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Lousy Swedes....always digging up frozen aliens in Anartica....
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quote:Originally posted by Manticore: Eh, problem is, aside from subs, I hate the looks of any ship built post-Monitor/Virginia. But that one's really bad, IMO.
quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: 21 knots? Pretty damn good for 1905.
Well, that was one of the points that made Dreadnought so revolutionary. She was the first capital ship to be fitted with turbine engines instead of the other type (reciprocating?- been a little while since I read the relevant book).
I do wish we'd saved Dreadnought or even a dreadnought.
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quote:Originally posted by Manticore: Eh, problem is, aside from subs, I hate the looks of any ship built post-Monitor/Virginia. But that one's really bad, IMO.
quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: 21 knots? Pretty damn good for 1905.
Well, that was one of the points that made Dreadnought so revolutionary. She was the first capital ship to be fitted with turbine engines instead of the other type (reciprocating?- been a little while since I read the relevant book).
I do wish we'd saved Dreadnought or even a dreadnought.
There is ONE member of that generation left, though technically a "superdreadnaught" - the USS Texas here in Houston.
Why Britain never save a SINGLE battleship of any type (save HMS Victory - though she's a "line-of-battle ship") is beyond me. There were so many grand ol' ladies deserving of the honor (or honour) of representing British tars in the two world wars...
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quote:Originally posted by Masao: There's a late British-built pre-dreadnought, Mikasa, preserved in Japan.
Along with the USS Olympia up north, and the Russians supposedly kept the cruiser Aurora as well - both from roughly the same generation as the Mikasa.
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quote: There is ONE member of that generation left, though technically a "superdreadnaught" - the USS Texas here in Houston.
Why Britain never save a SINGLE battleship of any type (save HMS Victory - though she's a "line-of-battle ship") is beyond me. There were so many grand ol' ladies deserving of the honor (or honour) of representing British tars in the two world wars...
Yeah, I forgot about the Texas.
Not sure why we never saved anything; not one vessel saved 'for the nation' between Victory and Belfast (WW2 Cruiser) although a few others have survived. And it's always honour
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quote: There is ONE member of that generation left, though technically a "superdreadnaught" - the USS Texas here in Houston.
Why Britain never save a SINGLE battleship of any type (save HMS Victory - though she's a "line-of-battle ship") is beyond me. There were so many grand ol' ladies deserving of the honor (or honour) of representing British tars in the two world wars...
Yeah, I forgot about the Texas.
Not sure why we never saved anything; not one vessel saved 'for the nation' between Victory and Belfast (WW2 Cruiser) although a few others have survived. And it's always honour
Actually - nearly forgot since this happened rather recently... HMS Warrior is still there! She was restored and is on display around the corner from Victory! Hansome ol' lady, she is...
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quote:Originally posted by Dat: Too bad we couldn't save the WW2 Enterprise, but at least a part of her lives to this day on the current carrier Enterprise.
There was a lot of yelling over CV6... She should have been saved but, politics and stupidity got in the way - again.
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