USS Winston Churchill!!!!

Jimbuna · 04-21-15, 01:45 PM

Please stay OT...politics in the political thread if you please.

kraznyi_oktjabr · 04-21-15, 03:51 PM

Also of note:

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Originally Posted by United States Navy

Churchill is the only U.S. Navy ship to have a Royal Navy officer assigned permanently to the ship's company, a symbol of the partnership between the British and American navies. It is also the only U.S. Naval vessel to fly a foreign ensign - the Royal Navy's White Ensign is flown as well as the Stars and Stripes. Churchill is the fifth U.S. warship to be named in honor of an Englishman.

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STEED · 04-21-15, 03:56 PM

Nice to you guys named a ship just a shame this has not happen here.

Aktungbby · 04-21-15, 04:25 PM

^ close enough! HMS Marlborough (after Churchill's ancestor-the Duke) which had assisted USS Cole during the Aden crises, had a US NAVY officer permanently assigned to her crew. HMS Marlborough has been sold to Chile as Almirante Condell.

HMS Marlborough

Oberon · 04-21-15, 04:59 PM

Umm...

We had a whole class of submarines named after him, one of whom remains the only nuclear submarine to sink an enemy warship.

Jimbuna · 04-22-15, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Umm...

We had a whole class of submarines named after him, one of whom remains the only nuclear submarine to sink an enemy warship.

Rgr that Jamie and I'd wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone, not only does it cover the sinking of the Belgrano but also a top secret mission (at the time) Operation Barmaid deep inside Russian territorial waters in which she is tasked with obtaining a towed array from a surface vessel.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...on-Russia.html

Secrets Of The Conquerer by Stuart Prebble:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-Conq...+the+conqueror

Out of interest....Conqueror was commanded by Chris Wreford-Brown at the time but not my friend who goes by the same name on this forum

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,003 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	^ close enough! HMS Marlborough (after Churchill's ancestor-the Duke) which had assisted USS Cole during the Aden crises, had a US NAVY officer permanently assigned to her crew. HMS Marlborough has been sold to Chile as Almirante Condell. HMS Marlborough __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

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04-21-15, 04:59 PM	#5
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Umm... We had a whole class of submarines named after him, one of whom remains the only nuclear submarine to sink an enemy warship.