# Coolest Battleships / Battleship Designs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-battleships-battleship-designs/498817>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 5, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-battleships-battleship-designs/498817 "2009-06-05T14:00:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-battleships-battleship-designs/498817/61 "2009-06-13T04:07:33Z")

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> [@Quercus](#):
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> That Yamato, or [This one](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/Sd9qdNsrnxI/AAAAAAAAkT4/caxF8UI_f6U/s1600-h/lego_battleship_yamato_05.jpg)?

Well, it’s only a pocket battleship, but the [Admiral Graf Spee](http://www.bismarck-class.dk/shipmodels/german_models/admiralgrafspeeterra.html) might give the YaLego a run for it’s plastic.

Almost G.I. Joe scale. And to think, kids were pining over the U.S.S. Flagg playset. 😃 🆒

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**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-battleships-battleship-designs/498817/62 "2009-06-13T07:15:38Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Who were the French expecting to fight in 1898,?

Probably the English, even though the entante cordiale had been in effect for a few years. The German high seas fleet under Kaiser Whilhem was going into production, and it would be seven years later that the Japanese defeated the Russians at Tushima.

As well , France at the time was still a colonial empire and required a navy that would protect her sea lines of communication. That ship though does not look like battleship , but more like what would be called armored cruisers.

Declan

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**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-battleships-battleship-designs/498817/63 "2009-06-13T07:17:01Z")

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> [@Quercus](#):
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> That Yamato, or [This one](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mmBw3uzPnJI/Sd9qdNsrnxI/AAAAAAAAkT4/caxF8UI_f6U/s1600-h/lego_battleship_yamato_05.jpg)?

I wonder how hard would it be to modify that for a wave motion gun.

Declan

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coolest-battleships-battleship-designs/498817/64 "2009-06-13T13:15:16Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Is that some sort of shrapnel ?

Sort of; san-shiki rounds were a combination of shrapnel and incendiary tubes meant to explode forward (timed with a fuse to explode in a predetermined time) in a shower of fire and steel. It would have been a hell of a sight to say the least.

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