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Title: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: Charge on August 30, 2008, 01:16:51 PM: Name this ship and location. Interesting WW2 history.

(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7549/mystery1yu6.jpg)

If nobody guesses it after a while, Ill be posting more clues. :)

-C+
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: caldera on August 30, 2008, 01:26:30 PM: The Black Pearl ?

i need more clues please. :huh
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: Masherbrum on August 30, 2008, 01:36:16 PM: An Artificial Reef.
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: BaldEagl on August 30, 2008, 01:38:02 PM: USS Saratoga in the Bikini Atoll. Well, at least that would be interesting. More likely from the shape it's a German U boat.
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: RipChord929 on August 30, 2008, 01:38:26 PM: yellow submarine??? Good ship lollypop??? The flyin Dutchman???
No No, I think I've got it now... Its the SS Minnow!!!

Sorry, I'm having a good morning... Just a little levity....

RC
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: 007Rusty on August 30, 2008, 01:45:54 PM: hmmm :huh
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: uberslet on August 30, 2008, 01:50:27 PM: no clue...
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: mipoikel on August 30, 2008, 01:54:58 PM: Prinz Eugen.

(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/aj.cashmore/germany/cruisers/hipper/prinzeugen2.jpg)

(http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Bilder/SchwKreuzer/PrinzEugen-2.jpg)

(http://www.servicepals.com/gallery/data/105/10584/p_eugen-med.jpg)

http://www.thunderstruckobservatory.com/eugen.html
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: titanic3 on August 30, 2008, 02:11:49 PM: How did she capsize in such shallow water? :confused:
Enlighten me.
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: Charge on August 30, 2008, 02:24:29 PM: Already? :furious

USS Prinz Eugen. Scuttled at Kwajalein atoll due to too high radiation after suffering two a-bomb experiments.

GJ Mipoikel.

-C+
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: uberslet on August 30, 2008, 02:32:57 PM: next?
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: StugIII on August 31, 2008, 12:59:27 AM: I thought it was sunk by the Americans after WW2? Like right after?
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: DPQ5 on August 31, 2008, 03:54:06 AM: wasent that a german battle cruiser
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: Widewing on August 31, 2008, 06:03:19 AM: Quote from: DPQ5 on August 31, 2008, 03:54:06 AM
wasent that a german battle cruiser

Heavy Cruiser... Good design, but substantially inferior to late war US Baltimore class. Weak anti-aircraft defenses, typical of European warships. In terms of aesthetics, probably best looking cruisers ever built with beautiful lines.

My regards,

Widewing
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: Charge on August 31, 2008, 11:02:48 AM: "wasent that a german battle cruiser"
"I thought it was sunk by the Americans after WW2?"

Well thats why I said it is interesting in the first place. :)

It was a German heavy cruiser to begin with and ended its life as USS Prinz Eugen in US Navy.

Though surviving two a-bomb tests it was not exactly in the middle of the explosions...

This is what is looks like:

(http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/assets/images/Baker1.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XudyhmS1YxA

-C+
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: 832725 on September 18, 2008, 02:09:34 PM: :confused:
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: wooly15 on September 18, 2008, 10:04:09 PM: I have been to Kwaj several times and seen her up close. You pass her as you pull into the pier inside the atoll. Kinda strange to see a German ship sunk in the south pacific.
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: Shuckins on September 20, 2008, 11:11:40 AM: I'm coming late to this thread, but I had it pegged as a cruiser because of its size, relative to the trees visible on the shoreline in the lower left corner of the picture. Also, I could not remember an instance of a battleship being sunk in shallow water during the war, except for the Tirpitz, which sank in a fjord.
Title: Re: Qz: Name the ship
Post by: 63tb on September 21, 2008, 01:03:37 PM: Wooly15,

When were you at Kwaj? I was there in '62 and '63. I was 11 and 12 at the time. Our family lived there for 2 years (my Dad worked for Bell Labs). I got to see a few ICBM intercepts, and even an over-the-horizon H-Bomb shot at Bikini. It was a great place to be as a kid.

63tb