I dunno about you guys, but something I always wondered as a kid was...

[mallett]

correct me if im wrong (which i probably am) but is that not the nimitz carrier in your pick??, the enterprise is ever so slightly longer, id say by about 3m...

[harry1]

how long are those things? and that o rly thing has been posted already this week

[nichomach]

correct me if im wrong (which i probably am) but is that not the nimitz carrier in your pick??, the enterprise is ever so slightly longer, id say by about 3m...

Yep - plus the great big "68" on the bow, as in "CVN-68"

[99Flake]

Sorry, I am wrong, I just googled an image for "USS enterprise aircraft carrier" that came up (along with a load of older images). Didn't realize it was not the actual carrier. *skulks away with head low*

[Smokey21]

very costly. This is why they were superceeded by aircraft carriers.

HMS Hood was the closest they got to a manouverable battleship (hence why she was a battle cruiser by type) however this was at the expense of armour and why she was sunk so easily after a direct hit. Her sister ship Rodney was soon refitted with better armour.

The Hood was sunk, from a lucky shot, by the Bismark. 1 Shell penetrated the thin armour on the deck, and went into the ammo room, blowing the whole ship up. She was was the pride and joy of the Royal Navy, a sad day in British Naval History. Still she was avenged.

Rodney was not a sister ship of the hood. The Rodney and Nelson were sister ships. They had 9 16 Inch guns, and they were unusually layed out.

The Yamato and Musashi make the Iowa look like a speedboat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes...leship_Musashi

They were the largest battleships of all time, displacing over 65,000 tonnes, with 19" guns! Like Most battleships, they made little impact, WWII was the end of an era for the battleship. Planes and aircraft carriers were much more fearsome.

The one thing that pisses me off, is we scrapped all of out battleships from WWII. Typical. How awesome would it be to have somet like the Prince Of Wales, or Nelson, in the Thames, or Pompey harbour, as a musuem. The yanks saved plenty of theres. We had the best navy for hundreds of years, and we have nothing to show how sweet we were.

[Knoxville]

The HMS Belfast is running as a museum ship down in london iirc but other than that we do seem to have scrapped alot of our history in that respect I agree

[chuckskull]

Yeah nearly all the surviving spitfires from WW2 were scrapped. Such a shame.

[listy]

The Hood was sunk, from a lucky shot, by the Bismark. 1 Shell penetrated the thin armour on the deck, and went into the ammo room, blowing the whole ship up.

i said that on 1st page