Not my thread , but I don’t see why not.
Steam engines and iron clad if nothing else, hulls. The monitor went on to last right up into the early nineteenth century in design, and served as inspiration in the Viet Nam war.
Declan
I’ve always thought the Italian Littorio class battleships were very beautiful. They just had very graceful clean lines.
BB-64, the USS Wisconsin, because:
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I think she’s beautiful, and
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My dad served aboard her in WW2.
Here’s the Wisconsin firing a full broadside.
Yes, the battleships of the 1890’s had machine guns in the masts as a defense against (at the time) small torpedo boats.
If the Allies Pacific fleet was monitoring the Tirpitz then I would have to agree that it was truly bad ass.
Just off topic, but the Tiger at the time of Jutland was a very inefficient ship. It had poor gunnery (it was relatively new) and the crew included a lot of bad elements including previous deserters and such. End of off topic.
This thread has absolutely no legitimacy if sails are against the rules. :mad:
Yeah, that’s why I mentioned it! The Tirpitz was in Norway and the US Pacific fleet got constant updates on whether she had steam up because they wanted as much notice as possible, on the other side of the world.
Yes, those pre-dreadnoughts were truly cool. Too bad there was hardly any actions for them, other than the Russo-Japanese turkey shoot and the Spanish-America turkey shoot. Oddly, in both cases, one fleet pretty much wiped the other with little or no losses on their part.
Well, I’ve got two that I’m fond of, but they barely qualify…because they didn’t actually exist. Or, rather, were never built/completed.
One was actually a modification of the Iowa-class…the “Interdiction Assault Ship” concept from the late 70s, which involved turning an Iowa into a hybrid battleship/aircraft carrier. Six 16"/50’s, and a Harrier squadron. [sub](Plus 155mm turrets replacing the 5" guns, and over three hundred Tomahawks in a vertical launch cluster)[/sub] Yow.
After that, the planned followup to the Iowa class, the Montana class, armed with 12 16-inch guns, and big enough that it couldn’t traverse the Panama Canal.
Preferably, I’d arm either of these with the Mk. 23 “Katie” nuclear shells. 15-20 kiltons of atomic hellfire, on the way!
Battleship trivia of the day: An episode of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion features two Iowa-class battleships as part of a future UN naval mission. But they’re the Illinois and Kentucky—two ships of the class that were planned, but canceled during construction, and the incomplete forms scrapped in the late 50s!
The greatest Capital ships ever; the Derfflinger Class Battlecruisers.
At Jutland they tooks over 30 heavy hits each and survived (Lutzow was scuttled since she could not go over a sand bar, destroyed 3 brtish battlecruisers and faced the QE Class and came out better.
The german navy made a concious design choice to make their ships much tougher and survivable than the Royal Navy. This was intended to mitigate the RNs superior numbers.
I’ve always thought The Bismark was a good looking ship.
Wow.
I always thought the Yamato was the best looking, as well as the biggest.
If Chuck Norris had a BB, it would be the Tirpitz.
He wouln’t have one. Boxers lik Mike Tyson would have battleships. Chuck would have a destroyer or maybe a frigate.
What about the…SUPER YAMATO! 回天! 
From the Super Yamato link:
100 mm (3.9 in)/65 caliber guns
A 50 caliber machine guns are .50 inches. 45 caliber is .45 inches.
What is the relation between 3.9 inches and 65 caliber?
I’d give props to the Nelson Class battleship, designed to cleverly circumvent the Washington Treaty rules. Considering how much the battleships of the time looked alike, this one was as radical as radical gets. Hence, cool.
