Identify This!!! 1.0

It is indeed 'Victory Chimes,' and you can buy it for $1.5 million from me if you happen to have that kind of change lying around the house....!  Here's the listing:

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1900/Schooner-Schooner%2C-Three-Masted-1959037/Rockland/ME/United-States

searat12 wrote:

... and you can buy it for $1.5 million from me if you happen to have that kind of change lying around the house ...

Haha, I'm afraid that is way over my budget (and probably always will) . Smart looking vessel though.

Next picture: a very promising young man!

Very well done Onyxman! Jackie Fisher it is! I didn't expect he would be recognised so quickly although his facial characteristics did give him away.

The floor is yours Onyxman!

Name both ships.

Correct! You have the con.

Fred

Sorry for the delay.

I hope this is OK.

Is it the OSV Peter W. Anderson?

Yes indeed, the OSV Peter W Anderson,now sleeping with the fishes.

 Formerly USS Antelope (PGM-86) of the Asheville class.  As OSV Peter W Anderson she served as one of two major (?) vessels belonging to the Environmental Protection Agency.  She was modified in appearance several times while in EPA service.

Your turn, Bryan.
Rick

Thank you Rick. Ok, new one:

No, sorry, neither one of those.

Then it can only be either HMS Collingwood, St Vincent, or Vanguard, completed in 1910.  As far as I know, these are the only British battleships with wing turrets and two masts, with the aft turrets 'in-line'.....

Well done Searat! By giving us these names you may call yourself the winner although the ship pictured isn't HMS Collingwood, nor St. Vincent, nor Vanguard!

Confused? That was the intention. The ship pictured is actually the SS Perthsire made to look like HMS Vanguard. She was one of the Royal Navy's dummy battleships; ex-merchant vessels, converted in 1914 to make them look like British battleships and battlecruisers & thus fooling German intelligence and Naval Command.

Other ships disguised this way were: City of Oxford/St Vincent, Michigan/Collingwood, Montezuma/Iron Duke, Ruthenia/King George V, Tyrolia/Centurion, Oruba/Orion (pictured below), Mount Royal/Marlborough, Montcalm/Audacious, Princess/Ajax, Cevic/Queen Mary, Manipur/Indomitable, Patrician/Invincible & Merion/Tiger.

Your next Searat!

Ok, thank you Searat! Here's another one. This time a Dutch picture taken in 1953.

The skipper of this ship is considered a national hero in The Netherlands. What did he do?

Not "Flying Enterprise"

SO

My guess is he stuck his ship into a broken dike - much more effective than a thumb.

Yep, that's exactly what Arie Evergroen did with his ship Twee Gebroeders (Two Brothers). And by doing so he probably saved up to a hundred thousand(!) lives. The hole in the dike along the IJssel was about initially 15 m (45 ft) wide and his ship was 18 m long. Hadn't it been for Mr. Evergroen then a huge area of Holland, including Rotterdam, The Hague, Delft and Gouda, would have been flooded in 30 ft of water (see map).

Well done Sharkbait, you're next!

 This ship is the main subject of a well known Canadian book.

Good Guess but St Roch was made of wood and a tad bit smaller.

Here is the "Damsel in Distress" of the drama. The whole shebang ended up in Bermuda, on the rocks. One of the great salvage tales.

Leicester?

Rescued by the Foundation Josephine.

No more telephone calls! Ladies and Gentlemen; we have a winner!

Surface Line is correct on both counts.

The book " The Serpent's Coil. " by Canadian author Farley Mowat is, in my opinion, one of the best sea tales around.

His book "Grey Seas Under" about the salvage tug Foundation Franklin in the 30's and 40's is also a riviting read. Both are available on amazon.

Your turn Surface Line.

  Is that a photo of the restored frigate Trincomalee, formally known as the Foudroyant, now on display at the Hartlepool's Historic Quay in England ?

   Montani semper liberi !  Happy modeling to all and every one of you.

                                    Crackers 

It most certainly is.  Thank you for ending my misery quickly.  It just occurs to me that I have a different photo of her that I took when I visited Portsmouth in 1984 and she was anchored out in the stream, waiting for her future.  At that time I had no idea what ship I was looking at.

Rick