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Post by: brady on January 14, 2005, 11:51:35 AM

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(http://www.myphotodrive.com//uploads/686_288.JPG)

Title: Name This...(988)
Post by: frank3 on January 14, 2005, 12:10:14 PM

The Italian fleet which got clobbered by the Swordfish?

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Post by: seabat 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.

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Post by: jthemenway 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.

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Post by: Lye-El on January 14, 2005, 02:32:01 PM

Great White Fleet?

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Post by: Rasker 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.

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Post by: spitfiremkv on January 14, 2005, 04:44:55 PM

Singapore

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Post by: seabat 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.

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Post by: Rasker 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.

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Post by: spitfiremkv on January 14, 2005, 10:10:09 PM

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

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Post by: brady 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

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Post by: SELECTOR on January 15, 2005, 02:00:15 PM

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

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Post by: Fongman 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)(http://www.mid-tokyo.com/20/photos/img/hongkong_1960.jpg)