Post Amazingly Cool Pictures Of Ships or Boats!

[thehappyotter]

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Chassis 33 said:

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Rusty old girl:

Please excuse my obvious ignorance, but what's the significance/event?

Regards
Iain

HMS Hermes returning from the Falklands, looking very battle scarred.

What's more amazing is that HMS Hermes, as INS Viraat, is still to this day serving well as the flagship of the Indian Navy and she is expected to remain so until 2011-2012. Considering construction began in 1944 that is a hell of an innings!



Taken in 2005.

[rhinochopig]

Fatboy said:

HMS Astute - a couple of years ago on the first launch watching it crawl out of the hall on it's cradle is quite surreal!!!:

Edited by Fatboy on Monday 6th April 19:26

That's not a ship it's a boat

[plasticpig]

The Bismark in action against HMS Hood and HMS The Prince of Wales:

[spitfire-ian]

plasticpig said:

The Bismark in action against HMS Hood and HMS The Prince of Wales:

And the other side of the action...



HMS Prince Of Wales on fire in the centre of the picture and HMS Hood on the right.

[Chassis 33]

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Chassis 33 said:

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Rusty old girl:

Please excuse my obvious ignorance, but what's the significance/event?

Regards
Iain

HMS Hermes returning from the Falklands, looking very battle scarred.

Ah, cheers, I thought it might of been Falklands related.

ETA, on the back of that I've found a couple more, apologies for the size of image.



Regards
Iain

Edited by Chassis 33 on Thursday 9th April 09:52

[Incredible Sulk]

ALawson said:

Chassis 33 said:

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Rusty old girl:

Please excuse my obvious ignorance, but what's the significance/event?

Regards
Iain

I expect that is one of the British Aircraft Carriers returning from the Falklands to either Portsmouth or Plymouth.

A job well done.

Portsmouth, looking over the harbour towards Gosport.

[AshVX220]

Hi Guys,
my contribution, the project I currently work on, HMS Queen Elizabeth Class.

[Shar2]

AshVX220 said:

Hi Guys,
my contribution, the project I currently work on, HMS Queen Elizabeth Class.

I know which one I'd rather have in the RN, even if it was a smaller version to fit our harbours, it'll still look a thousand times better than the QE class. I'm all for the RN getting good ships, but bloody try to make them look good, not some lash-up. If something looks good, it generally is good.

[FourWheelDrift]

It's the double island that makes out look odd.

[Battenburg Bob]

And that bloody 'ski jump'. Get some proper cats on it! We can have something more than a large, glorified helicopter carrier then.

[spitfire-ian]

thehappyotter said:

Considering construction began in 1944 that is a hell of an innings!

But in all fairness they didn't actually finish her until 1957

[escargot]

spitfire-ian said:

thehappyotter said:

Considering construction began in 1944 that is a hell of an innings!

But in all fairness they didn't actually finish her until 1957

Even so, 52 years in service...

[Lost soul]

Shar2 said:

Although there seems to be comparrisons in the aircraft topic, I thought I'd better put this one in it's rightful place. HMS Illustrious passes USS Forrestal in Mayport, Florida

Edited by Shar2 on Monday 6th April 21:37

that puts things in perspective

[spitfire-ian]

Lost soul said:

Shar2 said:

Although there seems to be comparrisons in the aircraft topic, I thought I'd better put this one in it's rightful place. HMS Illustrious passes USS Forrestal in Mayport, Florida

Edited by Shar2 on Monday 6th April 21:37

that puts things in perspective

Forrestal is 1,067ft long and Illustrious only 686ft. However, the new Queen Elizabeth carriers will be 920ft long... which is much more like it

[AshVX220]

Yep,
agree with the comments on the QE class, but they'll be very good ships when they enter service, even if they are F'ugly and still have STOVL and a Ski Jump!

(I can't figure out how to put Emoticons in here)

[FourWheelDrift]

Our last proper aircraft carrier. Click image for bigger version.

[FourWheelDrift]

The other side to the Battle of Trafalgar, a replica of the 140gun Spanish flagship the Santisima Trinidad the largest ship in the world at the time and one of only a few four decker ships of the line ever built. At Malaga, Spain.

[badgers_back]

AshVX220 said:

Yep,
agree with the comments on the QE class, but they'll be very good ships when they enter service, even if they are F'ugly and still have STOVL and a Ski Jump!

(I can't figure out how to put Emoticons in here)

It would be nice for the navy to have some good ships but I don't for a minute think they will be built which is sad.

Next gov will scrap them

[AshVX220]

I don't think they will (IMO), the Tories hold our Armed Forces in higher esteem that the current crop of crooks. Plus the RN need them, our current CVS's are way past their sell by date.
We've already started building some of the blocks, the first one was completed last week (or the week before) and with the amount of money aready spent it would be a brave politician to scrap them (all IMO of course).

[badgers_back]

AshVX220 said:

I don't think they will (IMO), the Tories hold our Armed Forces in higher esteem that the current crop of crooks. Plus the RN need them, our current CVS's are way past their sell by date.
We've already started building some of the blocks, the first one was completed last week (or the week before) and with the amount of money aready spent it would be a brave politician to scrap them (all IMO of course).

Oh I agree with everything you are saying but I still can't see them going ahead.

Wait for the its a labour overspend misguided project line..

Its already been delayed by this government.
Also how many ships do you need around/to support a carrier aren't the american battlegroups about 25 ships??? I'm not sure the RN has the 50 ships to provide two battle groups or similar??