Name this Naval Vessel

Very close miss, I hoped to trick someone to say the Georgios Averof, but she's not. Must admit nothing in the picture points at her true identity unless you recognize the city in the background is Istanbul where a Greek warship would be very unwelcome. The pictue is post WW1. (The above info should enable to identify the exact ship).

 

Actually at first I thought it was in Istanbul, althugh nothing on shore could help in recognition.

So if it is not Averof, maybe it is sister ship Pisa of Italian navy?

 

I did answer yesterday (apparently the server ate my post) and yes it's the Pisa as part of the multinational force that kept a presence in the dardanelles between the 1918 armistice and the 1923 peace treaty. The third sister Amalfi was sunk in WW1 by a sub.

 

Sorry for delay, for some reason I cannot always connect to this site from home.
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Here is new question, what we see here?

 

Looks like a WW2 cruiser, triple turrets with range finders on both and ball shaped secondary directors visible at left and right make me think soviet. Gun spacing is too large for a Kirov so a Project 68 or Project 68B (Chapayev / Sverdlov) but that's a far as I go.

 

Well, you are on good track, but you were wrong about gun spacing.
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Edit: Sorry, I misread your post.
Yes, you are right, it is Sverdlov class, last one in it, Murmansk.
It is sold for scrapping to India in '94, but was washed on Norway coast in storm.

Your turn.

 

Very nice pic
Saw your post before edit and was immagining all sort of things , AFAIK the 180mm guns of Kirov had a single craddle mount, a possible "bad influence" from Ansaldo that provided part of technology for them and are easily recognizable as I can think of no other triple mounts with that feature.

As we seem to be on the subject of wrecks .......
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I will take a guess...
Is it italian Zara class crusier Gorizia sunk in Spezia?

 

Close but no cigar, not Gorizia and not La Spezia.

 

OK, then maybe RM Trieste on Sardinia?

 

The background is an island but a lot smaller than Sardinia, and the ship is not Trieste.
It's not really a wreck, the ship was beached to prevent sinking and later refloated and towed away.

 

I think your last post made sure this is incorrect, but......



Giulio Germanico, future San Marco

 

She's bigger than a Capitani Romani and the guns are too close together for that class that didn't have single craddle turrets.
The the Regia Marina hat seven heavy cruisers, Vathra ruled out two of them, 3 were lost at Matapan, one was lost in deep waters after taking an air and a sub torpedo, that leaves .........

 

How about this ship?

 

That would leave only RM Bolzano.
I found that she was torpedoed near island Panarea, but no mention of beaching. Later she was moved to La Spezia (and I ruled her out since you said photo was not form there)

 

Hello,
I think rules of these quizes are that you can ask question when you give correct reply on previous.
Also, it would be more difficult if you remove name of the vessel from the photo.

 

Yes it's RN Bolzano, the history says she was beached but those pictures always made me wonder, Panarea is my favorite vacationsite and the sea at that point is too deep for her to be actually touching bottom, but as it's sand it may have shifted over the years. What I can confirm is she was there for a while (13 August to 15 September 1942 when she was towed to Naples) as when I first went there were a couple of local young men known as "Bolzanini" .

Over to you

 

Here is one, which is wreck.
What boat is it?

 

HMS York at Suda bay ?