Original, not for !voting - The
pre-dreadnoughtbattleshipUSS New Jersey (BB-16) in 1918, near the end of the First World War. Note the
camouflage scheme she has been painted with and the 8-inch guns mounted on top of the 12-inch turrets. This was an experiment only tried with the
Kearsarge and
Virginia classes, and was not repeated. Normal mountings were used on the following
Connecticut class, while all American battleships after that utilized a
superfiring arrangement.Edit 1, for !voting - Durova's compensation for the tilt.
I guess I prefer the edit, but I've just noticed that the mast is cut off. That's annoying. Do we know what the ship in the background is?
J Milburn (
talk)
18:21, 31 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Nothing we can do about the mast, unfortunately. But look at the bright side: only a small bit is missing, and the
cage mast isn't cut off at all! ;) I tried to zoom in on the ship, but it's just too blurry for me to give a definitive answer. To me, it looks like a member of the
Connecticut class. —Ed(talk •
majestic titan)18:53, 31 January 2010 (UTC)reply
You mean the Connecticut class? :P You're right re no superimposed turret. I think that we can definitively say that it is either a Maine or a Connecticut based on this: it's obviously a predreadnought, there is no superimposed turret (rulling out BB's 5–6, 13–17), and there are multiple funnels lengthwise (ruling out BB's 8–9). I think that BB's 1–4 were too low in the water to be this ship. If only we had more detail... —Ed(talk •
majestic titan)16:37, 1 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Original, not for !voting - The
pre-dreadnoughtbattleshipUSS New Jersey (BB-16) in 1918, near the end of the First World War. Note the
camouflage scheme she has been painted with and the 8-inch guns mounted on top of the 12-inch turrets. This was an experiment only tried with the
Kearsarge and
Virginia classes, and was not repeated. Normal mountings were used on the following
Connecticut class, while all American battleships after that utilized a
superfiring arrangement.Edit 1, for !voting - Durova's compensation for the tilt.
I guess I prefer the edit, but I've just noticed that the mast is cut off. That's annoying. Do we know what the ship in the background is?
J Milburn (
talk)
18:21, 31 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Nothing we can do about the mast, unfortunately. But look at the bright side: only a small bit is missing, and the
cage mast isn't cut off at all! ;) I tried to zoom in on the ship, but it's just too blurry for me to give a definitive answer. To me, it looks like a member of the
Connecticut class. —Ed(talk •
majestic titan)18:53, 31 January 2010 (UTC)reply
You mean the Connecticut class? :P You're right re no superimposed turret. I think that we can definitively say that it is either a Maine or a Connecticut based on this: it's obviously a predreadnought, there is no superimposed turret (rulling out BB's 5–6, 13–17), and there are multiple funnels lengthwise (ruling out BB's 8–9). I think that BB's 1–4 were too low in the water to be this ship. If only we had more detail... —Ed(talk •
majestic titan)16:37, 1 February 2010 (UTC)reply