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Title: Name This...(221)
Post by: brady on March 11, 2002, 08:42:48 PM

???

Title: Name This...(221)
Post by: Jester on March 12, 2002, 04:25:01 AM

Italian WW2 Destroyer - NAVIGATORI CLASS
8 in Class - 6 sunk during the war.
Displacement: 1,628 tons
Length: 352 ft (oa)
Beam: 33 1/2 ft.
Drought: 16 ft
S.H.P.: 50,000 = 38 knots
Armament: 6x4.7", 4x37mm A.A., 6x13mm A.A., 4x21" T.T. (twin mounted)
Complement: 185

Hull Letter "PS" unknown. Maybe "Emanuele Pessagno".

Title: Name This...(221)
Post by: Hortlund on March 12, 2002, 05:17:51 AM

Well, since it is an Italian warship..

PS = Piece of cheese

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Post by: MiloMorai on March 12, 2002, 07:11:24 AM

Those PoS (Italian ships) were better than the dungheaps the Germans called ships!!!

Title: Name This...(221)
Post by: Hortlund on March 12, 2002, 07:20:14 AM

So basically what you are saying is that the reason the Italian navy in wwii was a joke, was because of the crews then?

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Post by: BenDover on March 12, 2002, 01:21:31 PM

another ship???? i can't make jokes about pics with ships!

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Post by: Red Tail 444 on March 12, 2002, 01:39:42 PM

You guys are awful.....FUNNY AS HELL...but god awful...:)

Where's the love, maaaaaaan?

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Post by: Sikboy on March 12, 2002, 02:36:48 PM

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Originally posted by MiloMorai
Those PoS (Italian ships) were better than the dungheaps the Germans called ships!!!

Is this some sort of troll? :confused:
While I don't have any hang ups about the luftwaffe, I'm one hell of a Kreigsmawhiner :eek:

-Sikboy

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Post by: Jester on March 12, 2002, 04:04:10 PM

Silkboy ! Am a fellow KM'er myself. Collect and study everything on the subject I can get.

I wish they would get the ME-109T available from the carrier - I would try to start up TRAGERGRUPPE 186! :D

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Post by: midnight Target on March 12, 2002, 05:09:56 PM

All new Italian destroyers had glass bottoms so the sailors could see the old Italian destroyers. :D

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Post by: brady on March 12, 2002, 08:12:22 PM

Emanuele Pessagno, it is:)


  WTG Andijg.

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Post by: hazed- on March 13, 2002, 09:06:13 AM

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Originally posted by Hortlund
So basically what you are saying is that the reason the Italian navy in wwii was a joke, was because of the crews then?

expert marksmanship hortland. This is a superb example of 'rhetorical spin' :)

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Post by: Sikboy on March 13, 2002, 09:33:01 AM

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Originally posted by hazed-


expert marksmanship hortland. This is a superb example of 'rhetorical spin' :)

Paraphrasing Adlai Stevenson, or just coincedence?

"... a fine flood of rhetorical score"
-Adlai Stevenson, to Ambassodor Zorin of the Soviet Union, at the UN Security Council 1962

One of my favorite quotes from that speech.
-Sikboy