Go fer ya gun partner

[Torplexed]

Judging by the puffs of smoke amidships, some of the five inch secondary batteries are likely firing too.

[Rockstar]

Looks maybe like an aerial taken from a Swordfish when they firing at the Bismarck back W W Vietnam.

[Torplexed]

Too bad we couldn't have lent one of the four to the Royal Navy during the Falklands conflict in '82. Would have helped make short work of the Argentinian Army's entrenched hill positions around the port of Stanley.

[CCIP]

I believe that's the New Jersey in exercises off Puerto Rico.

[FIREWALL]

footnote: When all guns are fired in a broadside that ship moves laterialy sideways quite a distance in the water. WOW!!!

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

footnote: When all guns are fired in a broadside that ship moves laterialy sideways quite a distance in the water. WOW!!!

That's actually a myth. We had quite a discussion on the physics of that before. When the guns are fired, the ship moves sideways at most a fraction of a millimeter

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by CCIP

That's actually a myth. We had quite a discussion on the physics of that before. When the guns are fired, the ship moves sideways at most a fraction of a millimeter

No...no...not this discussion again...please...god...no!!

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by CCIP

That's actually a myth. We had quite a discussion on the physics of that before. When the guns are fired, the ship moves sideways at most a fraction of a millimeter

Could this be the discussion ?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//arc.../t-113800.html

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Judging by the puffs of smoke amidships, some of the five inch secondary batteries are likely firing too.

Originally Posted by CCIP

I believe that's the New Jersey in exercises off Puerto Rico.

USS Iowa BB-16 firing a 15 gun Broadside in 1984 So I think you are right, some of the 5 inch guns are involved.

http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-022.htm

Here is an interesting picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Iowa_%28BB-61%29

Look at the bow (pointy end) of the Iowa. There appears to be a white wake disturbance that indicates that the bow has moved laterally. What is that white foam?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Look at the bow (pointy end) of the Iowa. There appears to be a white wake disturbance that indicates that the bow has moved laterally. What is that white foam?

When a heavy gun is fired, it leaves an enormous vacuum about the muzzle. Could be that it's drawing in the foam from the bow wake.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

When a heavy gun is fired, it leaves an enormous vacuum about the muzzle. Could be that it's drawing in the foam from the bow wake.

Actually it's photoshop. I've seen the exact same photo in an old book, and none of that streaking foam is in the original picture.

Here are a couple of pictures for real:





And some pretty good video:

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Platapus

USS Iowa BB-16...

The BB-16 was the USS New Jersey, Virginia class battleship.

Trivia time, what was the last in commission BB sunk for reasons other than training or scuttling?

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

The BB-16 was the USS New Jersey, Virginia class battleship.

Trivia time, what was the last in commission BB sunk for reasons other than training or scuttling?

USS Arkansas (BB-33) was sunk with nuclear weapons in Operation Crossroads on July 25th, 1946, four days before she was decommissioned.

EDIT: Oh, wait, only US ships? If not, I do believe the Novorossiysk (Formerly the Giulio Cesare) exploded and sank around 1955...

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

The BB-16 was the USS New Jersey, Virginia class battleship.

Either it was my fat finger typing 16 vice 61 or it was my dyslexia "seeing" 16 vice 61 or just my land lubbing ignorance, but in any case Mea Culpa for my mistake.

There is a big difference between BB-16 and BB-61