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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/12/2022 4:35:56 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/12/2022 5:09:34 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/12/2022 6:21:00 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/12/2022 6:43:47 PM   
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Another from the ugly tree: Akagi as built.







Just remember that the concept of Aircraft Carrier was just being developed at the time.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/12/2022 7:17:21 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/12/2022 7:27:40 PM   
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...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns





The enclosed bows helped to keep the gas fumes in. Then a damage control officer had turned the fans on to get the fumes though the ship . . .

Which is probably appropriate since the name means "The Great Phoenix" . . .

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/12/2022 7:31:58 PM   
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The enemy told its people not to engage these ships unless they had numbers on their side - not that it helped them all that much!







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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 1:59:23 AM   
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...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns





The enclosed bows helped to keep the gas fumes in. Then a damage control officer had turned the fans on to get the fumes though the ship . . .

Which is probably appropriate since the name means "The Great Phoenix" . . .


There is a youtube video where a clever person set up some photos of the Taiho, and the Indomitable, and flicked between them a few times, before concluding that the IJN got hold of the plans for Indomitable and found them inspiring.

Perhaps it was just convergent evolution.



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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 5:31:53 AM   
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...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns





The enclosed bows helped to keep the gas fumes in. Then a damage control officer had turned the fans on to get the fumes though the ship . . .

Which is probably appropriate since the name means "The Great Phoenix" . . .


The enclosed bow had nothing to do with it. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/japanese-aircraft-carrier-taiho-armoured-flight-decks/




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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 3:13:44 PM   
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Here's the Iowa-Class:




Edit: The number 64 ID's this one as the Wisconsin.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 3:14:17 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 3:14:52 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 3:15:43 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 4:31:02 PM   
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Vittorio Veneto, September 1943 !



Looking nice here.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 4:32:55 PM   
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May as well get all the rest of the 1940 BBs posted.


They are all very nice looking ships.

Especially the Iowa-class, and Bismarck-class, ships.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 4:35:13 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 4:36:26 PM   
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...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns





The enclosed bows helped to keep the gas fumes in. Then a damage control officer had turned the fans on to get the fumes though the ship . . .

Which is probably appropriate since the name means "The Great Phoenix" . . .


The enclosed bow had nothing to do with it. https://www.armouredcarriers.com/japanese-aircraft-carrier-taiho-armoured-flight-decks/


If the bow would have been open, then fresh air would have come in from the front and exited from the stern - bring with it the gasoline fumes.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/14/2022 10:24:52 PM   
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Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee.




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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/15/2022 12:28:43 AM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/15/2022 12:01:37 PM   
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Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee.





Much better

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/15/2022 3:34:12 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/15/2022 8:14:32 PM   
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Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee.





Much better


It's an awful tank, I will admit. Apparently the Russians called it (loosely translated) "The honourable coffin for 6 men". It's riveted design meant that, if struck or just even moderately agitated, the bolts that held it together would be launched into the crew compartment like bullets. Which was, shall we say, less than optimal for the crews health.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/15/2022 8:27:44 PM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/16/2022 12:00:26 AM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/16/2022 12:23:00 AM   
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French ironclad Carnot. It hurts my eyes when I look at it. And this isn't the worst looking one.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/02/17/57704/?edg-c=1






It needs more flags . . .

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/16/2022 4:59:33 AM   
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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/16/2022 1:49:15 PM   
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I guess that a person could call them "Jugs" and they appear to be a nice, matching set of those big and beautiful things . . .

A song as well . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joo90ZWrUkU



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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/16/2022 3:45:07 PM   
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The Leander-class. Beautiful. Unusual - certainly for British cruisers of the time - in that they had just one stack.


You said it.

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/16/2022 4:15:14 PM   
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French ironclad Carnot. It hurts my eyes when I look at it. And this isn't the worst looking one.
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It's a submarine, isn't it?

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RE: Australian Beauties II - 1/16/2022 9:03:51 PM   
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