Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:05 am
I assume anyone can play - my grandfather took this picture while he was in Panama.
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RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:15 am
HMS Nelson or HMS Rodney.
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:24 am
Is it possibly King George V
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:26 am
Nelson from his caption - all the canvas interested me, but I'm sure it was plenty warm during the transit. Grandpa was on the USS Mindanao before the war in China and as a CPO on a number of subs during the war. He took some great battleship pictures during the 1930's.
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:45 am
ORIGINAL: Gudgeon
Nelson from his caption - all the canvas interested me, but I'm sure it was plenty warm during the transit. Grandpa was on the USS Mindanao before the war in China and as a CPO on a number of subs during the war. He took some great battleship pictures during the 1930's.
What subs? Gudgeon perhaps?[:)]
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:19 am
ORIGINAL: Tankerace
HMS Nelson or HMS Rodney.
DITTO
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:43 am
The canvas was used on long cruises on or south of the Equator on almost any warship in the 1920's-1930's. Amazingly enough, after WW2 it all but disappeared.
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 4:26 am
ORIGINAL: Tankerace
The canvas was used on long cruises on or south of the Equator on almost any warship in the 1920's-1930's. Amazingly enough, after WW2 it all but disappeared.
Air conditioning I imagine. That, and most ships without it were mothballed, scrapped or nuked at Bikini.
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:45 am
Not true (in the RN), it didn't dissapear completely it was only used in harbour and still is.
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:49 am
Sorry forgot to add. I doubt if canvas was left up while at sea anyway even steaming at 20 knot you would have quite a wind over the deck which it due course would tear the canvas. You could always erect them on the mast[:D] though.
RE: Name this ship?
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:26 am
The R13, Gudgeon, Skipjack, and Pikefish.
