Author Topic: Warship Quiz # 21 (Read 426 times)

Jester · « **on:** January 28, 2006, 09:02:32 PM »

Extra Points if you can tell me how she got the "Fender Bender."

OOZ662 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2006, 09:05:52 PM »

"Whoops, forgot to untie that last rope."

Blooz · « **Reply #2 on:** January 29, 2006, 05:35:15 AM »

Again, I'm no good with ship ID.

However, I'm guessing the damage is from a mine.

TDeacon · « **Reply #3 on:** January 29, 2006, 08:50:05 AM »

HMS Eskimo, after being torpedoed by Georg Thiele in the 2nd Battle of Narvik.

Klum25th · « **Reply #4 on:** January 29, 2006, 10:32:05 AM »

what he said, but if wronge

Damaged by running into a friendly submarine, or bigger ship?

Jester · « **Reply #5 on:** January 31, 2006, 04:28:19 PM »

HMS ESKIMO it is!

Damage to the bow is from being torpedoed by the German Destroyer Georg Thiele in the 2nd Battle of Narvik.

Congrats!

HMS ESKIMO DD F75 SPECS:
Type: Destroyer
Class: Tribal
Pennant No: L75/F75/G75
Displacement: 1,883 tons (2,559 full complement) BRT
Length: 377 feet (oa)
Complement: 190 (Cossack, Afridi, Somali and Tartar 219) men
Armament :
8x 4.7" guns (4x2)
4 x 2pdr AA (1x4)
8x 0.5" MG AA (4x2)
4x 21" torpedo tubes (1x4)
Max speed: 36 knots
Engines: Geared turbines, 2 shafts
Power: 44,000 HP

History:
Built by: Vickers Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.): Parsons
Laid down: 5 Aug, 1936
Launched: 3 Sep, 1937
Commissioned: 30 Dec, 1938
End service: Scrapped June, 1949