Somali's, attempting to board by using grappling hooks, laughed so hard that they could not hang on . . . and gave up.
At the Pentagon, the ship is known as "The Floating Ballot Box."
Somali's, attempting to board by using grappling hooks, laughed so hard that they could not hang on . . . and gave up.
At the Pentagon, the ship is known as "The Floating Ballot Box."
Forgot the Tirpitz. So much for lists.
U.S.S. Missouri - BB63
Click bait unless you post the list.
Macho,
Thanks, now I’m going to listen to “Sink the Bismarck” by Johnny Horton.(Liked it as kid in the 1970’s)
“In May of 1941 the war had just begun
The Germans had the biggest ship that had the biggest guns
The Bismarck was the fastest ship that ever sailed the sea
On her decks were guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees.........”
I have a small piece of the Admiral’s Deck off the New Jersey.
A worthy one for the list. Washington's action in the naval battle of Guadalcanal is the nearest thing to a Jutland-style surface battle seen in WWII. Willis Lee's ship didn't just decisively defeat Kirishima, she landed twenty 16" shells on target in mere minutes. Kirishima was out of the fight after the first broadside hit.
The USS Texas was used in WW 1 and WW 2. During the Normandy landings, it’s 14 inch guns were used to suppress the Germans. At one point, the Texas’ captain ordered the ballast tanks on the seaward side to be flooded to list the ship in order to elevate the gun barrels. The purpose was to give the guns further range.
When complete, the ship will be permanently moored elsewhere in Galveston instead of being returned to its prior location at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in the greater Houston area.
-PJ
No respect for tin can sailors.
Battleships still have a place in a modern navy. Maybe not with big guns but with missiles replacing the 14” to 18” shells.
There’s an interesting movie about the design and development of the Yamato. Some math whiz kid in Japan worked against the ‘system’ to prove the design. Whole lot of politics involved there.
This is a joke to not put the Yamato and her sister ship the Musashi first. They were easily the two most powerful battleships to ever sail. 72,000 tons combat displacement and armed with 18 inch naval rifles, they were bigger and better armed than any other battleships in history.
The Iowa class battleships would be next. They were the next biggest and had 16 inch naval rifles and at 60,000 tons, were the next largest.
The next would probably be Bismarck and Tirpitz. They were each 50,000 tons and had 15 inch naval rifles.
The next is one that just missed World War II. HMS Vanguard was completed just after the war. She was 45,000 tons and had 15 inch naval rifles.
After that, take your pick.
If you go to the google earth image for Galveston you can see the Texas in dry dock opposite a modern cruise ship.
Looks like they forgot the Yamato , one of the biggest ever built.