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Here is a picture of one of my favourite aircraft-cruisers of all time
Hint: its Swedish
HMS Gotland
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Here's another ship.
Just so everyone knows where we're up to, this is still the current ship. Clues so far are:
1. It was constructed in Italy
2. Its not a Cadorna class cruiser
3. It was in service prior to HOI4's start date
Going to guess rather than look up, so, was it in the Italian navy, or did Italy build it for someone else?
Edit: PS, great ship btw
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Going to guess rather than look up, so, was it in the Italian navy, or did Italy build it for someone else?
Edit: PS, great ship btw
1. It was constructed in Italy
2. Its not a Cadorna class cruiser
3. It was in service prior to HOI4's start date
4. It served in the Italian navy
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I found a picture on google claiming that it's Bolzano, but I'm inclined to disagree due to difference in bridge stucture in particular. It still looks like Luigi Cadorna or Armando Diaz to me.
E.g. compare:
to
and Bolzano:
E.g. compare:
to
and Bolzano:
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I found a picture on google claiming that it's Bolzano, but I'm inclined to disagree due to difference in bridge stucture in particular. It still looks like Luigi Cadorna or Armando Diaz to me.
E.g. compare:
to
and Bolzano:
I was indeed working on the assumption that it was the Bolzano. I'm more an army than a navy guy, and to be honest even after looking at the pics you posted and doing searches I'm not 100% sure which ship it is. After consulting the silhouettes in my Janes Fighting Ships of WWII I'll concede there is a good chance the pic is a Cadorna class.
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Pay particular attention to the relatively clean conical (rangefinder?) tower with searchlight platform on both sides and a director directly foward of it, the slightly bulging and cleanly rounded bridge and the lightly fitted mainmast (aft). There is also some tumblehome evident on Cadornas midships, meaning the ship's sides are angled slightly inwards (as on 16th century galleon or French pre-dreadnought), and this is visible in both the pictures I posted.
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I had a gander at some pics as well (as well as the one's posted by Antediluvian), and while the Bolzano seems close, I'd err on the side of Cadorna. Was a great 'guessing' pic though, that B turret turned backwards had me completely confused early .
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Ok as we now seem to be out of ships to guess, how about this (hopefully non-controversial) one?
Don't worry, I've got a few more left (although there were a finite limit of classes that served during the period, so it's not unlimited
). That said, appreciate all the ships being posted by you and others .That looks quite a lot like a V-class (1917/18) to me, although with most/all of the main armament removed - maybe converted to a long-range escort?
Don't worry, I've got a few more left (although there were a finite limit of classes that served during the period, so it's not unlimited
That looks quite a lot like a V-class (1917/18) to me, although with most/all of the main armament removed - maybe converted to a long-range escort?
There are many more ships that could be posted, I was talking about there not being any unguessed ships left on the thread.
I've done a lot of double checking - and I'm going to say no its not a V-class destroyer. The pictured ship still has its main armament.
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No - while Enterprise has two funnels that look similar to those in the picture the spacing is different and the thinner funnel is further forward. It also has a third funnel further back which the picture lacks.
1. Its not a V class destroyer
2. It has its main armament
3. Its not the HMS Enterprise
4. Its under 10,000 tons displacement
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