Favourite warship

[General Mayhem]

Originally Posted by 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!

Thanks for chiming in EVB,
great choice. You know you always come across references to corvettes when reading of Royal Navy actions. Busy buggers. Must be a number of British Navy veteran around still who served on them. It sounds as they looked like tugboats on steroids from what you've said. Wasn't it a corvette that was accidentally rammed by the Queen Mary?
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GM

[MikB]

Originally Posted by General Mayhem

Wasn't it a corvette that was accidentally rammed by the Queen Mary?
GM

No, 'twas the light cruiser Curacao - or that's the well-known one, anyway.

Regards,
MikB

[Warlord]

Thanks for the "Sir" thing, but I´m nothing compared with other fellas that rule this site.

The USS Houston was a 10000 tonner of the Northampton Class which together with the lights USS Marblehead and USS Boise made up the big guns of Task Force 5 (Asiatic Fleet) under Rear Admiral Glassford in ABDACOM during the hectic days of the Jap initial onslaught. It went down with colors flying and guns blazing, together with almost all of Dutch admiral Doorman´s fleet, during the Battle of the Java Sea.

Here are some links that might be useful to ya:
HyperWar: US Asiatic Fleet, 1941, INDEX, and
HyperWar: USS Houston (CA-30)

And finally, some pics of the "Galloping Ghost of the Java Sea"

[Slipdigit]

Thanks for the laudations for the USS Houston.

Her nickname was The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast.
http://www.usshouston.net/stor/navy/navy.htm

[40th Alabama]

SLIP-How could you not pick this one????
U.S. Navy Battleships - USS Alabama (BB 60)

ALABAMA had earned the American Service Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medals with 9 Battle Stars, the Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation and Philippine Liberation Ribbon, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Navy Occupation Service Medal.

[Slipdigit]

Well, I did say I have several favs, I just hadn't got around to mentioning that old girl yet. didn't want to sound too biased.

[Slipdigit]

Originally Posted by General Mayhem

Werent the 4 stackers already obsolescent at wars start?

For the most part yes, but some were still in use with US Navy.

The USS Greer was one such ship.

U.S. Navy - The Destroyers (bottom third of the page)

As was the USS Reuben James.

[Warlord]

You learn something new every day...

Didn´t say anything the isn´t true. However, now that I have the chance, let me praise in the same way the rest of Doorman´s fleet; even though they were the clear underdogs, out-everything and with severe handicaps due to very different operational procedures between navies, they went in and fought the Nip to the very end.

Everyone in that doomed battle went down with colors flying and guns blazing.

[4th wilts]

i also like american cruisers,the u.s.s phoenix is beautiful.yours,4th wilts.

[Slipdigit]

Here's another of my favorites.

The Ship That Wouldn't Die

Two Medals of Honor were earned that day onboard this ship.

USS Franklin (CV-13) "The Ship That Wouldn't Die"