The Ships Of The Line thread!

[klr]

... but only dreadnoughts, super-dreadnoughts and battle cruisers. And maybe flat-tops. Nothing before then, or the ghost of Jacky Fisher will get very annoyed.

Let's start with H.M.S. Dreadnought herself:



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_%281906%29

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You know South Carolina and Michigan were designed before Dreadnaught, right?

[Feck]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Mikasa. I visited her when I was in Japan.

[klr]

You know South Carolina and Michigan were designed before Dreadnaught, right?

I just knew you'd nit-pick about that.

They weren't first to market though.

Quick teaser (no Googling please): Which is the only one of the lower 48 US states to have never had a "dreadnought" commissioned in its name?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You know South Carolina and Michigan were designed before Dreadnaught, right?

I just knew you'd nit-pick about that.

They weren't first to market though.

Quick teaser (no Googling please): Which is the only one of the lower 48 US states to have never had a "dreadnought" commissioned in its name?

Montana.

[klr]

You know South Carolina and Michigan were designed before Dreadnaught, right?

I just knew you'd nit-pick about that.

They weren't first to market though.

Quick teaser (no Googling please): Which is the only one of the lower 48 US states to have never had a "dreadnought" commissioned in its name?

Montana.

Yup. Planned, but cancelled (didn't need any more BB's by that point). Call it payback for Jeannette Rankin voting against the declaration of war against Japan.

[Clinton Huxley]

You know South Carolina and Michigan were designed before Dreadnaught, right?

HMS Dreadnought launched 2 years before South Carolina. We didn't invent the concept of the all big gun battlehip, we just built one first.

Ah, see klr got there before me.....

Get a load of The Mighty 'Ood...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

You know South Carolina and Michigan were designed before Dreadnaught, right?

I just knew you'd nit-pick about that.

They weren't first to market though.

Quick teaser (no Googling please): Which is the only one of the lower 48 US states to have never had a "dreadnought" commissioned in its name?

Montana.

Yup. Planned, but cancelled (didn't need any more BB's by that point). Call it payback for Jeannette Rankin voting against the declaration of war against Japan.

A. I asked that question before.
B. Jeanette Rankin did NOT vote against the war with Japan.

[klr]

Scharnhorst - officially a battleship to the Germans, but a battle cruiser to the rest of us. She and Gneisenau were to be "upgraded" from 9 x 11-inch guns to 6 x 15-inch guns, but the Germans never got around to doing this.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_bat ... charnhorst

[Clinton Huxley]

You weren't nobody unless you had one.....

[klr]

You know South Carolina and Michigan were designed before Dreadnaught, right?

I just knew you'd nit-pick about that.

They weren't first to market though.

Quick teaser (no Googling please): Which is the only one of the lower 48 US states to have never had a "dreadnought" commissioned in its name?

Montana.

Yup. Planned, but cancelled (didn't need any more BB's by that point). Call it payback for Jeannette Rankin voting against the declaration of war against Japan.

A. I asked that question before.
B. Jeanette Rankin did NOT vote against the war with Japan.

I didn't say precisely what she did or didn't do. But since we're on the subject ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin

In 1940, Rankin was again elected to Congress, this time on an anti-war platform. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, she once again voted against entering a World War, the only member of Congress to do so, saying "As a woman, I can't go to war and I refuse to send anyone else. It is not necessary. I vote NO." Montana Republican leaders demanded that Rankin change her vote, but she refused. However she did not vote against declaring war on Germany and Italy following their declaration of war on the U.S. Instead, she voted merely Present.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist ... le&id=4361

[Clinton Huxley]

Is it Brazilian? Is it Ottoman? No.......we're having it!

[klr]

Seven turrets all on the centreline ... instantly recognisable.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

MIght as well be the first one to break the rules. (After Mikasa, of course.)