Cool and ugly looking ships

[GinandTonic]

Warspite may not be the best looking but it is the best name by far.

 

[Cutlass]

USS Salem. WWII built heavy cruisers took on the same basic lines of Iowa battleships. They were bigger, but weighed less, than many battleships. The is a Des Moines-class heavy cruisers were the first big gun ships to use case ammo in the main guns (8 inch) instead of a projectile and powder bags and could fire at 10 second intervals instead of the usual approx 30 seconds for other big guns.

I think it's the only heavy cruiser still afloat and open to the public.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Oh man, the Des Moines, Albany, and Baltimore cruisers were unmistakably badass ships.

 

[Dodge_272]

All ships looked cool in razzle-dazzle, shame it didn't last.

 

[Taras Bulba]

All ships looked cool in razzle-dazzle, shame it didn't last.

I wonder if that boat made it on "Pimp my Ride"

 

[holy king]

hms victory

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Fuso Class (Fuso, Haruna, and Yamashiro)

The Fusos in particular were fantastic ships, I'd dare say the best before the Fast Battleships of late WWII.

The mast, or whatever it is is too high up front. But that's just me.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The mast, or whatever it is is too high up front. But that's just me.

The foremast? That's the best part! Most Japanese ships' foremasts from this time have that classic pagoda shape to them.

Personally, I like it.

 

[Cutlass]

The foremast? That's the best part! Most Japanese ships' foremasts from this time have that classic pagoda shape to them.

Personally, I like it.

I don't care for it either and it's too much weight.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

It didn't seem to hinder the Fusos too much. And it's not that much extra weight, you don't know how much it weighs.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Double Post.

 

[Taras Bulba]

I'll let you decide on these

USS Farragut

USS Abraham Lincoln

USS Apache

USS Ardent

personally, I like the first two, and the second two are kinda' weird... but that's just me

 

[citedon]

The ships of the Great White Fleet were kinda cool looking.

 

[Fr8monkey]

How about Admiral Dewey's flagship "USS Olympia" from the Spanish American War?

 

[Ace of Gold]

The Charles de Gaulle(R 91)

A French aircraft carrier

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Shouldn't the planes be launched towards the stern?

/inevitable lame French joke

 

[Taras Bulba]

Shouldn't the planes be launched towards the stern?

/inevitable lame French joke

I must've not gotten this joke

I thought most aircraft carriers launched the planes from the the back towards the front... not visa-versa

 

[really]

Shouldn't the planes be launched towards the stern?

/inevitable lame French joke

No need for jokes - the truth is funnier. A propeller fell off halfway across the Atlantic once and one of the elevators didn't work.

Another joke:

(Slow - works ahead)

 

[Cutlass]

I must've not gotten this joke

I thought most aircraft carriers launched the planes from the the back towards the front... not visa-versa

It's a joke about retreating

 

[Ace of Gold]

It's a joke about retreating

which is not that funny because its not true