Favourite warship

[NickFenton]

Boys, boys, boys.

Nothing can beat Fearless. Where else could you find a swimming pool in the middle of the Atlantic?



Nick

[EmersonBigguns]

USS San Jacinto because my grandad served on it (with some guy named George Bush)

[freebird]

Originally Posted by MikB

But that doesn't tell half the story!

What about Windy Corner, and the hits she took there?
What about the destruction of half Germany's destroyers at Narvik?
What about Giuglio Cesare at 26,000 yards?
What about Cape Matapan?
What about the ship that fired more rounds at the enemy than any other WW2 capital ship?

She's the one that should be sitting preserved by the tower, not that little cruiser!

I agree 110%!!!

[4th wilts]

my grandad,landing on june 7.1944,at sword beach,said;it sounded like a bus going over our heads,when warspite fired;.yours,lee.

[General Mayhem]

Originally Posted by Warlord

Boy, what do you do when you´re in love with them ugly ducklings?

For me, it has got to be the four stackers of the US Asiatic Fleet, the Erebus class monitors (HMS Terror) and the gunboats of the Yangtze Patrol, out of being there when the smelly stuff was thicker, uniqueness, and the glamour of the China Station respectively.





Sorry, didn´t get pics on the HMS Peterel, but here´s a link to a vault full of them: Attack on HMS Peterel and taking of USS Wake

By the way, for beauty´s sake, let´s throw in the USS Houston, to go along the DD´s.

Now that is one unique looking tub. I have never seen a picture of this ship or one like it before. Like some kind of bizarre pocket-pocket battleship or a super souped up monitor. As he the flush deck 4 stackers were they not part of the lend-lease to Britain? In which US "pocketed" a nice little collection of former British islands in return? Werent the 4 stackers already obsolescent at wars start?

[Warlord]

Royal Navy had a thing for monitors, specially since in the battleship age (pre-Pearl, that is), it was kind of a sin to use them behemoths in the shore-bombarment role, away from the battleline. Gallipoli, you might ask? It was a case of the enemy fleet too close to the beachhead for comfort; big ships went in to cover the landings and cover themselves in case of attack by enemy surface units, something monitors just couldn´t do.

As for the DD´s, obsolescent as they were, just ask the Jap at Balikpapan about their perfomance...

[cash_13]

I totally agree about Belfast as well no disrespect to the lads that served on her and perhaps its not even my place to say so but I cant help feeling its the fact that Lord Mountbatten did'nt have room in his duck pond after the war so they moored her there....

I mean for starters the old lady had 8 X 15" main guns and 14 x 6" Secondary guns

HMS Belfast on had 12 X 6" main guns plus some 4"......

Bet them Jerry captains had a heart attack when the warspite steared into the Fjiords after them after all she was a battleship

I have already posted somewhere on here as to some of the stories my step-father Cyril told me of the sad times and the good......none more so after the landings at Salerno after she was hit by a glider bomb and lot of their mates were killed!
Him and one of the other lads had all the daily rum rations donated by their shipmates as they sat pi**ed as farts and sang songs as they stitched their mates in body bags ready for the burials at sea...........the look on his face was something I will never forget as he recalled it!!!!! god bless them all!

Lee heres a pic for your grandad mate all the best the other Lee

[4th wilts]

i am in agreement with the other gents,warspite would look lovely,mored up somewhere near portsmouth.lee.

[Egstonvonbrick]

For me it has to be the Flower Class corvettes.

These little beauties (i feel) are always overlooked for the sterling work they performed.

Ok so they didn't have big guns or handsome lines (and i think traced their DNA to a trawler) but I like to look at their abilities from another perspective; i.e. not from how many ships they sunk but the tonnage that wasn't!

No action, (but dogged, terrier-like perseverance) was a good day for these old girls.

Flower class corvette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh, and any hard-chined MTB / rescue launch with a temperamental engine and 4000+ horsepower, because when you are not fearing for your life (and kidneys) must have been quite exhilarating!

[General Mayhem]

Originally Posted by Warlord

Royal Navy had a thing for monitors, specially since in the battleship age (pre-Pearl, that is), it was kind of a sin to use them behemoths in the shore-bombarment role, away from the battleline. Gallipoli, you might ask? It was a case of the enemy fleet too close to the beachhead for comfort; big ships went in to cover the landings and cover themselves in case of attack by enemy surface units, something monitors just couldn´t do.

As for the DD´s, obsolescent as they were, just ask the Jap at Balikpapan about their perfomance...

So Sir Warlord,
What exactly IS the USS Houston? Meaning what was classed as? Cruiser? Heavy Cruiser? We there many ships of ths design? What size guns were those? When it comes to smaller ordnance we always say the caliber, but on battleships its in inches, how come?
Lots of questions, I know. Sorry
Best regards
GM