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Posted by ddp59 on Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:07 AM

what non-nuclear powered sub brought out a important design change that is still used today's subs?

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Posted by TomZ2 on Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:00 PM

A periscope?

Occasional factual, grammatical, or spelling variations are inherent to this thesis and should not be considered as defects, as they enhance the individuality and character of this document.

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Posted by surfsup on Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:22 PM

USS Albacore launched in 1953 was the first Conventionally powered Sub built with a Tear Drop Hull and used One Propeller for underwater Speed rather then 2 Props for Surface manouvering.....Cheers Mark

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Posted by ddp59 on Thursday, September 27, 2012 9:21 PM

surfsup, correct, your it.

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Posted by surfsup on Friday, September 28, 2012 4:25 AM

Ok which major surface ship was sunk by shore batteries in ww2?

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Posted by Echo139er on Friday, September 28, 2012 7:55 AM

The Blucher.  Sunk by Norwegian shore batteries, April 9, 1940.

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Posted by surfsup on Sunday, September 30, 2012 4:41 AM

You have it my Friend. Over to you for the next one.....Cheers mark

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Posted by Echo139er on Sunday, September 30, 2012 1:04 PM

This 20th century  U.S. naval vessel, designed to to keep a battlefleet suplied with fuel and other cargo, disappeared with all hands.  To this day, it has not been found.

Name the ship.

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Posted by ddp59 on Sunday, September 30, 2012 4:10 PM

Cyclops, which disappeared without a trace during World War I, Proteus, and Nereus, which disappeared on the same route as Cyclops in World War II.

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, October 1, 2012 7:22 AM

That's the one.  All yours ddp59!

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Posted by oceano75 on Monday, October 1, 2012 8:48 PM

Ark Royal

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Posted by ddp59 on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 12:08 PM

what is different in appearance between LHD-8 Makin Island & her sisters?

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Posted by F-8fanatic on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:23 PM

The difference is in the island, more specifically in the smokestacks.  This is due to the changes in propulsion in LHD-8 over her sister ships.  Incidentally, the same propulsion and engineering system that Makin Island uses is supposed to go into the new USS America, the next generation LHA.

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Posted by surfsup on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:29 PM

The Maikin Island is the only one of her Class to be powered by LM 2500+ Gas Turbines and Electric Drive. She also has all Electric Design so no Steam is used aboard.....Cheers mark

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Posted by ddp59 on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 4:42 PM

F-8fanatic, your turn.

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Posted by F-8fanatic on Thursday, October 4, 2012 8:28 AM

Alright...

I am looking for a warship.  The ship served in two wars, but missed one in between.  The men who sailed in her took to calling her "Old Razor Blades" because every time they turned around, something new had broken or gone wrong with the ship.  But she did her job, being awarded numerous awards for combat duty.  While sitting out the war in between, she received upgrades...she was the first ship of her navy to sail with a particular upgrade--this upgrade was so important that every one of these ships built ever since for this same navy--and every planned ship for the future--has this feature included.  This ship has a bit of a connection to the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo.  

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Posted by subfixer on Thursday, October 4, 2012 3:43 PM

Sounds like you are describing the Mobile Chernobyl, USS Enterprise CVN-65. After Vietnam she missed Operation Desert Shield/Storm while in overhaul but made it in time to participate in Iraqi Freedom  and Enduring Freedom. She has had many upgrades that have been incorporated into other CVNs but I am unsure of which one you may be referring to. 

Her namesake was with Hornet during the Doolittle raid.

If this isn't the ship you are after than I am stumped.

I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

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Posted by F-8fanatic on Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:01 PM

Nope, not the Big E....the ship I am looking for is no longer in use.  But the Enterprise itself has the feature I was talking about....

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Posted by Felix C. on Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:22 PM

angled flight deck

USS Antietam

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Posted by surfsup on Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:51 PM

Could it be the USS JFK. Since her Collision at Sea with USS Belknap, she and subsequent Carriers have has a Belknap Mast installed on the Starboard Beam where the FlightDeck widens. The only tie in with Tokyo is that JFK was homeported in Tokyo.

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Posted by F-8fanatic on Thursday, October 4, 2012 10:07 PM

Not the JFK or the Antietam......Antietam only saw duty in one war.  Also, I should have been more specific--the ship was the first operational ship with the feature I mentioned--Antietam was first to put to sea with the angled deck but was used for sea trials...there was another that was commissioned before CV-36 for operational service with the angled deck as I understand it.

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Posted by Felix C. on Friday, October 5, 2012 7:52 AM

^Appreciate the hint but I am a dud on anything postwar naval.

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Posted by F-8fanatic on Friday, October 5, 2012 6:53 PM

no worries, youve actually been the closest so far

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Posted by Felix C. on Friday, October 5, 2012 8:21 PM

angled flight deck and the ship Shangri-La

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Posted by F-8fanatic on Friday, October 5, 2012 9:52 PM

Yes, it's the Shangri La, CV-38.  Served in two wars(WWII and Vietnam) but missed the one in between, Korea.  The angled deck is indeed the innovation I was referring to, and no US carrier ever since has ever been built without it.  The connection to the Doolittle raid is its name--when asked where the bombers launched from, FDR grinned and said that they launched from a secret base "at Shangri La".  

The ship became known as "Old Razor Blades" by its crew in the 1960s because every time they turned around, something else broke.  My dad sailed on the Shang for two cruises to the Med--66 and 68--with fighter squadron VF-13.  By then, of course, she was showing her age.  The one WestPac cruise to Vietnam in 1970 was no exception--the ship spent much of its 7 month deployment either in port or in drydock for repairs.  First the refrigeration units went out....then they sheared a shaft.....then they lost steering control while in a turn.  Then they lost a screw while launching aircraft.  There was the constant problem of the evaporators never being able to provide enough drinking water.  And then, there was so much cross-contamination of jet fuel in the fresh water that the smoking lamp was out while the men took showers!  The #3 elevator cable unraveled, forcing the ship to DaNang to get it replaced.  The port side cat was notorious for giving cold cat shots.  So, the crew took to calling her "old razor blades" because they felt she was ready to be scrapped and turned into the aforementioned blades.  This ship was a legend in the fleet--it was well known that the Shang had been deprived of the needed funding to get it into proper shape.  One old sea story told of the crew having to send their dirty laundry home from the Med because they couldnt wash the laundry salts out of the clothes on board.

A side note, my dad was an aviation machinists mate from 65-69.  He worked on the J57 jet engines in an F-8 Crusader squadron.  On the 1968 cruise, he was flight deck qualified, so he could sit in the cockpit and run up the engines for over-the-side afterburner checks.  He became a plane captain--navy speak for crew chief--of the squadron's "100" jet.  One of the pilots, a young LT, flew that plane and crashed it--he had a ramp strike.  Since there was a war on, VF-13 was not going to get a replacement jet anytime soon, so my dad, the jet engine mechanic/plane captain, ended up being a cook because there was nothing else for him to do!  

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Posted by Felix C. on Monday, October 8, 2012 1:17 PM

Ok. My turn? Longest aimed torpedo strike of WW2?

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, October 8, 2012 2:06 PM

On July 6, 1943, the USS STRONG (DD- 467) was torpedoed in the Kula Gulf, by a Japanese destroyer from a range of more than 6 nautical miles.

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Posted by Felix C. on Monday, October 8, 2012 2:51 PM

Yes. That easy was it? I meant to write submarine launched but was in hurry. Good for you.

Your turn.

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, October 8, 2012 2:54 PM

Oops. sorry wrong post.  Give me a few to get a new question up.  Stand by to stand by.

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Posted by Echo139er on Monday, October 8, 2012 3:11 PM

Another easy one...  but interesting (to me at least)

What battleship was sunk by German unpowered, freefall guided bombs?

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