They're almost small enough for someone to use as a large houseboat.One of the Insect Class maybe HMS Aphis would have been interesting
They're almost small enough for someone to use as a large houseboat.One of the Insect Class maybe HMS Aphis would have been interesting
Yup - that's the technicality!What a cool houseboat that would have been .
I'd seen that before about Prince Eugene , I'm assuming the technicality was USS Prinz Eugene . He must be unique in that respect.
Sabaton would make a song about her and then use her in a video.What a cool houseboat that would have been .
I'd seen that before about Prince Eugene , I'm assuming the technicality was USS Prinz Eugene . He must be unique in that respect.
What a cool houseboat that would have been .
I'd seen that before about Prince Eugene , I'm assuming the technicality was USS Prinz Eugene . He must be unique in that respect.
Yup - that's the technicality!
Thank you. That was a fascinating article with plenty of information new to me. The picture of the removed 8" gun being removed emphasized how large marine cannon are.tigercat, Coulsdon Eagle,
Not to drag us off-topic, but you might find this article on Prinz Eugen post-war of interest:
USS Prinz Eugen
The cruiser Prinz Eugen was the largest and most modern German surface ship to survive WWII intact. Allocated to the United States, the ship briefly served as USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300), having some …wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com
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Was there some way, some how the superb British battleship KING GEORGE V(which of course helped
sink the BISMARCK)could have been saved? Or were(are)the British just too starved for money to do such a thing?
Admiral King said there would always be a USS England in the navy.
- HMS Ajax (a typical interwar build light cruiser with a good service record, including the hunt for the Graf Spee.)
Nice to see the Dutch getting the recognition they deserve.For obvious reasons this list some typical WW2 erea "grand" ships deserving to have been preserved:
- HMS Warspite. (No comment needed)
- HMS Illustrious (First ever Armored Flightdeck Aircraft Carrier and a ship that fought in almost every important part of the world in the conflict, taking her fair share of damage and still surviving every time.)
- HMS Ajax (a typical interwar build light cruiser with a good service record, including the hunt for the Graf Spee.)
- Richelieu, or Jean Bart (Latest French Battleship design and still in good shape in then post war period.)
- Triomphant (French Contre-Torpilleur of the Fantasque Class.)
- Prinz Eugen (Please give her a better status then becomming a testship for a nuclear test.)
- Nagato (same as Prinz Eugen. Japan's last battleship of the War, excluding the already museumship Mikasa)
- Yukikaze (Kagero class destroyer and only surviving member of this typical class in WW2)
- USS Enterprise CV-6 (Already mentioned)
- USS Augusta CA-31 (interwar build typical "treaty" cruiser design and former Flagship of Atlantic Fleet at Normandy.)
- USS Nautilus SS-168 (Interwar build so called submarine cruiser with a good war record.)
- Hr. Ms. Tromp and/ or Hr. Ms. Jacob van Heemskerck (Dutch light cruiser build just before the war and the only surviving Dutch cruisers of the conflict.
- Hr. Ms. O-21. (Submarine with best record in the Dutch Navy in WW2.)
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Or at least the turret. They have a 9.2" coastal turret from Gibraltar at IWM Duxford, a 15" turret would be amazing though how to get it to Cambridgeshire would be interesting.The monitor HMS Roberts survived until 1965 as a drill and accommodation ship. At that point with all the Battleships gone it would have made sense to preserve her to show what a Battleship turret was like.
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As his daughter was quoted as saying "Daddy hated everyone!"Especially since I have heard that King did not like the British much
As his daughter was quoted as saying "Daddy hated everyone!"
And one of my favourites
"He is the most even tempered man in the Navy. He is always in a rage"