Let's have a photo post...

By The Armorer on February 27, 2007 | | Comments (16)

First off, a little moment of Gunner Zen - this would look good sitting in the Inner Bailey of Argghhh! It would take a crane to get it there, but it would look good.

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Now I'm going to go all Naval. Here's one to make a Cold Warrior's trigger finger all itchy.

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Sailors - is this just good driving, or an oops-about-to-happen? What's up with this? Somebody didn't want to rig the breeches buoy, and preferred to step deck-to-deck?

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SWWBO would let me have a room like this in the basement. She likes all that brass 'n bronze!

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Lastly - let's see who's got their ship recognition down...

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Update: Okay, we've got the class of the ship. The aircraft are Fairy Gannetts (in front) and Sea Venoms in the rear. See if that helps figure out which ship she is. It should narrow it down to only one user, in fact.

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By wolfwalker on February 27, 2007 8:13 AM
Let's see here ... Photo #3 is probably a destroyer trying to fuel from an aircraft carrier at sea, and somebody isn't doing a great job of steering. #4 is either the forward or the aft torpedo room of a WW2 fleet-type submarine. I'm going to guess the forward room, because way down at the bottom I think I see the chopped-off tops of a third pair of tubes. #5 is obviously somebody's idea of an aircraft carrier. Definitely postwar, but the overall impression isn't American. Some type of Royal Navy carrier, maybe HMS Ark Royal? Have you got a higher-res version, something sharp enough to ID the aircraft on deck?
 
By Brad on February 27, 2007 8:25 AM
The carrier could be French, those look like F-8s in the front based on the intake. So that makes it the FOCH or Clemenceau.
 
By SMASH on February 27, 2007 9:49 AM
Photo #5: The carrier is one of the Majestic class, built by Britain during WWII but never used by the Royal Navy. It's difficult to tell which carrier is in the photo, but these six ships ended up serving in the navies of India, Australia, Canada, and Argentina. Photo #3: This is an accident waiting to happen, and two captains looking at the end of their careers. Definitely well within the normal seperation distance. Emergency Breakaway!!!
 
By Chris Taylor on February 27, 2007 9:49 AM
The last one is a Majestic-class aircraft carrier and although British-built, none went into RN service... They were all used by British dominions (Australia, Canada, India etc). I am going to guess that the one in the photo is HMCS Bonaventure since she tended to have her pennant number on the aft deck (which is conveniently covered with Banshees).
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on February 27, 2007 11:37 AM
HMAS Melborne, as Sydney evidently missed out on the angled deck. Not Bonaventure as the RCN didn't have Gannets/Venoms, neither did the Indian Navy. Cheers
 
By monkeyboy on February 27, 2007 12:52 PM
In picture 3 you can see where the small boy got up under the aft elevator and lifted it up perpendicular to the flight deck. Somebody is going home.
 
By CDR Salamander on February 27, 2007 2:30 PM
Mi-8! Sniffle. BTW, those things are STILL all over AFG. As for the CVL, I want to say HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22) but the aircraft are all wrong (the Canadians liked US aircraft). That would leave the HMAS Melbourne or Syndey early in her career...methinks. As for the collision - well - some career openings happened that day. Don't know which one it is though.
 
By MajMike on February 27, 2007 4:03 PM
ship recognition? YES, as a matter of fact, i DO recognize them. they ARE ships!
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 27, 2007 4:59 PM
Sadly, MajMike's response parallels the response of tankers all over when it comes to target recognition. Targets? Why yes, my sight is full of targets!
 
By the_right_reverend on February 27, 2007 6:44 PM
HMAS Melbourne was originally one of six Majestic Class light fleet aircraft carriers ordered for the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II. http://www.navy.gov.au/spc/history/ships/melbourne2.html
 
By andy on February 27, 2007 7:32 PM
#3: That's the tail end an AD-5W; VAW-11. USS Hornet,(CVA-12) 1958? At least, unless google is lying to me... :/ As to what the destroyer's doing there? Um, no so sure! Probably wondering what the hell he's doing there? Either that or they're "tradin' paint" in a flat-out dash to port.
 
By Blackhawk on February 27, 2007 9:23 PM
OK, as a fellow tanker, I'll step up: #1: can't move, short tube...use HEAT. Unless it's ours. Then just mock with extreme prejudice. #2: SABOT, SABOT, SABOT!!! Although we now have cannister... #3: Like Big E said, rubbin is racin. #4: That would look good in the garage. #5: A friggin boat. Who cares? (backs down to turret defilade...)
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 27, 2007 9:53 PM
Can't move, certainly. Short tube? Sure you got your scale square there, Blackhawk? Lessee, yer fave, the M256 cannon, is 120mm x 17.32 feet plus a smidge. Dicke Bertha there is 420mm x 11 feet, he said, mixing and matching his units of measure. Girls always said shorter but thicker beats out longer but thinner...
 
By Blackhawk on February 27, 2007 9:59 PM
But....I can traverse, lots of flavors of ammo...luv you long time! Besides, 'Dicke Bertha' is stuck in the mud. I'm M-O-B-I-L-E. As long as I don't throw track (sad face follows).
 
By Blackhawk on February 27, 2007 10:18 PM
Besides, I win rate of fire...
 
By ibm on February 28, 2007 11:24 PM
The artillery is a German M-Gerät 42cm L/12 Howitzer from WWI. Its main use as I understand it was to attack Belgiums forts around Liege. http://landships.freeservers.com/42cm_bigbertha.htm