Warship Appreciation Thread
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Sergeant Foley
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Definitely following this amazing thread. Hope to see pictures of Naval warships from Spain, Chile, Argentine Republic, etc.
What could they possibly gain by salvaging the wrecks!?
Nothing,rusted steel could be get cheaper.Unless somebody want pieces of those ships and pay for it.
Not impossible,rich people sometimes buy strange things.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Pre 1945 steel. It's useful for various things due to not being messed with by trace nuclear contamination. Still means that if I was running the RN that salvage ship would eat a wild spearfish.
Pre-nuclear steel; actually rather pricey stuff, due to limited amounts existing.
A bunch of other WW2 ship wrecks in semi-shallow waters have been hit by scavangers like this, including a few IJN and ADBACOM ships which have nearly been stripped to the keel.
Going after British battleship wrecks in deep water is a new development.
Whats so special about it?
It does not have certain radio-isotope contamination that exists, in some form, in most modern steel; long term after effects of all the atmospheric nuclear tests is the source of said contamination.
For most uses, modern steel is fine; but for some very sensitive instruments dealing with radio-logical equipment (for hospital radiology/industrial radio-logical measuring devices), it would skew readings and makes the tool worthless.
I learned about this in my radio-carbon/uranium series dating class for geology; it was more of a side-bar then. It's also why rado-isotope dating is pegged to 1950 or so as 'current year', because the same atmospheric contamination that affects steel affects doing geological dating.
Lord Sovereign
The resident Britbong
Those ships are the graves of eight hundred men. You'd think the BBC would be talking about it, but I've heard nothing.
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
Such events are too trifling for the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation, same as when Jutland wrecks were scavenged.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Got to say takes a lot more balls to do that in the RNs and Germany navy's backyard.
Of course in a just world that would mean they'd just have died faster
A Dutch salvage vessel was photographically documented in 2009 with identifiable pieces of the Queen Mary from Jutland, and nothing ever really came of it, and the BBC *did* cover it at the time, as menttioned in this this 2016 news article: Dutch Salvors Accused of Looting Warship Wreck
And also this investigative report: EXCLUSIVE: NAMED-THE SALVAGE COMPANY WHICH LOOTED JUTLAND WAR GRAVES AS MOD FAILS TO ACT | thePipeLine
The exact same Dutch salvage vessel was convicted of illegal salvage in 2018 after being caught red-handed by an RN patrol ship in 2016: Master and owner charged for illegal salvage of sunken vessel
paulobrito
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ARA La Argentina, Argentine Light Cruiser
paulobrito
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Brasilian carrier Sao Paulo.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
aka what the arethusa and leander class ships should have been built as. sans the also a training ship for cadets bit and a tad faster.
ARA La Argentina, Argentine Light Cruiser
gral
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Something like her, yes, although I think a British equivalent would end up being slightly bigger and heavier.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
That would be have been the bigger engines needed to reach 32 vs 30 knots.
Mind you if the RN hadn't not worked very hard on engine R&D they could have likely had their cake and eaten it.
Then again the La Argentina had over twice the range of the arthethusas at just 1 knot lower cruising speed
PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
DDG 95 leaving Toulon two days ago.
Knowledgeispower
Ah I love the smell of missile spam in the morning
Geez thats a lot of rust for a ship leaving port
paulobrito
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BAP Almirante Grau - Peruvian Navy