When the ships were originally designed, they were meant as an augmentation to the scouting cruisers and were expected to have limited cruiser...
Essex herself was completed without the hangar catapult. She had a single H2 and never got the H4s that the rest of the class did. There were two...
Only about four years late, but are you sure it was it a cruiser? Could it have been something like Wyoming when she was a gunnery training ship?
Don't forget she was stateside undergoing repair.
A couple of clarifications/ corrections. The Catapult was a Type H, Mk IV A, so "HIVA" reflects a roman numeral in the center and was not an...
It's interesting to note that the P-47N had a longer range than the P-51D. Wasn't as efficient, but it could store so much more fuel that it was...
I do too, but it's unfortunately the last of the Pearl Harbor ships I have at this time.
I've just posted a set of plans for USS Oklahoma I found on the National Archives Website: http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/BB37/BOGP/...
Mine is of two US Cruisers Demonstrating oil fog and funnel smoke. Just a random neat photo I sanned in at the National Archives.
For what it's worth, "hardly." It was easily more manueverable at low speeds, but that came at a price. At higher speeds the larger ailerons and...
For what it's worth, three of battleship Arizona's guns were on Nevada for the invasion - they had been salvaged, refurbished, and then installed...
Man, I need to get that UDT page taken down =/ (I used to own Specwarnet but let the domain expire, someone scooped up the domain, scraped the...
Naw, you're just a Yankee (so am I)
It looks like you tried to link to my ship section, but the link is slightly borked with a comment. Try this: http://www.researcheratlarge.com/Ships/
It's working for me right now.. pretty sure there's no reason I would get blocked in Canada. Is it working for you now?
I stumbled across these on NARA's website and thought it wise to post them in a less obscure area: USS Indianapolis CA-35, Booklet of General...
The Collins Foundation visits Seattle every year, but they always seem to come on an overcase weekend when the weather is crappy for photos. This...
I've posted Arizona's "Booklet of General Plans" here for others to use. The Booklet of General Plans (BOGP hereafter) was a set of drawings used...
Maybe a decade to fifteen years ago that was true, but not any longer. Read up on Search Engine Optimization (A current piece) as there are a lot...
I research at NARA II about once a year and at the Seattle branch monthly - I won't have the time on my next trip to help, but if you have any...
