One more for the list

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by KeptinCranky

I just sunk another for my capital ship list
Went patrolling off Murmansk in July 1941 and found this

1 Kirov Cruiser for the fishies.... Uncle Joe won;t be happy

As long as Uncle Joe got his shipments of spam and trucks I don't think he much cared about the war at sea. Since the Soviet Union was bearing the brunt of nearly all the land fighting in 1941 and 1942, Stalin really wasn't much interested in exerting himself to sweep the Arctic Sea of German bombers and U-Boats for the benefit of allies he deemed to be much more well provided with warships and naval aircraft than himself. He pretty much left the convoying duties to the US and Britain.

Now, if you could sink a Brazilian battleship, that would be cool.

[Letum]

Whoo!
Sunk the Hood for the first time.
Caught it with 4(!) other battleships and several destroyers doing 25knots
straight at me in rough weather.

Submerged, released a salvo of 4 keel, magnetic, typeIIs with a 10degree
spread to ensure I got at least one hit. Got two hits!
She sank by the aft and the tip of the bow never sank. Destroyers never got
close to me. Good patrol.

[KeptinCranky]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

As long as Uncle Joe got his shipments of spam and trucks I don't think he much cared about the war at sea. Since the Soviet Union was bearing the brunt of nearly all the land fighting in 1941 and 1942, Stalin really wasn't much interested in exerting himself to sweep the Arctic Sea of German bombers and U-Boats for the benefit of allies he deemed to be much more well provided with warships and naval aircraft than himself. He pretty much left the convoying duties to the US and Britain.

Now, if you could sink a Brazilian battleship, that would be cool.

The Minais Gerais? or that other one? I would sink that any time Shame it isn't in the GWX campaign, but to compensate I've bombed the ever-loving crap out of it repeatedly in Hearts of Iron

[BasilY]

Once sighted a American Battleship off Norway in 1944 (GWX2.1) with British counterparts. Fail to sink the ship though.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by KeptinCranky

The Minais Gerais? or that other one? I would sink that any time Shame it isn't in the GWX campaign, but to compensate I've bombed the ever-loving crap out of it repeatedly in Hearts of Iron

Yeah....it's the Minas Geraes. Scrapped in 1954. There were some other South American battleships too, all of British origin I believe.

Speaking of obscure capital ships it always broke my heart that the Turkish battleship Yavuz was scrapped in 1972. She was the ex-German battlecruiser Goeben of World War One fame and was the last remaining fragment of the Imperial German Navy. She served as a museum ship in Istanbul for many years with just a petty officer and his cat as crew. Shame they let her go.

[KeptinCranky]

Yes, it is a shame how few of those old ships were saved from the scrapyard, Especially the ones with long histories like the Yavuz Sultan Selim, or one or two of the WWI vintage British BBs, HMS Warspite would've been a worthy museum ship, so would most of them really.

The US has understood this somewhat more, they seem to have a lot of vintage Capital ships lying around, although even they couldn't save all the notable ships and made some sad oversights in not saving at least one of every class, that's what I would've decided on

Meh, If I someday win a lottery or two I might have someone build me a replica of some famous ship as a yacht any suggestions on which

As for south american BBs... I think the Argentinians had 2 built in the US
And post WWII we (the dutch) sold two of our old-ish cruisers, one to both Peru and Chile, that way the arms race was kept equal