Trivia!

Since boomer hasn't asked his question, I will go again.

Which IJN light cruiser was laid down in WW1, and sank a US Heavy cruiser in WW2? Bonus points for the name of the USN cruiser.

 

sorry guys, i forgot all about this thread.
And the answer is the Tenryu which sank the USS Quincy CA-35.
And if its right, u guys can ask more questions as im leaving on vacation shortly.

 

That's the correct answer. Since I've asked two in a row, and boomer is out, I guess next one in with a question gets to ask it!

 

This should be an easy one:

What ship is the only ship US warship to have a bathtub?

 

Extra points if you and state why.

 

USS Iowa

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a passenger, because of his polio it was more convenient to have a bath installed.


Krijn

(wikipedia)

 

When USS Iowa (BB-61) was selected to ferry President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Cairo Conference and the Tehran Conference she was outfitted with a bathtub for Roosevelt's convenience. Roosevelt, who had been crippled in 1921, would have been unable to make effective use of a shower facility. This bathtub remains the only one ever installed on a United States Navy warship.


Wikipedia

Krijn

 

You've hit it on the Head Krijn:

You're up!
Fire away with the next question.

 

wich 3 capital sisterships also carried bathtubs wich where heated by excess steam from the boilers.


crewmembers where free to take a bath but had to pay to use a FRESHLY pressed towel, officers had to share the tub with other crew , something that would never happen in the royal navy


Krijn

 

I have no clue but that is a great one.

 

That's a good question. I'm going to guess Lutzow - Derfflinger - Hindenburg

 

Just to be quirky:

Espana
Jamie I
Alfonso XIII

It just seems like something a decadent decaying empire would do.

 

I like your answer better then mine. Mine was a WAG of 3 capital ships in the same class!

 

Yamato, Musashi, and Shinano. The Japanese love their baths.

 

I used the WAG methodology myself. I was torn between the Spanish, the Russians or the French. All had 3 member classes of capital ships.

 

correct Kotori

while not verry public knowledge these japanese battleships had not 1 bath but yamato and her sisters had 20 each, they where 30 foot long and filled with seawater.
Bathers washed themselves before sinking into the tubs assigned to their divisions, there where even bathmasters to maintain and keep an eye on the entire system and the crew.
bathmasters charged a few sen for a bucket of fresh,clean water and a clean towel, something needed as the bathing left the bathers sticky from the salt.


a good book on the Yamato is the book "a Glorious way to die: the kamikaze mission of the battleship yamato" by russell spurr (isbn 0-7394-3221-4)

Krijn

 

Bleh, I didnt consider Shinano to be a sister of Yamato and Musashi since she was converted to a carrier.

 

same hull so same class.

 

I would have to agree. IIRC Shinano as a BB would have had some changes in her armor scheme but was far closer to Y and M than Furious was to Courageous and Glorious.

 

well i didnt want to make an exeption as Shinano was suposed to be the 3rd yamato class SD

but the bath thing is amazing, gives a clue how huge this ship actually was that they can have a series of bath's aboard.

as people dont see scale well i bought a 1/144 scale sherman and a lcm .. people remember how big a tank is .. now put the tank in the lcm and that aside a destroyer or battleship and suddenly they start realizing just how big a 10000 tonnes northampton or a 880 ft long Iowa .it gives people an impression of scale.

Krijn