Big old Battleship

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 11th January 2010, 09:45 AM

Get over it Ron,,

how many left now??
less than a dozen?

**clean32** · 11th January 2010, 09:55 AM

Originally Posted by 87County

to The Argentine and as the General Belgrano ..........it was sunk by submarine attack on Thatcher's orders during the Falklands War with immense loss of life

And a dam fine bit of shooting by a dam fine pommy sub crew. And a very good call firstly to sink the General Belgrano and with the type of torpedo used. The action in its self saved many life’s mainly because the agis stopped there encirclement maneuvers and run back to port with out taking any further part in the war.

The Missouri was conceived as a ship sinking ship but ended up mainly in a bombardment roll. A role that the ship was not so successful at, even with its big caliber the low or flat trajectory was not so good at reinforced emplacements

**juddy** · 11th January 2010, 10:10 AM

ARA Belgrano was sunk by HMS Conqueror, with the loss of 323 lifes, she was formerley the USS Phoenix, sold to Argentina in 1951.

Originally Posted by 87County

heaps on line about it, visited OZ in 1986 after re-commissioning, another ex-US battleship was sold/given to The Argentine and as the General Belgrano ..........it was sunk by submarine attack on Thatcher's orders during the Falklands War with immense loss of life

**101RRS** · 11th January 2010, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by p38arover

All I'm saying is that I worked 11pm-7am last night with no prior sleep - and I'm about to hit the hay in a few minutes.

Gawd, I hate midnight shifts. I really, really loathe them.

Not interested in excuses

.

**VladTepes** · 11th January 2010, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

It was both a beginning and the end for battleships,,

nothing on water before or since could compete with it.

Except Aircraft Carriers - which is what spelled the end of the Battleship.

Just ask the crew of Yamato. Oh wait, they are all dead I think.

(No doubt you'll be pedantic and say that an AC Carrier doesn't entirely count as "on water").

**p38arover** · 11th January 2010, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Get over it Ron,,

how many left now??
less than a dozen?

Dunno. One more this week. I was talking to the boss this morning (he turned up at 4am!) Fortunately, I was working on the LROC News so it could go to the printer this morning, rather than doing fatigue management.

My work location may be closing as soon as March. Maybe I'll get redundancy!

**x-box** · 11th January 2010, 01:30 PM

I love those big battleships.....

Especially in action movies like "under siege"

**DeeJay** · 11th January 2010, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by x-box

I love those big battleships.....

Especially in action movies like "under siege"

OK, OK SO WHERE IS CHER??

**VladTepes** · 11th January 2010, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by x-box

I love those big battleships.....

Especially in action movies like "under siege"

or was it Erika Eleniak's battleships you were more interested in !

**JDNSW** · 11th January 2010, 03:27 PM

Another interesting one I went over a number of years ago was the USS Texas, which is on display at San Jacinto near Houston. Laid down in 1913, it was not launched until 1915-16, partly because the turbine engines destined for it from Scotland were taken by the British for more important ships. As the USA could not build suitable steam turbines at the time, it became the only "Dreadnought" battleship completed with quadruple expansion reciprocating engines. In service until the end of WW2, it remained the slowest battleship in service, with the nickname "old slowcoach". One intersting feature was the antiaircraft emplacements welded on all over it, obvious because the original construction was all rivetted.

John

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