The Naval Warship Thread!

[Cheezy the Wiz]

You knew it was coming.

Post pictures or drawings, as the case may be, of warships throughout history.

I'll kickstart it with a few:

Kiev Class Soviet Carrier

and the Soviet Moskva Class Helo Carrier

Principe de Asturias, a Spanish Carrier

Sao Paulo, a Brazilian Colossus Class Carrier

USS Oriskany, a wide-beamed Midway Class Carrier

USS Nimitz

Toulon, a French Clemenceau Class Carrier

 

[FireBall]

(One of) The biggest: The Yamato.

 

[Ovulator]

uss iowa

 

[Fifty]

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[Keroro]

Wow, this thread suddenly took a turn for the better . Thanks Fifty.

Ovulator - interesting angle on that pic, I like it. You get a sense of the power involved.

 

[woody60707]

cool pics...

 

[Keroro]

The original Dreadnought: HMS Dreadnought. (Sorry the pic is so small, couldn't work out how to stretch it ).

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

The Hood

And the Bismarck

 

[Jawz II]

how many kinds of warships are there anyway?

 

[steviejay]

Probably too many to count. hundreds, spanning from modern day carriers back to sail ships.

Speaking of that...

The HMS Victory. the oldest ship still in service in the Royal Navy (and perhaps the world) It must be worrying to know that if you want to invade Britain and the worst comes to the worst, this bad boy is coming after your ass!

 

[Sidhe]

And not 400 yards from the Victory, HMS warrior, I'd Show the other flagship The Mary Rose but it's still under restoration ie its a load of disjointed planks with about 4000 more to put in before it looks ship shape

Come to Portsmouth see 600 years of naval history.

100 guns on the victory Imagine getting 46 Guns to your broadside, would be something close to hell I'd imagine . I visited the Victory as a kid You can actually stand were Nelson bought it, it's great, and they give you a tour of all the famous bits of the ship, including the captains cabin which is pitifully small, still better than bunking down with 140 men.

 

[Brighteye]

I saw this thread and initially misread it as navel worship.

So here's my link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilicus

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

I saw this thread and initially misread it as navel worship.

So here's my link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilicus

Ahh that explains Fifty's post. Good work I was a little slow off the mark there

 

[IglooDame]

Quantity and quality:

 

[brennan]

Admiral Graf Spee

 

[IglooDame]

And how about the two I served on (both photos taken while I was aboard):

Mighty USS Ouellet:

And mightier USS Ingersoll:

 

[brennan]

Your pics don't work ID.

 

[IglooDame]

Your pics don't work ID.

How about the five-nations fleet pic a few posts up?

Maybe navsource.org is inaccessible where you're at, I'll imageshack them shortly...

 

[brennan]

The fleet pic is ok.

 

[Rambuchan]

The Portuguese Carrack - streets ahead of its competition.

A carrack was a large galleon used in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries; three masted with the first two square rigged and the mizzen lateen rigged, carrying up to 1,200 tons of cargo, larger than a caravel with higher forecastles and aftcastles. These were also some of the first ships to have heavy cannons mounted on them.

Portuguese ships arrived in the Indian Ocean in 1498, looking for a sea route to the silks and spices of the East. The Portuguese took over many of the existing routes, and controlled the Indian Ocean trade through force of arms. For many years, English East Indiamen competed with the Portugese for the lucrative eastern trade.

Indian historians describe these vessels (and also Caravels) as the bringers of "seaborne terror". As some of the first ships to be mounted with cannons, they would sail into range of major Indian trading ports (such as Kalikut) and bomb the hell out of them, in order to secure outlandish trading rights.




^ A painting by Pieter Brueghal.

I was a little slow off the mark there

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