OT: Name that plane / ship

[btd64]

Pressure cooker.[:'(]....GP

[btd64]

The bottom of a Warp Plasma storage container....GP

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: General Patton

Pressure cooker.[:'(]....GP

It does look akin to some sort of stove, doesn't it?

But that's still wrong. [:'(]

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: General Patton

The bottom of a Warp Plasma storage container....GP

Umm...whut? No.

[Shark7]

Hmm, if those are wheels on the base like I think they are, then this may be the anchor weight from a moored sea mine.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Shark7

Hmm, if those are wheels on the base like I think they are, then this may be the anchor weight from a moored sea mine.

Hmmm...you're getting warmer...

[Pentakomo]

CVE-73 Gambier Bay

[MakeeLearn]

It's a really big dutch oven.... or a mine not the floating kind but like a port mine, sits on the bottom. Didn't they have cable triggers that were floated above the mine?

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn
a mine not the floating kind but like a port mine, sits on the bottom. Didn't they have cable triggers that were floated above the mine?

You're getting warmer. And not in a Dutch oven way.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Pentakomo

CVE-73 Gambier Bay

Hi Pentakomo,

The CVE-73 Gambier Bay was from post #332 on 7/15. It was quickly guessed and confirmed on posts #333 and #334

[MakeeLearn]

1-drifting mine,
2-drifting mine,
3-moored mine,
4-moored mine (short wire),
5-bottom mines,
6-torpedo mine/CAPTOR mine,
7-rising mine


It's a moored mine.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

1 Limpet mines.
2 Moored contact mines.
3 Drifting contact mines.
4 Moored mines.
5 Bottom mines.
6 Bouquet mine.
7 Anti-sweep mine.
8 Oscillating mine.


A moored mine.

Interesting graphic, but you've got your caption for #2 and #3 reversed.

[MakeeLearn]

Interesting graphic, but you've got your caption for #2 and #3 reversed.

Several were off, copied the wrong list, corrected. It's 3,4,6 or 7

3-moored mine,
4-moored mine (short wire),
6-torpedo mine/CAPTOR mine,
7-rising mine

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: MakeeLearn

Interesting graphic, but you've got your caption for #2 and #3 reversed.

Several were off, copied the wrong list, corrected. It's 3,4,6 or 7

3-moored mine,
4-moored mine (short wire),
6-torpedo mine/CAPTOR mine,
7-rising mine

No. The object in question is not any of those categories 3, 4, 6 or 7 in your corrected graphic.

[AW1Steve]

OK. We know it's NOT a mine. Is it a platform to CONVEY mines. As in it transports the mine along a mine rail to the stern of the ship where the mine separates ,and sinks. And the platform is either disposed of or in some way recovered for re-use? [&:]

[Chickenboy]

Awwww...looks like I'm torturing y'all. Here's the item in question. And it *is* a mine. A bottom magnetic mine (harbor defense), Mk. 18.

The bottom section is packed with 1350 lb. explosives and a search coil is deployed from the 'stove pipe'. The wheels on the bottom are for ease in deploying while rolling off the back of a ML.

[Chickenboy]

Here's a similar cluster of Mk. 51 mines on land pre-deployment. Looks like a field kitchen doesn't it?

[Chickenboy]

Any guesses about this one? (Cough) Steve? (Cough)

[AW1Steve]

What's with the Ozzie bomb?

[AW1Steve]

I'm going to say an airborne depth bomb. The explosive was developed by the Australians and quite stable and flexible. They even could use it in the Mk 46 torpedo.