PhilB Posted 10 March , 2007 Share Posted 10 March , 2007 What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
montbrehain Posted 10 March , 2007 Share Posted 10 March , 2007 Have a look at my post Re "Aurora" now that is a good looking ship "MO" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 10 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 10 March , 2007 But MO, you can`t tell which way it`s going! Is it one of the "Packet of Woodbines" class? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 10 March , 2007 Share Posted 10 March , 2007 QUOTE (Phil_B @ Mar 10 2007, 05:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But MO, you can`t tell which way it`s going! Is it one of the "Packet of Woodbines" class? Phil B Don't you mean what you lit your Woodies with? England's Glory matches. cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Saunders Posted 10 March , 2007 Share Posted 10 March , 2007 Wrong war but for aesthetic beauty how about the Graf Spee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 10 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 10 March , 2007 I was going to suggest Tirpitz from WW2. Are she and Graf Spee related? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaeldr Posted 10 March , 2007 Share Posted 10 March , 2007 http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...l%3Den%26sa%3DN Now that's a beautiful ship!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 10 March , 2007 Share Posted 10 March , 2007 It has to be Repulse and Renown. Derfflinger was a very purposeful looking ship, effectively 'double-ended', but not beautiful in an aesthetic sense. In WW2, I prefer Scharnhorst and Gneisenau to Bismarck and Tirpitz. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
per ardua per mare per terram Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 (edited) Most beautiful pre war design: Queen Elizabeths Wartime Renown, Repulse Then the Brits lost it in the 1920s! WW2 Scharnhorst Hood would have made a lovely aircraft carrier! Edited 11 March , 2007 by per ardua per mare per terram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Saunders Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 QUOTE (Phil_B @ Mar 10 2007, 06:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I was going to suggest Tirpitz from WW2. Are she and Graf Spee related? Phil B Graf Spee was a commerce raider. It was like a pocket-battleship but built for speed with a very hard punch. Tirpitz was a full on battleship, probably three times the size. Both beautiful ships - Germany had a habit of building good looking ships IMHO, but there is a model of the Graf Spee at Chatham dockyard and I always have to spend about 10 minutes looking at the sheer beauty of it whenever I am there. Regards, Jon S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 11 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Graf Spee. Hmmmm..... Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Hesketh Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Didn't look so good after the Royal Navy had modified it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Kilkenny Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Strictly speaking, of course, they didn't! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Hesketh Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Well, OK, but they had it booked in for a service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Kilkenny Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Excellent! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 11 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Which leads us to Ajax. Quite pretty? Don`t you think the current Russian hulls are attractive, though spoilt by top harness? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Beauty is, of course, in the eye of the beholder. I can find nothing of beauty in a ship which is bristling with weapons. I can be impressed with the engineering and functional design abilities of the men who built these murder machines but beautiful? Sorry, no. The Thermopylae under full sail, now that is beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 11 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 11 March , 2007 So nothing for HMS Victory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 11 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Or even USS Constitution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horace Bachelor Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Any of the battlecruisers, particularly Tiger but I can't find a decent picture of her. The Iron Dukes were rather nice too. Here's Emperor of India. Rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Rich's picture sums it up admirably. The absolute embodiment of menace and power. Here is the physical manifestation of battleship diplomacy. " Do as I wish or find one of these sitting off your main seaport". None of this suggests beauty to me. In fact, it reeks of the opposite. Death, destruction and might is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morcombe Posted 11 March , 2007 Share Posted 11 March , 2007 Personally, I stick with good ol' HMS "HOOD", as did all in the good old days. However, IJN "Yamato" was very impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 12 March , 2007 Share Posted 12 March , 2007 WW1 HMS Repulse - WW2 Bismark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilB Posted 12 March , 2007 Author Share Posted 12 March , 2007 Didn`t the US have any nice ships? Or did those tripod mast contraptions spoil them all? Phil B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Morcombe Posted 12 March , 2007 Share Posted 12 March , 2007 QUOTE (Phil_B @ Mar 12 2007, 10:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Didn`t the US have any nice ships? Or did those tripod mast contraptions spoil them all? Phil B The Yanks would all doubtless say "IOWA" class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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