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Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Jester on January 26, 2006, 11:04:32 PM

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Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Debonair on January 26, 2006, 11:59:06 PM

HMS Pwned

Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Avenger1 on January 27, 2006, 02:25:28 AM

Looks like an old Flush Decker DD, USS Rueben James Maybe?

Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Karnak on January 27, 2006, 12:25:02 PM

HMS Jervis Bay?

Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Widewing on January 27, 2006, 12:58:16 PM

USS Pope under fire from Japanese Heavy Cruisers during the Battle of the Java Sea.

My regards,

Widewing

Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Karnak on January 27, 2006, 02:12:10 PM

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Originally posted by Widewing
USS Pope under fire from Japanese Heavy Cruisers during the Battle of the Java Sea.

What was the outcome for the USS Pope?

Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Grits on January 27, 2006, 02:18:45 PM

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Originally posted by Karnak
What was the outcome for the USS Pope?

She got pwned by the Ashigara and Myoko.

Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Widewing on January 27, 2006, 03:58:01 PM

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Originally posted by Grits
She got pwned by the Ashigara and Myoko.

Actually, the Pope was disabled by air attack and abandoned. The Japanese cruisers finished off an empty ship...

"In another action in the wake of the Battle of the Java Sea, four Japanese heavy cruisers engage three of the remaining Allied ships fleeing Java, sinking British heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and destroyer HMS Encounter. The U.S. destroyer Pope escapes the cruisers but is located and damaged by aircraft from two seaplane carriers and the light carrier Ryujo. After being abandoned a small group of volunteers remained aboard to scuttle the destroyer when two heavy cruisers appeared over the horizon and quickened the immobile ship's sinking with gunfire."

My regards,

Widewing

Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Karnak on January 27, 2006, 04:02:32 PM

The Japanese did have some very nice heavy cruisers.

Title: Warship Quiz # 20
Post by: Jester on January 28, 2006, 09:00:01 PM

USS POPE DD-225  it is!

Congrats!  :aok

Pic shows the Pope surrounded by 8" shell spashes from the Japanese Heavy Cruiser HIJMS Ashigara during the Battle of the Java Sea.


USS POPE DD-225 SPECS:

Type: Destroyer
Class: Clemson
Built by: William Cramp and Sons (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)    
Laid down: 9 Sep, 1919  
Launched: 23 Mar, 1920  
Commissioned: 27 Oct, 1920  
Displacement: 1215/1308 BRT  
Length: 314 feet  
Complement: 122 men  
Armament:
4x 4inch guns
1x 3inch AA gun
12x 21inch torpedo tubes
4x .50cal MG guns  
Max speed: 35 knots
Engines: Steam boilers or turbines  
Power: 26000 HP  
 
History:
USS Pope (Lt.Cdr. W.C. Blinn) departs Surabaya, Netherlands East Indies on 28 February 1942 together with the British heavy cruiser HMS Exeter and the British destroyer HMS Encounter. The ships are ordered to try to escape through the Sunda Strait to Tjilatjap. Unfortunately they are spotted by Japanese warships and the Exeter and Encounter are sunk during the following engagement. Pope manages to escape only to be bombed by Japanese aircraft which leaves her unmanouverable after a near-miss. She is finally sunk by gunfire from Japanese warships in position 04.00S, 111.30E on 1 March 1942.