Best Battleship Pics

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USS Missouri, the largest battleship in the US Navy (and now, the world) with Nagato, the largest surviving battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy at anchor in Yokosuka Harbor, September 1945.

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>>33004305
I've got a few, anything specific?

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>>33004305

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Love the line of battle, and the way they're just bristling with guns

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British cruisers and battleships are so fuckin sexy. I love their very square superstructures. It's so foreboding, it just oozes power. They remind me of castles, overlooking the village and keeping enemies in check

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Let us not forget ze high seas fleet

>>33004431
I've been on the Missouri. It's docked at pearl Harbor as a museum. I even performed on it with my intermediate school band when they had some kind of Boeing fundraiser. It's pretty cool. I see it pretty much every day when i drive to work and I always think man it must have been nuts to see that ship on the horizon knowing it's about to blast you

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Not entirely related to the thread but my grandfather was a merchant mariner in WWII. He was in the convoy that the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst surprised in 1941. He was third mate on a liberty ship. Said he just about shit himself when they spotted the battleships on the horizon. The convoy immediately scattered but I think he said like 3 or 4 ships were sunk. The way he described the whole encounter was chilling, honestly. I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was something along the lines of:
>You will never experience terror like seeing a fortress of solid steel appear over the horizon, knowing that there is absolutely nobody around who can help you. You're like a deer caught in a hunter's crosshairs

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>>33004560
>>33004648
Yeah, can't imagine how fucked you'd feel when you saw a battleship on the horizon and knew it wasn't yours

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>>33004305

>>33004648

So what happened? How'd they get away?

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>>33004729
He said, convoy scattered

>>33004729
I mean you just split and run. They can't kill all of you. And the Germans only have so much time to work before they need to leave so the Royal Navy doesn't catch up to them and BTFO them. That's the really terrifying part, he said. You're just sitting there hoping that they have their guns trained on some other poor son of a bitch instead of you.

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>tfw when every other first-class battleship in the world becomes obsolete when you launch.

(yes, I know this is only because Dreadnought got built at a ridiculous pace and others had had the same ideas)

>>33004796

What does the name "Dreadnought" actually mean? Where did it come from?

>>33004796
Shame she never actually saw combat

>>33004821
Dreadnought literally means "fearing nothing." Probably just seemed like a badass name to give to something that was basically the ruler of the entire ocean when it was launched.

>>33004822

That's actually wrong. She killed a U-boat by ramming it, thus becoming the first and only battleship to kill a submarine by ramming it.

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>>33004821
It's a contraction of "fear God and dread nought" - which is to say that the only fear there is is righteous fear and respect of Our Lord God, not any other fucker's ships.

It's a name that's been in the Royal Navy since at least the 1600s

>>33004883

Actually, the Dreadnought was the only battleship to ever kill a submarine, period.

>>33004883
>>33004918
Huh, never heard of that before. That's pretty neat.

>>33004891

>TFW there are no more RN dreadnoughts.

You crazy fuckers dont have a huge navy anymore. Might as well build a retardedly big arsenal ship, call it a dreadnought, and call it a day.

>>33004941

>Your tender U-boat ass will never be rammed by a massive battleship

>>33004957

The next line of ballistic missile submarines for Britain has already been designated as "Dreadnought-class."

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BB-14 USS Nebraska. Being from her namesake makes me wish she would have either gone down in battale or not tunred into scrap.

>>33004891
The Nelson was a weird design. All the main guns were forward of the superstructure.

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>>33004957
The most recent HMS Dreadnought was our first nuke sub ever, and the next one planned - and just starting production as of 2016 - is the lead boat in the replacement class for the Vanguard boomers.

Apparently the next three boats will also be given names with "historical resonance", so we might get another Warspite, if the disposal of the "current" one (a nuke boat being decommissioned right now) is finished, which it should be, seeing as the lead boat, Dreadnought, isn't due until something like 2028

Still though, it's not like this Dreadnought will have anything like the impact of the famous one

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Heres nebraska in a little different paintup

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>all these Britcucks
You faggots will never defeat German engineering.

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Last one of her beautifulness

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>>33005059
This

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>>33005059
Pic related literally did tho

>>33005130
>>33005130
The Bismarck was scuttled, you twat.

>>33005248

Scuttling an immobile, paralyzed warship isn't exactly winning, especially if you're on that ship. The Bismark's excellent compartmentation made it really damn hard to sink, but flaws in the internal systems meant that it was disabled long before that happened.

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>>33005248
Ja, but that's Scharnhorst.

Also pissmark was scuttled following battle damage and sank with significant loss of life, but you can count that as a german victory if it'll make you feel better

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>>33005120
>This didn't sink anything.
Finished that sentence for you.

>>33005248
Kek, I love seeing Wehraboos get flustered about this. She lost, faggot. Fair and square. Her rudder was immobilized and she was about to get absolutely BTFO by the combined might of the Royal Navy. It is irrelevant if the fags on board "scuttled" her to save face. She still lost. If the CO was smart he would have placed charges on the fucked up rudder to detach it but he didn't want to risk damaging the props. Which is really retarded in my opinion because he was fucked regardless so he should have just taken the chance.

>>33004431
Do you mean it is bigger than the other Iowas in some way?

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>>33006579
All the Iowas are more or less the same size.

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>>33006696

All I know is that ship is OP as fuck in Atlantic Fleet. It absolutely has to be killed with u-boats because it easily BTFO's every other surface vessel even H-39.

>>33006730
>even H-39
As if. H-39 would BTFO any ship, even the mighty Iowa.
t. guy from Iowa

>>33005434
Scuttling when sinking is bullshit, but how were they going to blow a rudder off? That isn't easy in the North Atlantic. And the screws were forward, so I don't know what that has to do with anything

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>>33006780
So sexy mmmmmm

>>33006780

>8 x 16-inch guns versus 9 x 16-inch guns

Rodney has a clear firepower advantage

>>33005026

>HMS Dreadnought
>HMS Warspite
>HMS Victory
>HMS Nelson
>HMS Royal Oak
>HMS Repulse
>HMS Indefatigable

Pure wish fulfillment:
>HMS Thunder Child
>HMS Falklands
>HMS Polyphemus
>HMS General Wolfe

In a perfect world as a show of solidarity the US, UK and France would all have ships named for each other's leaders in the second world war
>HMS Franklin D. Roosevelt
>USS Charles DeGaulle
>FNS Winston Churchill
But that's wish fulfillment as well...

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>>33007430
>Winston Churchill
The USS Winston S. Churchill exists at least - it's a Burke, and one of only very few US ships to be named after non-US citizens (he was an honorary one, as his mother was American)

Why is pic related in "wish fulfilment"?

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>>33007430

This besides the USS Churchill ofc.

The Richelieu is also sexy.

>>33007481

Hilarity mostly.
It's so ridiculous it must live again.

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>>33007495
>The Richelieu is also sexy.
Indeed

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>>33007519

God that's lewd.
It's really a ship that should have been put to the museum.

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>>33007617
Richelieu and Vanguard both

>>33007430
In order:
>Lead ship of a new class
>Awaiting disposal before name can be re-used
>Museum/Flagship/Official billet of anyone not assigned to any other ship or "ship"
>HMNB Portsmouth's "ship" designation (formerly just the barracks)
>War Grave
>Awaiting disposal before name can be re-used
>Name is free

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>>33009373

>Muh frontal turrets

I see your Jean Bart and raise you a Nelson

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>>33010113
No thanks; we don't require any fuel.

>>33005026
The sub Warspite was decommissioned decades ago.

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>>33011144
Yeah, I mistyped there - she's decommissioned, but not dismantled yet - it's still stored afloat

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It's such a shame that Vanguard wasn't commissioned 10 years earlier. Would have been cool in the N. Atlantic were the weather was shitty, and in the Med, in the early days before use of carriers was as dominating.

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>>33007519
>Richelieu Ass
That's Jean Bart though.

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HMS Royal Oak. Sank in harbour by those cowardly Krauts.

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>>33012610
>>33007717
Scrapping Vanguard was a travesty. It amazes me that the country who for hundreds of years dominated the seas doesn't have a single preserved battleship. So many great ships that could have been preserved, and we're stuck with a boring light cruiser in HMS Caroline.

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>>33004305
Fat artillery barges were proven irrelevant as soon as the Battle of the Coral Sea. Building an armored artillery barge bigger than a cruiser after Leyte Gulf was a mistake.

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>>33004821

>>33013219
WHY DO BONG BOATS ALL HAVE THE BEST FUCKING NAMES HOLY SHIT

>DREADNOUGHT
>AJAX
>WARSPITE
>INVINCIBLE
>CONQUEROR
>VENGEANCE
>DARING
>VANGUARD
>IRON DUKE
>AMBUSH
>VICTORY
>COLOSSUS
>HERCULES

MY FUCKING DICK AAAAAHHHHHH

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I love the look of the rebuilt Pennsylvania with the Mk.28 DP secondary armament.

>>33005059
except all those times that we did

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>>33007519
lmao the fuck is that

>>33013473
>>33013473

Richelieu has all her main guns in quad-turrets in front of the super-structure, so the back is filled with secondaries and anti-aircraft batteries.

>>33013268
http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/tfs/index.php/H.M.S._Pansy_(1916)

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>>33004435
Any large res pics of aesthetic German BBs? All I've managed to scrounge up are mostly model kit paintings.

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>>33004305
Battleship Yamato, 1945.

>>33005120
The only worthwhile thing that POS did beyond serve as a live range target was trigger the "scatter" command for PQ17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_PQ_17

>>33013597
How seaworthy were battleships? I know that some of the older designs with straight bows were always awash in heavy seas but that didn't seem to do much other than slow them down a bit.

I don't think any were ever lost to a storm.

>>33013881

I don't know about other boats, but the scharnhorst was infamous for taking damage in bad weather. In many instances, the bow would fill up with so much water that the front-most turret would just stop working because there was so much water in the machinery.

>>33014001
that's just superior German engineering for you.

>>33014001
>Wheraboos always touting their superior german engineering
Germans over engineered their war-machines so much that they just slowly destroy themselves.

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>>33013774

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>>33014486

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>>33014498

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>>33014510
ship and ship

>>33013292
>google search image
>"Cuban missile crisis"

not sure if trolling

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>>33014530
Thanks for delivering, anon! These look great!

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>>33014981
I should hope you can tell the difference between the US Navy in 1911 and 1961, Anon.

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Its very Atlantic in here.

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>>33015545

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>>33015545

>>33004493
couldn't agree more, Queen Anne's Mansions are the best

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>>33004305

>>33004701
surprisingly sexy from this angle. I always thought the County-class were the best CAs but I'm impressed

>>33005059
>Wehraboos believe German BB design was superior to anything except the Vatniks and pre-Yamato nips
even the eye-ties had better battleships.

>>33005120
>She lived an invalid's life, and died a cripple's death

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>>33015845
When solely judged on aesthetics the Zaras always win.

>>33005248
...and the Duke of York sank the Scharnhorst.

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>>33004796

Fun fact:

The Texas was the first "all big gun" battleship, and was actually laid down BEFORE Dreadnaught, but as you mentioned, Dreadnaught was built unusually fast and finished first.

>>33005248
does it count in the Krauts' favour if literally all the turrets were out of action and full of corpses, the whole ship was burning from end to end, the bridge had been eviscerated by a 15" shell and the entire superstructure had been swiss-cheesed by RN shells?
Only about 600 of the crew even made it into the water

>>33012455
Did the Royal Sovereign ever get the rebuilt superstructure like some of the other Rs/Queen Elizabeths?

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>>33015915
>The Texas was the first "all big gun" battleship, and was actually laid down BEFORE Dreadnaught
I think you mean USS Michigan bro.

>>33015569
that fucking christmas tree gets me every time
It's simultaneously really cool and really stupid

Would you buy a knife made from the hull of the Tirpitz? Or is it immoral because it is a grave?

>>33015898
my great-uncle died on the Zara

>>33016058
it's a war grave yo, hundreds of krauts died in the sinking.

>>33016068
https://www.boker.de/us/pocket-knife/boker/damascus-collector-knife/110190DAM.html

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>>33016058
Tirpitz wasn't a war grave; all the remains that could be recovered were repatriated.

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>>33013292
Oh hey it's the Great White Fleet - fantastic colour scheme, and ship columns always look great

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>>33016030
>>33015915
Texas is the last surviving Dreadnought in the world.
The US's first all big gun ships, the South Carolina class (of which Michigan was the 2nd ship) were ordered before Dreadnought (as was the Japanese Satsuma Class) but Dreadnought was built in a year and thus became the first.

However it also had turbines where both the others did not, making it faster - it's the lesser-mentioned of Dreadnought's innovations

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>>33016100
That needs a poppy filled Lancaster flypast.

>>33016359

Why? Nobody died there. It just sank on the way to the scrapyard.

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>>33016306
>of which Michigan was the 2nd ship
But laid down, launched, and commissioned first. The South Carolinas were also the first warships with superfiring main armament.

>>33016359
Murmansk wasn't a war grave either; it sank in 1994.

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>>33016389
>it just sank on the way to the scrapyard
Fully manned with the RAF sending them and it to to their maker.
BTW the RN argues that it didn't sink enough to count an sunk and that 9 and 617 squadrons still argue who actually put it out of our misery.

Fucked.

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>>33016505
>Fully manned with the RAF sending them and it to to their maker.
Are you intentionally dense or do you come by it naturally?

>>33016505
They aren't talking about the Tirpitz
>>33016100
Is a picture of the Murmansk

>>33016530
>Fully manned with the RAF sending them and it to to their maker.
Are you intentionally dense or do you come by it naturally?
What part of thousands of people dying in a fucked over ship goes zooming over your head.

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>>33004648
>liberty ship
>1941

First Liberty Ship was completed on December 30, 1941

>>33016595
Read the post that went zooming over yours >>33016530

>>33016610
It might have been one of those "liberty ships" from WWI. I can't remember what those were called. In any case he was on a cargo ship

>>33016595

Have you read the filename of the first image that started all this?

It's the Russian cruiser Murmansk. Not the Tirpitz. You can tell because it isn't upside-down.

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>>33016639

You mean the Concrete ships?

None of those survived long enough to see service in WW2.

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>>33016639

Okay, memeing aside, he was probably on one of the Ocean-class or Cameron-class ships. The immediate predecessor to the Liberty Ship

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>>33004431
>>33004435

We should have never decommissioned Missouri but instead retained it as the official flagship of the US Fleet. Much as the Russians have kept the Pyotr Veliky for the same reason.

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>>33016827
We aren't the Russians; we have more than one blue-water squadron and thus don't need a single flagship for the whole navy.

>>33016711
No, I looked it up. Hog Islanders is what they were called

>>33016827
If the US was going to use an obsolete ship as a figurehead for its entire Navy the Constitution would be far better.

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The frozen wreckage of the battleship Gneisenau at Gotenhafen harbour, 1947

>>33016924
>not knowing 16 inch guns with modern targeting and plotting are a real good way to pound coastal cities and nearby shit into a pulp on a budget

Do you even know how much a modern missile cruiser costs to re-arm fully?

Its like these fuckers want to waste way more money than necessary.

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>>33020590
Lel, the after-action analysis of the naval bombardments of the Japanese mainland concluded that they had no significant effect on Japanese war economy.

Naval war has changed, and continues to change.

>>33020590
If you can get a battleship in range to bombard coastal areas you've probably already destroyed anything that would need to be bombarded by a battleship. Plus the entire point of PGMs is that you don't need to bombard shit all day long to destroy it, saving you money by reducing the amount of munitions needed to complete the mission.

Plus fully rearming guided missile cruiser is simple as hell compared to fully rearming a BB.

>>33016875
>don't need a single flagship for the whole navy.
Isn't the USS Constitution exactly that??

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>>33004305
Everyone always talks about battleships and how sexy they are or how big their guns are. Nobody talks about the real heroes, USS Johnston and the rest of Taffy 3.

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HMS Agincourt

"The most unique feature of the Agincourt is her 7 center line main gun turrets. The most turrets and main guns of any battleship ever constructed. They were officially named 1-7, but unofficially named for each day of the week. Each turret housed two 12inch Mark XIII naval guns. For the time period in which she was completed her guns were of a smaller make the contemporary battleships. There was serious concern when Agincourt was finished, that if she would fire a full broadside she would break in half and sink. Though during her service in the 1st Battle Squadron during World War I, she participated in the Battle of Jutland and fired several full broadsides with only a few popped rivets being the only damage she received all day. The full broadside was described as “Such a ball of fire that it seemed the ship had blown up.”

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Build it and they will come.

>>33020590
Nothing compared to paying 1500 sailors at today's rates.

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We doing wreckage now too?

>>33004511
RIP #2

>>33013219
Looks like a futuristic Typhoon.

>>33013774
Those guys must have had brass balls to fly at a ship like that in those slow old things.

>>33023161
>implying you'd need 1500 sailors on a ship with modern systems

>>33023210
An ignoble end to the most decorated RN ship ever.

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Anyone have rare yamatos? This pic is like the only one of it that exists besides USN guncams of them blowing it to hell.

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>>33023468
> From 19 to 23 June 1944, Yamato escorted forces of Ozawa's Mobile Fleet during the Battle of the Philippine Sea, dubbed by American pilots "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot".[25][26] The Japanese lost three aircraft carriers and 426 aircraft;[25] Yamato's only significant contribution was mistakenly opening fire on returning Japanese aircraft.[21]

Reels Rad Man

>>33023476
sums up battleships after ww2

>>33022948
This has done things to my dick that I don't think i'll ever be able to recover from.

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>>33022634
Nice

Having 7 turrets was partly because the order for her required that she be an impressive ship - not for the Royal Navy, but for the (newly republican) Brazilian Navy as Rio de Janeiro, part of the lesser-known south american dreadnought race between Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

When relations between Britain and Argentina improved and it looked like Brazil's rubber boom collapsing meant payment would be an issue, the ship was sold to the Ottomans instead as the Sultan Osman I

Except when it looked like the Ottomans were going to join the Central Powers the ship, along with another dreadnought (Reşadiye, essentially a King George V class ) were seized on the orders of the Admiralty and renamed HMS Agincourt and HMS Erin... said seizure then made sure the Ottomans would join on the German side (the Germans giving the Ottomans one of their own ships helped too)

Pic has Erin in the background, but barely visible

>>33015990
Only Warspite, QE and Valiant got the tower bridge structure.

No Revenge class was upgraded in the same way.

>>33024114
The battlecruiser Renown did, I know shes not really a Royal Sovereign class.

>>33016175
>tfw you will never live in this golden era

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>>33024084
Someone mention South American dreadnought race?

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>>33024934
Yep. Very rarely talked about

Amusingly, when it came out that Brazil had ordered a dreadnought so quickly (making them the third country to have one, after Britain and the US, but ahead of major players like Germany, France, Russia and Japan) that it sent international politics and commentators astir, and most assumed that Brazil was someone's proxy - that the ships would be taken by some other nation soon after completion (there's a good quote about it on the wiki)

Brazil denied it and the British Admiralty didn't think such a sale would take place, but few could believe Brazil was buying such a powerful and prestigious weapon as a dreadnought - one which may well have been the most powerful ship in the world when she launched (having 12 12" guns to Dreadnought's 10 and South Carolina's 8).

For their part this shit up Argentina and Chile (not long out of their own naval arms race) and their mutual naval treaty quickly fell by the wayside as they rushed to respond

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>Texas has its own battleship.

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>>33013268
>WHY DO BONG BOATS ALL HAVE THE BEST FUCKING NAMES HOLY SHIT
>MY FUCKING DICK AAAAAHHHHHH

If I was you I'd be more worried about your ass. Royal Navy has traditions...

>Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
>t. Winston Churchill

HMS Gay Viking
HMS Gay Corsair
HMS Gay Archer
HMS Gay Bombardier
HMS Gay Bowman
HMS Gay Bruiser
HMS Gay Caribineer
HMS Gay Cavalier
HMS Gay Centurion
HMS Gay Charger
HMS Gay Charioteer
HMS Gay Dragoon
HMS Gay Fencer
HMS Gay Forester

OC from BB -60 was driving atm so quityrbitchin. Will be taking my boys b4 Mardi Gras

>>33017562

Imagine being a kid growing up in Allied-occupied Germany and making the giant burnt out Battleship sitting in the harbor a clubhouse for your friends to fuck around in after school.

>>33030876

The fact that Gneisenau was sunk as blockship in in Poland might make that kinda hard to imagine.

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>>33024084
For some strange reason this ship became my favorite RN dreadnought.I remember reading somewhere that she was described as "a floating magazine who's only form of protection was a high rate of fire" In another Jutland book it was said the ship resembled a Battlecruiser blowing up when she fired full salvos!

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>>33023468
Don't have much in the way of actual photos. Just artworks. But i'll post em anyways

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>>33034451

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USS Iowa under attack and soon to be sunk.

>>33034718

So does every state in the US have a ship named after it?

>>33035578
not quite, i believe the montana class was supposed to fix that but they were cancelled.

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>>33035578
>So does every state in the US have a ship named after it?
Multiple ships usually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_Navy_ships_named_after_US_states