[artichokegrower]

Looks like a pre-WWI Russian battleship

[BenLurkin]

Could be worse

[PAR35]

Looks like a pre-WWI Russian battleship

A few feet longer, a few feet narrower, and almost the same draft as the Imperatritsa Mariya class of pre-WWI Russian dreadnaughts (not the ship pictured). Of course, the Russian ships had 12 inch main guns and 5 inch secondary (and a couple of torpedo tubes). The Zum has a couple of 6 inch guns.

[BRK]

I was telling my kids the story of the moon shot last night, and they asked me about the “old days” when the world wasn’t in color..... I explained to them the world was in color, but the cameras were not.

[buwaya]

French ones were even more so.

[Antoninus II]

That looks alot like the Russian Cruiser Varyag. Built in an American ship yard in Philly. She was skuttled at The Battle of Chermulpo Bay after the sinking of the old Koryetz at the outbreak of the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The Japs raised and refloated her. Renamed her the Soya and added her to their fleet. She was in the Jap armada when TR's Great White Fleet visited Tokyo. TR was involved in the peace negotiations to end that war.

On an off note, I have a set of Japanese presentation sake cups with the Soya kanji inscribed. Very rare.