Warship Appreciation Thread
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Is that New York, Texas, and Old Ironsides herself?
Francis Urquhart
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It's a pity but its been inevitable for some years now. The first step was the merging of the US Navy and US Army high-speed transport ships to give the JHSV that became the EPF. It was the same argument; it makes little sense for the Army and the Navy to be maintaining parallel logistics support networks for near-identical ships. There's also the fact that "purple" is becoming the operational standard now with forces being assigned according to requirements not service. Its regrettable and the effects are arguable but the truth is, budget pressures make it inevitable.
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Up until the last minute some people were talking like it was going to be undone because of how often before it's been discussed, but never implemented. Oh well, we still have the Corps Dredge fleet!
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Steampunk has nothing on real life.
It was a nice effort... the musical is a bit much for me. 
It was a nice effort... the musical is a bit much for me.
It's a nice rendition of a ST. LOUIS class cruiser, but that's about where it stops.
That's what I thought, just wanted to be sure. Pretty sure that ship in the middle is one of the Erie class gunboats.
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No, it's a tender. Some of them had 3 x 5" guns.
Kirov, reporting.
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Is it another Russian warship that US Politicians are saluting again?
gral
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Looks like a certain congressman's staff will be temporarily reduced by one person...
Note to fleet:
Spot the mistake
The Russian ensign is to be flown BELOW the American ensign when a prize puts into port the first time.
Please conduct remedial prize crew training aboard all ships to prevent future confusion.
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I love this one!
In all seriousness, it could have easily been fixed by photoshopping in a submarine periscope jpeg with a crosshairs!
PsihoKekec
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An interesting what if, Warrior vs. Monitor
Harlock
I should have expected that really
Not too long to Halloween now, but 31st of October is also memorable as the day the Warspite was laid down. Warspite being the vessel that put the 'battle' in Battleship and enjoyed a long career shooting and ramming into things. Sometimes intentionally.
She was the original Grand Old Lady and archetype for all those old but rugged warships that tend to show up in fiction. Very much a ship that liked to do things her own way and cheated fate one final time by running aground on the way to the breakers and stubbornly fighting off the salvage ships which tried to take her away, somehow sinking one of them.
She ran aground at a place called Prussia Cove, my personal theory is she saw the word 'Prussia' and immediately decided to attack. Lacking guns she made a successful ramming attack. Old habits.
Having visited the place myself there's still some of the old lady there just under the surface and a few mementos saved by the locals. It is however a very beautiful bit of the country to settle as a last resting place.
After hearing the ship had run aground one of her former crew, Lt-Cmdr R A B Mitchell, wrote the following as a final epitaph
"The Subject"
You say you have no subject
And your brushes all have dried;
But come to Marazion
At the ebbing of the tide.
And look you out to seaward,
Where my Lady battle scarred
Hugs the rock that is more welcome,
Than the shameful breakers yard.
Paint her there upon the sunset
In her glory and despair,
With the diadem of victory
Still in flower upon her hair.
Let her whisper as she settles
Of her blooding long ago,
In the mist than mingles Jutland
With the might of Scapa Flow.
Let her tell you, too, of Narvik
With its snowy hills, and then
Of Matapan, Salerno
And the shoals of Walcheren;
And finally of Malta,
When along the purple street
Came in trail the Roman Navy
To surrender at her feet.
Of all these honours conscious,
How could she bear to be
Delivered to the spoiler
Or severed from the sea ?
So hasten then and paint her
In the last flush of her pride
On the rocks of Marazion,
At the ebbing of the tide.
She was the original Grand Old Lady and archetype for all those old but rugged warships that tend to show up in fiction. Very much a ship that liked to do things her own way and cheated fate one final time by running aground on the way to the breakers and stubbornly fighting off the salvage ships which tried to take her away, somehow sinking one of them.
She ran aground at a place called Prussia Cove, my personal theory is she saw the word 'Prussia' and immediately decided to attack. Lacking guns she made a successful ramming attack. Old habits.
Having visited the place myself there's still some of the old lady there just under the surface and a few mementos saved by the locals. It is however a very beautiful bit of the country to settle as a last resting place.
After hearing the ship had run aground one of her former crew, Lt-Cmdr R A B Mitchell, wrote the following as a final epitaph
"The Subject"
You say you have no subject
And your brushes all have dried;
But come to Marazion
At the ebbing of the tide.
And look you out to seaward,
Where my Lady battle scarred
Hugs the rock that is more welcome,
Than the shameful breakers yard.
Paint her there upon the sunset
In her glory and despair,
With the diadem of victory
Still in flower upon her hair.
Let her whisper as she settles
Of her blooding long ago,
In the mist than mingles Jutland
With the might of Scapa Flow.
Let her tell you, too, of Narvik
With its snowy hills, and then
Of Matapan, Salerno
And the shoals of Walcheren;
And finally of Malta,
When along the purple street
Came in trail the Roman Navy
To surrender at her feet.
Of all these honours conscious,
How could she bear to be
Delivered to the spoiler
Or severed from the sea ?
So hasten then and paint her
In the last flush of her pride
On the rocks of Marazion,
At the ebbing of the tide.