Well have come acroos a pic from 1893 on a BB
lol
And one in WW1
This
http://cgi.ebay.com/Battleship-Searc...-/120079796732
Is a 1940s US postcard
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums...p-Thread/page4 shows lights on more than a few so yeah leave the BBs
HMS Hood
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Searchlights
As Completed (1920) 8x 36" Searchlights
- x4 on Searchlight Platform between funnels
- x2 on After Searchlight Platform
- x2 on platform on foremast 4x 24" signaling searchlights on Admiral's Bridge
July 1921 Refit
2x 36" searchlights removed from Searchlight Platform between funnels
September-November 1923 Refit
2x 36" searchlights replaced (as above)
October-December 1924 Refit
2x 36" searchlights once again removed (as above)
November 1925 - July 1926 Refit
Searchlights on After Concentrating Position moved abreast each other
2x 24" signaling searchlights removed
June - October 1936 Refit
36" searchlight platform removed from foremast
Feb-August 1939 Refit
4x 40" searchlights added, one on either side of After Concentrating Position and one either side just aft of number two funnel
2x 24" Signaling light added on bridge
Replacement of 36" searchlights and removal of the platform between the funnels.
Final Outfit (As Sunk)
6 x 40" searchlights (2 just aft of second funnel and 4 on the After Concentrating Position)
4x 24" signaling searchlight
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http://www.hmshood.com/ship/hoodspecs5.htm
Cruisers too - well US ones deffo
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The cruiser group attacked first, with De Ruyter in the lead, followed by Java, Piet Hein, Ford, and Pope in the order named. Arrival off the south coast of Bali took place as scheduled at about 2130 on the 19th. An hour later the action began. The cruisers searchlights illuminated two enemy vessels off the port bow, and firing from the gun batteries began at once
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http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/...avaSea-12.html
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USS Indianapolis (CA 35) - Closeup view of her after half, from the port side, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 19 April 1942, following overhaul. Note her SOC seaplanes, 5"/25 guns and ready service ammunition, after smokestack, searchlights, "horse" collar emergency life float alongside the railing in lower right center and top edge of armor belt. USS Raleigh (CL 7) is in the background.
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http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/035/04035.htm