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Brady -> Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 9:21:42 AM)

???






[img]http://www.myphotodrive.com//uploads/686_313.jpg[/img]



Onime No Kyo -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 9:27:59 AM)

An illustration for a Jules Verne book.



Marten -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 9:33:26 AM)

DUKW?



Onime No Kyo -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 9:42:04 AM)

Thats the easy one. I think he's asking about that thingy in the background. When I saw that it reminded me of the "Duncan" from that Jules Verne story about Capt. Grant (forgot what its called in English).



JamesM -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 12:15:40 PM)

Looks like the ship out of the film "The Wackiest Ship in the Army" with Jack Lemmon and RIcky Nelson.



Ron Saueracker -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 12:25:40 PM)

Don Bowen. Paging Don Bowen.[:)]



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 3:45:15 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Marten

DUKW?


Looks like a DUKW. Anyone know what the sloop in the background is?



Ching Lee -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 3:45:24 PM)

It's a scene from the trailer for that new Jerry Bruckheimer action/sequel pic coming out this summer: 'Pirates of the Caribbean versus Saving Private Ryan' Coming to a theatre near you.



tsimmonds -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 3:46:43 PM)

quote:

Anyone know what the sloop in the background is?


Hot-and-sour sloop?



Ron Saueracker -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 3:48:47 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

quote:

Anyone know what the sloop in the background is?


Hot-and-sour sloop?

[:D]



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 3:55:35 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: irrelevant

quote:

Anyone know what the sloop in the background is?


Hot-and-sour sloop?


Groan....[8|][:D]



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 4:46:18 PM)

DUKW and cover...incoming puns



Looks like AX 55 or AK 55

[image]local://upfiles/7983/Xv655885297.jpg[/image]



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 4:48:33 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

DUKW and cover...incoming puns



Looks like AX 55 or AK 55

[image]local://upfiles/7983/Xv655885297.jpg[/image]


AX would make sense - that would be an auxillary. AK is generally a 5000+ transport.



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 4:53:42 PM)

Not AK 55...USS Titania commissioned in '42..over 7000 tons[:)]



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 4:58:31 PM)

There was an IX 55...the Black Douglas...a converted yacht in the service of the USN



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 5:01:59 PM)

I cant find an AX class in the USN



tsimmonds -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 5:09:49 PM)

Anything "-X" is planned or projected (remember CVX?), so an AX would be a planned auxiliary. I like IX - unclassified auxuliary.



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 5:43:28 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

There was an IX 55...the Black Douglas...a converted yacht in the service of the USN


D@mn! She's apparently still around - from http://www.enterpriseintegrators.com/flint/HistoryOfShips/
Flint School Ships:

"The Black Douglas kept it's name and it's hull and little else for war time service. In 1942 a new 600HP turbo-charged Enterprise Engine from Seattle, Washington was installed. The large deckhouse structure was added with a gun on the bow. The masts and bowsprit were removed, also. Unlike TeVega, the sails didn't contribute that much to speed. The Black Douglas' basic configuration was not altered much until 1972.

"Designation: PYc-45 Black Douglas IX-55 Black Douglas Class" It had a class of it's own.

"HULL 131 BLACK DOUGLAS
3-Masted Staysail Auxiliary Schooner Yacht for Robert Roebling.
150'long, 32'beam, 17'-7 1/2"depth, 12'draft, displacement 331 light ship, 416 full load, 3-masted staysail schooner with 2 auxilary diesel engines, 325 horsepower, masts reaching 116' above deck, 9111 sguare feet of canvas, 60 tons of ballast. Keel laid November 22,1929, launched June 9,1930, delivered July 29,1930. Transferred to the United States Navy in 1942 for World War II. Designated PYc-45 and assigned to submarine duty off the Pacific Northwest coast. Returned to owners October 1944. Later to United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a research vessel. To Bureau of Fisheries in 1960 as a research vessel."

Eventually renamed teQuest.

Shown below in 1949. In 1972 apparently partially restored to a sailing schooner.

[image]local://upfiles/7543/Wu596078473.jpg[/image]



steveh11Matrix -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 6:31:14 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Ching Lee

It's a scene from the trailer for that new Jerry Bruckheimer action/sequel pic coming out this summer: 'Pirates of the Caribbean versus Saving Private Ryan' Coming to a theatre near you.

LMAO here - great post!
Alternative Title: "Saving Private Ryan from The Pirates of the Caribbean" [;)]
Opening sequence: Johnny Depp waving cutlass drunkenly overhead. Pan to Matt Damon. Voiceover, Tom Hanks saying "Earn This!", Damon draws his .45 auto and charges up the gangplank...

Too much caffeine, you think? [;)]

Steve.



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 6:44:37 PM)

Problems with the IX-55 Black Douglas id:

The description states she is a 3 masted vessel. Here is a picture of her before the war:

[image]local://upfiles/7543/Ec873689252.jpg[/image]



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 6:47:21 PM)

Anyway - as you can see from the photo above, the Black Douglas appears to be a much larger vessel. Not to mention the three masts.

So - did AKs have sailing sloop auxillaries? I don't remember of ever hearing of this.

EDIT: Hey, Ron, maybe this is one of those ship's boats that haul the cargo to shore when there are no docks![:D][:'(]



panda124c -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 8:25:36 PM)

Perhaps a sister ship to the USS Joanna, (I'm just showing off), this could be a US Army cargo ship, or possible anyone of a number of schooners used to haul cargo in the South Pacific, possible New Zeland or Austrailian.



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 8:28:39 PM)

Right..so you convinced me it isnt the Black Douglas

That leaves several possibilities:

1) The Hull number isn't 55...maybe 95?

2) The designation isnt AX

3) It isnt USN...mayb RAN or RN???



Dutchgy2000 -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 8:57:05 PM)

My guess would be one of the australian army small ships (during WW2 43 Army craft were allocated the AK prefix, 38 Ketches and five Schooners).

The Abel Tasman maybe?



Capt Cliff -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 9:05:48 PM)

USS Laniki?



Cap Mandrake -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 10:40:16 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Capt Cliff

USS Laniki?


Do you mean USS Lanikai?

The lines seem wrong. Great story though. When in the service of the USN..she had a 3 in rifle. Perhaps she was modified (likely)

http://www.geocities.com/songkhla.geo/USSLanikai.html

[img]http://www.geocities.com/songkhla.geo/USSLanikai2.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.geocities.com/songkhla.geo/LanikaiCvr.gif[/img]



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/16/2005 10:43:35 PM)

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ORIGINAL: Dutchgy2000

My guess would be one of the australian army small ships (during WW2 43 Army craft were allocated the AK prefix, 38 Ketches and five Schooners).

The Abel Tasman maybe?


Sounds good - an Australian schooner.

Any good sources for Australian WW2 army ships? (This sounds like an oxymoron[;)])



DeepSix -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/17/2005 12:01:58 AM)

This is the best "name that" thread yet. I tried web searching with "95" and various other keywords but didn't find a close match. (That doesn't mean it's not 95, though). It is definitely not AK95, the USS Murzim. Also wondered about the U.S. Army "ghost fleet" cargo ships - it could be one of those or one of many former private/merchant ship converted for service in the USN (and other navies, too, I would imagine).

Somebody mentioned the masts - I guess one could have been removed but this looks like it's supposed to have two masts.... Any guesses as to the location of the photo?

I'm still stumped/intrigued.



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/17/2005 2:48:11 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: DeepSix

This is the best "name that" thread yet. I tried web searching with "95" and various other keywords but didn't find a close match. (That doesn't mean it's not 95, though). It is definitely not AK95, the USS Murzim. Also wondered about the U.S. Army "ghost fleet" cargo ships - it could be one of those or one of many former private/merchant ship converted for service in the USN (and other navies, too, I would imagine).

Somebody mentioned the masts - I guess one could have been removed but this looks like it's supposed to have two masts.... Any guesses as to the location of the photo?

I'm still stumped/intrigued.



Well, there is an IX-95 Echo - a New Zealand "scow", built 1892, transferred to Navy under reverse lend-lease (?), delivered cargo at Noumea en route to Efate in New Hebrides. Based on this island at Port Vila, she served as a supply ship for the Army in the New Hebrides and adjoining island group. - (returned to NZ 12 March 1944).

Hyperwar calls her "a converted yacht: 340 tons" which about fits this ship, i think.



rtrapasso -> RE: Name This...(313) (2/17/2005 3:41:48 AM)

Well, despite doing multiple searches on Google, etc., i can't find a picture of IX-95 Echo. Anyone have a 1943 edition of Jane's around? Maybe that has a picture of her. But since she was a transport, not a "fighting ship", maybe not.

Unfortunately, the descriptions of this ship are rather meager - aside from tonnage, "scow", "converted yacht", and "screw scow". This could take in a lot of ships.



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