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Originally Posted by Tchocky
If I could fly, maybe a carrier.
But the more I think about Flower-class corvettes...  |
Be sure to pack plenty of Mother Siegal's Soothing Syrup along (mentioned in "Essentials of Sea Survival" by Golden and Tipton as pretty much the only effective sea sickness remedy in early WWII). Them Flower-class were known to roll and pitch on wet grass
Oh, and don't bother packing much clothes as everything you own, and you yourself are basically going to be soaked 100% of the time, and too tired to do much other then crash as you are when you aren't standing watches, at action stations, bashing sea ice off before the whole ship goes turtle,...
They were a big part of the backbone of the escort ships (corvettes and frigates being the twin arms), but man, they had to be horrible to spend months and months on in the N. Atlantic
I voted cruisers - in part because noone else had
Plus I have always liked cruisers, especially the light cruisers - Town class or Brooklyn class. They did everything - convoy escort, advance fleet scouts, anti-shipping patrols, shore bombardment and invasion/landing support, fleet AAA support,...