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warspite1 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/12/2022 4:35:56 PM)

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

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Edmon -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/12/2022 5:09:34 PM)

What every Stug needs, a paint-job that reflects it's majestic beauty.

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Aurelian -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/12/2022 6:21:00 PM)

Another from the ugly tree: Akagi as built.



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RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/12/2022 6:43:47 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Aurelian

Another from the ugly tree: Akagi as built.



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



nikdav -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/12/2022 7:17:21 PM)

Vittorio Veneto, September 1943 !



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RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/12/2022 7:27:40 PM)


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

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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" . . .



RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/12/2022 7:31:58 PM)

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“[Our frigates] should combine such qualities of strength, durability, swiftness of sailing, and force, as to render them equal, if not superior, to any frigates belonging to any of the European Powers.”
– Secretary of War Henry Knox, December 27, 1794.


https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/2016/07/29/sails/

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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Ian R -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 1:59:23 AM)


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

[image]local://upfiles/28156/227351675D904802ACF30A0D60CFF47C.jpg[/image]


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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Aurelian -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 5:31:53 AM)


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

[image]local://upfiles/28156/227351675D904802ACF30A0D60CFF47C.jpg[/image]


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/





Curtis Lemay -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 3:13:44 PM)

May as well get all the rest of the 1940 BBs posted.

Here's the Iowa-Class:

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



Curtis Lemay -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 3:14:17 PM)

King George V:

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Curtis Lemay -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 3:14:52 PM)

Tirpitz (Bismarck-Class):

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Curtis Lemay -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 3:15:43 PM)

And a Battlecruiser:

Alasksa:

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Orm -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 4:31:02 PM)


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ORIGINAL: nikdav

Vittorio Veneto, September 1943 !



Looking nice here.



Orm -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 4:32:55 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay

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.



Orm -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 4:35:13 PM)

And a classic beauty captured during the night.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 4:36:26 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Aurelian


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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

...edged out by Taiho. The enclosed bows are nicer than the open examples in the Yorktowns

[image]local://upfiles/28156/227351675D904802ACF30A0D60CFF47C.jpg[/image]


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.



Edmon -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/14/2022 10:24:52 PM)

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ORIGINAL: ncc1701e

Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]


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Toby42 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/15/2022 12:28:43 AM)

These sailors had to be brave or crazy!

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ncc1701e -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/15/2022 12:01:37 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Edmon

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ORIGINAL: ncc1701e

Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]


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Much better [;)]



Orm -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/15/2022 3:34:12 PM)

And a nice looking cruiser.

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Edmon -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/15/2022 8:14:32 PM)

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ORIGINAL: ncc1701e


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ORIGINAL: Edmon

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ORIGINAL: ncc1701e

Yeah I don't see the beauty in anything like a Grant or a Lee. [;)]


[image]https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gup/images/5/59/M3_Lee.png[/image]


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.



Orm -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/15/2022 8:27:44 PM)

A weird design. HMS Gotland is looking more like a cruise ship, than a cruiser, or rather a aircraft cruiser. What purpose she would have had in a conflict eludes me.

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Lobster -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/16/2022 12:00:26 AM)

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


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RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/16/2022 12:23:00 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Lobster

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


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It needs more flags . . .



warspite1 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/16/2022 4:59:33 AM)

The Leander-class. Beautiful. Unusual - certainly for British cruisers of the time - in that they had just one stack.

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RangerJoe -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/16/2022 1:49:15 PM)

Well, you will have to open the picture to see them but here are a couple of nice, big [;)] things . . .

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




Orm -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/16/2022 3:45:07 PM)


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ORIGINAL: warspite1

The Leander-class. Beautiful. Unusual - certainly for British cruisers of the time - in that they had just one stack.


You said it.



ncc1701e -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/16/2022 4:15:14 PM)


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ORIGINAL: Lobster

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


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It's a submarine, isn't it?



Alpha77 -> RE: Australian Beauties II (1/16/2022 9:03:51 PM)

Only WW2 ? A bit boring.cause I believe apart from T34/85 the Leo1 is my fave tank:

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