Name This Naval Vessel 2

Persistence should be rewarded! Unfortunately in this case, it isn't rewarded with a right answer, so instead I'll give a clue.
The design is indeed British. The men who actually built the ship were not of that nationality. And the men who formed the crew were not of either of those two nationalities.

 

I'm going to go the other direction and say HMAS Arunta

 

I thought of saskatchewan, but it was still British built. Unless Tiornu means English designed, Scottish built, Canadian sailors.....

Hope someone gets it right soon, I'm intrigued!!

 

Looks like one of the RNN De Ruijter class DDs to me. Which one is a toss up. The distinctive mast arrangement and amidships main gun along with the bridge details look like that class. Yarrow design built under Dutch supervision manned by the Dutch too. That is why this class looks alot like British DDs.

 

Well, TAG has nailed the correct land mass, but he's on the wrong side of it.
The ship was named for a royal female. It will be hard to give more clues without totally giving it away.

 

Hm, I'm wondering which country was second to Britain in warship exports between the wars....

 

Scratch Bockenhein. Sunk by gunfire and looks totally different.

 

Is it time to abandon this one? I'll be willing to accept the name she had in Soviet service.

 

I was looking at South America but the Argentinian DDs were British built, comming from you I should have suspected some soviet connection . So my guess is either Regele Ferdinand or Regina Maria built in Italy for Rumania to British design and finally ended up in Soviet service as Likhoi and Letuchy.

 

No don't abandon it. I take it she will be in your book somewhere. I'm at work now, so give me till about 8 or 9 tonight to look through. Havn't reached the destroyer section yet.

 

I prefer to think of it as a snicker.

Doh! My snicker has withered. The ball is in your court, sir!

 

Not to stray too far from the current theme .....

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HMCS Ontario

 

The ship looks like La Argentina, but I can't remember which navy she was in.

 

La Argentina is right and she was built for Argentina . Usually classed as a school ship not a cruiser, her design is really more a "triple turret Arethusa" rather than a scaled down version of the triple turret Town or Colony classes but she can easily be confused with either so Ontario was close.

Over to you

 

No, really? Hee!
Now this next one is very tough, so I'll give you some clues. First, she never got much farther along than depicted in this photo. If you look very closely at the writing in the bottom corner, that will tell you which country she's in. Poor girl, she has no superstructure. Why, she looks positively flat-topped.

 

I can't make out the writing on the bottom. Based on your recent work and the theme we have seemed to tuch on I will guess she is the Izmail.

 

Izmail is a good guess, but incorrect. I enlarged the pic to about 150% and was able to make out a single word. That's all you'll need.