Warship Appreciation Thread

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Harlock said:
Enty is also a legend, she even had her own rival arc with Zuikaku :) Which naturally she won :p

Warspite is probably best known for tanking the German navy accidentally at Jutland and managing to make it home with 150 holes shot through her including 20 or so main gun hits. Probably also for scoring the joint longest ranged hit in naval gunnery, brutalising half the German Destroyer force at Narvik, stealth killing a major chunk of the Italian heavy cruiser force, tanking a cruise missile which had killed a far better ship, firing the first shots on D-Day and then at the end cheating the breakers by ramming England.

Pretty solid career, not very good at steering but very good at surviving and beating up smaller vessels :p
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Warspite rammed a place called Prussia Cove or something like that; even her final act was to attempt to attack something German themed/named.
 
Bacle said:
Warspite rammed a place called Prussia Cove or something like that; even her final act was to attempt to attack something German themed/named.
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It is honestly one of the most scenic places I've visited, couldn't ask for a better resting place. You can still see some of the machinery at low tide they weren't able to take away.

Zachowon said:
In the pacific one had to have the planes instead of the armor. You faced more plans then you did anything else, and how do you fight planes? WITH MORE PLANES
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I reckon so, though the Japanese were still itching for that decisive battleship show down even right to the end :p Might have been pretty cool :)
Still, hard to argue with 400 planes showing up to ruin your day
 
Harlock said:
It is honestly one of the most scenic places I've visited, couldn't ask for a better resting place. You can still see some of the machinery at low tide they weren't able to take away.



I reckon so, though the Japanese were still itching for that decisive battleship show down even right to the end :p Might have been pretty cool :)
Still, hard to argue with 400 planes showing up to ruin your day
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So was America. If we did not see how good the Carriers were we would have had the second biggest battleship ever made. Well we already do BUT HEAVIER AND BIGGER then the Iowa.

Though, look at who has the biggest navy now you brits 😜
 
To retell a story I heard from my dad who was a CPO in the RN

When a US warship was passing by a British one post WWII, the US vessel opened communications with
'Hello to the second biggest Navy in the world.'
To which the RN ship answered
'Hello to the second best Navy in the world'

Banter eh :p Least thats something we have in common :D
 
Ah, the SS America... although you might know her by another name: the USS West Point:
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Had a capacity of 7,678 personnel (not including crew) and can achieve a top speed of 22.5 knots despite that...
 
Harlock said:
To retell a story I heard from my dad who was a CPO in the RN

When a US warship was passing by a British one post WWII, the US vessel opened communications with
'Hello to the second biggest Navy in the world.'
To which the RN ship answered
'Hello to the second best Navy in the world'

Banter eh :p Least thats something we have in common :D
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Sorry, the best is the biggest in this day and age
 
People always talk about how 'beautiful' HMS Hood was, but I never really saw it. To me, the quintessential British Battleship was always the Grand Old Lady herself.

Of course, I also have an abiding love affair with the Standards, so take it for what it's worth
 
Do you prefer pre-refit or post Pearl Harbour modernisation? Because as I hear it there's a big debate on which looked better on those US battleships

Personally I like the WWII rebuilds, but I may be in a minority :p
 
I love everything about the Standards, both as built (the clean simplicity of lines, and I actually like the appearance of cage masts), as refitted in the 30's, and as refitted post-Pearl Harbor. Each refit made them beautiful in different ways, with as built being clean elegant simplicity of line, 30's being functional at the core but still retaining elements of the original, and the post-Pearl refits being them stripping down to fight and looking meaner and madder in the process.
 
Zachowon said:
I was planning on visiting Hiroshima and naagasaki!

but yeah. Been to the Yorktown and alabama
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I've been to Patriots Point as well way back in the day. Shame that the sub there will be scuttled as a artificial reef next year due to the effects of corrosion. She's the last Guppy sub left
 
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