in formation with escorting destroyers during the Battle of Santa Cruz
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QuoteLeahy-class guided missile cruiser USS England (CG-22), Pacific Ocean, 10 January 1983
(https://i.redd.it/fhdt2ujlvpn01.jpg)
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)
QuoteUSS Saratoga (CV-3) docked in New York, sometime during the 1930's.
(https://i.redd.it/gtpyez9y5in01.jpg)
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)
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)
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)
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. "
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its a theme with them...
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Looks like a flying freeway overpass.
QuoteJapanese aircraft carrier Akagi and battleship Nagato at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan, 15 Aug 1927.
(https://i.redd.it/p8c16c21y3p01.jpg)
QuoteVanguard class submarine returns from patrol to HM Naval Base Clyde. March 2018
(https://i.redd.it/yiu8l1p5mmp01.jpg)
QuoteHMS Warspite fresh from her 1937 refit
(https://i.redd.it/1jxhqq3mxop01.jpg)
QuoteGerman heavy cruiser Deutschland, lead ship of her class, during the Spanish Civil War.
(https://i.redd.it/mcxcb9xoihp01.jpg)
USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000)
(https://i.imgur.com/xvtjAsQ.jpg)
QuoteA view of the stern of Bismarck as she was en route to Brunsbüttel on 15 September 1940.
(https://i.redd.it/5tb8a1o5sxp01.jpg)
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)
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.
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.
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)
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.
^ 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.
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.
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)
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.
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/982589067203416065
HMS Vanguard
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QuoteUSS Nimitz, INS Vikramaditya and JS Izumo during Malabar Exercise '17
(https://i.redd.it/3isy636m7oq01.jpg)
QuoteRoyal Navy monitor HMS LORD CLIVE in the North Sea, 1918.
(https://i.redd.it/c9ndoqpa6hq01.jpg)
That is one mean-ass-lookin' barge...
QuoteThe launch of USS North Dakota at Quincy, Massachusetts 10 november 1908.
(https://i.redd.it/347wcs8lxwq01.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WRDUrUY.jpg)
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)
QuoteA port bow view of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS SOUTH CAROLINA (CGN-37)
(https://i.imgur.com/p3Tzd0t.jpg)
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.
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QuoteBalao-class submarine USS Cusk (SSG-348) firing a JB-2 Loon missile, 15 May 1951
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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
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That suuuuure looks like a V-1....
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
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He's all out of Grey Poupon?
Swan diiiive!
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20201/the-next-america-class-amphibious-assault-ship-will-almost-be-in-a-class-of-its-own
Converted ships of the line used as training barracks.
Think these are in Portsmouth, UK, around 1910.
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.
QuoteUSS Bonhomme Richard launches a Sea Sparrow missile
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QuoteItalian aircraft carrier, Cavour, 550
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3600/13047147353_5de590da60_o.jpg)
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/987076618479947777
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It looks like a fortress out of an 80s sci-fi movie.
https://twitter.com/FineScale_mag/status/987846205744050176
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/25/first-drone-warship-joins-us-navy-nearly-every-element-classified.html
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20419/navy-could-extend-the-life-of-uss-nimitz-past-50-years-to-maintain-12-carrier-fleet
QuoteSoviet cruiser Admiral Ushakov entering Taranto, 1973
(https://i.redd.it/ksk2wn1xn7u01.jpg)
QuoteFrench Battleship Courbet along side the Château de Brest
(https://i.redd.it/vmon00p8w2u01.jpg)
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)
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)
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.
QuoteBattleship squadrons I & II of the German High Seas Fleet anchored in Kiel, circa 1911-14
(https://i.redd.it/1b4yp2cl9lv01.jpg)
QuoteA stunning overhead of the USS Wasp carrying F-35Bs alongside the USS Dewey during an UNREP
(https://i.redd.it/vq02cl8wmbw01.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/993478127107133440
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)
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)
(https://i.redd.it/k4azr0bhofw01.jpg)
QuoteJapanese suicide torpedo found on Saipan after the end of the war
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https://twitter.com/WarshipPorn/status/993587869360025600
QuoteFormation of U.S. Navy battleships
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Gotta love the Curtis Flying Boat photobombing the shot.
Quote from: Staggerwing on May 08, 2018, 07:22:13 PM
Gotta love the Curtis Flying Boat photobombing the shot.
O0
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.
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.
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)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/994550174000320513
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)
Do you have another source for that Pearl Harbor pic? All I see is a 'deleted'-type message.
Same for me.
Works now :bd:
The interwbez are vast and mysterious.
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.
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)
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.
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.
oddly, the book thats waising my monitor to a nice level is U.S. Battleships Naval Institute Press :-*
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
I laughed at the "who would want to fire 500 Tomahawks" line.
The Akademik Lomonosov, a floating nuclear power plant.... I want one!
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Hey, look! A portable environmental disaster!
In Putin's Russia, Chernobyl disaster comes to you!
"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."
QuoteA K-type blimp lands on USS Sicily (CVE-118), circa April 1949
(https://i.redd.it/4mtx9nn8iey01.jpg)
^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.
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) silhouetted by the setting sun whilst on sea trials
(https://i.imgur.com/rFAdhpu.jpg)
https://twitter.com/nukestrat/status/999213779161419776
But they were tryimg to test launch all 20 and only 4 worked.
QuoteHMS Nelson docked in Rosyth, sometime in 1944.
(https://i.redd.it/e24e9y80ffz01.jpg)
QuoteDamage sustained to the bow of USS Nevada (BB-36), photographed five days after the Pearl Harbor attack.
(https://i.imgur.com/IMlgJEy.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/999551069045719040
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/999789748871872514 (https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/999789748871872514)
QuoteIJN Akagi conducting flight operations, April 1942
(https://i.imgur.com/OeiyUux.jpg)
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WOW! Very impressive.
Thanks for posting this.
^^ Is that St Petersburg?
What's the name of the tall ship?
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.
QuotePLAN CV16 and CV17 at Dalian Shipyard
(https://i.imgur.com/u5buPdz.jpg)
QuoteJapanese carrier Amagi capsized at Kure Harbor, 1946
(https://i.redd.it/z1433u3s6t011.jpg)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21233/its-official-the-navys-next-anti-ship-cruise-missile-will-be-the-naval-strike-missile
QuoteUSS New Orleans missing her bow arrives under her own power in Tulagi, Dec 1942
(https://i.redd.it/kwmyktahi6111.jpg)
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))
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)
QuoteUSS Louisville (CA 28) entering North River, New York, May 31, 1934
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5497/18702238700_154bd53cd6_o.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/1003610069282385920
QuoteCollier Jupiter before conversion to the aircraft carrier Langley.
(https://i.redd.it/c77z44fwzy111.jpg)
QuoteThe unfinished German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, here kept by the Soviets, April 1947
(https://i.redd.it/u55kdpfhad211.jpg)
QuoteUSS Lake Champlain and USS Essex at Quonset Point Naval Station in Quonset, RI
(https://i.redd.it/ow5iyc8k5g211.jpg)
Quote901 class fast combat support ship
(https://i.imgur.com/UGuPkod.jpg)
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth (00)
(https://i.imgur.com/HRDvpmu.jpg)
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.
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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)
QuoteUSS Spinax, a Tench Class sub, after her conversion to a radar picket submarine, 1947
(https://i.redd.it/xizwn7w996211.jpg)
QuoteFollowing the Battle Of The Coral Sea, the crew of carrier Yorktown repair bomb damage
(https://i.redd.it/zbup0fr8yz111.jpg)
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)
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)
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.
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)
QuoteUSS Milwaukee (CL-5) off NYC, August 1943.
(https://i.imgur.com/MLIO4VD.jpg)
QuoteThe Italian motor torpedo boat MAS 15 and the coastal torpedo boat 67 PN during World War I.
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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)
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)
QuoteUSS St. Louis (CL-49) after the Battle of Kolombangara, showing torpedo damage to her bows, July 1943
(https://i.redd.it/75oh7qo0ae311.jpg)
That could have been worse
QuoteHMS Victorious with escorts in exercise Shop Window, 1965.
(https://i.redd.it/57xidtq3qe311.jpg)
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)
QuoteUSS Hewitt (DD 966) cutting off USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in the Arabian Gulf 1996
(https://i.redd.it/0fb3h9afeb311.jpg)
Said with a deep, Scottish brogue, "Corrr-rpen November-rr is a var-ry DAIN-gerrrous manuever-rr."
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1006513960860946432
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)
QuoteScharnhorst, Gneisenau and Admiral Hipper, in Trondheim, Norway, 11.06.1940
(https://i.redd.it/m5ke2tcd7n311.jpg)
Diagram of a turret on HMS Nelson.
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)
Origins of the 21-gun salute
https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/heritage/customs-and-traditions/twenty-one-gun-salute.html
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1007017140904480769
:o
QuoteArrangement of the flight deck and hangar elevator on the French aircraft carrier Bearn
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QuoteRoyal Navy, M1 sub, with 12 inch gun
(https://i.imgur.com/J4aaRSk.jpg)
Have to wonder about the overpressure on the crew and the hull integrity?
QuoteFrench aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle wrapped in the French flag before her launch. Brest, 1994
(https://i.redd.it/7piophssb6411.jpg)
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)
QuoteThe U-219 with camouflage in Stettin.
(https://i.redd.it/ukzxyrk49y311.jpg)
http://www.gunplot.net/vietnam/hobartvietnam.html
HMAS Hobart attacked by US Air Force off Vietnam.
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1008688321105682433
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth in build (right), compared to HMS Illustrious, the vessel she's replacing (left).
(https://i.redd.it/c9luxhkrjq411.jpg)
QuoteHMS Barham (04) refueling in Souda Bay, February 1941.
(https://i.imgur.com/uwwrt7q.jpg)
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)
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)
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1008748713307725825
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Obviously not real :D
Ha! Excellent!
Simply dazzling!
The Bedazzler!
(https://i.pinimg.com/236x/8c/1d/c5/8c1dc56bea245eaec2a41424d78959a7--arnold-schwarzenegger-the-picture.jpg)
https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/1009041898185592832
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)
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)
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)
QuoteSoviet sailors have a violin night aboard cruiser Kalinin, 1955
(https://i.redd.it/9mqgmilx75511.jpg)
QuoteOmaha-Class Light Cruisers lay a smoke screen during maneuvers, circa 1930.
(https://i.redd.it/zaxwtwkz5a511.jpg)
QuoteSMS Lothringen passing under the Levensau Bridge of the Kiel Canal before the First World War.
(https://i.imgur.com/0QIaZDd.jpg)
QuoteGerman sailors going ashore in Trondheim after their ship Gneisenau was torpedoed by HMS Clyde
(https://i.redd.it/f3wcqg96sc511.jpg)
QuoteHMCS Warrior (R-31) in Vancouver, British Columbia, sometime around 1946-47.
(https://i.imgur.com/OZAXrEn.jpg)
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.
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1010862622114287617
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QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth at anchor off Dartmouth, the home of RN Officer training
(https://i.redd.it/cfw87v5o0r511.jpg)
QuoteHMS Implacable entering Vancouver Harbour on 11 Oct 1945, repatriating a compliment of Canadian POWs
(https://i.imgur.com/Ii1ZHir.jpg)
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1010923057492439043
QuoteHMS Victorious (R38), HMS Ark Royal (R09), and HMS Hermes (R12) sailing together, 1960
(https://i.redd.it/1avyhevb7z511.jpg)
QuoteHMS Courageous
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QuoteGerman armored cruiser SMS Prinz Heinrich in 1902, probably while fitting-out
(https://i.imgur.com/8QTHRUF.jpg)
QuoteUSS Pogy (SS-266) being launched into the Manitowoc River, Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, WI., 23 June 1942
(https://i.redd.it/30o7g31ynj611.jpg)
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)
QuoteU.S. Navy protected cruiser, USS Chicago, starboard view (1893)
(https://i.redd.it/ywb3oowzcm611.jpg)
QuoteSubmarine tender USS Holland (AS-3) tending to 7 V-boats
(https://i.redd.it/2mtbwv3d7l611.jpg)
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"Destroyer" Kaga and submarine escorts.
Is she represented in the CMANO database yet, with her eventual Mach 1.6 "helicopters"?
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 :)
Then I'll bet that the PLAN has bought a few copies by now.
QuoteHeavy cruiser USS Pensacola (CA-24), nicknamed the "Grey Ghost"
(https://i.redd.it/u5pbdzf33c711.jpg)
QuotePostcard of French central-battery ironclad Redoutable from Saigon, French Indochina in 1908
(https://i.redd.it/jw56rtujaf711.jpg)
What a great picture!
Didn't you take it?
No I did not - look, its still there, hanging on Windi's wall.
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
QuoteUSS Pennsylvania after being hit by 1 torpedo while anchored at Buckner Bay, August 12th, 1945
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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
QuoteJapanese submarines in Yokosuka
(https://i.redd.it/0qorzgajng711.jpg)
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)
QuoteJMSDF Ayase (DE-216), Oct 1, 1986
(https://i.imgur.com/k05xJa6.jpg)
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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/)
Reserve Fleet 1919.
The house on the right is the Commandant's quarters and I think it is still there.
https://twitter.com/RealTimeWWII/status/1014133070100860928
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.
https://twitter.com/defense_news/status/1019314508727308288
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.
It looks like a sad turtle with no legs. Maybe that's why he's so sad...
QuoteBattleship Yamato under the Golden Gate Bridge, from The Man in High Castle Season 3 trailer
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QuoteUS Navy battleships in formation in San Diego, California, 23 August 1935
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^ Classified Ad: "Tree Fort Fleet seeks Pagoda Fleet for spirited competition"
ha!
A training torpedo stuck in the hull of the Hotel-class nuclear submarine K-178, just over the submarine's nuclear reactor. Oct 1988
opps ::)
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)
QuoteJapanese helicopter destroyer JS Izumo (DDH-183)
(https://i.imgur.com/MF6BuUe.jpg)
Steel Beach on HMS Hermes
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Is that an Irn Bru there under that Glasgow Festival advert?
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^ha!
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)
QuoteHMS Formidable with crash barrier erected.
(https://i.redd.it/cy7ze647ipc11.jpg)
(https://i.redd.it/vaa9lg46k3d11.jpg)
Now, if only we could afford that many...............
^ :2funny:
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
And we still have a couple of Fairy Swordfish............
damn good planes... considering their speed
damn things would be pretty stealthy too ;)
Except for the racket they make....
Well, the Italians don't like 'em for sure.
A pain in the butt for the german navy now and then too :D
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...
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."
https://twitter.com/USNHistory/status/1024271006498807809
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 :-)
Good write-up on the Fairy Swordfish in Wikipedia. :bd: :bd:
QuoteHMS Hood and HMS Glowworm (H92) in Scapa Flow, March 1940.
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QuoteHMS Hermes (95) at Pearl Harbor, 1924.
(https://i.imgur.com/0CcHQa9.jpg)
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)
http://usnhistory.navylive.dodlive.mil/2018/07/20/uss-robin-when-the-cno-needed-a-royal-navy-carrier-part-i/
QuoteHMS Queen Elizabeth and USS George H. Bush with escorts
(https://i.imgur.com/Ut8E9aB.jpg)
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22607/the-navy-could-need-more-than-15-years-and-over-1-5b-to-scrap-uss-enterprise
QuoteJS Atago (DDG-177)
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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.
Sorry for the scan quality
QuoteHMS Superb fitting out on the River Tyne, circa winter/spring 1909.
(https://i.imgur.com/0JPoclz.jpg)
Hey look- it has it's own floating Carefree Small BuildingTM!
Armstrong Vickers was located just a couple of miles up river from where I live. All gone now, obviously :-)
http://amp.timeinc.net/thedrive/the-war-zone/22639/this-is-the-only-photo-of-a-u-s-navy-supercarrier-being-sunk?source=dam
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.
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.
http://ussnautilus.org/blog/the-lucky-cribbage-board/
... getting only two points on a last card 31 is bullshit.
Neat-O.
Never heard of this.
That is a cool story!
^+100 :bd:
Projected advances in underwater drones.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/how-the-us-navy-could-transform-nuclear-submarines-23207
Canadian corvette ramming a Uboat.
Wow! :o
That pic is a real find!
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.
That is an amazing story. Thanks for sharing.
Kursk
(https://i.redd.it/i5b0bgdhgwg11.jpg)
Probably too late.
Fire on the Conyngham.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5U8Yvc6WMc
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.
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Photobombed by a PBY O0
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.
(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.
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.
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/KillersandtheKilled.html
Hunting Uboats in the Atlantic. The rhetoric is a bit over the top, but the film is good.
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.
Preparing for Normandy. Uss Henrico's boat.
Uss St Louis takes a Long Lance.
ouch
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
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:
There were quite a few of us, as I recall.
Not to mention calling it a "destroyer" in the first place. I'm certain that fooled the Chinese and Russians completely 8)
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.
the things only bigger slightly smaller then the original Akagi FFS :2funny:
When a Soviet tattletale followed one of our carriers, sailors find creative ways to salute the sailors of other nations.
World War I ASW.
Fifth Battle Squadron. Photo taken from HMS Barham.
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.
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.
Carrier Independence during Typhoon Cobra. Photo is mislabeled as Hancock.
No wonder three DDs foundered.
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.
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)
Louis XIV's Soleil Royale.
Twelve pounder firing a blank.
Softening up the defenders in the bungalow?
Battlefleet and Langley anchored at Culebra, PR.
Looking at that cute little flat-top/seaplane tender.... pretty wild where that technology/doctrine would go in 15 short years
Boy, that left a mark.
Fair video on interwar development in destroyers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rlLlsYQ6lQ&fbclid=IwAR08IUGNPI6U0QTxMG_FnMKOri6KGS-D2DQJM5_zCxzoCx6hwH9XmixDRko
HMS Suffolk during the 1940 Norway campaign was bombed in Scapa Flow, and took on 1500 tons of seawater.
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
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.
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
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
Missouri sends love letters to the Republican Guard in Iraq.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilfxMnYHQNk&fbclid=IwAR2fL9Liq5jCJs_q_BZN4x4sijnhVjCUGTwpSEle2nSfv78Z9VXNSGJFRIw
B52D overflies the Kiev, about 1983.
Rumored that they opened the bay doors while approaching. Got quite serious reprimands.
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
Akagi during the Indian Ocean raid. Hiryu and Soryu are to the left and back behind the battlecruisers are Shokaku and Zuikaku.
Single file?
for the photo op?
Good question. Maybe while going through the Malayan Straits near Singapore? Bottlenecks tend to make force commanders very cautious.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Austro Hungarian battleship Szent Istvan sinks on 11 June, 1918. Sistership Tegetthof standing by.
That will leave a mark.
A little wire brushing, a little red lead...
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.
1952, living conditions on an aircraft carrier.
https://www.facebook.com/RankerAnatomicallyCorrect/videos/255521422046332/?t=3
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.
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
A colorised version of a photo of the Texas. Came out very nice.
Any idea when that was taken? I'm guessing mid 40's since she is sporting an awful lot of light guns.
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.
Aircraft carriers Zuikaku (foreground) and Kaga underway to Pearl Harbor. November 1941.
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.
Fifty miles off Honshu.
USS Franklin being assisted by Light Cruiser Santa Fe. 19 March, 1945
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".
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.
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.
The Coral Sea had a certain style.
Destroyer Escort USS Fiske broken in two and sinking in the North Atlantic after being torpedoed by German submarine U-804, 2 August 1944.
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.
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.
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.
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
Why carrier aircraft have to be built to be stronger than land based planes.
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)
Ship's store price list on the Big Mamie.
Hey Bessy,
have I ever thanked you for your great posts? If I haven't, I say now thanks for posting great stuff!
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Thanks. For me the finding of these little gumdrops of history keeps me going. I hope the group finds this stuff fun and useful.
Royal Navy battleships in heavy seas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F63nXdepNxk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1A1HPdWh_jS6aBOpFX9kWpn8LemTCtRbQbrgeIN5fXCYPbLz82Z-9D3o4
On September 27, 1941, Nelson was hit by an Italian torpedo during an air attack forcing it to return to Britain for repairs.
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
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.
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
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
Bomb impacts on Enterprise, August 1942
https://imgur.com/GUrPZOA
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).
Economic reality is putting the brakes on Chinese carrier expansion.
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htnavai/20191229.aspx
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.
Nice discussion of naval armor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEFjl0buiM&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2BOuQnZmZMCsd-iuS0MRrnBhQujemtsicSUKW3CTRS5cihy6YdiNsQENA
Nice group.
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
Navy film on 1988 ASW.
http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/TrackingThreat.html
Toonces, is this representative of what is presently sent out on weather track?
new IJN frigate. this thing is smoother then my freshly shaved nuts!
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FRxCcYgWQAAmZyF?format=jpg&name=large)
Hey you can't call it the IJN!!
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)
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:
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?
AS-DICK? :2funny:
Slava and Krivak in the Med. I think this was taken in 1988
(https://i.imgur.com/AYBxk3A.jpg)
Wow, almost looks like 1888. I feel ancient :/
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
https://twitter.com/i/status/1556602683779592192
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/keep-it-simple-japan-shows-how-get-shipbuilding-right-204271
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
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/
(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)
a supposed size comparison between a Ford class and whatever chinas building.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtKlK4vXwAkX0oq?format=jpg&name=large)
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
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.
dont know how much choice there is for them.
'Die' or 'die a little later'?
Burial at sea or just burial?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1680888265086255104
That is a metric shit-tonne of water displaced by that initial kaboom.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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=)
shudder :HideEyes:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F46NVRHXoAADPOn?format=jpg&name=large)
There's a lot of crap on deck considering the sea-state.
Wonder what the price of eggrolls are on that Chi-Carrier?
Quote from: Sir Slash on September 01, 2023, 10:28:42 AMWonder what the price of eggrolls are on that Chi-Carrier?
Taiwan.
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)
Wow that is amazing. How does that happen?
I had no idea nuke subs like to play in such shallow water/the mud.
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:
Creepy :ninjameditate:
its literally the job.
pretty good write up.
https://warontherocks.com/2023/10/the-sinking-submarine-industrial-base/
https://twitter.com/i/status/1717962244032524379
^Holy crap :buck2:
^Good flying weather.
today in history:
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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.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GFQRjC5WMAAI6LB?format=jpg&name=medium)
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)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GHyVW-sXAAAZeFg?format=jpg&name=medium)
I would hate doing that.... too much dependency on too many other people for your safety.
finally out of drydock.
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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)
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)
an honest question here.
why is another carrier being named after Kennedy?