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Reply #150 on: October 04, 2018, 05:55:17 AM
I hate the look of those wickerwork thingies - looks like someone tried to crochet a battleship.

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Reply #151 on: October 04, 2018, 06:40:34 AM
I hate the look of those wickerwork thingies - looks like someone tried to crochet a battleship.

+1 Cage masts are hideous looking.

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Reply #152 on: October 04, 2018, 09:37:46 AM
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Starboard bow view of the USS Little Rock (CLG-4) steaming into Norfolk in the mid-1960s.



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Reply #153 on: October 04, 2018, 12:58:28 PM
That one has a wee bit of wickerworkiness going on too. Must have got the urge to kick it vintage-style.

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Reply #154 on: October 05, 2018, 10:36:25 AM
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USS Huntington (CA-5) sports dazzle camouflage as she lies at anchor in a European port following a convoy escort mission across the Atlantic in 1918



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Reply #155 on: October 05, 2018, 11:00:42 AM
Is there a ship in that pic?  ???

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Reply #156 on: October 05, 2018, 12:12:25 PM
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The 3rd Battle Squadron in Malta, 1917. From left to right, HMS Hindustan, HMS Africa, HMS Hibernia and lead ship of the class these ships belonged to, HMS King Edward VII



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Reply #157 on: October 06, 2018, 11:25:26 AM
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The lead ship of her class of protected cruisers, the last class of ships of that type built for the German Imperial Navy, SMS Victoria Louise.



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Reply #158 on: October 06, 2018, 11:27:02 AM
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Originally build for the Ottoman Navy but seized by the Royal Navy at the start of WW1, a top down view of HMS Erin showing her heavy broadside of 13.5-inch guns.



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Reply #159 on: October 06, 2018, 01:51:43 PM
I hadn't heard of it before, so i looked it up as 13.5" guns seemed a strange calibre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Erin

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Reply #160 on: October 06, 2018, 02:13:07 PM
She also has that weird British sunken middle turret that can't fire directly over the rear ones.
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Reply #161 on: October 06, 2018, 02:28:15 PM
Yes, that midships turret is a bit weird.

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Reply #162 on: October 06, 2018, 02:55:15 PM
Took everyone a while to figure out turret layouts.

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Reply #163 on: October 06, 2018, 06:19:10 PM

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Reply #164 on: October 06, 2018, 06:46:47 PM
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HMS Vanguard(23) in Rotterdam, June 1952



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