Is that a preliminary design for the South Carolina class? I don't have the book that comes from so I can't check for sure.
Quite so Chase. The image is from Jane's Fighting Ships in the 1906 edition. The preliminary designs called for 4 of the 12" guns to be mounted in single turrets in the same lay out as the previous Connecticut class.
If I had known that this wasn't the layout of the ship when it was built, it would have saved a lot of time looking through lots of different ships. Beaver
It's the French ironclad Lave. I'm not quite sure what their significance is, but she and her sisters were used as supplements to the wooden steam battlefleet in the Crimean War. Also to assist unarmoured mortar and gunboats bombarding shore fortifications. Beaver
I know exactly what that is, just not the name. That is one of the armored floating batteries used by the French and British against Russian fortifications during the Crimean War.
Beaver got it (mostly). It is significant as one of the earliest uses of an Ironclad warship in battle.
Ok, so on with the trivia. Who is credited with the first successful (as in hitting them with a bomb or torpedo) attack on the Japanese at Midway? Beaver
After I posted the question, I realized how much controversy there is over who actually did hit the ship. I have a book on Midway that states that Richards hit the ship. The Shattered Sword say that another fellow by the name of Gaylord Propst hit her; it also says that Richards's torpedo exploded, but didn't hit anything. I'm not sure who hit it, so I'll give it to you, Chase. You're up. Beaver
When IJN Musashi was being constructed what commodity was rendered in short supply because of her construction?
