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frank3 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2005, 12:10:14 PM »

The Italian fleet which got clobbered by the Swordfish?

seabat · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2005, 12:36:21 PM »

US and British fleet in china?

At least the darker gray cruiser on the right is US. I think that is also a US gunboat up front.

jthemenway · « **Reply #3 on:** January 14, 2005, 01:03:32 PM »

Hong Kong ? The building in the backround kind of looks like the old Kowloon Railway Terminus tower.

Lye-El · « **Reply #4 on:** January 14, 2005, 02:32:01 PM »

Great White Fleet?

Rasker · « **Reply #5 on:** January 14, 2005, 04:19:06 PM »

those 3 stacked cruisers look a lot like Brit County class, Suffolk, Norfolk etc. Those turrets definitely later than WW1 or immediate aftermath.

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #6 on:** January 14, 2005, 04:44:55 PM »

Singapore

seabat · « **Reply #7 on:** January 14, 2005, 04:57:01 PM »

follow up on my guess.

Shanghai - because of what I think is a gunboat. Yangtze river is near Shanghai.

Didn't notice the carrier until looking at the picture again either.

Rasker · « **Reply #8 on:** January 14, 2005, 06:32:14 PM »

I'm guessing HMS Eagle for the carrier to right rear, weren't that many CV's with a tripod mast and that boxy look. She spent lots of time in the Far East during the inter-war years. Guessing Exeter or York as the cruiser with two unequal funnels in foreground center.

Guessing Hong Kong, simply because I doubt Singapore or Shanghai have such mountainous terrain.

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #9 on:** January 14, 2005, 10:10:09 PM »

if that's Hong Kong, where the 747 flying approach between skyscrapers?

brady · « **Reply #10 on:** January 15, 2005, 12:37:51 PM »

Hong Kong, it is

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A very interesting pic, with a lot going on, I am fairly certain the CA (3 of them) are Kent Class, as their is photographic evidance showing these ships in Harbor for this tiem frame, from the Picture source:

USS Houston (CA-30), center;

USS Isabel (PY-10), right center;

British submarine tender Medway, beyond Houston's bow;

British aircraft carrier Hermes, right;

Three British heavy cruisers;

Several British destroyers; and

a French river gunboat, left center, nearest shore

SELECTOR · « **Reply #11 on:** January 15, 2005, 02:00:15 PM »

looks like a park modle boating lake.....

Fongman · « **Reply #12 on:** January 18, 2005, 03:35:12 AM »

The Photo take from Central
This Is Whampoa shipyard and TSIM SHA TSUI(old Kowloon Railway Terminus tower)