Author Topic: Warship Quiz # 18 (Read 394 times)

Jester · « **Reply #1 on:** January 23, 2006, 10:28:40 PM »

What? Not even one guess?

OK...OK, I will give you a hint. She had a movie made about her.

Slash27 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 23, 2006, 10:43:23 PM »

Doesnt really look like the Titanic.

Grits · « **Reply #3 on:** January 24, 2006, 01:16:19 AM »

HMS Kelly. The movie is "In Which We Serve" starring Noel Coward. In the movie the ship is named HMS Torrin but it is based on the real events surrounding HMS Kelly. I dont think I have seen anybody that could talk as fast as Noel Coward.

Jester · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2006, 11:21:55 AM »

HMS KELLY it is!

Congrats!

Extra Points to Grits also for the Movie Name.

Yea, have the movie on tape. Noel could really belt out a speech couldn't he? LOL!

DESTROYER HMS KELLY SPECS:

Class: K
Pennant No: F 01
Displacement: 1690 (Kelly 1695) BRT
Length: 357 feet (oa)
Complement: 183 (Kelly 218) men
Armament:
6x 4.7" guns (3x2)
4x 2pdr AA (1x4)
8x .5" MG AA (2x4)
10x 21" torpedo tubes (2x5)
Max speed: 36 knots
Engines: Geared turbines, 2 shafts
Power: 40000 HP

HISTORY:
Built by: Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.)
Ordered:
Laid down: 26 Aug, 1937
Launched: 25 Oct, 1938
Commissioned: 23 Aug, 1939
Lost: 23 May, 1941

HMS Kelly (Capt. Lord L. Mountbatten, RN, DSO) was bombed and sunk on 23 May 1941 by German Stuka dive bombers off Crete.
Lord Louis Mounbatten was the commanding officer of this destroyer, later commander of Combinated Operations (Commandos) and Last Viceroy of India.

Grits · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2006, 11:34:56 AM »

There are some points in that movie where he is talking sooo fast I still cant figure out what he is saying even watching it repeatedly.

Fencer51 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2006, 11:38:05 AM »

That movie is available on DVD now too. Got it for $4.95.

Great movie.

"This is a story about a ship.."