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goodboyladdie -> The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 4:22:12 PM)

It's about time we had this argument again...[:D]

The County Class Heavy Cruiser. Elegance and classic lines, lovely high freeboard and well proportioned.



patrickl -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 5:04:46 PM)

Agano class CL. [:D]



Q-Ball -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 5:27:57 PM)

Yamato was the flat-out coolest ship afloat in WWII, I don't care what anyone says. She looked awesome under speed, and just a completely audacious project. YAMATO!

2nd place: Vitorio Veneto

UGLIEST SHIPS: The Independence Class CVLs. Very useful, but really ungainly looking.



Mike Scholl -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 5:42:51 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Yamato was the flat-out coolest ship afloat in WWII, I don't care what anyone says. She looked awesome under speed, and just a completely audacious project. YAMATO!



Almost right.., but those goofy-looking "barn doors" on her stern knock her down. I'd have to say the Iowas



hawker -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 5:44:27 PM)

Bismarck and Hood are the most beautiful ships of that era.



LargeSlowTarget -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 6:20:14 PM)

Atlanta class.


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goodboyladdie -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 6:56:40 PM)


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ORIGINAL: LargeSlowTarget

Atlanta class.


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Not bad, but that flush deck makes them look top heavy...



goodboyladdie -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 7:00:54 PM)


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ORIGINAL: hawker

Bismarck and Hood are the most beautiful ships of that era.


Hood was a pretty ship; most Battle Cruisers were because their size meant that few compromises had to be made to functionality. The key compromise boat had already sailed - poor armour. Bismark was also a big beautiful girl, but I still think the early Counties shade it when you put everything that makes a ship a looker together...

The Leander Class CLs were little corkers too!



goodboyladdie -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 7:02:15 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball

Yamato was the flat-out coolest ship afloat in WWII, I don't care what anyone says. She looked awesome under speed, and just a completely audacious project. YAMATO!

2nd place: Vitorio Veneto

UGLIEST SHIPS: The Independence Class CVLs. Very useful, but really ungainly looking.


Yamato was impressive rather than beautiful. The Italians did make beautiful ships though...



Iridium -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 7:09:07 PM)


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ORIGINAL: goodboyladdie

Yamato was impressive rather than beautiful. The Italians did make beautiful ships though...



I have to disagree, Yamato had great lines. Sadly, few publicly available pictures are able to show how nice it looked. Lemme see if I can find a relative close up that does it justice...



bradfordkay -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 7:09:10 PM)

To me it's either the Gneisenaus or the Alaskas.



Canoerebel -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 7:22:49 PM)

Why is it that the aircraft, ships, and tanks of the World War II era were the most fascinating ever (or is that an exaggeration?)



niceguy2005 -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 7:42:01 PM)

For beauty the Japanese made some great ships. One of my favorties is the Tone. The Alaska class BC would get honorable mention, as would some of the Italian warships.

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mdiehl -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 7:45:40 PM)

Beauty by class:

BB: USS Washington
CA: USS Baltimore
CL: USS Atlanta
DD: USS Fletcher
DE: USS Samuel B. Roberts
Small Escort Class: USCGC Secretary Class Cutters
Small Attack Class: Elco 80' PT
Submarine: USS Gato



Historiker -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 7:48:18 PM)


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ORIGINAL: mdiehl

Beauty by class:

BB: USS Washington
CA: USS Baltimore
CL: USS Atlanta
DD: USS Fletcher
DE: USS Samuel B. Roberts
Small Escort Class: USCGC Secretary Class Cutters
Small Attack Class: Elco 80' PT
Submarine: USS Gato

Sounds like a true patriot [;)]



anarchyintheuk -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 8:04:23 PM)

Have to disagree on the Tones. It looked like someone dropped the deuce on the forecastle and didn't pick it up.

Agreed w/ bradfordkay on the Gneisenaus.



Iridium -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 8:25:21 PM)

Well, I guess distant profiles is all I can find at the moment.

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goodboyladdie -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 8:32:06 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Iridium

Well, I guess distant profiles is all I can find at the moment.

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I like the inventiveness of Japanese designers. No other Navy used sheerline to save weight as much as they did. Yamato was a good looking, well balanced ship. Some elements of her design were almost pure art. Some of the American ships were hideous, although a few were great beauties. Most British Cruisers up to the Colony Class were good lookers. How mdiehl can come up with an all US lineup is beyond me...



Dixie -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 9:29:11 PM)

I am going to second the Counties.  There is just something about them that looks 'right'.  Except maybe Suffolk and Cumberland with their cut down sterns....



Howard Mitchell -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 9:40:12 PM)

Scharnhorst & Gneisenau. Beautiful lines, perfect proportions, marvellously elegant ships.



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mdiehl -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 9:46:36 PM)

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How mdiehl can come up with an all US lineup is beyond me...


I forgot to include CBs. Throwing those in, Hood wins the blue ribbon in the CB category.

Yamato is butt ugly. An ungainly, squat, dull-witted looking thing that looks like somone tipped a pile of office buildings onto a pointy-ended barge. And the German BB entries look like cubist art gone wrong; it makes it worse to know how wholly ineffectual and useless BMs secondary armament were for AAA. Function contributes to beauty in my view, and American ships combine compactness, function, parsimony, effectiveness and elegance.

There are some appealing UK designs. But the thread asked for the best looking, not the runners-up, silver medalists, and those, like Yamato, that could only be competitive in a "special olympics" format.



hawker -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 10:13:34 PM)


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ORIGINAL: mdiehl

quote:

How mdiehl can come up with an all US lineup is beyond me...


I forgot to include CBs. Throwing those in, Hood wins the blue ribbon in the CB category.

Yamato is butt ugly. An ungainly, squat, dull-witted looking thing that looks like somone tipped a pile of office buildings onto a pointy-ended barge. And the German BB entries look like cubist art gone wrong; it makes it worse to know how wholly ineffectual and useless BMs secondary armament were for AAA. Function contributes to beauty in my view, and American ships combine compactness, function, parsimony, effectiveness and elegance.

There are some appealing UK designs. But the thread asked for the best looking, not the runners-up, silver medalists, and those, like Yamato, that could only be competitive in a "special olympics" format.



Wow,again,typical steakhouse opinions.[8|]



JWE -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 10:19:51 PM)

The most beautiful individual ship ?? Woof !! Too many really lovely ones out there, but I’m going to have to say So. Dak.

In terms of overall fleet designs, I very much like the elegance of the Italians. German and mid-war US design were very pretty too.

Howard Mitchell has it right: line, proportionality and elegance.



Elouda -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 10:20:38 PM)

I guess everyone has their opinion on what 'best looking' is.

While I think Yamato had good lines, I personally think the Fuso class battleships were the best looking. Those superstructures are incredible.

Runners up include the Takaos, the Alaskas, Kongos and the Scharnhorst.

If I was to do a 'by class list', It would look something like;

BB: Fuso (Kongo, Yamato, Queen Elizabeth)
BC/CB: Alaska (Scharnhorst)
CA: Takao (Baltimore, Deutschland)
CL: Atlanta (Yubari)
DD: Fletcher (Shimakaze, Sumner)
CV: Taiho (Illustrious)



Honda -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 10:33:20 PM)

Italian heavy cruiser Pola.



Nixuebrig -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 10:48:05 PM)

Best looking?

This One

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mikemike -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 10:52:05 PM)

It's a pity that everybody seems to ignore the French. For my two cents (Note: I'm just rating looks, to my personal taste!):

CV: Shokaku. Nice, clean lines. Maybe Taiho and the British armoured CV's, especially Indefatigable.

CA: Algerie (France). The County-class ships are quaintly old-fashioned, like those pseudo-gothic Victorian public buildings. The Italian CA's have this boxy superstructure that I don't like. The Hipper class look unproportioned; the hull seems too short.
CL: the La Galissonniere class (France). Perhaps Leipzig (Germany), low-slung ship that looked rather more effective than it was.
All US cruisers look merely utilitarian, like pickup trucks.

DD: Close run, but I'd go with Shimakaze (that elegant bow!), Le Terrible (France), Karl Galster (Germany). Maybe the British J class. US destroyers are functional and lumpy rather than good-looking, and the Sumner and Gearing classes look like they're buried under those twin turrets to boot.



castor troy -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 10:55:29 PM)


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ORIGINAL: mdiehl

quote:

How mdiehl can come up with an all US lineup is beyond me...


I forgot to include CBs. Throwing those in, Hood wins the blue ribbon in the CB category.

Yamato is butt ugly. An ungainly, squat, dull-witted looking thing that looks like somone tipped a pile of office buildings onto a pointy-ended barge. And the German BB entries look like cubist art gone wrong; it makes it worse to know how wholly ineffectual and useless BMs secondary armament were for AAA. Function contributes to beauty in my view, and American ships combine compactness, function, parsimony, effectiveness and elegance.

There are some appealing UK designs. But the thread asked for the best looking, not the runners-up, silver medalists, and those, like Yamato, that could only be competitive in a "special olympics" format.




you are kidding, arenīt you?



anarchyintheuk -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 11:02:13 PM)


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ORIGINAL: castor troy

quote:

ORIGINAL: mdiehl

quote:

How mdiehl can come up with an all US lineup is beyond me...


I forgot to include CBs. Throwing those in, Hood wins the blue ribbon in the CB category.

Yamato is butt ugly. An ungainly, squat, dull-witted looking thing that looks like somone tipped a pile of office buildings onto a pointy-ended barge. And the German BB entries look like cubist art gone wrong; it makes it worse to know how wholly ineffectual and useless BMs secondary armament were for AAA. Function contributes to beauty in my view, and American ships combine compactness, function, parsimony, effectiveness and elegance.

There are some appealing UK designs. But the thread asked for the best looking, not the runners-up, silver medalists, and those, like Yamato, that could only be competitive in a "special olympics" format.



you are kidding, arenīt you?



StarBlazers version aside, I'm not a fan of the Yamatos either. The Fusos look much cooler.



mdiehl -> RE: The Best Looking Ship of WWII... (6/23/2008 11:04:28 PM)

quote:

you are kidding, arenīt you?


Yeah, I was. The Alaska really is a better looking design than Hood.



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