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KrooK
11-11-2006, 02:05
Last week you told me who is on picture.
Here you have 2 pictures of same ship....

http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9c.jpg
and

http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9f.jpg

What is that ship's name????
KrooK
11-11-2006, 02:08
Last week you told me who is on picture.
Here you have 2 pictures of same ship....

http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9f.jpg


http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9f.jpg

What is that ship's name????

there is mistake with first link
use this

http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9f.jpg
KrooK
11-11-2006, 02:11
Upps another mistake
this one is ok


http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9e.jpg (http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9f.jpg)

and just to confirm 2nd picture of same ship

http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9f.jpg


so - what ship is on pictures?
I beviele in your knowledge guys :)
KrooK
11-11-2006, 02:14
OMG SHAME OF ME:oops:
ANOTHER MISTAKE:oops:
HERE IS CORRECT, I HOPE :2thumbsup:

http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9e.jpg
Gregoshi
11-11-2006, 05:18
It's the HMS Hood.
Aenlic
11-11-2006, 05:35
I was going to guess one of the Three Princes, the Canadian National Railway passenger liners which were converted to Royal Canadian Navy armed merchant cruisers in WWII. The Prince David, Prince Henry and Prince Robert. Most liners converted to military use were only lightly armed troop transports or convoy escorts. The Three Princes underwent more extensive conversion with most of their upper decks removed and replaced with light cruiser superstructures and the addition of 4 bofors dual 40mm gun mounts, 2 each fore and aft. This seems to match the pictures anyway. Later, the David and Henry were further modified to become LSI (M) or Landing Ship Infantry Medium for the invasion of Normandy, while the Robert became an anti-aircraft escort.

However, I was confused by the inclusion of a pic of a passenger liner in the first post.

Gregoshi is a correct. The warship pics alone are of the HMS Hood.

In fact, here is that last pic, with proper attribution as the HMS Hood in the Panama Canal.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h60000/h60452.jpg
KrooK
11-11-2006, 13:05
thank you very much guys
you really helped me :)
The Wizard
11-11-2006, 20:39
I was gonna answer HMAS Australia, but then I saw Greg's post. ~;)
Gregoshi
11-13-2006, 02:32
I wasn't familiar with the appearance of the Hood but it was my gut reaction as I was 100% certain it was not a US ship but looked pre-WW2. A quick search with Google confirmed my hunch. :book:
AggonyDuck
11-13-2006, 08:24
http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9f.jpg

Well because I'm bored I decided to answer this pic too. It is the British battlecruiser HMS Repulse.
Aenlic
11-13-2006, 14:30
http://konkurs.histmag.org/images/2-2-9f.jpg

Well because I'm bored I decided to answer this pic too. It is the British battlecruiser HMS Repulse.

Umm, no it's not. It's also the HMS Hood, from the same web site. It's a picture taken by plane, from 1924 near Pearl Harbor.

Here's the original:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h60000/h60450c.htm

And the enlarged version which corresponds exactly to the 2-2-9f.jpg image:

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h60000/h60450.jpg