Opinion survey: Most "Interesting" looking ships

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  1. SteveT44

    SteveT44 Well-Known Member

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    There is no cruiser prettier than this French lady, the FN Algérie!
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  2. Tugboat

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    Is that what it is? I thought it was Lutzow until I counted gun barrels! ;) :)
     
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  3. irnuke

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    What threw my ID off was the fact it was facing toward me, rather than running away. (Not sure if that's a French joke or an Allied joke. Works either way) :p
     
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  4. SteveT44

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    What, the four French flags in the pic where screaming German? ;)
     
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  5. crzyhawk

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    Well the French Navy fought the British more than it did the Germans...
     
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  6. Kun2112

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    Best looking BB? Tie: Hood, Yamato. Scratch that: Yamato. The flared bow combined with the backwards lean of the SS wins out.
    Ugliest? Rodney, because of the square SS. I love everything else about that ship though.
    Carrier? Lady Lex
    Cruiser? Emile Bertin
    Favorite ship aesthetically: Tegethoff with the Arkansas Monitors a very close second
     
    Kun2112, Apr 29, 2014
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  7. misguided1

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    I think the HMS Resolution is the best looking battleship, Yorktown best looking Carrier, Baltimore best looking Cruiser.
     
    misguided1, May 1, 2014
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  8. dietzer

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    Best looking battleship: IJN yamato, as built
    Best looking cruiser: IJN Takao

    Ugliest battleship: Gangut
    Ugliest cruiser: any armored cruiser, they are all ugly to me :)
     
    dietzer, May 1, 2014
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  9. Tugboat

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    I love the as-built Yamato, clean and strong. But I must disagree most vehemently on armoured cruisers. They are splendid little ships.
     
    Tugboat, May 1, 2014
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  10. PetrolHead951

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    Best looking BB: USS Colorado in this picture. http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/014558.jpg She looks like she should go a lot faster than she actually did.
    Best looking CV: USS Lexington
    Best looking Cruiser: FN Algérie

    Ugliest BB: HMS Rodney
    Ugliest CV: IJN Akagi as she was built.
    Ugliest Cruiser: Umm.... None come to mind.
     
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  11. Anachronus

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    Planes were the bane of good warship aesthetics. All that ack-ack just cluttered things up.
     
    Anachronus, May 3, 2014
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  12. PetrolHead951

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    I don't know, I really like the armed to the teeth look that the battleships had late in the war.
     
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  13. misguided1

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    I think the revenge class bbs looked great the way they did. I was that they still ran the seas.
     
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  14. buttsakauf

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    A bit late to the game however:
    Best Battleship- USS Tennessee (post modification... it looks like a brawler... like a giant naval pitbull), followed very closely by modified Scharnhorst, then Tirpitz
    Worst Battleship- HMS Rodney, it just looks so unbalanced and ungainly
    Best Cruiser- Too many beautiful ones maybe Java or Capitani Romani
    Worst Cruiser- most American treaty cruisers
     
    buttsakauf, Jul 11, 2014
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  15. Bob Pottle

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    Best Looking Capital Ships: HMS Hood in 1920s, HMS Renown post-late 1930s rebuild
    Best Looking Cruisers: HMS Enterprise with white 'China Station' hull and buff funnels, Spanish Baleares (sistership of Canarias with 'art-deco' superstructure and fancier raised lip around the trunked funnel).
    Worst Looking Capital Ships: Fuso Class in WWII, rebuilt Minas Gervais (Brazilian dreadnought)
    Worst Looking Cruiser: Krasni Kavkaz (WWII)
     
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  16. Tugboat

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    Best Looking Capital Ship: USS Iowa, the pinnacle of kickass.
    Best Looking Cruiser: SMS Scharnhorst in White and buff paint scheme. Might have to do one of those.
    Worst Looking Capital Ship: Fuso class WWII, gotta agree with Bob P on that one.
    Worst Looking Cruiser: Have to think more on this one.
     
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  17. Scharnhorst56

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    Best-Looking Battleship: Either DKM Scharnhorst with Atlantic Bow or USS Nevada, followed by USS Mississippi(BB-41).
    Worst-Looking Battleship: No contest, Nelson class.

    Best-Looking cruiser: Cleveland Class.
    Worst-Looking cruiser: Tennessee Class Armoured Cruiser.
     
    Scharnhorst56, Sep 3, 2015
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  18. Beaver

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    No brownie points for you! Saying an armored cruiser is UGLY, bad Bad BAD!!!!! ;)
     
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  19. SteveT44

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    The first AC was hands down the prettiest, the Dupuy de Lome!

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    SteveT44, Sep 3, 2015
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  20. Anachronus

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    I am not sure if that was the prettiest, but it is the hands down winner of the Jules Verne award.
     
    Anachronus, Sep 3, 2015
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