Worry_Rock Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 USS Pittsburgh with its bow ripped off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worry_Rock Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 Ngl I don't even know what this is, but its called the USS Vesuvius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall99 Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 SMS Erzherzog Albrecht Launched in 1872 Scrapped in 1950 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cptbarney Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 2 hours ago, Marshall99 said: SMS Erzherzog Albrecht Launched in 1872 Scrapped in 1950 Smoll old chonk. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishyfish Posted November 26, 2020 Author Share Posted November 26, 2020 On 9/29/2020 at 7:50 PM, Worry_Rock said: Ngl I don't even know what this is, but its called the USS Vesuvius It's a test bed for pneumatic cannon, essentially big ole air guns called dynamite guns. Why? Because in the 1880s dynamite was too unstable to be in conventional artillery shells. Essentially the sudden force of firing a standard run of the mill naval cannon would set off the dynamite filler in the shell while still inside the barrel of the naval artillery. I guess this is considered to be bad by most navies. These big ole airguns were gentler in their acceleration and wouldn't set off the sensitive, fragile, coy and otherwise unstable early dynamite explosives. They were a technological dead end, as by the turn of the century advances in high explosive chemistry made dynamite based projectiles more stable and usable in modern artillery. The USS Vesuvius was the only warship to be armed with these experimental weapons (that I know of) which had a very short range in the world of naval combat. That being said it was used to shell Cuba during the spanish american war, where she operated at night and had great psychological effects on the islands defenders. Her bombardments were effectively silent and with out the roar of conventional naval artillery off the horizon these early stealth attacks caused panic and anxiety among the spanish defenders, who never had any warning when the attacks were coming. Also this reply is 3 weeks late, woops? 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Worry_Rock Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 16 hours ago, Fishyfish said: Also this reply is 3 weeks late, woops? Hey, I'll take it, also thank you for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannavy85 Posted January 1, 2021 Share Posted January 1, 2021 I say the Japanese built the most pleasing looking cruisers in naval history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAKTCOM Posted February 28, 2021 Share Posted February 28, 2021 SMS Beowulf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishyfish Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 Look what I found this weekend! I was out with a friend after helping him with some work and he took me to a local Revolutionary War memorial and park, and for some reason.. this was there. I have no idea why other than the city it's in is famous for being a long time US Naval Base. Boy was I excited to see this, I recognized it at once! Off of one of my favorite armored cruisers... behold! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FattyFranz Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 SMS Weissenburg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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