favorite surface ship

[Kapitan]

in light of favorite submarine comes favorite surface ship,

self explanatory

my top 5

5) burges shtil
4) OOCL Shenzen
3) arliegh burke DDG
2) Udaloy DDG
1) QE2

[Drebbel]

http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/queen_mary/images/image_1.jpg

[Kapitan]

*DRIBBLE DRIBBLE DRIBBLE*

[Drebbel]

*DRIBBLE DRIBBLE DRIBBLE*

Huh, what is wrong ???

I think QM is a great looking ship, just awesome to look at her !

[Mustang]

Hehe,
http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/queen_mary/images/image_1.jpg
Drebble he said Favorite surface ship, not Favorite Target!
:P

http://foxxaero.homestead.com/files/Visby_Stealth.jpg

<a href="http://foxxaero.homestead.com/indrad_023.html"> Visby Class
</a>
She's quiet, almost too quiet.

[Drebbel]

he said Favorite surface ship, not Favorite Target!

Kapt. himself lists the Queen Elisabeth 2 as his number ONE, isn't that a target ???

[Kapitan]

all ships that ride the waves are targets just some look good


oh and the dribbleing was due to the fact i liked the picture

[Drebbel]

Hahahahah, you had me there :lol:

[Kapitan]

hehe teach you wont it :P

wooo my 4000th post on subsim :rock:

[Mustang]

Okay if we're doing that then heres my list,

1. http://www.polkcounty.org/timonier/images/3mast.jpg
<a href="http://www.polkcounty.org/timonier/"> Old IronSides.
</a>
2.
http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/images/Celeste.jpg
<a hre=f"http://www.mysteriesofcanada.com/Nova_Scotia/mary_celeste.htm"> The Mary Celeste
</a>

The titan, a fictonal ships that is believed to have sealed the fate of the Titanic.
and finally,

The Black Pearl, best pirate ship of all time.
Yes I know my last two were fictional.

[Bill Nichols]

Mustang and I have similar tastes!


http://store1.yimg.com/I/framingfox_1870_16658074.jpg
HMS VICTORY

:arrgh!:

[TLAM Strike]

1) Flight II Arlegh Burke DDG (bumped to the top since my buddy now serves on USS Winston Churchill DDG81) :up:
2) Oliver Hazard Perry FFG
3) Udaloy DDG
4) Ticonderoga CG

[SmokinTep]

Iowa Class BB.

[Godalmighty83]

il wait for now to see if the royal navy will finaly pull its finger out and builds a full size tri-hull warship.

although something about the type 22's is astheticaly correct.

[Mustang]

Mustang and I have similar tastes!


http://store1.yimg.com/I/framingfox_1870_16658074.jpg
HMS VICTORY

:arrgh!:

That would be a sight!
The USS Constitution and the HMS Victory in a mock combat drill together.

[Konovalov]

I really like this. :up:

http://www.peak.org/~innercom/Canoe/Correllcanoe.jpg

[sonar732]

1) Flight II Arlegh Burke DDG (bumped to the top since my buddy now serves on USS Winston Churchill DDG81) :up:
2) Oliver Hazard Perry FFG
3) Udaloy DDG
4) Ticonderoga CG

Especially since the WC DDG81 just nabbed those pirates off Somalia! :arrgh!: :rock: :up:

[Bort]

The Hamilton Class High Endurance Cutters
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/Morgenthau722_NYC_Color_1.jpg
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/Gallatin_1977_Color_1.jpg
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/Mellon_Harpoon.jpg
They used to carry sonar, 5"/38cal Gun, 2 triple torpedo tubes, and for a very short time Harpoons. But all the goodies were removed and replaced with an OTO Melara 3 inch and a CIWS. Talk about a downgrade... :nope:

[diver]

5. Absalon class FSS - Is it a frigate? Is it an auxilary? who knows, but i like it

4. Wasp class LHD - All you need to liberate a small country :arrgh!:

3. Oliver Hazard Perry FFG - First class of warship i ever stepped on

2. Type 23 Duke class frigate - So pretty

1. Arleigh Burke DDG - So sexy, and powerful

[Sailor Steve]

That would be a sight!
The USS Constitution and the HMS Victory in a mock combat drill together.
Well, since Constitution regularly sails around it's home port and Victory is embedded in concrete and can't move at all, guess who wins?

My personal favorite would have to be the late-WWII Gearing class destroyer, but only because I served on one.

[Bill Nichols]

That would be a sight!
The USS Constitution and the HMS Victory in a mock combat drill together.
Well, since Constitution regularly sails around it's home port and Victory is embedded in concrete and can't move at all, guess who wins?


Constitution is no longer allowed to sail, too much risk of structural damage. Only thing she does now is the annual 'turn around', with tugboat assist :lol:

[Linton]

Hms Cornwallis of course.She was a 74 gun ship of the line built of teak in Bombay in 1812 for the RN.She lasted until 1960 when during a dockyard clearance at sheerness she was cut up.i say cut up but the teak was wet and very thick so the contractors resorted to gelignite!!!She fired some of the last shots in the war of 1812,was converted to steam propulsion and served in the Crimean war.such a sad loss !!

[Takeda Shingen]

Mustang and I have similar tastes!


http://store1.yimg.com/I/framingfox_1870_16658074.jpg
HMS VICTORY

:arrgh!:

Me too.

[Kapitan]

did you know HMS Victory is acctualy still a commissioned warship with the royal navy ?

and so is HMS Belfast

[Sailor Steve]

did you know HMS Victory is acctualy still a commissioned warship with the royal navy ?

and so is HMS Belfast
Did you know USS Constitution is still the flagship of the U.S. First Fleet?

[diver]

did you know HMS Victory is acctualy still a commissioned warship with the royal navy ?

And as a result you are not allowed to take your camera onboard. God forbid you reveal Britains military secrets from 1805.

[Bill Nichols]

did you know HMS Victory is acctualy still a commissioned warship with the royal navy ?

And as a result you are not allowed to take your camera onboard. God forbid you reveal Britains military secrets from 1805.

You can take your camera onboard (I have pics to prove it).... You just can't photograph the Admiral's quarters.

[Bill Nichols]

did you know HMS Victory is acctualy still a commissioned warship with the royal navy ?

and so is HMS Belfast

And so is USS Constitution!

[Mustang]

did you know HMS Victory is acctualy still a commissioned warship with the royal navy ?

and so is HMS Belfast

And so is USS Constitution!

Yes,
though it is hardly ever covered in American Schools these days. The very Poem "Old IronSides" which is first listed in the Favorite Poems thread is why the USS Constitution was never decomissioned.

She was at an end of her service and upon her scrapping, a writer named Olver Wendell Holmes came up with a Ballad to try and stave off the ceremony. Little did he know that his Poem would so deeply move the Coast and the Naval Authority that they would hold off her Decomissioning for 208 going on 209 Years.

I for one agree, I think Naval tonnage should be sunk rather then scrapped but then again I never was one to believe in recycling. I mean, if you rename a vessel that's bad luck as is, but to melt it down and make it into a computer.
Bad Ju-Ju!

[Kapitan]

no... but its good to know we have such relics in our fleets makes for good storys and good propaganda.

[Mustang]

That would be a sight!
The USS Constitution and the HMS Victory in a mock combat drill together.
Well, since Constitution regularly sails around it's home port and Victory is embedded in concrete and can't move at all, guess who wins?


Constitution is no longer allowed to sail, too much risk of structural damage. Only thing she does now is the annual 'turn around', with tugboat assist :lol:

I meant when they were in their Prime, Gentleman and some kind of timewarp permitted them to fight together.

Just... Bah...
:arrgh!:

[Sailor Steve]

Actually, Mustang, I agree. Within that context a mock fight between two of the great sailing ships would be a wonderful thing to see.

Also within that context Victory would certainly be the winner. A 44 gun frigate, no matter how good against others of her type, would have no choice but to run or die against a full-blown ship of the line.

[Sailor Steve]

... a writer named Olver Wendell Holmes...
He was so much more than "a writer". Oliver Wendell Holmes was an officer in the Union Army during the US Civil War; as a much older man he was Chief Justice of the US Supreme court.

In Battles And Leaders Of The Civil War he tells one of my favorite stories: In 1864 Washington DC was protected by a series of forts connected by a single wooden wall, and the Confederates were close enough that snipers could fire at that wall. Holmes, at that point a Captain in the Army, saw a tall man in a suit standing on the parapet, looking out over the area. Holmes says he shouted at the man "Get down, you damned fool! Don't you know they can hit you from there?"

He ran over to the man, only to realize it was President Lincoln himself. Expecting to be in serious trouble, Holmes was surprised and relieved when the President looked him up and down and said "Well, Captain, I'm glad to see you know the proper way to address a civilian!".

[badhat17]

That would be a sight!
The USS Constitution and the HMS Victory in a mock combat drill together.
Well, since Constitution regularly sails around it's home port and Victory is embedded in concrete and can't move at all, guess who wins?

My personal favorite would have to be the late-WWII Gearing class destroyer, but only because I served on one.

HMS Victory was in a drydock last time I looked.

[Kapitan]

where do dumb nuts come from :D

im not a sail man in fact im a modern man dont realy like anything before the age of steam there is some thing about steam and modern stuff that intrests me, also cruise liners also intrest me and also a few other types of ships.