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My favorite cruiser design from 1930s would be the Brooklyn-class. 15x6"/47 Mk16 anyone? 135-ish 130lb 6" shells downrange every minute because ... fuck you. There's a lot of spent brass on that deck.

Her sister USS Milwaukee also had an interesting career. During her shakedown cruise she visited Sydney, Australia. She surveyed the Pacific with her depth-finding equipment and found a set of seamounts. In 1939 she found the deepest spot in the Atlantic: The Milwaukee Deep. 28,680ft. In 1944...

That looks like a 7-bladed fixed-pitch switchback which lost the counterscrew.

Those little boats are unsung heroes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrier_Boat Displacement: 10 tons Length: 19ft Beam: 10ft Draft: 5ft 6in They need that 5ft 6in draft to gently make use of all the torque they've got when nudging something hundreds of times larger than they are to where...

The USN still has nine: USS Constitution plus eight Avenger-class. The latter were designed to clear a path through minefields. Wooden hull coated in fiberglass because a magnetic mine will go BOOM! in unpleasant ways if anything large made of steel runs over it. Wooden hulled warships aren't...

Her depth charges were designed to go "BOOM!" at 600ft (275psig) max. She's resting at ~22,620ft (~9,792psig). If the fuses still work over 75yrs after she sank they're likely not set to detonate and in "safe" mode, for what that's worth. Wouldn't risk disturbing one considering how stubbornly...

The Redoutable is a museum ship. That's way nicer than what her captain had when she was in service. Her beam is about 35ft. My driveway is 24ft wide.

He also didn't understand that naval artillery is much larger and heavier than field artillery. His army used light cannons. During The Battle of Breitenfeld he had 56 cannons. The Vasa was meant to carry 64 cannons larger than anything his army could get somewhere in a timely manner.

They're more common than you think. Unfortunately, no one listens to them. Back to warships: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5055835-ships-of-the-american-revolution-and-their-models The guy who wrote it picked seven ships of the period, recounted their histories, and built scale models of...

I didn't know about that. Sorta sounds like HMS Captain. The Admiralty was effectively screaming "this is utter idiocy". The Admiralty was overrulled and she got built ... The court-martial after her sinking was unusual in that engineers were called in to do the calcs and explain what those in...

Vasa was built when shipwrights were just guessing and hoping they got it right with the really big ones. For another example of the weather messing up warships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Cobra The damage report is, impressive ...

The Mary Rose the Vasa. Both were unstable rennaisance-era era battleships packed with guns that capsized and sank. Pulling what was left them off the seafloor and putting it into museums were two of the most expensive maritime salvage projects of the 20th century. The Mary Rose sank on 19 July...

USS Texas is the only pre-WWI dreadnaught still floating. She doesn't even have steam turbines - which most of her contemporaries did have.

Every new piecing of kit has teething difficulties.

Just a few? The US currently has eight: the four Iowa's, two South Dakota's, North Carolina, and Texas. Only three of the ten fast battleships the US built weren't preserved. NOTE: The Japanese also have a the pre-dreadnaught Mikasa, but she's not afloat anymore.

82.5ish years between being laid down and being sold for scrap is a very long life for a ship. Most people don't live that long. *salutes*

And a single 3" OTO Melera is what the Perrys got ... in a wierd spot for a main gun. They were designed in the early 1970's. Modern warships don't get into gunfights unless it's an emergency.

And you are an even dumber idiot if you think Bill Clinton had much say in the US budget except for signing the bills passed by both houses of a very penny pinching Republican controlled House and Senate which hated him.

You have a hateboner for Bill. I do not. He actally mananged to get a balanced budget where the US could start paying down the US national debt. Then Bush Jr. and 9/11 basically gave Congress a cheque with everything but the signature line to be filled in by the one cashing it. And here we are ...

There are reasons why all of them have all been decomissioned and weren't replaced by nucluear powered ships.