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An illustration for a Jules Verne book.

DUKW?

Thats the easy one. I think he's asking about that thingy in the background. When I saw that it reminded me of the "Duncan" from that Jules Verne story about Capt. Grant (forgot what its called in English).

Looks like the ship out of the film "The Wackiest Ship in the Army" with Jack Lemmon and RIcky Nelson.

Don Bowen. Paging Don Bowen.[:)]

ORIGINAL: Marten

DUKW?

Looks like a DUKW. Anyone know what the sloop in the background is?

It's a scene from the trailer for that new Jerry Bruckheimer action/sequel pic coming out this summer: 'Pirates of the Caribbean versus Saving Private Ryan' Coming to a theatre near you.

Anyone know what the sloop in the background is?

Hot-and-sour sloop?

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

Anyone know what the sloop in the background is?

Hot-and-sour sloop?

[:D]

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

Anyone know what the sloop in the background is?

Hot-and-sour sloop?

Groan....[8|][:D]

DUKW and cover...incoming puns



Looks like AX 55 or AK 55

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

DUKW and cover...incoming puns



Looks like AX 55 or AK 55

AX would make sense - that would be an auxillary. AK is generally a 5000+ transport.

Not AK 55...USS Titania commissioned in '42..over 7000 tons[:)]

There was an IX 55...the Black Douglas...a converted yacht in the service of the USN

I cant find an AX class in the USN

Anything "-X" is planned or projected (remember CVX?), so an AX would be a planned auxiliary. I like IX - unclassified auxuliary.

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

There was an IX 55...the Black Douglas...a converted yacht in the service of the USN

D@mn! She's apparently still around - from http://www.enterpriseintegrators.com/fl ... ryOfShips/
Flint School Ships:

"The Black Douglas kept it's name and it's hull and little else for war time service. In 1942 a new 600HP turbo-charged Enterprise Engine from Seattle, Washington was installed. The large deckhouse structure was added with a gun on the bow. The masts and bowsprit were removed, also. Unlike TeVega, the sails didn't contribute that much to speed. The Black Douglas' basic configuration was not altered much until 1972.

"Designation: PYc-45 Black Douglas IX-55 Black Douglas Class" It had a class of it's own.

"HULL 131 BLACK DOUGLAS
3-Masted Staysail Auxiliary Schooner Yacht for Robert Roebling.
150'long, 32'beam, 17'-7 1/2"depth, 12'draft, displacement 331 light ship, 416 full load, 3-masted staysail schooner with 2 auxilary diesel engines, 325 horsepower, masts reaching 116' above deck, 9111 sguare feet of canvas, 60 tons of ballast. Keel laid November 22,1929, launched June 9,1930, delivered July 29,1930. Transferred to the United States Navy in 1942 for World War II. Designated PYc-45 and assigned to submarine duty off the Pacific Northwest coast. Returned to owners October 1944. Later to United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a research vessel. To Bureau of Fisheries in 1960 as a research vessel."

Eventually renamed teQuest.

Shown below in 1949. In 1972 apparently partially restored to a sailing schooner.

ORIGINAL: Ching Lee

It's a scene from the trailer for that new Jerry Bruckheimer action/sequel pic coming out this summer: 'Pirates of the Caribbean versus Saving Private Ryan' Coming to a theatre near you.

LMAO here - great post!
Alternative Title: "Saving Private Ryan from The Pirates of the Caribbean" [;)]
Opening sequence: Johnny Depp waving cutlass drunkenly overhead. Pan to Matt Damon. Voiceover, Tom Hanks saying "Earn This!", Damon draws his .45 auto and charges up the gangplank...

Too much caffeine, you think? [;)]

Steve.

Problems with the IX-55 Black Douglas id:

The description states she is a 3 masted vessel. Here is a picture of her before the war: