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RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:14 pm
by Orm
You get extra points if you know what month and year it is.
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:15 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Orm
Can you name the ship?
warspite1
Looks like a Queen Elizabeth-class - although where is her sternwalk. Not QE as she was the only one fitted with one at the outset. So one of four.
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:16 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: Orm
Can you name the ship?
warspite1
Looks like a Queen Elizabeth-class - although where is her sternwalk. Not QE as she was the only one fitted with one at the outset. So one of four.
warspite1
a) too late
b) how did you know it was
Barham from this picture?
No idea who Barnham is....[:D]
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:16 pm
by Orm
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
ORIGINAL: Orm
Can you name the ship?
HMS Barnham
Do I get extra points for telling you that the water in the picture is the Clyde?
Quite right. [:)][&o]
Do you mind telling us how you knew exactly what ship of the class it was?
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:22 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: Orm
Can you name the ship?
warspite1
Looks like a Queen Elizabeth-class - although where is her sternwalk. Not QE as she was the only one fitted with one at the outset. So one of four.
warspite1
a) too late
b) how did you know it was
Barham from this picture?
No idea who Barnham is....[:D]
warspite1
I can't see how she is identified - please tell?
The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:33 pm
by mind_messing
ORIGINAL: Orm
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
ORIGINAL: Orm
Can you name the ship?
HMS Barham
Do I get extra points for telling you that the water in the picture is the Clyde?
Quite right. [:)][&o]
Do you mind telling us how you knew exactly what ship of the class it was?
I remarked to Lokasenna in our PBEM exchanges about how I live a couple of miles away from where most of his RN ships were built. I stumbled across that photo looking into the history of the QE battleships, as they were the second largest warships ever built on the Clyde? First place went to Duke of York, IIRC.
As a side plug -
http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:43 pm
by mind_messing
ORIGINAL: warspite1
The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
My first thought was some snarky reply about how it had the look of being built properly, a look that all the yards south of the border didn't really manage to match [:D]
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:58 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
ORIGINAL: warspite1
The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
My first thought was some snarky reply about how it had the look of being built properly, a look that all the yards south of the border didn't really manage to match [:D]
warspite1
You? Giving me a snarky reply? Surely not, you are normally so polite and courteous toward me [:D]
...but then, if you did, I could reply that the three ships built south of the border were properly constructed and so lasted the war - Warspite despite taking 29 hits from the Germans at Jutland, a glider bomb at Salerno, bombed off Crete, mined in the English Channel etc etc. Not so the Scottish-built Barham.
But then, despite responding in obvious jest to your response, I would then get another snarky - and totally erroneous - response from you to say I was bringing Nationalism into it.....
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 3:15 pm
by warspite1
Right then, this should not be too difficult for the peeps here, but when I first saw this picture some years ago I thought they had labelled her incorrectly....
So who am dat?
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 10:53 pm
by rustysi
I fear that all my available time will be consumed by it.
A well founded fear.
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 11:03 pm
by mind_messing
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
ORIGINAL: warspite1
The ships were completed remarkably similar to each other. There were detail differences of course, but those affecting the stern was limited to the sternwalk (on Queen Elizabeth only) I mentioned previously. I am intrigued as to what gave Barham away.
My first thought was some snarky reply about how it had the look of being built properly, a look that all the yards south of the border didn't really manage to match [:D]
warspite1
You? Giving me a snarky reply? Surely not, you are normally so polite and courteous toward me [:D]
...but then, if you did, I could reply that the three ships built south of the border were properly constructed and so lasted the war - Warspite despite taking 29 hits from the Germans at Jutland, a glider bomb at Salerno, bombed off Crete, mined in the English Channel etc etc. Not so the Scottish-built Barham.
But then, despite responding in obvious jest to your response, I would then get another snarky - and totally erroneous - response from you to say I was bringing Nationalism into it.....
[:D]
Can't blame us someone from Kent sailing her into two torpedoes!
In spite of everything, I like you; you give as good as you get.
Just be glad John Brown and Co didn't build the Sea-lion invasion barges [:D]
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:14 am
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: mind_messing
My first thought was some snarky reply about how it had the look of being built properly, a look that all the yards south of the border didn't really manage to match [:D]
warspite1
You? Giving me a snarky reply? Surely not, you are normally so polite and courteous toward me [:D]
...but then, if you did, I could reply that the three ships built south of the border were properly constructed and so lasted the war - Warspite despite taking 29 hits from the Germans at Jutland, a glider bomb at Salerno, bombed off Crete, mined in the English Channel etc etc. Not so the Scottish-built Barham.
But then, despite responding in obvious jest to your response, I would then get another snarky - and totally erroneous - response from you to say I was bringing Nationalism into it.....
[:D]
Can't blame us someone from Kent sailing her into two torpedoes!
In spite of everything, I like you; you give as good as you get.
Just be glad John Brown and Co didn't build the Sea-lion invasion barges [:D]
warspite1
I don't think John Brown building the barges would have made any difference. From the way they have been described they would have been impregnable whoever built them!!! In fact I am surprised the Allies didn't simply take the German designs, build them to match and use them for D-Day! [:)]
But more importantly - it looks like I have stumped the panel with the picture! Hussah!
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:17 am
by Orm
But more importantly - it looks like I have stumped the panel with the picture! Hussah!
Could it be that they have not yet seen the picture.
It could be that they are out on a date with Bud. [;)]
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 3:50 pm
by Orm
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Right then, this should not be too difficult for the peeps here, but when I first saw this picture some years ago I thought they had labelled her incorrectly....
So who am dat?
Could you give me a clue since no one seems to be able to name the ship?
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:06 pm
by Gilbert
HMS London
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:24 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Gilbert
HMS London
warspite1
I thought you would know Gilbert [:)]
It is HMS London from the county-class with their distinctive 3-stack profile.... well not anymore [:)]. HMS London was extensively modified (note the sexy superstructure/bridge design that the RN adopted in the late 30's). Sadly the re-build was not, at least initially, a success as the alterations (and the weight added) actually over-stressed the hull. Whoops! [X(]
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:15 pm
by Orm
Who is it? When was it? And where was it?
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:21 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Orm
Who is it? When was it? And where was it?
warspite1
HMS Warspite - Bremerton in 1942?
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:32 pm
by Orm
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: Orm
Who is it? When was it? And where was it?
warspite1
HMS Warspite - Bremerton in 1942?
You got one right. [:)]
Want to have another go at where and when?
Edit: I really like this picture. [:)]
RE: Who is she?
Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 5:46 pm
by warspite1
ORIGINAL: Orm
ORIGINAL: warspite1
ORIGINAL: Orm
Who is it? When was it? And where was it?
warspite1
HMS Warspite - Bremerton in 1942?
You got one right. [:)]
Want to have another go at where and when?
Edit: I really like this picture. [:)]
warspite1
I thought with that colour scheme it must be no earlier than her 1942 refit following the damage incurred off Crete. Are you sure about this Ormster? That looks like her AA above B turret being mounted. That was her 1942 refit at Bremerton I thought.
EDIT: Could be 1941 as the refit does not look near completion (she sailed in January 1942), but I am convinced this is Bremerton.