Comments for Internet snipe hunt

Internet snipe hunt

2008-01-19T13:56:07Z

Okay, let's have an internet snipe hunt.

Sailors will have a possible advantage here.

Larger version can be had by clicking here.

A hint: Where once there were many, there is only one.

Comment from John of Argghhh!~ on 2008-01-22

2008-01-22T15:40:34Z

Answered here.

Comment from Citizen Deux on 2008-01-21

2008-01-22T01:59:52Z

Not Mikasa nor Olympia. Appears to be moored within the USA. Why, note parking spaces against barbed wire fencing at left. Dark circle to lower right of vessel could be disappearing barbette of coastal defense gun type. Note individuals embarked in athletic event or PT - white t-shirts and mixed in with personnel in darker shirts. I will guess WWII when a lot of old ships were converted to moored command posts - even Constellation, in Baltimore harbor now, served in this capacity.

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2008-01-21

2008-01-21T19:31:29Z

Deep subject? CHeers

Comment from Maggie on 2008-01-21

2008-01-21T17:04:50Z

Well?????????

Comment from OlafTheTanker on 2008-01-20

2008-01-20T21:43:09Z

Info to me that proves this is the Mikasa, sitting in permanent harbor in Yokosuka, Japan. See that distinctive shaped concrete area to the right in the pic provided? Coincidence?

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2008-01-20

2008-01-20T19:55:41Z

HMVS Cerberus Cheers

Comment from SangerM on 2008-01-20

2008-01-20T17:38:34Z

Well, it's not the USS Drum, in the Philippines... So it must be the Mikasa, but before the restoration... All the pieces and gun holes are in the right place, even with the hut built over the rear gun. Either that or it's a trainer remnant, or a design mock-up, though unlikely...

Comment from OlafTheTanker on 2008-01-20

2008-01-20T15:56:45Z

Another vote for the Battleship Mikasa. Pic here looks like it was taken in that period of post WWII, and before Nimitz helped get her restored in '58. It looks a lot different today than that picture for sure. Last pre-dreadnaught era ship and one of the three great historical warships of the World.

Comment from BillT on 2008-01-20

2008-01-20T14:06:37Z

HMVS Cerberus Nope. Cerberus was a *monitor* -- low deck, no sponsons, both turrets installed on the superstructure. She was sunk in Port Phillip Bay in 1926 as a breakwater.

Comment from Fallen' Angel on 2008-01-20

2008-01-20T12:37:58Z

In keeping with the "Where once there were many, there is only one," theme, I'm going with the USS Texas, BB-35...the last of the surviving Dreadnoughts

Comment from Cannoneer No. 4 on 2008-01-19

2008-01-20T02:53:42Z

HMVS Cerberus

Comment from Sgt. B. on 2008-01-19

2008-01-20T02:13:46Z

I have read of an attempt to use concrete as a building material for larger ship... Could it be one of those?

Comment from Robert Traina on 2008-01-19

2008-01-20T01:39:50Z

It's the Mikasa after WW2 and before she was restored in the late 1950s. The only surviving pre-dreadnought battleship in the world.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2008-01-19

2008-01-20T00:57:30Z

CDR, do you think that's USS Oregon?

Comment from Maggie on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T23:57:00Z

I did not think the Olympia was part of the Great White Fleet.

Comment from CDR Salamander on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T23:45:15Z

Its not Mikasa. I vote Manilla pre WWII.

Comment from Justthisguy on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T22:24:31Z

Oh, Boq? Mikasa es su casa. Sorry, I couldn't stop myself.

Comment from J.M. Heinrichs on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T21:16:46Z

I agree with JTG. ... Sponson mounts. Cheers

Comment from BillT on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T20:47:07Z

There's more than one component of the Great White Fleet still in the water, Mags -- Olympia lives at dockside in Penn's Landing, Philly.

Comment from Maggie on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T18:45:28Z

Well, I'm not a Sailor.......... But am I headed in the right direction if I guess that the ship in question was originally part of the Great White Fleet? Perhaps the USS Illinois (BB-6)?

Comment from Justthisguy on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T17:43:35Z

I'm going to say HIJMS Mikasa, as she was in the fifties. Obviously not an armored cruiser, as there are two of those left. The four asymmetrical mounts for the biggest of the secondary guns also say "Mikasa!" to me.

Comment from Boquisucio on 2008-01-19

2008-01-19T15:59:25Z

Hey - Dat's The Sand Pebble's Bigga Sistah. Seriously - Didn't the U.S. fortify Manila Bay with Shore Artillery Batteries of that design? Oh and I took that picture along the banks of The Putumayo at the fore-lone Colombian Naval Base at Puerto Leguizamo.