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Posted by Repulse36 on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 8:30 AM

Okay, this one should be easy...

What aircraft carrier once featured the largest caliber gun ever fitted to an active warship? 

 

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Posted by subfixer on Sunday, May 4, 2008 10:36 AM
I second the motion, come back at us, Repulse.

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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Saturday, May 3, 2008 4:00 PM
Normally the format is get the right answer and you get to ask the next question. ddp59 is got something he's working so he is giving up a turn...I say Repulse36...Give us a question!!! Smile [:)]
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Posted by Repulse36 on Saturday, May 3, 2008 2:51 PM

What, you need to be a correct answerer to post a question?

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Posted by ddp59 on Saturday, May 3, 2008 11:49 AM
let somebody else go for it as still waiting for long beach model to arrive.
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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Saturday, May 3, 2008 9:51 AM
ddp59... The floor is yours!!!
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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Friday, May 2, 2008 5:48 PM
Excellent!! Your shot (no pun intended...)
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Posted by ddp59 on Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:58 PM

AP Mark 8 Mods 0 to 8 - 2,700 lbs. (1,225 kg)
HC Mark 13 Mods 0 to 6 - 1,900 lbs. (862 kg)
HC Mark 14 Mod 0 - 1,900 lbs. (862 kg)

AP Mark 8  45 degree 36,900 yards

HC Mark 13  45 degree 40,180 yards

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_16-45_mk6.htm

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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:12 PM

OK...I'll crank it back up with an easy one...The North Carolina class battleship fired 2 types of projectiles from her 16" guns.

1. What were the 2 types of projectiles?

2. What are the ranges of said projectiles?

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Posted by ddp59 on Thursday, May 1, 2008 6:03 PM
go for it as i'm waiting for my long beach model to come in the mail then might ask a question on her.
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Posted by subfixer on Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:17 AM
Somebody needs to wake DDP59 up or ask another question to get this going again.

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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:04 AM

O.K.  I'd hate to be the one who ends this thread...I didn't think the answer would be so difficult or draw little interest. Sad [:(] Sorry!!  

The Noregian steam merchant ship Sneland I was sunk 7 May 1945, at 11:06 p.m. by the U-boat U-2336 commanded by Kapitänleutnant Emil Kluesmeier. 7 were lost including the captain. U-2336 surrendered at Wilhelmshaven and was destryed on January 3rd, 1946 as part of Operation Deadlight.

DDP59 the floor is yours for the next question!!!

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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:10 PM
Hint...The ship was originally named the Ingeborg and was Norwegian. It was sunk less than an hour before the official end of the war and 3 days after Donitz gave cease fire orders to all U-boat commanders
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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:11 AM
I jumped the gun with my question. I should have asked "what was the last ship sunk by torpedo..." or direct contact with a German warship.  Kapitänleutnant Rupprecht Stock and his boys were long gone when the HMS Kurd struck a mine laid down some 11 months earlier!!!  http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/3513.html I'll give it up to you for the research.  At the risk of over-stepping my boundary or continuing my turn what was the last ship directly sunk by a German warship in World War II...Hint...The U-boat responsible did it just hours before the above mention U-218 surrendered...
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Posted by ddp59 on Friday, April 25, 2008 10:34 PM

U-218 has the credit for the last ship sunk in World War Two when the British steam fishing vessel Kned was sunk on 10 July, 1945 by a mine field laid in August 1944 off Lizard Head by U-218. U-218 herself surrendered to the allies in May 1945 and ended up in Operation Deadlight.

http://www.uboat.net/special/faq.htm?question=3

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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Friday, April 25, 2008 6:01 PM
Sorry it took so long to get back...Never got to give a question so had a bit of a time finding a question! I'm sure this is easy and may already be on the forum but...What was the last ship sunk by the Germans in WWII and when did it happen. Sorry it's such an easy one.
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Posted by runkel on Friday, April 25, 2008 7:30 AM
boston your up.
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Posted by bostonbruins34 on Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:32 PM
Was it the cruiser Los Angeles??
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Posted by runkel on Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:16 AM
Sorry everyone but I was in a hurry yesterday. George Stickle transfers from the Elias J Starbright to Harlock's ship after they meet Mr Limpet.
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Posted by runkel on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:32 PM
Thanks, subfixer. What was the ship in The Incredible Mr. Limpet?
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Posted by subfixer on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:56 AM
Go ahead runkel, you got it correctly.

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Posted by RickF on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:46 AM

Yes, it should have been Audacious or Agamemnon, but those cunning Frenchies beat us to it!

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Posted by runkel on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:18 AM

This was a quick google search,

Le Napoléon was a 90-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the very first purpose-built steam battleship in the world

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Posted by subfixer on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 5:47 AM
Thank you, Rick.    OK, what was the first purpose-built steam powered battleship?

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Posted by RickF on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:37 PM

Yes indeed. In the first recorded submarine versus submarine action, U-22 failed to identify the surfaced U-7 off the Dutch coast and torpedoed her on 21 January 1915. Only the captain of U-7 survived.

Looks like your turn , Subfixer.

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Posted by subfixer on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 11:17 AM
After a quick google (thanks for the more than generous hint, Rick) I found that the U-7 was torpedoed by the U-22 in 1915 off of the Dutch coast. I would say that it was the first sinking of a submarine (or unterseeboot) by another.

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Posted by RickF on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 7:53 AM

All gone very quiet. To help it along, let me tell you that the U-22/U-7 incident was what I was looking for... but how was it a "first"?

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Posted by RickF on Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:47 AM

Sorry Jim, we're looking at an earlier U-22.

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Posted by runkel on Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:22 AM
On November 18, 1939 she had her first achievement, sinking the tiny coastal cargo ship SS Parkhill off the Scottish coast. Can't tie SS Parkhill or the Captain to anything.
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Posted by RickF on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:19 PM

ddp59 has "almost" the right answer, but what was the "first" achieved by U-22?

Rick

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