Ship Photo of the Day

[Renegade One]

Best guess is they're visual landing aids. Both ships were equipped with forward arresting gear for foul deck recoveries...

And others even later, apparently. May be a repost, but Essex Class carriers could steam 20 knots in reverse and had arrestor wires on the forward flight deck. Here, a Grumman Avenger lands on over the bow, while Yorktown steams in reverse in the summer of 1943 in the protected confines Gulf of Paria (between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) during her shakedown cruise.

 

[Randy Daytona]

If the Germans had concentrated on developing these earlier, who knows how the Battle of the Atlantic would have turned out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_XXI_submarine

 

[Renegade One]

If the Germans had concentrated on developing these earlier, who knows how the Battle of the Atlantic would have turned out.

We'd have just countered that with the aircraft carriers made of ice (pykrete). Checkmate…mike drop…boom!

 

[jmcquate]

We'd have just countered that with the aircraft carriers made of ice (pykrete)

Lord Mountbatten's folly............and the source of a service revolver round that almost hit Admiral King.

 

[jmcquate]

knows how the Battle of the Atlantic would have turned out.

The same. It still couldn't hide from airborne radar.

 

[Randy Daytona]

The same. It still couldn't hide from airborne radar.

Was airborne radar good enough back then to detect a snorkel?

From Ivan: the 28,000 tone Kirov class battlecruiser. The only one of the four still in service (according to Wikipedia) is Pyotr Velikiy (Peter the Great) - the names of these ships have been changed: Pyotr Velikiy was formerly known as Yuriy Andropov (General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union after Brezhnev)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov-class_battlecruiser

The aft sections of Kirov (left) and Frunze (right) showing differences in weapons fit - Kirov has a pair of single 100mm guns, and two pairs of AK-630 CIWS mounts either side of the flight deck, whereas Frunze has a twin 130mm turret and eight SA-N-9 VLS in place of the CIWS mounts.

 

[Randy Daytona]

The most famous ship to work the Great Lakes. SS Edmund Fitzgerald. Memorable song by Gordon Lightfoot.

 

[Pags]

Not just any lake but the Great Lake Gitchigumee.

 

[nittany03]

Memorable song by Gordon Lightfoot.

And a damned good porter as well.

 

[Hopeful Hoya]

And a damned good porter as well.

As we get closer to spring/summer keep an eye out for their Chillwave double IPA if you haven't had it, it's phenomeal as well.

 

[Randy Daytona]

Sunk in 1545, raised in 1982 - the Mary Rose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose
http://www.maryrose.org/discover-our-collection/story-of-the-ship/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-22639505

 

[Randy Daytona]

Winner of The Great Steamboat Race of 1870 from New Orleans to St Louis between the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez (which had the misfortune of being delayed by fog.)

 

[Randy Daytona]

German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_auxiliary_cruiser_Kormoran

The largest merchant raider operated by Germany during World War II, Kormoran was responsible for the destruction of 10 merchant vessels and the capture of an 11th during her year-long career in the Atlantic and Indian oceans. She is also known for sinking the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney during a mutually destructive battle off Western Australia on 19 November 1941.

 

[Randy Daytona]

ARA Independence (V-1) Argentina's first aircraft carrier. Formerly a British Colossus Class light carrier, was sold to Argentina. Notice some of the aircraft operating from it - decommissioned in 1971.

While still in UK colors, on station for an H-bomb test in 1957.

 

[Randy Daytona]

The Italian Battleship class Littorio. One of these, The Roma, was hit by 2 German glider bomb (Fritz X) and went down with most of its crew.

https://warisboring.com/italys-worl...-not-exactly-the-best-7446c571c235#.30iy44dn1