Name the Ship Game

[maaaslo]

True, i read it too. Tilbury is only like 20 miles from me, but i foubt they will let me to the docks... Nevermind, embankment has got a few ships moored there, at least something to choose from...

[maaaslo]

finally my wife allowed me to use the computer, after all the house chores has been finished... :mellow: here is one i have found a few days ago.

 

Edited March 16, 2013 by maaaslo

[realworkingsailor]

At the risk of giving something away... Looks like a Flower class Corvette.... Can't tell which one though... There were 270 some odd ones..

 

Andy

[maaaslo]

Nope, this ship was not Flower class corvette. Good luck next time.

[Anja]

Is it a Halcyon class minesweeper, maybe the RMS Halcyon itself?

[maaaslo]

Nope, not halcyon too. According to her wiki she was destroyer.

[Anja]

HMS Cavalier?

[normanh]

I suspect the sloop Wellington as we have been discussing the Embankment where she is preserved.

[TRJ]

Off topic, yes die experimenten the same problem.

On the ship, I have no clue, other than that it has to be a RN destroyer, from the A to I class, as the J class had twin mount main guns, and the A to Is had 4 single mounted guns. About fifty ships to check pictures on!

 

Cheers,

 

Tjeerd

[maaaslo]

 

SpyGlass, you have got it right. it indeed us HMAS Vampire, or as also known HMAS Vampire D68

ive got the picture from here: http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/great_britain/pages/destroyers/hms_vampire_d68_page_1.htm

congratulations to the winner and im also looking forward for the next one to guess...

[Cristiano]

Four masted bark LYNTON

[Cristiano]

Sorry Spyglass,

frankly I was simply lucky with the keywords and Google.

I am not a God of knowledge!

This is mine ship.

I will check or answer to this post only this evening (Italian evening).

 

[amateur]

You should rename your file before uploadingh,

otherwise it's too simple

 

Jan

[amateur]

Or is the name of the file just a red herring ....

 

Jan

[Cristiano]

I was tempted to rename the file "Amerigo Vespucci", but "Titanic" i though was enough...

 

It is a monstruous carbon steel red herring!! :D

[amateur]

Yeah, that's what I discovered: Titanic has four funnels

(but she was also in a famous movie   )

 

Jan

Edited March 18, 2013 by amateur

[BareHook]

Virginia or Minnesota?

 

Ken

[amateur]

was there ever a movie on Minnesota?

 

It's the Russians: Potemkim

 

Jan

[amateur]

?

[BareHook]

Methinks amateur has is, the towers never matched any on the US ships, but I was guessing maybe it was early version before tower upgrade.

[realworkingsailor]

Yeah... Look closely, that's a Russian flag flying from the main mast gaff.

 

Andy

[Cristiano]

I am a little upset...

this time my photo remained a mistery for just three hours!

Yes, amateur, you're right.

it was the most famous russian ship: the "Князь Потёмкин-Таврический"

 

The mutiny of its crew has been considered a prelude of the russian revolution that happened some years after.

The ship become a symbol of the revolution and consequently an apologetic nationalist movie based on it was made.

 

Well, next time I will hit more hard and DIG MORE DEEPLY IN THE CEMETARY OF HISTORY!

[amateur]

Here's  my next one for you.

 

Jan

[realworkingsailor]

What did I say... "Never let Jan win!"

 

Andy

[amateur]

you should be able to recognize her

Actually, you're about halfway, by recognizing her as a dutch tug

 

Jan

[st george]

Looks like the Dutch steam tug Finland?

[amateur]

Sure you don't use Google picture search ?

It is Finland.

 

Jan

[st george]

Jan I couldn't find that picture when I did use google.

 

Try this

 

 

David

Edited March 18, 2013 by st george

[trippwj]

That's a very pretty little ship - nice lines, sporting the fake gunports of the mid-1800's?

[st george]

Wayne late 1800's. She's still pretty much in one piece I think