Name the Ship Game

[realworkingsailor]

Don't think this one will be too hard....

 

Have fun.

 

Andy

[molasses]

USS Freedom (LCS-1) lead ship of the class. Commissioned November 2008, first deployed in 2013 after extensive sea trials and now based at San Diego. Could be USS Fort Worth (LCS-3), also based at San Diego. She is longer than Freedom giving her a top speed greater than Freedom's admitted 40 knots. Four more of the class are under construction with five more planned. Both of these ships underwent their sea trials on Lake Michigan. Detractors of the LCS concept call them "Little Crappy Ships".

 

USS Freedom as deployed with dazzle camouflage from 100 years ago.

[realworkingsailor]

It's the USS Freedom, on her delivery voyage. She did a tour of the great lakes. I took that photo as she overtook us in the St Lawrence River near Cap St Charles. She threw such a wake that we started rolling.

Incidentally, I did encounter her earlier on Lake Erie and had her plotted on radar doing in excess of 40 knots....

 

Andy

[molasses]

I thought it was interesting that the Freedom class uses drives similar to a jet ski but MUCH bigger; makes sense for shallow water operation. Starting with LCS-5 the drives are purpose designed rather than being off-the-shelf commercial units. 

 

 I took that photo as she overtook us in the St Lawrence River near Cap St Charles. 

 

I figured it was a personal photo. As soon as I saw where Freedom was built I knew I had the right ship.

 

 

Name the Ship:

[realworkingsailor]

HMS or HMCS Warrior

 

Andy

[molasses]

I figured that one would be quick.

 

HMS Warrior was a Colossus-class light aircraft carrier built for WW2 service in the Indian Ocean but wasn't commissioned until the war was over and was given to Canada where it served as HMCS Warrior from March 1946 to March 1948. Because Warrior was built for tropical service, several systems were not equipped with heaters which didn't work out well for the Canadians (giving her to Canada made as much sense as stationing an ice breaker in Jamaica) so they gave it back for another carrier.

 

Recommissioned in the Royal Navy, HMS Warrior served from 1948 to 1958. For a brief time she was refit with a very slightly angled flight deck. In 1959, decommissioned and on her way back to Britain, Warrior made a call in Argentina to try to sell her. She entered the Argentine Navy in July 1959 as ARA Independencia (V-1). In 1963 Argentina began the transition to jets but soon found that Independencia was unsuitable for jet operations. After ARA Vienticinco de Mayo (V-2), a carrier built for jets, entered the Argentine Navy in 1969, Independencia was moved to the reserve list in 1970, then was scrapped in 1971.

 

Your turn, Andy.

[realworkingsailor]

I'm still looking for something... Hang in there

 

Andy

[realworkingsailor]

Here we go, a scrap laker...

 

 

(Just for Jan )

[molasses]

I don't know the name yet, but I do know where.    All three photos seem to have the same breakwater in the foreground.

 

Calumet waiting for better weather to start the torch work.

 

Remains of Calumet later in the year.

 

I'm finding that "rust-bucket" red is a common color on ships bound for the scrapper. 

[realworkingsailor]

Well, you do indeed have the correct location

[molasses]

Found it! Inland Steel's L. E. Block. A classic Great Lakes bulk carrier built in 1927, she was named for the son of Inland Steel's founder Joseph Block. Leopold Emmanuel Block entered his father's business to become chairman in 1920 until his retirement in 1940.

 

L. E. Block remained in active service from 1927 to 1981. She set several ore carrying records until the launching of her larger fleetmate Wilfred Sykes in 1949. Basic Marine purchased her in 1986. She served briefly as a cement storage hull in 1987-88. International Marine Salvage purchased L. E. Block for scrap in 2006 and scrapped her in Port Colborne, ON later that year.

 

L. E. Block photographed at the same angle but in a different place as Andy's photo.

 

L. E. Block photographed at a different angle but in the same place as Andy's photo. Note the breakwater and the tip of the little island near the left edge of the photo.

 

Andy's original photo reposted.

Edited February 22, 2014 by DFellingham

[realworkingsailor]

Yessir!

 

Have at it!

 

 

Andy

[molasses]

Name the Ship:

 

[KevinR]

HMS Nelson, 1876

[molasses]

Not Nelson class, but right time (within a few years).

[JPZ66]

HMS Neptune 1874

 

-Joe

Edited February 23, 2014 by JPZ66

[molasses]

HMS Neptune (1874) is correct.

 

Originally built for the Brazilian Navy from plans used to build the mastless turreted ironclads Devastation and Thunderer, the two most powerful capitol ships in the world, but with masts. The added forecastle, poop and masts blocked the field of fire from the two turrets negating the advantage of the axially mounted turrets. The first two launch attempts in 1874 failed, breaking her back and damaging her hull, decks and internal bulkheads - and bankruptcy for the builder. Named Independencia,  she was repaired in another shipyard and completed sea trials in 1877. The Royal Navy purchased her from Brazil in 1878, mounted different main battery guns and commissioned her in 1883 for service in the Channel Fleet. The close proximity of the main mast to the funnels caused rapid deterioration of sails and rigging and her rig was changed in 1881.

 

HMS Neptune in 1881.

 

In the Channel she proved to be a wet ship with a heavy roll and to be a danger to other ships due to her poor maneuverability in heavy seas. She had a 12 foot skylight above the wardroom which frequently flooded the wardroom in bad weather, a trait certain to endear her to her officers. She was then assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1885 but soon returned to Portsmouth for refit in 1886-87. During the refit the main mast was removed, the mizzen relocated further forward and most of the spars removed converting the two masts to little more than fighting and observation tops.

 

HMS Neptune in 1886.

 

Neptune was assigned as guard ship in the 1st class reserve in 1887, paid off into reserve in 1893 and sold for scrap in 1903. While under tow to the scrap yard she broke the tow and drifted back into Portsmouth, collided with the school ships Swiftsure and Victory (which suffered a hole into her orlop deck) and came to rest against HMS Hero. An unlucky ship from beginning to end, Neptune was scrapped in 1904.

 

 

Your turn, Joe.

Edited February 23, 2014 by DFellingham

[JPZ66]

 

Okay......here ya go....

 

[KevinR]

Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli

[JPZ66]

Ring the Ship's Bell ! .....we have a winner !!!

Here is the wiki link: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_cruiser_Raimondo_Montecuccoli

 

-Joe

[JPZ66]

Waitin' on you Kevin..... Need a new picture !!!

 

Joe

[KevinR]

Sorry for the wait, but here it is. It is a little obscure. I think it's uniqueness will make it easy.

[JPZ66]

Hi Kevin,

 

Novgorod russian monitor, under construction..... c.1874 ish ....

 

 

Joe

[KevinR]

Joe,

I think it took me longer to find the picture than for you to get the answer. 

You are Correct.

The Novgorod (Russian: Новгород) was an Imperial Russian warship. It was one of the most unusual warships ever constructed, and still survives in popular naval myth, often described as the "ugliest warship ever built". Together with her near-sister ship Rear Admiral Popov, they were affectionately called "popovkas", after their chief designer. The hull was circular (viewed from the top) intended to be a particularly stable platform for guns but proving to be almost unmaneuverable in practice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_monitor_Novgorod

 

Your turn Joe.

[JPZ66]

Kevin,

As you mentioned, it's uniqueness made it pretty easy.

 

Alright, here we go..... This shouldn't be too hard ;

[molasses]

Canarias class heavy cruiser built in Spain, either Canarias or Baleares. Design based on the County class British heavy cruiser. Instead of three stacks and a seaplane catapult on the County class Canarias class had two stacks and no catapult. Built in the early 1930s, they were completed in '36/'37 and were seized by Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Baleares was sunk by Republican forces in 1938 with a loss of 786 of her crew of 1221. Canarias survived the war, was decommissioned in 1975 and scrapped in 1977.

 

Spanish heavy cruiser Canarias.

 

Dave

Edited February 25, 2014 by DFellingham

[JPZ66]

Right you are Dave ! Canarias. ( I knew I should have picked a tougher subject! )

 

....Your turn

 

Joe

[molasses]

Thanks, Joe.

 

Name the Ship:

Flag and ID number removed. Don't want to make it too easy.

 

Good luck!

 

Dave

[JPZ66]

Alright.....I think I have ID'd the class. The AS565 helicopter was the key....

 

Oaxaca class vessel of the Mexican Navy.

 

 

 

Joe

[molasses]

The Mexican designed and built Oaxaca class patrol vessel is correct. Since the four ships in the class - ARM Oaxaca PO161, ARM Baja California PO162, ARM Independencia   PO163 and ARM Revolucion PO164 - are indistinguishable except for the ID number, the class is all I was looking for. Each is equipped with one each Panther and Fennec helicopters and a fast, patrol interceptor boat. The first two ships were built in 2003 and the second two in 2010 with two more planned but not yet funded. Mexican patrol vessels primarily serve in coastal survey, drug and illegal immigration interdiction and maritime first responder roles similar to the US Coast Guard.

 

ARM Independencia PO163 (center) in company with guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) and the British Royal

Navy destroyer HMS Dauntless (D-33) (right) during UNITAS Atlantic 2012, a 14 nation cross-training and testing exercise.

 

Your turn, Joe.