post warships
>>64813822Looks like good fun!
Don't suppose that anon that had a stockpile of obscure warship photos ever got round to uploading it to an archive?
SusSEX>>64813692You're right anon, I *should* watch The Cruel Sea again
Threads like this make me miss my time in the Navy. Even the parts that sucked.
>>64814094How is life in the navy?
https://youtu.be/6wz1xA5kxVI?si=JL0QlsM3WgeStbI-
>>64813692Can't be good when those props break surface and unload.
>>64813822>another fine mess you're gotten us into!
>>64814142>6:25Nice.
>>64814142I hate those shitty tubes, pidors can't into VLS cells
>>64814247Technically, they did have VLS...they were just grouped into revolver cylinders sharing the same hatch.
>>64814247Dude, those fucking things are huge and weigh five tonnes a piece. The closest NATO equivalents weigh around a 30% of it.
>>64814327Damn are those the missiles that go back and explode on the ship that launched them Lmao
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>>64814152>Can't be good when those props break surface and unload.It isn't. Your throttlemen are supposed to be on top of it, anticipating the unload and then the load. The boilermen aren't having fun trying to keep ahead of the engines constantly changing demands either.
Japanese heavy cruisers remain among my favorites
>>64813650That off-centre crane/second tower bothers me greatly
>>64814086County class supremacy
>>64814122He joined the navy to see the world, but what did he see? He saw the sea
>>64814853Seems to be a trick of photography. Here's a shot from the other end
>>64815847The way the rear mast blends into the sky makes her look so messed up
>>64816063You think?
>>64814897>County class supremacydamn straight
I've added 2 or 3 to my collection since the last thread
Something I've noticed across these threads is that in general we all love cruisers
>>64816953I used to love battleships. biggest baddest bitches on the block, who wouldn't?then I started reading about warship design, and I realised that cruisers have a vast variety of roles from acting as ship-killers just like battleships to trade protection and even anti-submarine warfare. furthermore, cruisers were more constrained than battleships in many ways, from budget to treaty to novel armament fits such as torpedoes and missiles.besides, British cruisers are pure visual sex, thanks to Cunard, Lillicrap, and whichever admiral it was who said that the appearance of a ship is also important, as it raises the fighting morale of her sailors and the public
Super-super-firing is sex.
>>64817256I like the Tu-16 flying overhead.
>>64817015The engineering that goes into cruiser design really makes me aroused at times. Really it is impressive when they are working with such limits what they come up with.
>>64816953>>64817015>>64817445I think there's also an element that (especially for WW2) cruisers (on average) had more interesting careers than many other warship classes
Western powers hate this one simple trick! >Treaty says certain types of ships cannot violate an overall tonnage limit >Slightly (By 5 or 10 thousand tons) underrepresent the displacements in your disclosures>You have extra tonnage to build more ships
I'm not sure if I hate it or love it
>>64818039That design does look nice. I just wish the German navy would use some names of previous ships besides states and cities. Imagine a Scharnhorst & Gneisenau running together, for the third time.
>lurves me some (large) cruisers
>>64818439Yes
>>64818439I used to have dreams about the Alaska's going toe-to-toe with a Japanese cruiser battle line.
>>64816825WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM LEAHY!?!
>to find your prey, you must think like your prey
>weigh heigh and up she rises
>under new management
>>64817015>>64814769love me some Malta pics
>>64818227>I just wish the German navy would use some names of previous ships they did in their early days when all they had were british hand-me-down frigateshere's Hipper and Graf Spee, but they also had Scheer, Scharnhorst, and Gneisenau
>>64818938Have some more
>>64818227>>64819983I prefer how it's named now after federal states. And corvettes have city names. Submarines could use proper names too though, the U-XX designation is a bit lame.
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>>64819992This>>64818227Imagine if the bongs sink Spee off the Falklands a third time
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>>64819992The Royal Navy has used all the cool names a few times now, they've been through most of the rubbish ones too. HMS Spanker.
>>64820184>Implying you wouldn't serve on HMS Spanker if her ship crest was a stern Victorian lady holding a cane
>>64813822>Freeboard? Where we're going, we don't need freeboard!
>>64813650There is a decided lack of Age of Sail itt
>>64820291Ok, it's technically a screw ship, but you know what I mean.
>>64820291USS Pennsylvania, the only ship-of-the-line the US ever had. And a 130-gun first-rate, no less.
>>64820308We built it, never used it, then burned it to keep it out of Confederate hands.
>>64820291Very well
It absolutely pains me when I discover how many age of sail ships didn't just survive till the 20th century but more or less made it halfway through before being destroyed.
>>64820374HMS Implacable on her way to the breakers in 1949.
>>64820291not quite Age Of Sail, but just delete the funnel and razee her by one deck in your mind
>>64820451It hurts.
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>>64815847Love the QEs with the monolithic superstructure. Post-refit Renown is also breddy kewl
>>64821377Queen Anne's mansions is pure sex
Freeboard is for cowards!
note one of the cupolas of Fort Harssens on the right
You say you have no subjectAnd your brushes all have dried;But come to MarazionAt the ebbing of the tide.And look you out to seaward,Where my Lady battle scarredHugs the rock that is more welcome,Than the shameful breakers yard.Paint her there upon the sunsetIn her glory and despair,With the diadem of victoryStill in flower upon her hair.Let her whisper as she settlesOf her blooding long ago,In the mist than mingles JutlandWith the might of Scapa Flow.Let her tell you, too, of NarvikWith its snowy hills, and thenOf Matapan, SalernoAnd the shoals of Walcheren;And finally of Malta,When along the purple streetCame in trail the Roman NavyTo surrender at her feet.Of all these honours conscious,How could she bear to beDelivered to the spoilerOr severed from the sea?So hasten then and paint herIn the last flush of her prideOn the rocks of Marazion,At the ebbing of the tide.
Honestly this photo hits me hardest. Her gun houses, bereft of their armament, still pointed at the camera. 'COME GET ME YOU BASTARDS!' is what she's saying.
>>64821404fact
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>>64817660Washington Naval Treaty>It limited the construction of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraft carriers by the signatories sets tonnage limits for ships in every mayor class for major naval powersAlso Washington Naval Treaty>Aircraft carrier was defined as a warship displacing more than 10,000 tons constructed exclusively for launching and landing aircraft>Perfidious japanese use the loophole to try to build fleet of aircraft carriers under 10k tonsLondon Naval Treaty few years later>Aircraft carrier was defined as a warship of ANY displacement constructed exclusively for launching and landing aircraft, go fuck yourself Japan
>>64823574Speaking of naval treaties the Anglo-German Naval Agreement when you look at it was a masterful stroke of work by the UK at fucking over German naval procurement. People often focus on the 35% allowed but forget about the ratios that the Germans had to adhere to which caused them to build ships they really didn't want or need.
The best part is she's still around to be seen
>>64813650now that you can buy one thousand 100 dollar temu drones to destroy a warship, are their days numbered?
>>64823574>As allowed by the treaty, our new light cruisers will have 6in gunsOkay, Japan.>We're also going to make 8in turrets for them, but we promise not to mount themNo, Japan.>Also we're leaving this whole system, and those demounted cruiser turrets will go on as secondaries aboard our new battleships Fuck you, Japan.
>>64817256>>64817390Badgers badgers badgers badgers...
>>64826393Mushroom, mushroom
>>64826461In retrospect, I really should have seen that coming. You win 1 (one) internet!
>>64821377Same, the superstructure on the Rodney and Nelson. Just need to slap a clocktower on it and it would be perfectly British
suboptimal
Planes and guns.
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I fucking LOVE the matsushimasone big gun because fuck you, and the lead ship has it mounted on the arse just for fun
The flush deck four stackers are the most sexual things in the fucking universe, I'm so mad there are none leftI really gotta get around to making that model kit so I can hotglue it
>>64828059>>64828062>Island in the centerlinelol lmao>>64828850Why did one ship put it on the stern?
>>64829043She (and her unbuilt other butt-gun sister) would sail in the back and her conventional sisters would be in the frontIn theory of course, in practise they just used them as normal cruisers because that's a stupid fucking idea
>>64829118I can kind of understand that from an overly detailed fleet planning exercise. Until the exact envisioned formation isn't possible and you're the poor guys trying to keep swinging the stern around to take a shot.
>>64825434it was a masterful stroke of wishful thinking that regulations would prevent competition, the same thing the Europeans have been trying and failing to do for decades so now they are reduced to threatening to buy Chinese instead of American if you don't pander to their globalist socialism>no thought of coming up with competitive homegrown systems because they don't have the technology anymore and they know it
>>64829522Nice! I've been seeing more photos from Leyte lately. Stuff from US aircraft or from ships being pursued by the IJN Center Force.
Mix of pictures from USS Hornet's planes on 4/7/1945.
>>64829676"Scratch one flat-top"Ziukaku. Burn, motherfucker, burn.
>>64829724That's some pretty good grouping.
>>64820184If you don't know a "spanker" is a sheet, then fuck right off out of here, immediately.
>>64829801That's a wee WeeVee
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I want to stress. Floating fucking drydocks. Other countries in WW2, need to rush damaged ships back to a safe harbor. America? We'll patch it wherever. These could also be tilted on their side to go through the Panama Canal.
>>64829905>America? We'll patch it whereverbut only after mid 1943
>>64829905Not to denigrate the hard work or anything but I don't think they'll fill the dock very fast with just those two hoses
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>>64829923at the time of Pearl Harbor, America had only 3 floating docks, and it took them up to 1943 to bring more into service, that's a fact
>>64829911Still a very good capability that (I don't believe) any other nation at the time had. >>64829921Oh, you!
>>64829959no other nation needed themthey were really a cheaper and faster alternative to building traditional drydocks at Pearl Harbor, but repurposed and expanded for expeditionary basing in the Pacificfor which purpose they were also a one-and-done; we never needed this capability ever again
>>64829706Fuyuzuki foreground, photographer was 'lucky' to snap two photos at the instant of her firing the guns
>>64829998Hatsushimo in the background
>>64829959>(I don't believe) any other nation at the time hadThe bongs had quite a number of them dating back to the 19th century. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Admiralty_floating_docks)
>>64829905An interesting story from Rabaul, a short time before the war ended, one of these was torpedoed by a night raid of two B5N2 bombers flying out of Rabaul. Rabaul still had planes even at the end of the war, which were sent up in ones or twos every once in a while to do the air equivalent of guerilla warfare. Those two torpedo bombers flew from Rabaul, at night, all the way to Bougainville, and probably mistook the floating drydock for a carrier.
>>64830001damn son that's a view of a British cruiser I've never seen
>>64830001>>64830020Have another
>>64830001>Admiralty Floating Dock Bermuda remains across the mouth of the Great Sound at Spanish Point, crumbling away in the shallows of Stovell Bay.Somehow a better fate than most of the RN assets.
The Japanese Navy salvaged and used a large British floating dock that had been scuttled in Singapore, but it was far from the Pacific front line and could not be used very effectively. The major advantage of floating docks such as the US Navy's ABSD was that they could be moved by separating, towing, and combining.
>>64830198I disagree; it's better to be scrapped and repurposed than to rot away uselessly
>>64830334>The major advantage of floating docks such as the US Navy's ABSD was that they could be moved by separating, towing, and combining.>>64830001>Admiralty Floating Dock No. 8 - Originally constructed in two sections by Howaldtswerke at Kiel in 1917 as German Imperial Navy No. VIII. Claimed by UK in reparations for WWI, designated AFD8, and assigned to Malta. To increase capacity an additional mid-section was fabricated at Chatham. AFD8 was towed to Valletta, where the hull was in separated into two original sections, and the mid-section inserted. Operational from October 1925. Reduced to hulk by 1948 and replaced by AFD No. 35
Still, could be worse...
>>64830451BIGGER
>>64827805How loud is it to me near the breach when firing? You always hear of the wide range of health effects being near the muzzle can do but the breach is a whole different beast.
>>64830513Not as loud as you'd think, most of the noise is coming out of the end of the barrel which is shielded by some of the thickest armour on the ship.
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>>64830198>Admiralty Floating Dock Bermuda remains across the mouth of the Great Sound at Spanish Point>Look it up on Maps expecting to see wreckage near one point or the other.>Shit is literally ACROSS the mouth of the sound
>>64830456
Thanks for the info on the British drydocks.
>>64831293BIGGER!
>>64813650>Can i be a battleship too?
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>>64831305Fire!>Deck planking cracks>Frames bend >Piping inside bursts
>>64831352That one was Armstrong testbed for guns so surprisingly it could fire quite well
>>64831305>>64831380You call that a gun?
Cute pocket battleship.
>>64833638wifi means death
>>64820374Yeah, the subhuman scum responsible should have been rounded up and tortured until death. It's too late now, though.
>>64833657I read that some of them even made it up till the 50's and 60's.
>>64831309>Fusso
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>>64834243>>64834262kind of awesomenot sure how practical
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>>64820492steam ships of the linesometimes used for rammingphantastic times the victorian age had
>>64829971>never needed this capability ever againStill being used.
>>64835973mainly because the docks are already built, so we might as well use themdo we actually deploy them expeditionarily? do we actually need to? nowhen's the last time anyone repaired a warship in a forward base?
luv me gunboats
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>image limit reachedAnyway, this is interesting.https://files.catbox.moe/bon4gz.png
>>64836451i dont know who Admiral Watson is, but i'll have whatever he's having
>>64836451bro taking a page out of Tone's playbook I see
>>64836451I'd forgotten these ugly motherfuckers existed>Watsonsumimasen, what the fuck>Scheme Dis literally just Fletcher but cruiser-sized, I fucking love it
>>64836451Should've gone the Watson route
>>64834609>End of a war criminal, not colorized
