ITT: Greatest looking Navy ships of history.
I'll start
>HMS Victory
>>567842
>>567842
I've always loved the Queen Elizabeth Class.
>no HMS Dreadnought
>>568005
She's a beauty.
Dreadnought and Victory together.
Littorio battleship class was better looking
>>567873
Sad fate for a Pearl Harbor survivor.
>>567999
Too bad Beatty never coordinated with Evan-Thomas at Jutland. The QEs and Big Cats would have stomped Hipper's shit.
I really wish some of the Kasierliche Marine's battleships survived as museum ships.
>you will never starve in port while your commanders plot to throw your life away for the sake of their egoes
why even live
>you will never get absolutely fucking wrecked by shells from the QE class battleships.
>>568401
Dear God, it's amazing she made it back to port.
Either the HMS Rose (HMS Surprise in the movie Master and Commander) or the USS Constitution
Warspite is best spite
Nelson class doesn't get enough love
>>567873
why are bongs so edgy while a black man is fucking his wife?
>>567842
beautiful
anyone got any requests? I got boatloads of ships
>>567842
HMS King George V
HMS Agincourt.
Note her 7 gun turrets.
Captain Miranda.
>>568593
Almost looks like a steampunk ship.
>all this battleship wankery
here you go guise
>>568593
wow, who threw out the rule book?
Anyone got some of those beautiful modern cruisers? My friend works on one that just left Portsmouth, it's got a wonderful line about it.
>>568868
You mean the Type 45's? They're destroyers lad, cruisers don't really exist any more in modern navies.
There's something so aesthetic about WW2 cruisers to me.
Not among my favorites but this one deserves to be more well-known. It's so bizzare. I'm used to seeing post-Dreadnought ships and this one's one of a kind from the Spanish-American War.
>>568670
there are masts in the way
I like ships used during scientific expeditions though most of them don't exist anymore.
Cook's HMS Endeavour.
>>569187
Cook's 2nd. HMS Resolution.
>>569191
Shackleton's failboat.
>>569196
Another one because it's a recent find and one of the best photos.
>>569222
Scott's Discovery.
>>569227
Scott's Terra Nova. Maybe not the best details of the ship but I like the composition.
>>569233
Fram.
>>568593
Tumblehomes make me hard as diamonds
>>568021
>>569254
Me too
Something about wide sides ;^)
>>571601
out with the old, in with the new...
>>569177
There's only 1 dreadnought left, too.
>"Gentlemen, the battle against the Scharnhorst has ended in victory for us. I hope that any of you who are ever called upon to lead a ship into action against an opponent many times superior, will command your ship as gallantly as the Scharnhorst was commanded today." -Admiral Bruce Fraser
The Great White Fleet
>implying it's not obviously the Aurora
>>568462
Worst post-dreadaught battleship, easily.
>hey guys, running away is for pussies. Why do we have a turret on the back?
> It is better for weight distribution, and it's more versatile. Besides, we can still fire all of them in a broadside.
> Ha, broadsides, Napoleonic wars are over chap. Just put all of the guns in the front, so we can put them all to use in the chase, as the bloody frogs and huns run away again.
And so, they made a design with all the guns in the front, and somehow they forgot to raise the rear turret above the others, So now they can fire in less directions then before, firing the third turret will shatter all glass on the bridge due to proximity, AND THEY STILL CAN ONLY FIRE ALL TURRETS IN A BROADSIDE!
>>572368
I always liked the look of the all forward configuration on the Richelieu class.
Behold: the side by side turret.
always loved the Iowa
>>572386
Are there any videos of it firing?
>>572393
https://youtu.be/dVvEPTYrcXA?t=1m26s
>>572432
and i just now realized that's the Wisconsin.
forgive me it's 5am here
>>572393
Here's the Iowa
https://youtu.be/vHSn1pjynng?t=21s
>>572381
>side by side turret.
huh, never seen that before. I guess if you find yourself in the middle of the fray..
>>572669
How does the Panama Canal even work nowadays when ships are just getting bigger and bigger?
>>572691
By not using ships that are larger than panamax that need to use the Panama canal
>>572368
It was a result of the Washington Naval Treaty limiting tonnage.
Nelson's weird layout was the result of trying to shrink the citadel to keep weight down. The citadel on battleships generally stretches between all the turrets, so by putting them all together they could keep weight down while still getting the layout and protection level they wanted.
>>572433
>>572438
They're the same class, so there's honestly little difference.
>>567842
As I'm the red Dragon, I love transitions between two states.
So I like the transition from this
>>569191
>>569187
>>567842
To this
>>567999
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>>568457
Which is pic related and looks like these
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>>572381
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>>572917
>no one posted North Carolina class yet
Austro-Hungarian deradnoughts seemed pretty classy.
>>572930
They are working on a full scale recreation of this ship in Koge, Denmark.
Or its sistership to be exact.
The picture is a model of the ship Fides and they are building Hummeren which was its sistership as far as i know.
Takao is love, Takao is life
Takaos, sex queens of the ocean
When it comes to modern ships nothing beats the Kirov in sexy department. NOTHING.
Fuso, one of the oddest motherfuckers there was with a 45m pagoda mast and 6 turrets.
Scharnhorst givess off a very elegant and sleak feeling.
>>571606
ikr ;)
>>572800
Holy fuck, i think that might be the picture ive been looking for about 5 years now, do you know of any similar one, only with a different color dreadnought and bigger French flag?
Spotted this sailing this morning through Waterford estuary in Ireland, pretty cute.
All the Irish naval vessels are named after the reddit meme "Le"
pic related is the Le James Joyce
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%89_James_Joyce_%28P62%29
>>573044
I just found them looking for "French pre dreadnoughts WWI" on Google.
>>573063
Thanks ill give it a search, have some French pre dreadnoughts.
>>573063
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>>573097
I obviously didn't mean that exact one. But, thanks, i guess.
>>568559
>K.u.K
HMS Hood may have had a glass jaw but she was pretty
>>567999
The QEs just look how a battleship should to me. When I think of a battleship I imagine it looks like that
>>571759
>Filename
The star spangled banner bring hither,
O'er Columbia's true sons let it wave;
May the wreaths they have won never wither,
Nor its stars cease to shine on the brave.
May thy service united ne'er sever,
But hold to the colors so true;
The Army and Navy forever,
Three cheers for the red, white, and blue!
The USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, receiving the largest military flypast in history. It was simultaneously a celebration of peace and a demonstration to the defeated Japanese - and the world - of America's military might.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMrjjrK4Mu4
>>572993
To sleek for her own good. The engines were too tall for her armor belt and they needed to raise a section in a 'top hat'. This was silly.
