The Ship Model Forum

Wait, what was the answer to the first question?
Portions of Kentucky went into service in at least three commissioned ships.

The very first question was Kearsarge for active ships and Oregon for inactive ships still serving. The answer for this question is Kentucky, with a significant portion (her bow) placed on the Wisconsin after Wisconsin damaged her bow in a collision. Leading to sailor calling her the Wis-Key

_________________
Am I strange, that every time I see a picture or mention of the Yamato, I hear Starblazers music in my head?
Battleship Myspace Group:
http://groups.myspace.com/Battleships

Last two questions for tonight.

1. What is the average speed of a laden Swallow.

2. What is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything?

_________________
Am I strange, that every time I see a picture or mention of the Yamato, I hear Starblazers music in my head?
Battleship Myspace Group:
http://groups.myspace.com/Battleships

I believe the answer to #2 is 42

_________________
"It is best to remain silent and let others assume you are dumb than to speak up and remove all doubt"

http://nssavannah.wordpress.com/

Come on, that's doesn't count!

And her boilers + Turbines were fit to the AOEs Sacramento & Camden.

_________________
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)

What was the largest ship in the US Navy in WW11.

African or European?

_________________
We like our history sanitized and theme-parked and self-congratulatory, not bloody and angry and unflattering. - Jonathan Yardley

In what sense? Length, beam, draft, capacity or displacement?

One of the sectional floating drydocks is probably what you're after....

_________________
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)

All five. You should know this.

Flooded or unflooded?

I dispute the classification of floating docks as "ships".

The candidates would be either one of the Iowa class BB or one of the Lexington class CV. I believe Lexington class CV is just a bit longer than the Iowa class BB, but displace subtantially less. So I am puzzled by the the notion that one ship holds the title in both displacement and length.

The only ship that might qualify for both displacement and length would be a Midway class carrier, but that wasn't commissioned until after the war.

None of you know do you.

The only "ships" substantially larger than the Iowa/Lexington classes, and was actually in USN possession, would be the Normandie.

Did I get it?

BTW, bring up Normandie is not fair. Thinking about her fate still traumatizes me.

What? You don't like union actions?

_________________
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)

I shall ignore the pitiful attempt to turn yet another unrelated topics into a soapbox for graceless political rantings.

Bugga you beat me to it!

_________________
My job was to comfort the disturbed & Disturb the comfortable.

Com'on, Guys.

You should recall, Werner labelled the shelling of a West coast oil refinery by a Japanese sub the act of a disgruntled former employee.

I do not know which, if any, union the skipper had belonged to.

Bet it wasn't put to a vote.

_________________
Les Foran
On the Oregon Trail

I think he was a management trainee.

_________________
If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)