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Title: Warship Quiz # 21
Post by: Jester on January 28, 2006, 09:02:32 PM

(http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/863/rr15kh.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

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

Title: Warship Quiz # 21
Post by: OOZ662 on January 28, 2006, 09:05:52 PM

"Whoops, forgot to untie that last rope." :aok

Title: Warship Quiz # 21
Post by: Blooz 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.

Title: Warship Quiz # 21
Post by: TDeacon on January 29, 2006, 08:50:05 AM

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

Title: Warship Quiz # 21
Post by: Klum25th on January 29, 2006, 10:32:05 AM

what he said, but if wronge

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

Title: Warship Quiz # 21
Post by: Jester 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!  :aok


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