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Post by: brady on April 18, 2003, 04:09:11 PM: ???

(http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/34057/0.jpg)
Title: Name This...(486)
Post by: NOD2000 on April 18, 2003, 07:04:35 PM: a guy climbing a pole when his camara went off by accedent........
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Post by: Arlo on April 18, 2003, 07:06:23 PM: bow-fours
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Post by: Pongo on April 18, 2003, 07:34:56 PM: All I can think of is a King George Class.
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Post by: Bullethead on April 18, 2003, 11:34:25 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Pongo
All I can think of is a King George Class.

Yup, definitely, although I can't tell which one. But the shot was taken from the foretop looking down the tripod leg on the port side. You can see the front edge of the forward funnel in the lower left corner, under the tripod leg, and part of the midship's aircraft crane in the upper left.
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Post by: Rasker on April 19, 2003, 04:58:20 AM: hmm dont think the KGV's had tripod top. Does look like 5.25" secondary armament which they did have, flanked by two quad 40mm (2 pdr.) pom-poms, it looks like.
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Post by: Bullethead on April 19, 2003, 02:15:57 PM: Rasker said:
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hmm dont think the KGV's had tripod top.

They had 2 tripod masts as a matter of fact. Check this (http://www.sssbrno.cz/monako/galerie/real_valecne/HMSKingGeorgeV/original/HMSKingGeorgeV01.jpg) pic.
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Post by: brady on April 19, 2003, 05:33:20 PM: P2 5.25inch, and 2 pounder pom pom's, it is:)

Photo Taken from HMS Prince of Wales bridge.
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Post by: Bullethead on April 19, 2003, 05:59:45 PM: brady said:
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Photo Taken from HMS Prince of Wales bridge.

IOW, they weren't up to the job.
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Post by: SELECTOR on April 19, 2003, 06:09:24 PM: looks like a bit of a boat... you can tell by the bit of water..:D
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Post by: Nilsen on April 19, 2003, 08:06:36 PM: yup, def secondary arm on a british battleship and POF or KG is my guess
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Post by: Rasker on April 20, 2003, 03:46:58 AM: Bullethead I stand corrected on the tripod tops.

The Mark of 5.25's the Prince of Wales class carried was manually loaded, that caliber calculated to be the largest where manual loading was practical. The battleship Vanguard, completed after the war, carried meachanically loading 5.25 mounts which doubled the rate of fire, to 18 rounds per minute. It is interesting to speculate how P.O.W. would have fared in her encounter with the Japanese bombers if her batteries had been pumping out a hundred extra, big, long range shells each minute.