Pictures of your favorite Men of War

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Please post pictures or paintings of your favorite Men of war from any era. Personally I prefer the age of sail.

Heres the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/constitution/sailsail.jpg

Check out the intro on this site (http://www.ussconstitution.com/storefront.htm)


The Constitution was built at Edmund Hart's shipyard in Boston from the resilient lumber of 2,000 live oak trees (specifically Southern live oak)cut and milled at Gascoigne Bluff on St. Simons, Georgia. The Constitution's planks were up to seven inches (178 mm) thick. The ship's design was also unique for its time because of a diagonal cross-bracing of the ship's skeleton that contributed considerably to the ship's structural strength. Paul Revere forged the copper spikes and bolts that held the planks in place and the copper sheathing that protected the hull. Thus armed, Constitution first put to sea 22 July 1798 and saw her first service patrolling the southeast coast of the United States during the Quasi-War with France.

LINK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution)

And heres my other favorite

http://www.vkham.com/images/HMS%20Victory%20in%20PM.jpg.JPG

Of Course its the HMS Victory. The great thing about both these ships is you can still see them.

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/3512.html

LINK (http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/3512.html)

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Victory is the oldest commisioned warship in the world, not the Constitution.

[Sjakihata]

so Men of War is ships, or what? ~:confused:

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Victory is the oldest commisioned warship in the world, not the Constitution.

And your point ? I suggest you read my post again.


Heres the world's oldest commissioned warship AFLOAT

The Victory is in permanent drydock while the Constitution still sail the seas.


so Men of War is ships, or what?

Men of War are armed naval ships designed for only one purpose. To fight .

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Oh, woops, my bad. Didn't read your post properly.

[Sjakihata]

http://www.navalhistory.dk/images/Skibene/IJ/Jylland1862/Jylland(1860)-43-1958.jpg

http://www.navalhistory.dk/images/Skibene/IJ/Jylland1862/Jylland(1860)-712-1986.jpg

The Frigate of Jylland, 1862.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jylland%28ship%29

[PanzerJaeger]

Hmm, im more into battleships, but you did say a man of war was an "armed naval ships designed for only one purpose. To fight .", so i guess they count too.

The greatest battleship ever, the Yamato.
http://www.tamiyausa.com/images/product/130/78002/header_1.jpg

The most stylish battleship ever, the Bismarck.
http://www.tamiyausa.com/images/product/130/78001/header_1.jpg

[RabidGibbon]

https://img367.imageshack.us/img367/4686/tricomalee1js.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

The runner up to the Constitution, on display at Hartlepool,

My favourite fighting ship 'cos I get to play "Army" on it a couple of times a year under the guise of historical re-enactment.

Oh it's HMS Tricomalee by the way, A RN frigate built in 1817.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

I personally like the early-mid 1900s for ships.

http://www.milartgl.com/images_2_b/bismark_march.jpg
KMS Bismarck

http://www.ship-paintings.com/large_images/uss_new_jersey.JPG
USS New Jersey

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/images/hood.jpg
HMS Hood

http://www.milartgl.com/images_3_b/b_appointment_with_destiny.jpg
The Bismarck Again


Going back to the age of sail, my favorite has to be the:

http://www.patrickobrienstudio.com/maritime%20art/paintings/assets/Victory%20at%20Trafalgar%202.jpg
HMS Victory.

[Craterus]

http://www.co.honolulu.hi.us/esd/oceansafety/pochowarpic.jpg

It's a portuguese one. ( ~;) )

[The_Doctor]

Picture of new battlestar galactica.

Picture of an Imperial Star Destroyer.

Take that none flying ships.

[English assassin]

My granddad was a shipwright in HM Dockyard Chatham all his life (well, except for a small diversion to Alexandria Dockyard 1939-45) and he always said HMS Hood was the most beautiful ship he ever saw.

So I bow to his professional opinion.

Victory is a more convenient and dryer day out though.

[econ21]

I agree with EA's grand-dad - the HMS Hood was a very elegant looking ship. Maybe like PJ, I made models of some battleships in my youth - the Bismarck bristled with guns and looked mean, but the Hood was an object of beauty,

[lancelot]

I always thought the Iowa-class was pretty cool lookin.

[Drisos]

https://img399.imageshack.us/img399/4515/naamloos1bb.jpg

[The Stranger]

can you guys please use smaller pics ~D i'd like to see this but i think i cant soon due size of the pics

[Beirut]

Agreed. Please keep all pics within the normal border size of the thread.

Those of you who have posted larger pics please fix them.

Thanks. :bow:

[RabidGibbon]

https://img165.imageshack.us/img165/4171/warspite8rq.jpg (https://imageshack.us)

Re: Ships that proved themselves, heres HMS Warspite, which fought at Jutland and IIRC saw more action than any other ship in WWII.

It's Clicking Time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Warspite_%281913%29)

[Drisos]

Agreed. Please keep all pics within the normal border size of the thread.

Those of you who have posted larger pics please fix them.

Thanks Beirut. IMO this should be a forum rule... wrecked layout and +10 min loading time aren't so cool ~:)