Armchair Dragoons Forums

News:

  • Origins Game Fair 2024 – featuring the Wargame HQ with the Armchair Dragoons – will be held 19-23 June, 2024 ~~ More Info here
  • Buckeye Game Fest will be held May 2-5, 2024, with The War Room opening on 29 April ~~ More Info here

News

Origins Game Fair 2024 – featuring the Wargame HQ with the Armchair Dragoons – will be held 19-23 June, 2024 ~~ More Info here
« previous next »
Pages: 1 ... 84 85 86 87 88 ... 105

Author Topic: Ships!  (Read 406491 times)

trailrunner

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1066
Reply #1275 on: July 15, 2020, 03:34:33 PM
Quote from: besilarius on July 15, 2020, 01:56:12 PM
During WWII, there was an Essex class carrier named Bon Homme Richard.
The crew were proud to sail on "the biggest Dick in the Pacific."

My dad was on that ship in the 1960s, and maybe 1970s.  I still remember him and my mom calling her the Bonnie Dick.

I’ve spent half my life’s earning on wargames, women, and drink. The rest I wasted.

besilarius

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1573
Reply #1276 on: July 15, 2020, 05:23:03 PM
Yes, Bonnie Dick became the preferred nickname at some point.
My dad was a plank owner on Yorktown, CV10.  She was planned to be named BHR, but Ernie King decided that after Midway, there should be a Yorktown. 
When we went with him to the opening at Patriots Point, a lot of people who had sailed on Yorktown attended.
Those old salts had irreverent nicknames for all the carriers.  Intrepid was " the EVil I".
Belleau Wood was Morning Wood.  Etc.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1277 on: July 16, 2020, 04:16:58 PM
Quote
Admiral-class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Camperdown


Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.

bbmike

  • Warrant Officer
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 7456
    • My Own Worst Enemy
Reply #1278 on: July 16, 2020, 04:34:27 PM
I hope that dude on the bow is getting hazardous duty pay.

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

My Own Worst Enemy

trailrunner

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1066
Reply #1279 on: July 16, 2020, 05:39:42 PM
Quote from: bbmike on July 16, 2020, 04:34:27 PM
I hope that dude on the bow is getting hazardous duty pay.

He's jumping up and down on the chain trying to unstick the anchor.

I’ve spent half my life’s earning on wargames, women, and drink. The rest I wasted.

mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1280 on: July 16, 2020, 05:45:06 PM
Quote from: bbmike on July 16, 2020, 04:34:27 PM
I hope that dude on the bow is getting hazardous duty pay.

Considering that Camperdown rammed and sank HMS Victoria, I'd say he earned hazard pay.

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.

bbmike

  • Warrant Officer
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 7456
    • My Own Worst Enemy
Reply #1281 on: July 16, 2020, 05:50:51 PM
He did if he was hanging off the side like that when they hit.  ;D

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

My Own Worst Enemy

besilarius

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1573
Reply #1282 on: July 16, 2020, 06:04:40 PM
When the boatswain mates are pulling in the anchor, one beefy guy whacks each link of the anchor chain with a sledgehammer.
A link that is in good shape has a sharp, metallic sound.
A wormy link has a really dull clank.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

bbmike

  • Warrant Officer
  • Lance Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 7456
    • My Own Worst Enemy
Reply #1283 on: July 16, 2020, 06:07:49 PM
Uh, huh. I won't even ask about the 'wheels on the ship'.

"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

My Own Worst Enemy

mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1284 on: July 18, 2020, 04:05:12 PM
Quote
Italian sailors relax on top of a CB-class midget submarine moored next a German S-boat, Crimea, 1942



Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.

mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1285 on: July 18, 2020, 08:38:03 PM
Quote
An after turret on the battleship HMS Barham being fitted with 15-inch guns at John Brown & Co’s yard in May 1915, before her completion in August



Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.

bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 11727
Reply #1286 on: July 19, 2020, 10:45:04 AM
Nice find  :bigthumb:

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1287 on: July 24, 2020, 03:32:46 PM

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.

besilarius

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1573
Reply #1288 on: July 27, 2020, 02:10:21 PM

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.

mirth

  • Cardboard Mohel
  • Lance Sergeant
  • ****
  • Posts: 7291
    • Armchair Dragoons
Reply #1289 on: July 28, 2020, 03:38:20 PM
Quote
HMS Renown leading HMS Courageous and HMS Furious, 1934



Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.

Pages: 1 ... 84 85 86 87 88 ... 105
« previous next »