Ship Trivia Quiz

OK, since no one else is going to stick their neck out, I will. ("Never volunteer ', they said) What carrier was the first to be built with an angled flight deck as part of her original design?

subfixer, british or american as the british were the ones who 1st came up with the angle deck idea?

It is a USN carrier. The key is that until this one was built, the angle decks were add-ons.

I would say that although USS Midway ran sea trials with an angled-deck, it was not part of original construction.  The first carrier built with an angled deck was USS Antietam (CVA 36).

Cheers,

RODC 

I have one.....what was the very first battleship (any nation) to mount 16" guns???

RODC

I believe the first was USS Forrestal CVA-59 keel laid July 1952.

Yankee Clipper

rodc wrote:

I have one.....what was the very first battleship (any nation) to mount 16" guns??? RODC

Sorry, you have to answer a question correctly first to ask one.

Good Luck,

David

I think Nagato was the first BB with 16 inchers.

billydelawder wrote:

I think Nagato was the first BB with 16 inchers.

 

your right

1st designed but not built was the uss united states.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cva-58-schem.htm

the 1st built as such was the forrestal

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cv-59-schem.htm

So far, no one has submitted the correct answer to the first question concerning the angle deck. While the answers given are valid observations, the question is the first CV laid down and built with an angle deck as part of her original design. The Forrestal was not originally designed to incorporate an angle deck although it was built with one.

I always thought it was the USS Ranger.

 

How Bout the Kitty Hawk?

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