"KA" thread name this ship

[Spartacus]

http://tinypic.com/e0616w.jpg

1000K
first hint
The ship was built in the UK

 

[UA_Iron]

the hood?

wait, that shit was sunk in WW1...hmmm

 

[wootoom]

titanic

 

[bran987]

Cutty Sark!

 

[GrandMaster]

"yousunkmybattleship"

 

[Spartacus]

titanic

getting closer
next hint
note in the photograph the vessel exists today
restored

 

[wootoom]

the poseidon

 

[Spartacus]

I had to do a photo quiz as it's too easy to search for answers for typical trivia

 

[Mr. dB]

HMS Dorsetshire?

 

[SoKlueles]

the USS alabama

 

[Spartacus]

look at the turret and notice the observation ports for the gunners

 

[GrandMaster]

the come from behinders??? lol

 

[Mr. dB]

Never mind, the Dorsetshire is somewhere on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

 

[Mr. dB]

look at the turret and notice the observation ports for the gunners

HMS Bender?

 

[Cutiebaby]

uss rosevelt

 

[Spartacus]

the USS alabama

she's in mobile harbor
actually started listing after Katrina

hint for the "ladies"
you can buy popular china by the same name

 

[Gambino]

Bismark

 

[BileStew]

Love Boat

 

[Cutiebaby]

mongolia or fransican

 

[Spartacus]

Never mind, the Dorsetshire is somewhere on the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

good hint

"A floatplane from the cruiser TONE finds Admiral Sir James Somerville's British Eastern Fleet's cruisers HMS CORNWALL and HMS DORSETSHIRE at sea - without air cover. Between 1338-1400, 88 aircraft from the AKAGI, HIRYU and the SORYU sink both ships."

 

[Phaded]

santa maria?

 

[BileStew]

I love how people read. 4Ever said it was built in the UK and there are guesses of USS Roosevelt, USS Alabama and USS Imbecile.

 

[Cutiebaby]

destroyer hms tenedos

 

[Spartacus]

due to the difficulty I'm upping the ante to 5000K

next hint
this vessel was a nation's former flagship in a very historically significant action

 

[Lumberg]

Wedgewood

 

[Mr. dB]

she's in mobile harbor
actually started listing after Katrina

hint for the "ladies"
you can buy popular china by the same name

HMS Delft? HMS Wedgewood? HMS Fiestaware? HMS Lenox?

 

[Lumberg]

I guess I should say "HMS" or Her Majesty's Ship

Anyone prefacing it with USS is just stupid or polluting the thread

 

[Spartacus]

I love how people read. 4Ever said it was built in the UK and there are guesses of USS Roosevelt, USS Alabama and USS Imbecile.

heh
while that was correct it's a misdirect

next hint
the ship was built for another country

 

[Spartacus]

heh
while that was correct it's a misdirect

next hint
the ship was built for another country

I'll make it 10K for fucking with you
the clues you need are there now

 

[Cutiebaby]

hms queen elizabeth

 

[Lumberg]

The Potemkin

 

[Cutiebaby]

hms anson

 

[Spartacus]

and BTW you can kind of figure it was a UK manufactured vessel
the "Hood"
had only double barreled turretsclassified as a (pre-dreadnought) battleship. (4 x 12-inch guns main armament in two twin turrets.)

 

[redguru]

Was the Potemkin built in Britain? Looks like her hull.

 

[Cutiebaby]

hms hood

 

[Spartacus]

Became "Commemoration" ship in 1925, major restoration project completed 1961.

One of the few surviving examples of a predreadnought Battleship.

 

[redguru]

Kongo?

 

[Cutiebaby]

prince of wales

 

[hotzie]

HMS Illustrious

 

[Cutiebaby]

king george v class

 

[pdaddy]

KBismarck

 

[Gambino]

Mayflower

 

[redguru]

Mikasa

 

[Spartacus]

She blew up in 1905 or 1906, sank, and was refloated and repaired. Also, she is the ONLY surviving predreadnought, just as the USS Texas is the only surviving dreadnought.

I visited the USS Texas when I lived in Houston '72-'73

 

[hotzie]

Mikasa

 

[Cutiebaby]

dang it do more

 

[redguru]

Its the Mikasa

Displacement:15,140tons,Speed:18knots,Main Armament:4 x 30 cm,Secondary Armament:14 x 15 cm,Auxillary Armament:20 x 8 cm

Keel laid by Vickers in Barrow, England 1900

 

[hotzie]

Mikasa

damn you two post ahead of me damn you

 

[pdaddy]

The Derwent

 

[Spartacus]

Mikasa

we have a winner!
Fought in the Battle of Tsushima (vs. the Russians, decisive victory for Japan, 1905) as flagship.

Decommsioned in Sept 1923 (due to Washington Naval Conference).

 

[Cutiebaby]

do more

 

[redguru]

damn you two post ahead of me damn you

LOL

 

[hotzie]

LOL

lol i hate to lose

 

[redguru]

Good thread, 4everhung. The Japanese liked to buy British ships-of-the-line to study British shipbuilding techniques.

 

[Mr. dB]

Mikasa es su casa