Identify This!!! 1.0

searat12 wrote:

It is indeed the USS Brooklyn!!  So you see subfixer, these aren't that hard if you know your stuff (and I made sure that enough really distinctive details were in the photo for identification, like the wheel on the quarterdeck, the round aft turret, old-style 8"guns, etc, etc...).  Your turn bryan01!!!

I do know my stuff, that just wasn't my stuff. I have some stuff that I am quite sure wouldn't be your stuff either. I'll let it go.

Well Bryan is getting a bit of a reputation as a pre- dreadnought meister

Is it perhaps USS Brooklyn 1896?

Yeah, I can be a problem!  Here is the quarterdeck of one of my very favoritest pre-dreadnought ships... What is the ship?

Damn you Searat, two whole minutes! You're too good!

You're next!

Thank you George! Your arithmetic question is indeed still puzzling me

Try to solve this one!

Well done Bryan, you surely know your pre-dreadnoughts. I shall have to move era to test you further, on second thoughts I think I already have over on the Trivia quiz.

Can any ship ever have been so messed about with; converted on the stocks to to screw, then put into ordinary, then cut down to the lower deck, clad in iron and fitted with turrets, but she was the first and only wooden turret ship in the British Navy.

I'm pretty sure it must be HMS Royal Sovereign 1857, a converted Duke of Wellington class three-decker.

Nice rhyme btw

First I was three, then I was one.

First I had broadsides, then I had none,

First I was sail, then I was screw,

Now I have turrets and one funnel too.

My forebear was famous, my heir she was strong

 Who can I be? - don't take too long.

Maybe a Wherry then, although I didn't think they were specific to thr IoM

Is it a Manx Nobby?

Humber perhaps. 

Here's an interesting type of gaff cutter, which was used (sometimes with different rigs in earlier days) to carry small cargo up until the early 19th century.  You can see it's relationship with the old Viking longships, as well as the later Cog.  What kind of boat is this?

searat12 wrote:

Vasa?

you sir are correct

searat12 wrote:

You amaze me sir!  Correct!

It's funny I just happened to have read things related to both ships in the past couple of days. pure luck really.

ok here's a tough one, maybe..... i can't post a picture because it would be a dead giveaway on this particular ship.

This king had the nickname of "the Lion of the North" in the 1600's he had commisioned 4 ships to be built. 3 of these ships are lesser known but the 4th is quite famous. the 3 sisterships are; Tre Kroner, Mercuris, and Applet.

It's vague but i think that any more clues would make it easy.

It appears we must make these a bit tougher...... Here is a very famous ship with a very long career.  As a hint, I can tell you that it was eventually captured and burnt!  What was the name of this ship, and in what battle was it captured and burned?

searat12 wrote:

Nice Baltimore Clipper!  The 'Lynx?'

You are correct!