Author Topic: Warship Quiz # 1 (Read 845 times)

Guppy35 · « **Reply #15 on:** January 04, 2006, 06:07:51 PM »

Someone tweaked this photo of the USS Colorado. They took off the catapult from the rear turret, widened the stacks and stuck another barrell on the last turret.

Grits · « **Reply #16 on:** January 04, 2006, 06:23:45 PM »

LOL...I r teh winnar!!

I did say afterall that it was the Colorado.

Slash27 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 04, 2006, 06:35:00 PM »

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Originally posted by Grits
LOL...I r teh winnar!!

I did say afterall that it was the Colorado.

I said it first (well the class anyway) and you spelled "the" wrong.

NO GOAL!

Grits · « **Reply #18 on:** January 04, 2006, 06:58:54 PM »

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Originally posted by Slash27
NO GOAL!

WIDE RIGHT!! (poor Bobby Bowden)

Widewing · « **Reply #19 on:** January 04, 2006, 07:14:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Guppy35
Someone tweaked this photo of the USS Colorado. They took off the catapult from the rear turret, widened the stacks and stuck another barrell on the last turret.

I think the intention was to create a photograph of these ships, had they not been converted into aircraft carriers.... Lexington and Saratoga.

My regards,

Widewing

Guppy35 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 04, 2006, 11:31:20 PM »

Different copy of that same image of Colorado. Shows the tail end better and the other parts that show the first image was modifed from this.

Gotta love those clipper bow BBs

Jester · « **Reply #21 on:** January 05, 2006, 12:37:24 AM »

LEXINGTON CLASS BATTLECRUISER (CC) it is!

Sharp Eyes there guys! Congrats!

PICTURE EXPLINATION:

It is a VERY GOOD "What If" rendition of what a Lexington Class Battlecruiser would have looked like about circa 1942 - had they been built. As we know Lexington and Saratoga were converted to CV's and the rest (Constitution, Constellation, Ranger & United States) were canceled and scrapped.
It was done useing the pic of the Battleship USS Colorado posted by Guppy35. The plans for the Lexington's show that they would have had a similar layout of superstructure, main guns, cage masts, etc. of the Colorado Class BB's that were building at about the same time.

I really like that picture - As you can see, had the Lexington Class Battlecruisers been built they would really have been some beautiful warships. If you also study the pic put up by Widewing of HMS Hood they are very similarly built though by paper estimations the Lexington's would have been a better class of ship than Hood. While they couldn't hang long against a regular Battleship - IMO had they been built they most likely would have ended up being refitted with many extra AA guns and served as Carrier Escorts such as the Alaska Class CB's.

LEXINGTON CLASS CC 1-6 SPECS: (1919 revised design)

Main Battery: 8x 16"/50 (4x twin turrets)
Secondary Battery: 16x 6"/53
AA Battery: 4x 3"/50
Torpedoes: 8x 21" TT (4 above & 4 below waterline)
Aircraft: 3 floatplanes, 1 catapult
Length: 874' loa, 850' lwl
Beam: 105'
Displacement: 43,500 Tons (Designed)
Horsepower: 180,000
Speed: 35 Knots (Designed)(CV Lexington actually topped 40 Knots on trials)
Main Belt Armor: 7" - 5" inclined at 11.5 deg.

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