Identify This!!! 1.0

S/L's right! Memphis. Or is it Tennessee? My vote.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/acr10/acr1019.jpg

Why does navsource reference both Memphis and Tennessee as ACR-10? Wouldn't Tennessee be a BB?

Oh, but California became San Diego. There's a story there... sorry I'm clueless, please explain.

Originally those Armored Cruisers we are discussing were carrying names of states.  In 1916, it was decided to standardize with the new superdreadnaughts all carrying names of states (nothing more like Kearsarge), and they renamed the ACRs to cities with each state, as you observed.  Ergo Washington became Seattle, California became San Diego, South Dakota became Huron, etc, etc.

According to Edward Beach's book "The Wreck of the Memphis", (his father was CO of the Memphis), sailors foresaw an unlucky event for the ship when she was renamed and they changed the raised lettering on her stern from TENNESSEE to MEMPHIS.  But we all know that Memphis and San Diego were the only ones that came to really bad ends.

Rick

Surface_Line wrote:

Looks like the USS Memphis.  Just swamped by a tidal wave in San Domingo on 29 August 1916.

What ship is this and what's special about it?

I thought this would be a drop-kick.  Here's a different view.

8" gun on uss hull dd-945.

USS Hull (DD-945) The destroyer's 8"/55 Mark 71 Major Caliber Lightweight Gun is test fired off San Clemente Island, California, 17 September 1975. Photographed by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Carl R. Begy. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Surfsup,

why don't you present a new question?

Surface_Line wrote:

Surfsup, why don't you present a new question?

Ok Surface_Line.  Here is my Question. My avatar is a famous Ship because  something  happened to Her that did not happen to any other Warship. That is not the Question. What was her only surviving Sister out of three in the class. Two of the class sank during WW2.

I believe your avatar is the HMAS Sydney...sunk by the Kormoran in 1941.

HMAS Perth was sunk during the Battle of Sunda Strait in 1942 along with the cruiser USS Houston.

Sydney & Perth's only surviving sister was the HMAS Hobart.

How'd I go?

Woo Hoo! At last I answered a question correctly!

I would appreciate it Surfsup if perhaps you post the next question. Since I am new here I'm not real sure how to post a picture. You go ahead, I don't want to hold things up.

Thanks.

Ok. Here goes. Can you tell me the name of this Carrier as well as her nickname from the Vietnam War...??? 

Friends - I apologize for my inactivity.

I don't have any good questions off the top of my head, and my work is precluding any chance to poke into interesting reference books for an odd question.

Please make this one a toss-up - first person who wants to present a question should do so.

Rick

OK, what's this?