Australian Beauties II

[warspite1]

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

[Edmon]

What every Stug needs, a paint-job that reflects it's majestic beauty.

[Aurelian]

Another from the ugly tree: Akagi as built.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

Another from the ugly tree: Akagi as built.

Just remember that the concept of Aircraft Carrier was just being developed at the time.

[nikdav]

Vittorio Veneto, September 1943 !

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

The enclosed bows helped to keep the gas fumes in. Then a damage control officer had turned the fans on to get the fumes though the ship . . .

Which is probably appropriate since the name means "The Great Phoenix" . . .

[RangerJoe]

“[Our frigates] should combine such qualities of strength, durability, swiftness of sailing, and force, as to render them equal, if not superior, to any frigates belonging to any of the European Powers.”
– Secretary of War Henry Knox, December 27, 1794.

https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2016/07/29/sails/

The enemy told its people not to engage these ships unless they had numbers on their side - not that it helped them all that much!

[Ian R]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: warspite1

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

The enclosed bows helped to keep the gas fumes in. Then a damage control officer had turned the fans on to get the fumes though the ship . . .

Which is probably appropriate since the name means "The Great Phoenix" . . .

There is a youtube video where a clever person set up some photos of the Taiho, and the Indomitable, and flicked between them a few times, before concluding that the IJN got hold of the plans for Indomitable and found them inspiring.

Perhaps it was just convergent evolution.

[Aurelian]

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: warspite1

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

The enclosed bows helped to keep the gas fumes in. Then a damage control officer had turned the fans on to get the fumes though the ship . . .

Which is probably appropriate since the name means "The Great Phoenix" . . .

The enclosed bow had nothing to do with it. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/japane ... ght-decks/

[Curtis Lemay]

May as well get all the rest of the 1940 BBs posted.

Here's the Iowa-Class:



Edit: The number 64 ID's this one as the Wisconsin.

[Curtis Lemay]

King George V:

[Curtis Lemay]

Tirpitz (Bismarck-Class):

[Curtis Lemay]

And a Battlecruiser:

Alaska:

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: nikdav

Vittorio Veneto, September 1943 !

Looking nice here.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay

May as well get all the rest of the 1940 BBs posted.

They are all very nice looking ships.

Especially the Iowa-class, and Bismarck-class, ships.

[Orm]

And a classic beauty captured during the night.

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Aurelian

ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

ORIGINAL: warspite1

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

The enclosed bows helped to keep the gas fumes in. Then a damage control officer had turned the fans on to get the fumes though the ship . . .

Which is probably appropriate since the name means "The Great Phoenix" . . .

The enclosed bow had nothing to do with it. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/japane ... ght-decks/

If the bow would have been open, then fresh air would have come in from the front and exited from the stern - bring with it the gasoline fumes.

[Edmon]

ORIGINAL: ncc1701e

Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]

[Toby42]

These sailors had to be brave or crazy!

[ncc1701e]

ORIGINAL: Edmon

ORIGINAL: ncc1701e

Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]

Much better [;)]