Hi guys, Upon making my 2010 memorial video I came across this photograph; I have other ships in my video, but those I found out what they were, and put thier name beneath the boat so people would know. It would be nice if I could do the same to this one too. Regards, Kyle
I'm not an expert, but that kind of looks like a Southampton class British cruiser. If it is, it's either Newcastle, Sheffield, Birminghwm, or Glasgow, or Liverpool. But let's let the better navy buffs chime in!
ULITHI may not be an expert but he's darn good! The best I could come up with was "it's a big boat". And OpanaPointer, well he IS an expert.
I bought a copy of Jane's fighting ships of WWII that I found at a used book sale for 3 bucks. I love it, and it's really neat because the previous owner stuffed it with newspaper articles. Everything from the Iowas retireing to reunios, to the re-release of Das Boot.
Good find. I'd like to come across one of those myself. I just got my own copy of Stanton's Order of Battle from Amazon for a pretty low price, so I'm looking forward to using that around here.
It just amazes me what some of yall know. I guess I've just been out of the loo to long, and this is just a worthless post, but dang. I thought it was gonna be like the bismark, and the uh darn.
Actually, at least in my case, it's not so much what I know as what I can find out. I enjoy doing research on things I don't know. It's an old habit from grad school, and a long career as a teacher.
You look at them enough, you get to where you can tell pretty quickly. That ship had "British lines" about it. Plus the Jack was a real big tip off.
The superstructure is usually the tip-off. It's like the "new" BBs in the USN. If you look at the profiles you'll see 3-1-2. In the first two, North Carolina and Washington, there were 3 "columns", the conning tower is separated from the stacks. In the SIMA-class* BBs there is 1 "column", the conning tower is close to the single stack. In the Iowas the conning tower is next to the first stack, making 2 "columns". Hence 3-1-2 to tell which class of BB you're looking at. For the older BBs it gets more complicated as several of them had significant changes at different times in the war. Some matched up closely with others of their classes, but not necessarily at the same time. *South Dakota Indiana Massachusetts Alabama
Yes. British capital ships of the period had a forward superstructure/bridge that looked (to me) like a building, with flat vertical facings, raked back on either side to allow the #2 turret to fire off the aft quarters.
While USN ships had a weather deck all the around the superstructure in most combatants. The "slab sides" screamed UK.
History of HMS Southampton. HMS Southampton, British light cruiser, WW2 I would hazard a guess that this official Navy photo may very well have been taken at the 1937 Spithead review. I will bow to superior knowledge on this...
