Editor in Chief Bill | 31 Jul 2015 7:49 p.m. PST |
Which battleship that fought in the Great War is your favorite? |
ochoin | 31 Jul 2015 7:50 p.m. PST |
HMS Benbow: My grandad was on board at Jutland. link |
Big Red | 31 Jul 2015 7:53 p.m. PST |
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wrgmr1 | 31 Jul 2015 7:59 p.m. PST |
Nelson, 3 forward turrets. King George V, 10 – 14" guns. |
Only Warlock | 31 Jul 2015 8:09 p.m. PST |
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M C MonkeyDew | 31 Jul 2015 8:15 p.m. PST |
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Dances with Clydesdales | 31 Jul 2015 8:16 p.m. PST |
SMS Ostfriesland. Served the US as well as Germany. |
Generalstoner49 | 31 Jul 2015 8:22 p.m. PST |
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Coelacanth | 31 Jul 2015 8:46 p.m. PST |
Should one start a topic of this nature on a Friday? Just sayin'. Ron |
Shagnasty | 31 Jul 2015 8:46 p.m. PST |
The QE class. Very powerful and very classy looking vessels. |
dragon6 | 31 Jul 2015 8:54 p.m. PST |
Nelson, 3 forward turrets. King George V, 10 – 14" guns. KGV has ten 13.5", Nelson was scrapped before the war SMS Derfflinger |
enfant perdus | 31 Jul 2015 9:28 p.m. PST |
The French battleship Masséna, one of the last of the floating castles. Scuttled off Cape Helles to form a breakwater for the withdrawal of the Allied forces.
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McKinstry | 31 Jul 2015 9:42 p.m. PST |
Warspite. Jutland was very early in what would become a great career. |
Yellow Admiral | 31 Jul 2015 10:17 p.m. PST |
No favorites. I just like to see them duking it out. - Ix |
Costanzo1 | 31 Jul 2015 10:32 p.m. PST |
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Navy Fower Wun Seven | 01 Aug 2015 1:42 a.m. PST |
SMS Seydlitz. Sure took some punishment, but dished it out too!
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MHoxie | 01 Aug 2015 2:07 a.m. PST |
HMS Agincourt: 14 inverted golf tees per turn. |
Bellbottom | 01 Aug 2015 3:39 a.m. PST |
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Bellbottom | 01 Aug 2015 3:40 a.m. PST |
wrgmr1, those are WWII ships |
Royston Papworth | 01 Aug 2015 3:52 a.m. PST |
Either Warspite or Thunderer. Warspite, because the whole class of ships were the best investment in defence this country ever made… Thunderer, last big ship built on the Thames. How can your local ship not be your favourite? :) |
Mute Bystander | 01 Aug 2015 6:15 a.m. PST |
World War 1 – no opinion. Do like the USS Missouri from WW2 – been on it twice, once in the state of Washington ("back in the day") and once in Hawaii. |
Feet up now | 01 Aug 2015 6:51 a.m. PST |
Warspite just for its pure scrappy nature. Ahead of its time warspite.dk |
Regards | 01 Aug 2015 8:27 a.m. PST |
WW1 BB – Konig If BC too, Seydlitz. Erik |
brass1 | 01 Aug 2015 11:35 a.m. PST |
HMS Agincourt – with 14 guns in the main battery, there was some fear that she would capsize if a full broadside were ever fired. When she did finally fire a full broadside, at Jutland, the muzzle blast and smoke were so extreme that some onlookers thought she had blown up. LT |
Bob the Temple Builder | 01 Aug 2015 11:48 a.m. PST |
Fuso … which had 12 x 14-inch guns. I once commanded her in a wargame using Fletcher Pratt's rules and pretty well sank most of the opposing side's ships. |
rmaker | 01 Aug 2015 12:33 p.m. PST |
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Mooseworks8 | 01 Aug 2015 1:25 p.m. PST |
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Joes Shop | 01 Aug 2015 1:37 p.m. PST |
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Herkybird | 01 Aug 2015 2:35 p.m. PST |
Warspite, or any of the Queen Elizabeth class. |
JimDuncanUK | 01 Aug 2015 3:40 p.m. PST |
Warspite without a doubt, went down fighting even on her last journey to the scrappers on the rocks at Prussia Cove. My wifes uncle was a welder who worked on cutting her up in situ.
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LVLAURN | 01 Aug 2015 4:04 p.m. PST |
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Charlie 12 | 01 Aug 2015 7:08 p.m. PST |
SMS Derfflinger or HMS Warspite (its a toss up). Both have classic good looks. |
Coelacanth | 02 Aug 2015 7:10 a.m. PST |
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Old Jarhead | 02 Aug 2015 8:55 a.m. PST |
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Grelber | 02 Aug 2015 11:13 a.m. PST |
USS New Mexico--very dashing ! Got to agree about the Queen Elizabeths--they had a great design and balance of qualities that kept them viable through two world wars. Grelber |
21eRegt | 02 Aug 2015 8:18 p.m. PST |
First reaction was also Warspite, though mainly for her service in WWII. Derflinger has the rare distinction of being the leading part of sinking two capital ships at Jutland. Any other BB or BC able to make that claim? |
Mallen | 03 Aug 2015 12:47 p.m. PST |
Glorious and Couragous. So damned odd. I scratch-built the two of them and updated tham as I thought they would have looked in WWII, having not been converted to carriers. They played merry hell on enemy cruisers, although one of them once caught fireons a freak (self-inflicted) accident and it ended up blowing itself up. |
spontoon | 07 Aug 2015 3:15 p.m. PST |
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Camcleod | 09 Aug 2015 7:45 a.m. PST |
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warren bruhn | 09 Aug 2015 4:13 p.m. PST |
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Bozkashi Jones | 10 Aug 2015 3:16 p.m. PST |
Warspite – but my guilty admission is that I actually like the 'block of flats' modernised bridge she had in WW2 Hark! Is that the sound of me being drummed out of the WW1 forum…? Nick |
Yellow Admiral | 11 Aug 2015 11:36 a.m. PST |
SMS Von der Tann If I died today, any poor sot(s) trying to sort through my piles of gaming crap would think this was my favorite as well, since I own no less than 5 models of her in 1/2400 scale. I do like the Von der Tann, but it's purely by accident that I have so many… I also have 3 models of the SMS Blücher. I acquired this ridiculous surfeit by buying the used collections of gamers abandoning unplayed periods. I gather from this that Dogger Bank is one of the most common first aiming points for gamers looking to start WWI naval gaming. (Judging by a similar overstock of HMS Hoods, KGVs, and Bismarks in my collection, I'm guessing the Denmark Strait is the WWII counterpart.) Oddly, I have no such surplus of 1914 Falklands or Coronel vessels. In fact, I have yet to acquire even a single model of the Canopus class. - Ix |
Guthroth | 25 Aug 2015 4:55 a.m. PST |
Another vote for Warspite. The most battling Battleship EVER. |
Clays Russians | 29 Aug 2015 9:04 p.m. PST |
The Potemkin, cause I'm a little red! |
Old Contemptibles | 04 Sep 2015 4:07 a.m. PST |
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Sailor Steve | 14 Sep 2015 11:48 a.m. PST |
Dreadnought. The first of her kind, and the only battleship ever to sink a submarine. |
noigrim | 03 Oct 2015 5:58 a.m. PST |
HMS new zealand, that piupiu… |
AussieAndy | 04 Oct 2015 7:41 p.m. PST |
A battlecruiser, rather than a battleship, the Australia. A friend of my grandparents was a midshipman on her in WW1. By the time I met him, in the '70s, he could still tell you the order in which the capital ships were lined up at Scapa Flow to receive the surrender of the German fleet, but he wasn't too good on what he'd done the day before. After WW1 he became a diver. He had a host of fantastic stories. |
w4golf | 16 Dec 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
From a story perspective, Seydlitz and Angincourt. I also think the Tegetthoff battleships are very visually appealing. |
BW1959 | 16 Dec 2015 2:41 p.m. PST |
USS Texas Only one still around (I think) |