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Reply #1050 on: February 17, 2020, 12:24:09 PM
For some reason, it came out as a KGV class.  Maybe fitting out?  Anson or Howe possibly?

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Reply #1051 on: February 17, 2020, 01:32:08 PM
Sorry, I meant the one on the other left- the flat top.

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Reply #1052 on: February 18, 2020, 10:23:28 AM
Great picture. It also shows how that type of camo can fool the eye, even at close quarters, although I guess being in B&W makes a difference  ;)

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Reply #1053 on: February 18, 2020, 11:49:11 AM
Wait! There was a time Britain had TWO aircraft carriers?!!?  :o   Sorry, too good to let pass.  :go-on:

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Reply #1054 on: February 18, 2020, 01:13:03 PM
Had to look up the battleship. Looks like England's last battleship went to the scrapyard in 1960. A shame but understandable.

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Reply #1055 on: February 18, 2020, 01:37:18 PM
Wait! There was a time Britain had TWO aircraft carriers?!!?  :o   Sorry, too good to let pass.  :go-on:

There were time when we oodles of 'em.

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Reply #1056 on: February 18, 2020, 02:39:12 PM
My Father was in the Navy during WWII and I remember him telling me when I was young he saw the H.M.S. Duke of York at Okinawa and how small she was compared to the Iowa Class BB's of the U.S. It wasn't until much later I read and then told him about the Brits building their BB's according to the agreed specs of the Washington and London Treaties which required them to be of smaller size and weight. The Brits were playing by the rules, the Germans and Japanese not, and that's why their ships were smaller than the U.S. ships and probably everybody else's too. I believe the same thing was true with the Brit cruisers as well.

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Reply #1057 on: February 18, 2020, 02:45:25 PM
I was surprised recently to discover just how big the British Pacific Fleets was. It was actually the largest Royal Navy force of all time.


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

21 carries of different sizes, including 6 fleet carriers.

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Reply #1058 on: February 18, 2020, 04:42:33 PM
www.armouredcarriers.com
Is a great website.  The account of Taranto is superb

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Reply #1059 on: February 20, 2020, 12:28:20 PM
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Four Austrian battleships sailing in formation (2 dreadnought types and 2 pre-dreadnoughts)



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Reply #1060 on: February 20, 2020, 12:34:38 PM
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Missile magazine of the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS Arkansas (CGN-41), 23 September 1993



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Reply #1061 on: February 20, 2020, 12:36:01 PM
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A Nelson-class battleship leads QE & R-class battleships during exercises in the Med. Circa late 1920's



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Reply #1062 on: February 20, 2020, 12:37:46 PM

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Reply #1063 on: February 20, 2020, 12:41:08 PM
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1960. Scrapping of HMS Vanguard, two of the main 15" guns (381 mm)



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Reply #1064 on: February 20, 2020, 12:43:25 PM
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