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Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:25 pm
by Feinder
Maybe this one will stump you for more than 27 minutes...
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:40 pm
by DuckofTindalos
One of the Treaty Cruisers (New Orleans or Northampton class), late-war, as witnessed by the quadruple Bofors mount. That's about as far as I can take it.
The Indianapolis?
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:09 pm
by tsimmonds
I was thinking treaty cruiser as well, but that looks like a 5" barrel poking up just below the 40mm muzzles. Pretty sure none of the treaty cruisers had 5" mounts forward. I think this is an old BB. Would just about have to be one of the Idahos; by this time all the other 12-gun BBs would probably have had twin 5" mounts. Mississippi?
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:34 pm
by panda124c
ORIGINAL: irrelevant
I was thinking treaty cruiser as well, but that looks like a 5" barrel poking up just below the 40mm muzzles. Pretty sure none of the treaty cruisers had 5" mounts forward. I think this is an old BB. Would just about have to be one of the Idahos; by this time all the other 12-gun BBs would probably have had twin 5" mounts. Mississippi?
You are looking forward I'm incline to believe treaty cruiser, Portland?
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:36 pm
by DuckofTindalos
Methinks those guns be too small to be even 12-inch...
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:44 pm
by tsimmonds
I agree they do look like 8". I can't squint hard enough to make that 5" fit on a cruiser though....[;)]
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:45 pm
by DuckofTindalos
Plus, there's another Treaty cruiser in front of it. Would CA's and BB's have the same gun lines for shore bombardment, which this presumably is?
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:46 pm
by Przemcio231
Its Probably West Wirginia or some other old BB[:D]
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:50 pm
by tsimmonds
ORIGINAL: Przemcio231
Its Probably West Wirginia or some other old BB[:D]
WVa had twin 16".
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:53 pm
by DuckofTindalos
All the Treaty cruisers had 4 5-inch singles on each side...
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:05 pm
by treespider
Baltimore Class???
USS Baltimore
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:17 pm
by mdiehl
USS Northampton
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:25 pm
by tsimmonds
ORIGINAL: Terminus
All the Treaty cruisers had 4 5-inch singles on each side...
Agree, but they were on top of the deckhouse amidships....
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:29 pm
by Capt Cliff
USS Vincennes, Doolittle raid ....
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:34 pm
by Feinder
USS Vincennes
USS Northampton
USS Baltimore
USS West Virginia
USS Indianapolis
USS Mississippi
USS Portland
Nope.
-F-
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:39 pm
by tsimmonds
USS New Mexico
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:41 pm
by treespider
USS Brooklyn
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:45 pm
by Feinder
USS Brooklyn
USS New Mexico
Nope.
Feel free to come up with a caption by the way...
-F-
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:47 pm
by niceguy2005
USS Chicago
RE: Mystery Ship #30
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:56 pm
by niceguy2005
I meant to say CA-29 Chicago, but now I am thinking CA45 Witchita