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Prince of Wales shortly before being sunk at Singapore. Note the well weathered and intricate camoflauge applied.
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yer go T. A.
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EDIT-Damn So close! But yet too late!
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edit: nvm
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Terry asks that I post this picture for him.
We all know (speak for yourself, Terry) this is a "Flower" class corvette. What makes this particular one unusual? For a bonus name the ship.
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bump
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Thought I'd rebirth this.
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HMS Repulse
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April 21st, 2008, 09:19 PM
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Thats a negatory.
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hint: it was scuttled.
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Doesn't look WW 2 to me. Appears to be one of the SMS Derfflinger class battlecruisers of WW 1. Could be any of the three Derfflinger, Lützow, or Hindenburg but I can't tell which from the photo (size+blind = who knows).
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correct. Scuttled after the great war.
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Feel free to try another one
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I'll pick this thread back up
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That is one confused-looking ship. Obviously American with the cage mast, but it also has a tripod mast at the stern. It almost looks like a battleship built on a destroyer budget, what with the destroyer armament and battleship look......
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Those are not the original turrets on this US ship. Although it never saw cambat, it is thought that it fired it's original guns more than any other US ship of it's type.
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Wow Jeff, I'm not sure. It is a confused looking ship as Tom pointed out. The hull looks to me like It could be the Wyoming class battleship. Though the pic I just looked at had a different mast than your pick the USS Wyoming did convert her 12" guns to 5"/38's late in 44 and was also used as a gunnery training ship which fits your descriptions so that is my guess.
USS Wyoming after conversion to AG-17
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USS Wyoming is correct.
The picture I posted does show her after her forward 12" turrets were removed and replaced by the 5" mounts. Her cage mast had not yet been removed.
Her after 12" turrets were removed in the 1920s to comply with treaty obligations along with her torpedo bulges and she became a training ship. Thus it is assumed that she fired her remaining forward guns more than any other US battleship.
Good Call.
Give us a good one to ruminate over.
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Didn't think I would get that one.
I'll keep with the battleship thing than
Who is this beauty
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That be the USS California, BB 44. Resurrected from the mud of Pearl Harbor to pay her respects to the Japanese troops on Guam and Okinawa.
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You got it tom, throw one out there
Skipper, thanks for the link.
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