Your 3 fave ships

regia-marina · Post by **regia-marina** » Sat May 18, 2019 8:23 pm

Great idea Fireball! Here are mine:
1) Italian BB Vittorio Veneto. She is not only a powerful BB capable of taking on the best the Allies have to offer but she is easy on the eyes.
2) German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer. Interesting concept and a very interesting and active war career.
3) Italian BB Giulio Cesare. Just a beautiful ship!

kiasutha · Post by **kiasutha** » Sat May 18, 2019 8:54 pm

Really hard to pick just 3, but in no particular order-

Akagi- There's something about this floating mountain...

Atago class- I like all the IJN heavies, but these are my favorites.

SMS Scharnhorst- Not sure what it is, but I've always loved this ship and it's sister.

MechCommander · Post by **MechCommander** » Sat May 18, 2019 9:02 pm

1. St Laurent class DDH as I had a grand father who serve on one ship of this class.
2. King George V class Battleship.
3. Crown Colony class light cruiser (one ship served with the RCN till the early 60s).

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun May 19, 2019 1:50 am

In no particular order,

USS Maryland

HMS Good

KMS Gneisenau

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun May 19, 2019 5:02 am

Yep. Auto correct beat me again.

Guroburov · Post by **Guroburov** » Sun May 19, 2019 6:16 am

I'll run with
USS Yorktown
Zara class
Bismark

mike robel · Post by **mike robel** » Sun May 19, 2019 8:17 am

USS Missouri BB-63

USS Salem CA-139 (and she masqueraded as Graff Spee in "The Battle of the River Plate"

Tie

USS Alaska CB-1 and the never built USS Montana BB-67

Donald M. Scheef · Post by **Donald M. Scheef** » Sun May 19, 2019 8:32 am

WWI Germany battlecruiser Derfflinger-class
WWII USA heavy cruiser Oregon City (CA 122)-class
WWII UK destroyer Tribal-class

Don S.

redleg · Post by **redleg** » Sun May 19, 2019 9:48 am

I have some favorite ships, though I admit that they are my favorites for personal reasons and there has been no historical or technical ** CENSORED ** involved:

1. USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). My grandfather was a plank-owner on this ship and commissioning her was the culmination of his 24-year Navy career. Plus I grew up in San Diego and the Kitty Hawk was a bit of a local celebrity there - much anguish and anger when she moved to Yokosuka.

2. USS New Jersey (BB-62). When I was in Jr high school I was in the Sea Cadets (stop laughing) and the New Jersey spent some time in port in San Diego. I spent several days exploring her and it left a big impression.

3. Spruance Class Destroyer. No one ship in particular, but the whole class. Destroyers always struck me as the infantry of the sea, and there's nothing I love more than a straight-leg grunt in a line unit.

panzergator · Post by **panzergator** » Sun May 19, 2019 8:30 pm

I limited myself to WWII, but I have others.

As an 11-year-old in Baltimore, we collected pennies to restore the USA Constellation. It and USE Constitution are BIG favorites. 20 years later, I was TDY to Camp A. P. Hill in Virginia and had some time to visit Baltimore's inner harbor and walked the decks of the restored Constellation my pennies helped.

Cav Dog · Post by **Cav Dog** » Sun May 19, 2019 10:33 pm

USS Constitution - yep old Ironsides

Any WWII ESSâ‚¬X class carrier - Yorktown, Hornet and Enterprise may have kept the US in the war but the ESSâ‚¬X class won it in the Pacific

USS New Jersey - slugged it out with the Japanese, N Koreans, Chinese, Syrians and Hezbollah and 45 years later, its sister ships Wisconsin and Missouri rained Tomahawk cruise missiles on Saddam.

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sun May 19, 2019 10:45 pm

PG, glad you collected pennies as I did visit it on Historical trip 12 years ago.
Like Redleg on his grandfather being a plank owner.
This is a good thread, good comments.

1. Missouri- first BB that I recall, probably has to do with the Japanese surrender. Retains position with the modern updated weapon with missiles.
2. This one... a PT Boat, cause I wanted one, Kennedy and movie PT-109, when I was a kid.
3. A Tico, Bismark, North Carolina, Ventorio Venitio .....

BurtWolf · Post by **BurtWolf** » Sun May 19, 2019 11:34 pm

I think the IJN was fascinating as it had such a diverse collection of ships. Some of Their conversions were cool if somewhat useless (ie BB Ise) . My top three:
1. Yamato - just plain old awesome looking, inglorious demise...
2. Agree on PT Boats - as a kid I loved them
3. CLAAA Atlanta - I dig all the turrets, 5â€ guns, and the battle history. But other than that I canâ€™t explain why.

pvt64 · Post by **pvt64** » Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:27 pm

CV Kaga

BB Yamashiro

CL Yubari

ww2navyguy · Post by **ww2navyguy** » Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:33 am

1. CV-6 Enterprise â€“ most decorated aircraft carrier of WW2
2. BB Yamato (1944) â€“ largest BB with biggest guns
3. CLAA Atlanta â€“ This was first GHQ model I saw in person and fell in love with 1:2400 scale GHQ naval models ever since. Love all the 5â€ guns on this tiny cruiser model.

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