Name the Ship Game

[realworkingsailor]

As Promised

[trippwj]

Assume you mean the laker being launched, not the tugs or small craft?  :huh:

 

Gee - a Laker - that was unexpected! :P :P

[realworkingsailor]

 

Assume you mean the laker being launched, not the tugs or small craft?  :huh:

 

 

 

Well.. I was thinking to guess the name of that rowing skiff in the bottom centre just off the bow of that steam tug....

 

But, yeah, the laker will do just fine.

[molasses]

Lemoyne (1926-1969) for many years was the largest bulk carrier on the Lakes and the first with a beam of 70 feet.

Edited January 29, 2014 by DFellingham

[realworkingsailor]

Yup!

Launched as Glenmohr, but renamed right after launching. Also the first commercial vessel to transit the current Welland Canal in 1932.

 

Andy

[trippwj]

Yup!

Launched as Glenmohr, but renamed right after launching. Also the first commercial vessel to transit the current Welland Canal in 1932.

 

Andy

And at the time of launch, the name was mis-spelled as GLENMHOR (I found the pictures on boatnerd.com once I had a name!!!)

[molasses]

Name the Ship:

 

The two stacks shadow two more stacks next to them, four total. Image cropped but otherwise unchanged.

[molasses]

Two days and no guesses. 

 

She's a US Navy side-wheel steamer with four stacks arranged in a rectangular pattern. Three drawings of her in this early configuration were made over 100 years later and were based on written descriptions and a simple contemporary line drawing. Two of those three are from the beam and fail to show the four stacks; the third reconstruction drawing is from the port bow and clearly shows four. She was extensively rebuilt several years later into a more familiar and better documented configuration with one stack.

 

Port bow view showing four stacks.

[KevinR]

US Steamer Fulton (2nd) 1837.

[molasses]

USS Fulton II is correct.

 

Fulton II was the second steam powered vessel in the US Navy, built in 1837 as a harbor defense vessel and placed in ordinary in 1842 when she was determined to be unsuitable for the cruising role of the Navy at that time. She was rebuilt and her machinery replaced in 1851 for blue water service, a role in which she served until laid up in ordinary in 1859. Fulton II remained in Pensacola Navy Yard until seized by Florida officials after Florida seceded from the Union in 1861 and was burned there in 1862 before Union forces recaptured the yard.

 

 

Your turn, Kevin.

[KevinR]

I stumbled across this ship last week. It has a very eventful career over just a couple of years. I will accept any of the three names it sailed under. Extra bonus if you can identify the flag. There should be six gun ports.

[popeye2sea]

United States Revenue Cutter Samuel D. Ingham.  Texas colors

[molasses]

You beat me to it, Henry. I was previewing my post when you posted your guess.

 

Named Independence while in the First Texas Navy, and renamed La Independencia after her capture by a superior Mexican force. I came across her while researching the USS Independence I posted a few days ago. 

 

Actually, two of the ports should be empty. She carried 6 x 6 pounders and a long 9 pounder.

 

As the Revenue cutter Ingham she intercepted the Mexican Navy schooner Montezuma lying in wait to intercept Texan and American flagged vessels in Texas waters to extort an "excise tax" from the vessels and engaged it, driving it from the area. A New Orleans newspaper reporting the incident said, "...the vessel is entitled to bear the best motto for a military public servant—SEMPER PARATUS." The United States Coast Guard would adopt Semper Paratus (always ready) as their motto in 1896.

Edited February 1, 2014 by DFellingham

[popeye2sea]

Woo Hoo!!  first win for me.

 

I respectfully decline my turn at bat.  Since I just beat out DFellingham by minutes I will pass the baton to him.

 

Just wanted to see if I could win one of these, plus It seemed like a good reason to try google image search.

 

Happy Searching

Edited February 1, 2014 by popeye2sea

[KevinR]

Henry, you got it correct. That was quicker than I expected. DFellingham, That was how I found it as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USRC_Ingham_%281832%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingham_incident

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texan_schooner_Independence

 

Your turn Henry.

[molasses]

DFellingham, That was how I found it as well.

 

 

I knew that, it's why I mentioned it.   I spent hours reading about the First and Second Texas Navies. Much more entertaining than most of what's on the idiot box. I recognized Independence right away.

 

Anyway, since Henry declined his turn (smart guy, finding ships to post can be as difficult as finding a name) . . . . 

 

Name the Ship:

She was the first of her kind in her country's navy and gave her name to the class.

[amateur]

Looks a bit like the Dutch patrolvessels in the east indies (almost no sheer, sun-tent on the aft deck)

 

Jan

[molasses]

Jan, you're closer than you might think in that this ship did serve as a patrol gunboat along the coast of China in her later years (early thirties), but she is not Dutch and was not designed for patrol duties.

She was American and was built just before WW1 as part of the deployment of a new weapon system.

Did you notice the opening in the side of the ship?

 

Dave

 

[st george]

Dave, I see you're up to your old tricks again.

 

It's USS Fulton(AS-1) launched on 6 June 1914. The lead ship of her class of submarine tenders. She was later converted into a gunboat and redesignated (PG-49).

[molasses]

Dave, I see you're up to your old tricks again.

 

What tricks could those be? 

 

You're correct, David, It's the Fulton, named for the inventor of the first practical submarine, Nautilus, successfully tested in 1800. I found the name very appropriate for the first submarine tender and lead ship of the class.

 

I thought this photo of Fulton at work would be too easy.

 

Your turn, David.

[st george]

Here's the next from me.

 

Good Luck.

[KevinR]

U.S. Steam Frigate Mississippi

[molasses]

HMS Terrible (1845).

[st george]

You got her Dave.

 

HMS 'Terrible' was launched at Deptford in February 1845. She was a large 19-gun paddle-frigate, and served during the Crimean War.

[amateur]

Ah, Dave, we already now the name of the next one

 

Jan

[molasses]

Ah, Dave, we already now the name of the next one

 

Jan

 

You're clearly on to me so I won't post a photo of the WW2 sub tender Fulton, and lead ship of this improved class of sub tenders, like I had planned. I could not find a photo of the fifth US vessel named after Robert Fulton, a WW1 conscripted tug named Fulton used for home water patrol duty, renamed SP-247 and later returned to her owners after the war.

 

 

Name the Ship:

[amateur]

USS Alloway?

[molasses]

Alloway is remarkably close, the respective histories in the Navy are almost identical but the mystery ship later had more Navy service with a different name.

 

 

[molasses]

Here is the same ship during her WW2 service. I flipped the first photo to fool Google Image; this one will be easier.

 

 

 

Cropped to remove the identification number that Jan found on the bottom edge of the photo.  Stupid me!

Edited February 8, 2014 by DFellingham

[amateur]

This one is easier for certain.

You should remove the name/registration number out of the pics you post

 

Jan