Trivia!

i was going to say that, but i felt it would just be like listing them. ive seen stuff that claims otherwise, but im sure ur right.

 

Who was the driving force behind the "Tokyo Express" which ran troops and supplies down The Slot to Guadalcanal and what was his/her flagship?
J

 

Raizo Tanaka

 

And the Flagship was the Jintsu until damaged, then the destoyer Naganami

 

Well, you are both right, that's 1/2 each so, Kotori87 you start a question and crzyhawk you finish it
J

 

he can have the full question, i've got nothing at the moment!

 

All righty, then, lets try this one out. Identify the ship in my avatar picture, and tell me what club this ship is from.

You can see it here:

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She's the HMS Invincible, owned by Gordon Cranfield of the AUSBG. Specifically the Fremantle Battle Squadron, now defunct.

 

That was fast. Right on, Darren. It's the Invincible, a ship that I am fascinated by. You can find the whole story and larger versions of the photo here:

http://media.ausbg.org/html/best_photos.html#invincible_sink_0101

 

This particular model of the Invincible or the original?

 

Which cruiser had her name changed to Murmansk?

 

USS Milwaukee

 

Dang, I'm gonna have to get some harder questions....you're up.

 

Which was the only Royal Navy 8-inch crusier to engage enemy 8-inch cruisers on more then one occasion? Bonus points for naming the ships she engaged.

 

hms exeter, against Nachi, Haguro, Myoko and Ashigara at the battle of java sea

 

That's one occassion. I was referring to two separate battles. I guess I didn't make the question clear enough.

 

ok, hms Berwick battle Admiral Hipper on Christmas day 1940

 

HMS Berwick is the correct answer. The action was at Cape Spartivento, where HMS Berwick (and the rest of her fleet) was engaged by Bolzano, Fiume, Gorizia, Pola, Trieste, Trento in addition to battleships and destroyers.

 

Wow. The trivia thread has been silent for over an hour. Haha.
Actually. I just remembered that I had mentioned the two instances when ships fired practice rounds at an enemy ship.
Anyhow, I don't have a question, but wanted to share the story. So a lull in the Q+A is too hard to pass up.

The second instance occured at the battle of the river plate ( some call it the second battle of the Falkland Islands), (I think).
If I remember correctly. One of the British light cruisers, either Ajax, or Achilies, ran out of live ammo in a turret, due to firing the guns faster than the ammunition from the magazines could be transfered to the turret. So when the loader was asked why the guns weren't firing he mentioned that there was no live ammo, just the practice rounds. He was instructed to load the practice rounds so that the guns could keep firing.
As it turned out. A British 6" practice round was found aboard the Graf Spee after the battle.

The first instance occured at the first battle of the Falklands.
The story I read went something like this.
The night before the German squadron appeared off the coast, the British pre-dreadnaught Canopus was swinging at her anchor in port. Word came down that first thing in the morning, there would be a gunnery drill.
So sometime during the night, the crew of one of the turrets snuck down to their stations, and readied the guns for loading, with practice rounds, so that they would win the drill.
Now I do not recall if they actually loaded the practrice rounds into the guns, but as it turned out, the German squadron appeared before the drill was called, and when the guns fired at the enemy ships, one turret actually fired practice rounds.
I am not sure if they hit the enemy ships with them. Perhaps not, as it would have been a ranging shot. But a rather interesting story all the same.
Oh well. Back to your regularly scheduled trivia Qs+As.
Mikey

 

Oddly, both were South American battles with European belligerents. Graf Spee was involved in both of them...once as the commanding officer, other as the ship named after him.

The Canopus practice round DID in fact hit the Gneisenau. The German squadron was out of range but the practice round skipped off the water and hit one of Gneisenau's funnels.