Who Likes Ships? We Have Aircraft and Trains.

[3sloppydogs]

The Arizona

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

The Texas, a ship worthy of its name! While all other ships said our troops are too far, we can’t offer fire support on d day. The captain of the Texan did the most Texan thing he could. Flood compartments, we need more elevation!

 

[3sloppydogs]

USS Missouri
Notice her keeping watch over the Arizona
Where the war started and ended in the same shot

 

[3sloppydogs]

cheapsunglasses,
Correct me if I am wrong but didn't the funding for major repair on the Texas finally get through?

Edit
I see it did and she is in drydock
Well done

 

[Basket case]

USS Oaklahoma and USS Wisconsin

 

[Basket case]

Texas is in far better shape than thought.

 

[Basket case]

USS Arizona, East River New York, 1916

 

[polywideblock]

battleship and aircraft carrier in one

 

[Richard Cranium]

Back in 2005, a friend who was a captain on a freighter invited a few of us to tour his ship while in drydock in Boston for repairs and a new paint job. The propellers were refurbished down the street from where I now live. Me with the kids ....

Postponed - Rolls Royce Propeller Plant Tour — AFE Chapter 33

Rolls Royce Controllable Pitch Propellers feature customized blade designs, fully adapted to the ship’s wake. Designed to facilitate underwater blade change out, they are available for standard speeds (below 30 knots) and high speeds (above 30 knots). Designed with ultimate stealth characteristics,

www.afechapter33.org

 

[Under Pressure]

USS Phelps DD360, 12 battle stars, decommissioned in 1947 and sold for scrap.
My Dad served on her from January 1942 to late 1944

 

[Pops1967GTX]

always like watching the tug boats doing there jobs in the harbor....

 

[3sloppydogs]

The rifles fired at different intervals because the blast overpressure would knock them off course

 

[3sloppydogs]

USS Wisconsin
Bow shot and the 16/50s
I have to apologize for the quality of these shot I am posting. There are old 35mm pictures and I take a picture of them. I have plenty just need to find them all

 

[3sloppydogs]

USS North Carolina

 

[Basket case]

quilaty is fine, thanks for sharing!

 

[Photon440]

View attachment 1417353The rifles fired at different intervals because the blast overpressure would knock them off course

While it seems logical to stagger the firing interval, those 16" shells had a velocity of 2500 feet per second so for that tight grouping they'd have to be fired in the same fraction of a second.

 

[3sloppydogs]

You would think but if I remember correctly the stagger is figured into the firing solution.

 

[Photon440]

USS Wisconsin
Bow shot and the 16/50s
I have to apologize for the quality of these shot I am posting. There are old 35mm pictures and I take a picture of them. I have plenty just need to find them all
View attachment 1417367View attachment 1417365

 

[3sloppydogs]

I was talking with one of the docents on the New Jersey or North Carolina I can't remember which about the firing computers for the big guns. I asked why they never removed them and replaced them with modern technology. He told me when they brought them back in the 80s they ran tests and found the existing ones on board worked as well or outperformed the technology. Those things are huge too
I though that quite interesting

 

[polywideblock]

HMS King Georges V & HMS Vanguard 1945