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Offline Angus

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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #90 on: November 10, 2009, 02:34:42 PM »
Potempkin?
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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #91 on: November 10, 2009, 02:44:16 PM »
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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #92 on: November 10, 2009, 04:54:54 PM »
Aurora?

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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #93 on: November 10, 2009, 04:57:45 PM »
i cheated
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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #94 on: November 10, 2009, 05:27:37 PM »
Yep.
On 25 October 1917, the refusal of an order for the Aurora to take to sea sparked the October Revolution. At 9.45 p.m. on that date, a blank shot from her forecastle gun signalled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace, which was to be the last episode of the October Revolution. Aurora's crew actually took part in the attack...and result we all know.
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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #95 on: November 11, 2009, 11:27:31 AM »
Not a very good pic (scanned years ago from a small postcard) but it features a historically important ship. What ship and where?



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Offline MiloMorai

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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #96 on: November 11, 2009, 04:42:57 PM »
The last British battleship.

The boat in the forground looks like a post war MGB.
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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #97 on: November 11, 2009, 04:58:35 PM »
only ship I have ever been on.

then a few years later I did a pen and ink drawing of it that they(gift shop) sold prints of when I was 15.




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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #98 on: November 11, 2009, 06:34:35 PM »
Quote from: Simba on November 11, 2009, 11:27:31 AM
Not a very good pic (scanned years ago from a small postcard) but it features a historically important ship. What ship and where?

(Image removed from quote.)

 :cool:

Vanguard?
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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #99 on: November 12, 2009, 12:55:14 PM »
The Royal Navy's last battleship (and the only one ever built with a square transom stern) Vanguard it is, photographed from Ferry Gardens, Gosport.

Nabob, son of Paybob, did journey forth to Gosport
In search of an all-night-in,
But on his way he fell amongst bandits,
Not ordinary bandits but  . . .

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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #100 on: November 12, 2009, 04:18:28 PM »
I always thought the Vanguard was an interesting build.A new ship with turrets and guns from WW1 era battlecruisers.

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Offline allaire

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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #101 on: November 12, 2009, 04:48:54 PM »
This should be an easy one.
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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #102 on: November 12, 2009, 05:21:34 PM »
Yamato or Musashi after the refit that removed six of the 6.1" guns in favor of greater AA capability.

Gorgeous ships.
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Offline minke

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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #103 on: November 12, 2009, 05:54:30 PM »
mind boggling ship the yamato,the armour speed and guns, simply amazing.

Then the ijn just let it die, travesty.
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Re: Guess that ship!
« Reply #104 on: November 12, 2009, 05:58:28 PM »
Yep the Yamato.  Pic I found said it was a picture from it's sea trials.
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