Reply With QuoteHMS Nelson and HMS Rodney (from my posts on World Wide Navies)
The Higher Res links on the bottom three pix is fantastic. Check it out.
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December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Small boat rescues a seaman from the 31,800-ton USS West Virginia. Note the two men in the superstructure. The USS Tennessee is inboard. Office of War Information.
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Circa 1898. "U.S.S. Massachusetts in dry dock."
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October 22, 1900. "Russian warship Retvizan, day before launching, Cramp's shipyards, Philadelphia." This battleship had its ups and downs -- built for the Imperial Russian Navy, torpedoed during the Russo-Japanese War, refloated, then sunk, then raised, then commissioned in the Japanese Navy, then sunk again. Whew. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co
HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney (from my posts on World Wide Navies)
HMS Vanguard (from my posts on World Wide Navies)
Man the NelRods have to have been some of the ugliest BB's ever commissioned. While the Vanguard was one of the handsomest...
They could look like this..Originally Posted by TheKiwi
However I prefer how they were with all the main firepower in front, for me HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney were "The battleships"!
Although, Richelieu class is my favorite design with (also) all the main guns in front but several anti-aircraft weapons all-over the ship..
All ship types get bigger and bigger. The Zumwalt class destroyers will be 600 feet over all, longer than the Nevada.
How the H-class (successors of the battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz for the Kriegsmarine) would look like..
Info for the class: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_class...ship_proposals
Photos of the model from Marinedagen 2012
More photos of Richelieu class from different periods
Let's bring this thread back to life...
USS Delaware BB-28
Launched 1909 - Scrapped 1924
The Delaware (BB-28) probably fitting out at Newport News, Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA., sometime after launching 6 February 1909 and before commissioning 4 April 1910.
Note the lack of a commissioning flag at her bow.
Photographed circa 1911. Note that the 12"/45 guns of her after turret are at different elevations.
Delaware (BB-28) during the Naval Review off New York City on 14 October 1912.
A gig passes near the stern of the Delaware (BB-28) while in port with other battleships. Note the open secondary gun port.
Ship's after three 12"/45 twin gun turrets, circa 1913. Note the sub-caliber spotting rifles mounted on the barrel of each heavy gun, gun sight practice gear fitted across the top front of each turret, and whaleboat swung out on davits.
Though it is important for every gun crew to practice firing their guns with actual live ammo, the one ton shells of the main battery are a bit too expensive to use for all gunnery practice the gunnery divisions need. These small caliber guns were strapped to each gun barrel and fired at the targets to judge the proficiency the pointer and trainers without the expenditure of actual shells and powder. The ammunition handlers would run timed dry loading practice.
Coaling ship.
Delaware (BB-28) with what probably are Utah (BB-31) & Arkansas (BB-33) in 1913.
The smoke from a broadside of 12" guns hides two other battleships as Delaware (BB-28) fires while executing a turn to starboard, 1913.
The arrangement of the search lights and the 3" gun platforms on the crane kingposts makes the photo no earlier than 1917. The lack of traverse marlings on the turrets or a range clockon the mast means early 1919 at the latest.
The crew of the Delaware (BB-28) crowd the deck as she passes through the Pedro Miguel Locks at the Panama Canal, 20 January 1921.
In dry dock at the South Boston Annex, Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 30 January 1924. Delaware (BB-28) being scrapped.
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