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Title: Warship Quiz # 18
Post by: Jester on January 22, 2006, 11:53:10 PM

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Title: Warship Quiz # 18
Post by: Jester on January 23, 2006, 10:28:40 PM

What? Not even one guess? :huh

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

Title: Warship Quiz # 18
Post by: Slash27 on January 23, 2006, 10:43:23 PM

Doesnt really look like the Titanic.:O

Title: Warship Quiz # 18
Post by: Grits 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.

Title: Warship Quiz # 18
Post by: Jester on January 25, 2006, 11:21:55 AM

HMS KELLY it is!

Congrats!  :aok

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!  :rofl

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.

Title: Warship Quiz # 18
Post by: Grits 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. :)

Title: Warship Quiz # 18
Post by: Fencer51 on January 25, 2006, 11:38:05 AM

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

Great movie.

"This is a story about a ship.."