Etter avsporing i annen tråd opprettes denne tråden, så får vi se om det er interesse for det.
Begynner med noen bilder av fortidens giganter-slagskip
Innlegget har jeg postet før på et historisk forum jeg deltar litt på, derav engelsken:
What is your favourite, and why? The battleships clearly lost their important role early in the war, but still-some of us have a special feelings for these steel giants.
(Please do note that the following is not a celebration of death and war, but merely a celebration of great engineering)
Tirpitz-the silhoutte telles a story of speed and force. A fast and well armed ship that never saw real action before it was sunk by bombers in a Norwegian fiord. Its sistership The Bismarck gave the british a shock early in the war when it sunk the pride of the RN-Hood in a matter of minutes.
Yamato- the beauty AND the beast.... She and her sister ship Musashi were the largest, heaviest battleships ever constructed, weighing 72,802 tons at full load. She carried the heaviest armament ever fitted to a battleship: nine 460 mm (18.1 inch) guns.
This monster was sadly outdated already at completion due to the use of carriers in the pacific. Even though the mere firepower of the ship was a factor to be reckoned with. Sadly it ended as a target practice for US planes. To this day the ship stands alone at the top of the naval food-chain as the top predator.
Musashi
Pictures from wikipedia.org