Wyrmshadow's Battleships

[MarineCorps]

When I first saw the Image and hadn't read your text I thought it was a Large Cruiser.

Compared to an Iowa it is.....

 

[Wyrmshadow]

It's about twice as massive as a german pocket battleship like the Spee. So about 20-25 thousand tons.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

The USS Kentucky was the 5th Iowa class but it was never finished and only left as a hull at the end of the war. I think sometime in the 1950's the USS Wisconsin had a collision with a destroyer and it took off the bow, the Kentucky hull was used to repair it.

During the war, the US put a halt to Battleship construction in favor of destroyers and more carriers. Limited resources had to be allocated and as impressive as the US war economy was, the shipyards were still limited to what they could build. What if the US sold at a nominal fee the hull of the Kentucky to the Brittish during the war? The Brits then outfitted it with their own superstructure and weapons.

I got this idea from a What-If modeling forum I visit all the time.

Presenting the HMS Temeraire

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Awwwwwwww

I hate to quote myself but... Awwwwww

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Got another big ship coming up. Anyone care to guess what it could be?
SOE team members are disqualified from guessing. I need my fun dammit.

 

[warmwaffles]

American Cruiser? cuz the forward deck looks american and aft too...idunno I might just be seein some weird sheet today

 

[Arvln]

lexington class battlecruiser?( later changed to become Lexington class carrier)

 

[Wyrmshadow]

lexington class battlecruiser?( later changed to become Lexington class carrier)

That was quick. You are correct.

 

[warmwaffles]

Damn almost though...haha it would have taken me a week to figure that out

 

[Arvln]

well I have a book of World War I battleship and Battlecruiser, and it have the design specification of all the ships. It just a coincidence

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

I really like the splash cammo on the bow though I think the overall hull should be of lighter colour- this way it looks almost black

 

[Wyrmshadow]

some Italian treats
Vittorio Venneto, Andrea Doria, Juilio Cesar
Battlecruiser, Zara heavy cruiser

 

[Wyrmshadow]

anyone care to take a guess on this one? It's old.

 

[Wolfhart]

Russian "Gangut" class battleship, three left for WW2: Marat (ex-Petropavlovsk), Parizhskaya Kommuna (ex-Sevastopol) and Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya (ex-Gangut)

 

[Ares de Borg]

Wonderful additions to the Italian navy! Do you know when they will be released?

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Wonderful additions to the Italian navy! Do you know when they will be released?

EVERYTHING will come out at the same time. As a bundle with SOE.

 

[Ares de Borg]

Okay, thank you!

 

[MarineCorps]

anyone care to take a guess on this one? It's old.

What an odd design

 

[eric_A]

EVERYTHING will come out at the same time. As a bundle with SOE.

Including the Ise?

 

[Wyrmshadow]

Ise will be for SOP.