We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:33:30 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:56:07 -0600 here.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68888 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68888 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:40:34 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68877 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68877 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:59:52 -0600 Deep subject? CHeers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68867 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68867 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:31:29 -0600 Well????????? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68858 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68858 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:04:50 -0600 Coincidence?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68840 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68840 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:43:09 -0600 HMVS Cerberus Cheers]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68835 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68835 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:55:41 -0600 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... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68833 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68833 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:38:34 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68829 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68829 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:56:45 -0600 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. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68828 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68828 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:06:37 -0600 "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 ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68827 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68827 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:37:58 -0600 HMVS Cerberus http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68824 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68824 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:53:42 -0600 I have read of an attempt to use concrete as a building material for larger ship... Could it be one of those? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68823 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68823 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:13:46 -0600 It's the Mikasa after WW2 and before she was restored in the late 1950s. The only surviving pre-dreadnought battleship in the world. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68822 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68822 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:39:50 -0600 CDR, do you think that's USS Oregon? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68821 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68821 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:57:30 -0600 I did not think the Olympia was part of the Great White Fleet. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68819 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68819 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:57:00 -0600 Its not Mikasa. I vote Manilla pre WWII. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68818 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68818 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:45:15 -0600 Oh, Boq? Mikasa es su casa. Sorry, I couldn't stop myself. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68816 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68816 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:24:31 -0600 I agree with JTG. ... Sponson mounts. Cheers http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68814 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68814 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 15:16:46 -0600 Olympia lives at dockside in Penn's Landing, Philly.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68812 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68812 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:47:07 -0600 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)? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68811 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68811 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:45:28 -0600 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. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68810 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68810 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:43:35 -0600 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.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68809 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/01/internet_snipe.html#comment-68809 Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:59:25 -0600