Somewhat OT - The most beautiful warship (in your opinion)

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

I love the 3rd generation USN CLs:

USS Juneau II

Those were 5" guns - right?

Was their number (6 x 2 = 12) enough to justify such bigger ship (6000 tonns) than DD (since DD's usually carried 5")?


Leo "Apollo11"

[Fornadan]

[LargeSlowTarget]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

Those were 5" guns - right?

Was their number (6 x 2 = 12) enough to justify such bigger ship (6000 tonns) than DD (since DD's usually carried 5")?


Leo "Apollo11"

Most DDs carried only four or five 5" guns. The first batch of those AA cruisers carried 16 5" guns - imagine the ammo consumption. You need storage space for all those shells, hence the size. It is said those CLAAs were floating ammo dumps.

To get back to the original topic - I think the Atlanta class ships were the most beautiful warships.

[tsimmonds]

Those were 5" guns - right?

Was their number (6 x 2 = 12) enough to justify such bigger ship (6000 tonns) than DD (since DD's usually carried 5")?

They also had two HA/LA fire control directors (DDs had only one). They could engage two targets--air or surface--simultaneously (one fore, one aft) with fully director controlled fire.

[Mike Scholl]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

Those were 5" guns - right?

Was their number (6 x 2 = 12) enough to justify such bigger ship (6000 tonns) than DD (since DD's usually carried 5")?

They also had two HA/LA fire control directors (DDs had only one). They could engage two targets--air or surface--simultaneously (one fore, one aft) with fully director controlled fire.

Actually the original Atlanta Design was for a ship more envisioned as tha Destroyer Leader than an AA Cruiser. Such features as being the only US Cruisers with TT's point this out. And the Navy admitted later that for a true AA Cruiser the best layout would have been 2 twins forward, 2 aft, 2 port, and 2 starboard---with 4 directors.

[rogueusmc]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk
...Battleaxe class - they just look right

there's just something about naming a warship after your mother in law...[:D]

[Graycompany]

[&o] Olympia

[Graycompany]

Mug shot

[barbarrossa]

This one took me to war and brought my a** back safe and sound,