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Aye. At least it was only once, unlike the Tsarist and then Communist navies :P

Wrong MOSKVA. We were talking about the helicopter cruiser. I do agree, the SLAVAs can be quite the looker, though her profile is such that she would look goodeven without the tubes.

Both look less amputated than MOSKVA, but still.

Helicopter carriers often look unbalanced. JEANNE D’ARC, CAIO DUILIO and VITTORIO VENETO also look chopped. The Japanese DDHs do look rather nice, though.

RETVIZAN is much prettier:

Note to fleet: The Russian ensign is to be flown BELOW the American ensign when a prize puts into port the first time. Please conduct remedial prize crew training aboard all ships to prevent future confusion.

It's a nice rendition of a ST. LOUIS class cruiser, but that's about where it stops.

The phrase you are looking for, according to United States Naval Academy midshipmen, is "sheep would be too obvious."

That depends on the local government in question. At least in the US, when stuff starts rolling in, stealing it actually solves more problems than it causes. Donations are a right royal pain in the ass to manage. Stealing the marines might be more fun, though ;-). Being serious, from personal...

I have a photo of LEXINGTON tied up at Tacoma right as she commissioned in 1928 or 1929 doing that. It's not just power and water, though. A warship is a heliport, comms node, secure base camp, storage facility and hospital all rolled up into one. And she's just chock full of strong, fit, young...

NORTH CAROLINA and YORKTOWN do. Not sure I would want my emergency operations center on a ship given the most likely threats in the Carolinas, but nobody asked me.

Well, the 4.7" twin turrets on the L and M classes look a lot like the 5.25" turrets, so confusion is possible:

Thought ROYALIST had 5.25"?

No reason to. The Royal Navy was contracting, the DIDOs were less survivable than the Towns, Colonys, or follow ons.

It's the lattice masts. They do a lot to address the mehness of the stacks. It also doesn't help that, on the British straight stack cruisers, the aft funnel is often too far aft, and so they look off.

I like the two-tone lattice masts, but the straight stacks spoil the lines. I much prefer the raked stacks of the first two batches of Towns and the DIDOs.