Warship Appreciation Thread

[Husky_Khan]

For pictures and videos regarding ships, especially sexy naval vessels.

Lets start off with everyones (including @LordSunhawk ) favorite battleship, the mighty FUSO!!!

Look at that Pagoda Tower!

COLORIZED!!!

And in drydock... where everything below the waterline is exposed...

 

[LordSunhawk]

First... LEWD

Second... MY EYES! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Third...

*starts singing MY PAGODA to the tune of My Sharona*

Fourth...



Overhead views of two actually sexy battleships (well, a Large Cruiser and a battleship)

 

[Deleted member]

I have always felt that Royalist in her final configuration was the handsomest of the postwar cruisers, so this one is for you, @Darth Robbhi :

 

[Darth Robbhi]

I have always felt that Royalist in her final configuration was the handsomest of the postwar cruisers, so this one is for you, @Darth Robbhi :

I like the two-tone lattice masts, but the straight stacks spoil the lines. I much prefer the raked stacks of the first two batches of Towns and the DIDOs.

 

[Deleted member]

I understand the appeal of raked funnels, but for some reason the straight ones just look very good on her in that configuration.

 

[Darth Robbhi]

I understand the appeal of raked funnels, but for some reason the straight ones just look very good on her in that configuration.

It's the lattice masts. They do a lot to address the mehness of the stacks. It also doesn't help that, on the British straight stack cruisers, the aft funnel is often too far aft, and so they look off.

 

[Deleted member]

I agree that the masts are critical for her appearance. It's a shame more of the Didos weren't refitted to remain in service like this.... in India they might have been in service as super-destroyers in the 90s.

 

[Darth Robbhi]

I agree that the masts are critical for her appearance. It's a shame more of the Didos weren't refitted to remain in service like this.... in India they might have been in service as super-destroyers in the 90s.

No reason to. The Royal Navy was contracting, the DIDOs were less survivable than the Towns, Colonys, or follow ons.

 

[Deleted member]

No reason to. The Royal Navy was contracting, the DIDOs were less survivable than the Towns, Colonys, or follow ons.

You're right of course, but that's why I called her something of a super-destroyer. By that point she was only armed with 8 x 4.7in guns anyway, though the twin 57 automatics were nice.

 

[Darth Robbhi]

You're right of course, but that's why I called her something of a super-destroyer. By that point she was only armed with 8 x 4.7in guns anyway, though the twin 57 automatics were nice.

Thought ROYALIST had 5.25"?

 

[Deleted member]

Thought ROYALIST had 5.25"?

....You're right, of course. I managed to misremember facts to the point that I thought a Dido refit conducted in an alternate history timeline I had worked on with a friend was actually what had happened to Royalist (The refit looked like Royalist, but with 8 x 4.7in fully automatic and a secondary battery of twin 57's). Yeesh, but I am truly getting old now.

 

[Darth Robbhi]

....You're right, of course. I managed to misremember facts to the point that I thought a Dido refit conducted in an alternate history timeline I had worked on with a friend was actually what had happened to Royalist (The refit looked like Royalist, but with 8 x 4.7in fully automatic and a secondary battery of twin 57's). Yeesh, but I am truly getting old now.

Well, the 4.7" twin turrets on the L and M classes look a lot like the 5.25" turrets, so confusion is possible:

 

[Deleted member]

Well, I am sure my mind had a good justification, but I am still embarrassed.

 

[Sailor.X]

Just a blast from the past. This is from MY Era of the US Navy. Aka the Jurassic.

 

[Harlock]

The best looking Capital ship, Cruiser and Destroyer in my view

Hood

County class

Tribals

Modern ships are a bit meh, but I did always like the Virginia class as the classic Cold War warship look

 

[Sailor.X]

Behold the USS Nicholson DD 982. The Mighty Nasty Nick. This photo was taken by me in September of 1995 at Norfolk Naval Station. She had the Grace of a Lady and the Punch of a Dock Fighter. A truly great ship.

 

[Deleted member]

Behold the USS Nicholson DD 982. The Mighty Nasty Nick. This photo was taken by me in September of 1995 at Norfolk Naval Station. She had the Grace of a Lady and the Punch of a Dock Fighter. A truly great ship.

She was your ship?

 

[Sailor.X]

She was your ship?

Yep from 93 to 95.

 

[Doomsought]

That is the Iowa herself. Shipboard tech has advanced to the point we could retrofit them with modular Engineering systems and electronic tech. We can do things now that we could not do 10 years ago in Marine Engineering. So bringing them back into service is not as costly as it would have been a decade ago.

The issue is that modern electronics are more susceptible to getting rattle by the big guns, and there is no point in bringing her back without the big guns. Even with those modular systems, you'd have to redesign the electronics compartments to reduce the vibrations.

 

[Deleted member]

Yep from 93 to 95.

Awesome. Everyone complains about the Spru-Cans but I think the only thing wrong with them was that we didn't build 80!