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Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 4:05:10 AM

Gudgeon

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I assume anyone can play - my grandfather took this picture while he was in Panama.

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 4:15:27 AM

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HMS Nelson or HMS Rodney.

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 4:24:12 AM

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Is it possibly King George V

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 4:26:43 AM

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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.

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 4:45:43 AM

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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?

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 5:19:43 AM

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ORIGINAL: Tankerace

HMS Nelson or HMS Rodney.

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 5:43:36 AM

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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.

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 7:26:54 AM

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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.

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 10:45:01 AM

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Not true (in the RN), it didn't dissapear completely it was only used in harbour and still is.

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RE: Name this ship? - 8/11/2004 10:49:20 AM

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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