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As this is my [B]3000th post [/B]I have decided to try something a little different! Every now and again I find that I come across a picture/photograph/postcard that really leaves a deep impression on me and immediately stands out from the "norm". I am sure that I am not alone in this and that most of you will also have somewhere on your hard-drives pictures that you as well believe to be special. It is for this reason that I have decided to try starting a gallery for these special warship pictures. I appreciate that what constitutes a "special" picture is very much subjective but I feel sure that the chances are good that they would also be appreciated by many other members as well. Unlike all the other galleries this one is not subject to type, class or any particular navy. The only criteria for posting should be that it is very clear, of a size that at least fills the screen and is in your opinion an outstanding naval picture that you would like to share with other members! I have been thinking of trying this for some time and have finally plucked up the courage to give it a go. It might take some time to get the ball rolling but I cant help but think we could end up with a truly memorable gallery. To start things off here are three pictures that I have seen in recent months that I personally consider to be special. The first is of the RN carrier HMS Furious with a screening destroyer in tow and being overflown by either an Avro Anson or possibly an Airspeed Oxford - I always get them muddled up! I really like this photograph as it to me shows a really interesting view of the ship just before she received her major late-1930`s reconstruction when from memory a small island superstructure and various AA guns were added. This aerial shot also clearly betrays her original battlecruiser origins. The second picture is a great shot of Repulse in 1936 with crowd of admirers. Does anybody have an idea where the picture was taken? Finally a really interesting view of the third 20th century German cruiser to bear the name Emden - taken at the bustling Japanese port of Yokohama sometime during 1931. A really busy picture! Anyway I hope you enjoy these as much as I have. Any thoughts, information or comments would be greatly appreciated. Also give it some thought and when you get the time upload any pictures you have that mean a lot to you. I am sure it would not just be me who would love to see them! I hope this gallery does work. Whatever the response whenever I see a picture that I really appreciate I will endeavour to post it here!
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Terry, it's a great idea and I too hope it works, I've just finished my 2nd 12 hour night shift and 2 more to go, so I will post a couple myself to help get this thread up and running when I've caught up with myself so to speak. Regards Alan

Nice idea...here is a picture of USN CV Ronald Reagan that I find really striking ...........DFO :)
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Thanks Alan and Dick. Appreciated. DFO - A truly brilliant picture of the carrier Ronald Reagan - just what I had in mind!

REPULSE.. I do believe that is custom house jetty Pompey. :D:D second piccy ... cylla

Thanks Cylla - I thought it might be but then the two strange looking craft in the foreground almost seemed to convey an oriental look to them so I thought that I would check! DFO - Many thanks my friend for agreeing to have your first two pictures removed purely on the grounds that they were a little small for the purpose of this thread. They were otherwise excellent pictures that you could post anywhere else. If the spirit of this thread is to work then it is important that the pictures are of at least a size to fill the computer screen. Also the clarity and quality of the picture is equally of importance. Your picture of the Ronald Reagan brilliantly achieves both!

Beautiful pictures. I hope to see more, Thanks.

Hi Terry, The aircraft on HMS Repulse's catapault is a Blackburn Shark. These were first embarked in March 1936. Between then and the end of 36, Repulse was only in the UK for the following periods: 26.4.32 - 6.3.36: Portsmouth [long refit] 6.3.36 - 7.3.36: Cawsand Bay (Devonport) 7.3.36 - 8.3.36: Torbay 8.3.36 - 8.6.36: Portsmouth The remainder of 1936 was spent overseas at Gib, Mala, Alexandria and other parts of the Med so your photo must have been taken at Portsmouth. The aircraft in the other photo is definately an Avro Anson of 220 sqn, regards, Bob

G'Day All Congratulations Terry! 3000th post! And all of them high value too.:D I thought I'd drop 5 photos on you, these are my all time favourites. The first 2 are of USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) just prior to a Fremantle port visit in 1990 and 1994, with the crew spelling out the destination. The third is of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) at speed off Southern California in 1999. The bow wave is awesome! USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in 2002, at speed, off India. USS Constellation (CV-64) arriving at Fremantle Harbour for the last time 29 April 2003. The WA Maritime Museum is in the background. Enjoy!:D (Oh, sorry I haven't been around of late, got slammed with work!):rolleyes:
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Terry as promised here's a few photo's to begin with, the first 2 Illustrious and Centaur were in my Dad's album he got in Hong Kong,with a dragon on the front, I wasn't allowed to look at it because there were a couple of photo's of topless women in it, so I used to wait till Mam went out and sneak a peak....at the ships not the women...I was only 8 years old. The next 2 Revenge and Superb I thought were great because I had the airfix models of them and thought they were fantastic, so to see the photo's of them as well was just pure magic. Will post more when I get more time. Regards Alan
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Hi Alan Love the pic of the REVENGE, you don't happen to have a date for it by any chance?? Regards Mik ps Excellent thread Terry and congrats on the 3k+. I don't have any pics to offer but like many others really do enjoy looking at those you and others post.

Many thanks Alan, Ian and Mik for your kind words:D. Excellent pictures Ian and Alan - just the ticket. It is my hope that many others here in the forum will either search their hard-drives or keep their eyes open in the future for those elusive "special pictures". As I have said before obviously the choice of what constitutes a special picture is a subjective thing - but I feel sure that as long as it is of a good size and clarity and it appeals to the poster then many others in the forum will be grateful to see it!

HMS Albion on the night of 22 May-23 May 1915 became stuck firmly aground on a sandbank off the headland known as Kabatepe on the Gallipoli peninsula, coming under heavy fire from the Turkish shore batteries. Despite being hit by numerous shells they were not of sufficient calibre to penetrate her substantial armour - so no great damage was inflicted on the battleship, although there were some casualties suffered amongst her crew. After efforts were made to free her by reducing her weight and by using the recoil of firing her main guns simultaneously, her sister ship HMS Canopus managed to tow her to safety on 24 May 1915, whilst still managing to fire at the Turkish Forts whilst being towed clear. This picture of her being towed off the sandbank by HMS Canopus has long been one of my favourite pictures. The following month she received a refit at the Malta dockyard, returning later on that year to assist the French with a blockade off the coast of Greece. Soon after that she embarked a contingent of 1,500 British troops for Salonika and escorted troopships of the French second contingent.
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HMS ADAMANT & her brood.
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A lovely picture Rik - and a fine addition to the thread...

CAVALIER at speed
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Hi everybody - just another quick word. As I have mentioned on two or three occasions could anybody thinking of posting on this thread please bear in mind that as well as being a great photo/picture it should also be especially clear and of a size that at least is 1500 pixels. As I am sure you can see - in order to be a "special picture" it must meet those 3 requirements. If not there are plenty of other threads in the forum you can post them in. I have had to send about 8 PMs so far asking members if I can remove their pictures - usually because they are too small - but a few because they are not very clear. Anyway here are two more that I believe are truly special pictures. The first is a magnificent shot of the early pre-dreadnought Renown and the second is a stirring portrayal of the super-dreadnought Orion in a gale. Enjoy!
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Two great pictures there Terry. Bob.

Many thanks Bob. They have long been two of my favourite postcards. This is my favourite shot of HMS Warspite - which I believe is tying for first place with USS Enterprise in the "greatest ever warship" poll on another thread! The picture was taken in 1932.
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Two more of what I consider to be special pictures. This time a more unusual choice. The first one to me is both poignant and evocative. A group of the little ships used to transport British and French troops back from Dunkirk. A fantastic picture in my opinion. The second one is no less so - a classic shot of a WW2 convoy...
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More photo's from my collection, I've tried to go with ships of some of the countries represented on the forum, and they show a range of old and newish, the last 2 photo's .....Hms Ark Royal which I served aboard and it's my favourite photo of her and then my favourite class of ships showing a formation of Jutland, Dunkirk and Trafalgar. Regards Alan
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A fine set of warship pictures Alan. I appreciate very much the time and trouble you took over scanning them for the other members to enjoy. I will confess to being a little disappointed at the number of members coming forward with their "special Pictures" so far. I do appreciate that some of these pictures might be smaller than the size needed to fill the computer screen [about 1280 width] but I feel sure that many more of you have some great pictures that the rest of us would love to see. When I first thought of this type of thread I always hoped for quality rather than quantity. Well the quality has been excellent in my opinion so we just need to work on the quantity! Anyway here are three more you might like to see. Firstly the fine Victorian battleship Devastation [Completed in 1873] which was the first Royal Navy Battleship not to carry a full rig of sails and which depended entirely on steam for propulsion. Second picture is of the third and final Indefatigable class battlecruiser Australia which was launched the year before the start of the First World War and unlike her sister ship and class leader was fortunate to miss the Battle of Jutland, where her weakness in armoured protection might well have seen her receive the same fate. She missed the battle because of a collision with her other sister New Zealand... The third picture is a fine shot of the battleship that rendered all those that came before her obsolete at a stroke and became a model for all future designs for some years to come! This picture shows her nearing completion and whilst the picture comes with a caption that dates her as 1905 - I think that should read 1906 as she was launched in October of that year. To me they are great pictures - but I would love to read what you think of them...
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Great photo's Alan & Terry. I'll be adding some more soon.

Thanks Rik.

ARK ROYAL 3
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One of my favourites and of which I am quite pleased. Taken in 1959, the picture shows three aircraft carriers in Devonport. I have posted this before but want to show it again!!! Chris
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A great picture Chris - well worth putting in here.

Chris, agree with Terry, good to see it again. I can remember one Navy Days back in the dark ages when there were FIVE carriers alongside various walls, and others were at sea!! Mik

Another, again has been posted before but worth showing again
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Although no where near Terry's amount of posts, it's a double celebration for me....today is my Birthday and this is my 500th post and so I thought I would share it with you all by posting this photo of Hms Quilliam from my collection..... It is one of the originals builders photo's from the yard and very spectacular it looks too.. Hope you like it... Regards Alan
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Wow a treble celebration Alan!!! Firstly my friend well done in reaching your Five centuries of posts. Speaking both personally and I am sure as well on behalf of all those in the forum who appreciate a large high quality picture of a Warship - a really big "Thank you". Also a Happy Birthday for today my friend - after you complete your day it is my Birthday from midnight!!:) Sagittarians together! Great picture BTW!

Terry, the 2 of us get spookier by the day....I was working a 12 hour shift today hence the lateness of my post, however I will be having a little drink tomorrow and will toast both our birthdays....glad you liked the photo I posted and have a great day tomorrow... Regards Alan

Cheers my friend - thank you! As Sagittarians we keep company with a few oddballs such as Churchill, De Gaulle, King George VIth, General Custer, Nostradamus, Beethoven, Pope Julius II, Sinatra - not forgetting the 25th!!

A 'BIG' Happy Birthday to you both. 21 again I expect !! Thanks for all the top class pix you've both posted in the last 12 months. It's really appreciated.

Alan, congratulations on your 500+ top notch posts. And very best wishes on your Birthday!:) Terry, a very Happy Birthday to you too! :) and many thanks for all your many marvellous posts. Sagittarians Rule! ;) Enjoy gentlemen ! :) cheers and best regards Vivian

VMT Rik and Vivian - much appreciated. Vivian - Good to see you back in the forum again. Does your comments that Sagittarians rule mean that I can add you to the list [after Churchill!] or are you in fact conveying solidarity with us meglomaniacs and tortured souls??:confused::rolleyes:

Thanks Terry.......No, not me , but my lovely old Dad ... we've just had his 89th. By heck! I'll have to have a word with him about the company he is keeping ;) To your good health, Vivian

Please convey my good wishes to your Dad, Viv. I have just spent the day with mine who is also a lovely Dad [as well as my equally lovely Mum!] They are 80 and 79 respectively and in remarkably good nick!. We are both so fortunate to have them with us. Anyway I fear we have wandered off topic a bit - definitely a special subject if not a special warship! In order to pay some sort of penance then I humbly offer this fine picture of Turbinia which as I am sure most members of the forum know was an experimental vessel built in the 1890`s and was well as being the fastest of her time was also the first ever turbine powered steamship. Her influence on the RN was huge and she has now been fully restored and In 2000, the vessel was the focal point of a year-long £10.7m redevelopment programme at Newcastle's Discovery Museum. The gallery around her was the first area to be refurbished with the main part of the work involving raising the roof by one story to create viewing galleries on three levels. I also show what I feel sure is a splendid picture of HMS Renown.
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To Alan and Terry, purveyors of fine offerings of things nautical, birthday greetings, hope you had/having a splendid day. Mik

Many thanks Mik - I have spent the day with my lovely wife who has gone out of her way to cater for all my needs [steady there gentlemen!!]. Another year older and another year dafter! Anyway my friend, after your kind words it would be churlish indeed not to post a couple of special "birthday" pictures so here they are! The first one is a postcard I have just purchased of the Torpedo boat destroyer HMS Ambuscade with two small vignettes depicting King George Vth and Admiral Jellicoe... The other is a magnificent picture of the giant Japanese heavy cruiser Myoko taken at Singapore Harbour I believe during August 1945 when surrendered. I might be totally mistaken but it looks to me like a pair of German U-boats tied up alongside?? I have always been struck by the imposing looks of the Myoko-class cruisers. If looks alone were the clincher then these ships would reign supreme IMO closely followed by the USN Baltimores and the RN Minotaurs & Tigers. Please note I did say LOOKS!! Anyway as the day is proceeding I seem to becoming less coherant [hic!] - so if we could save any differences of opinion over this until tomorrow! Enjoy...
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Despite the champers I am still a fair way from being non compus mentus so I will post a couple more "special pictures" for today. I have chosen what I believe to be an unusual shot of the Hawkins class heavy cruiser HMS Raleigh taken in 1919, not long after launching. She had an extremely short life being completed in July 1921 and sadly wrecked on uncharted rocks at Point Amour, Forteau Bay Labrador on the 8th August 1922. The second picture is of HMS Bicester a Hunt-Class [Type II] Escort Destroyer. I hope you are appreciating these - despite seeing that many members are downloading copies of them [which is fine], I am getting very little feedback about them [disappointing] and apart from contributions made by the usual posters, quite a poor response from the rest of the forum. When I first conceived the idea of a "flagship" picture thread, I naively believed that members would go that extra mile to make this a really worthwhile project. There is still time left for this to happen, so please search your hard-drives and/or boxes of old photographs and take the small amount of time needed to play your part in making this a truly "special thread".
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Now, that Renown photo is really special. Thanks for posting Terry.:) Monty

Glad you enjoyed it monty.

Terry, I've just finished running your photo through Adobe Photoshop. How's this? Thanks again, Monty
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Thanks for that one Terry and thank you Monty you've saved me a job. Regards, Bob.

No problem Bob. I've seen the expert way you've been 'cleaning up' old photos and, to say the least, you've been an inspiration. And, of course, Renown photos get special attention from me. ;) Best regards, Monty

This is a lovely picture of her taken in 1931 and another - date uncertain. Both taken from my old computer. Especially for Monty.
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As this thread for special warship pictures seems to have missed out submarines I felt it only right to include one. Here is a rare picture of the German U-boat U125 shortly after being gifted to the Imperial Japanese Navy as "spoils of war". Date of picture is the 23rd June 1919. I make a final appeal for members who have still not contributed to this thread to take the time needed to find and upload just one clear decent sized picture that they feel would be appreciated by others.
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Thank you so much Terry! I have seen both pics before but not near the quality that these are. They are exceptional to say the very least. Of course, the first one needs to be flipped horizontally as it shows the single anchor on the starboard side?? Not to worry my friend, it's just a minor thing and easily fixed. WOW!!! You are the best. Monty

Arguably the Richelieu along with her sistership Jean Bart were the finest ever French Battleships. They were originally designed and constructed to counter the growing menace of the Italian Battleships but they far exceeded them in terms of speed, armour and armament. Paradoxically one their greatest strengths was also a potential area for weakness. The two ships were built with their main guns arranged in two forward turrets with 4 guns to each turret. Each gun was a fraction under 15 inches [380mm]. This unusual arrangement gave the same firepower as the conventional 4 turrets of 2 guns each, but provided the benefit of considerable weight saving. The downside was of course that one turret put out of action would then render half of the ships main guns gone at a single stroke... The two ships also benefitted from a huge secondary armament that included 9x6" guns mounted in 3xtriple turrets at the rear of the ship along with 6 twin 3.9" turrets and no less than 56 [14x4] 40mm AA guns. The two ships were the only two built of a proposed class of 4. They survived WW2 finally becoming the last battleships in service in the French Navy until 1967. Both pictures I show here are of Richelieu - The first has long been one of my favourite pictures - the detail afforded is quite exceptional - although I wish it showed both of the front main turrets. I guess you cant have everything! The second one clearly shows the considerable variety of secondary armament available...
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