Trivia II

But what is its famous nickname?

 

She was nicknamed "McKinley's Bulldog" for her actions in the battle of Santiago de Cuba.

 

Kotori has it,
Sorry Darren

 

This unusual ship was armed with three massive, non-rotating, non-elevating cannons for bombardments. The one time it saw service, the ship was more effective at intimidating its enemies than at hitting them. She was soon rendered obsolete, and converted for other purposes.

 

USS Vesuvius...3 15" Dynamite guns.

Fired the shells using compressed air, sound familiar?

 

bingo. You're up, Anachronus

 

What ships were considered "a sin" due to the fact that one could "stand on the bridge wing and spit into the powder handling room".

*Quotes are approximate, I don't have access to the reference books at the moment

 

hint?

 

There were two of them, and the design garnered much comment in the naval literature of the day.

 

Could it be the Italia class battleship

 

Good guess, but no. I had not thought of that pair actually and they were quite novel.

 

What contry?

 

While the names have been used again, they never were reused in a commissioned battleship.

 

Their most novel feature was later repeated in a class of five.

 

One of them served for 55 years, in a modified form.

 

How about the USS Kearsarge/Kentucky, with double decker turrents later used on Virginia class dreadnaughts?

 

Exactly so. You're up.

 

Ordered but never laid down, this submarine at 125 meters would have been big enough to model at 1:144 scale. And given the unusual propulsion, it might have been quite fast.

 

Is this that funky WWI German turbine-powered submarine with rotating, reloading, underwater broadside torpedoes? I've got plans for that, by the way, but it isn't mentioned in Conway's so I can't build it...

 

That's the one. Yes, unfortunately there's not a lot of info on it so getting approved for building would be difficult. You're up.