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Title: Name This...(399)
Post by: brady on January 03, 2003, 03:44:07 PM

???

Title: Name This...(399)
Post by: MiloMorai on January 03, 2003, 05:55:41 PM

American New Mexico class BB, USS Idaho(??)

Title: Name This...(399)
Post by: whgates3 on January 03, 2003, 07:31:24 PM

Curtiss SOC Seagull

Title: Name This...(399)
Post by: brady on January 04, 2003, 10:57:09 AM

USS New Mexico, it is:) ( I beleave it is infact the New Mexico)

 
  whgates3, get's WTFG on the Seagull as well:)

Title: Name This...(399)
Post by: whgates3 on January 04, 2003, 11:29:07 AM

...well i couldn't name the ship

Title: Name This...(399)
Post by: MiloMorai on January 04, 2003, 01:27:54 PM

Brady, in Conways battleship book, pg 169, there is a photo very simular to the one you posted. The structure by the funnel looks to be some kind of elevator structure for in the Conway book it is in a down postion. The crew along the railings and a/c are very simularily placed. The book says it is the USS Mississippi in 1934.

Title: Name This...(399)
Post by: brady on January 04, 2003, 02:21:23 PM

My Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ship's 1922-1946 clearly identifys the above pick as a New Mexico Class, howeaver My source for the Pic my well be in Eror, it show it is the New Mexico, but it was also a web source, I have more faith in books for solid referances, espichaly Conways, While it is clear that it is a New Mexico Class in My book I cant be shure it is the New Mexico or the Mississippi, so I will difer to your referance hear, and say it is the Mississippi, which would be in keeping with the Seagull and upperworks for a 1934 vintage pick.

Title: Name This...(399)
Post by: MiloMorai on January 04, 2003, 03:14:58 PM

Brady when I say very simular, the sea state, sky and apparent ship speed are simular. The only difference is the position the photo was taken - more abeam than yours (and the structure's position (down rather than up) beside the funnel).

Do you know what this structure was/for? It does not seem to be on the other side of the ship.