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  • #31
    I was always drawn to the clipper bows of the Pennsylvania and New Mexico classes especially.

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Hoss View Post
      I was always drawn to the clipper bows of the Pennsylvania and New Mexico classes especially.

      The Pennsylvania's didn't have clipper bows ;)

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      • #33
        Arizona and Pennsylvania were the very last of the ram bows in the USN.;)
        Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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        • #34
          Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
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          Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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          • #35
            Old post, but will add in anyway. Richelieu Class has to be number one (full stop)
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            • #36
              Handsome:
              1. Bismarck's
              2. Iowa's
              3. South Dakota's
              4. Refitted Doria class
              5. WWII-era Texas Class (Just for being mean looking)

              Ugly
              1. Coverted & non converted Ise Class
              2. Nelsons
              3. King George V
              4. Richelieu
              5. Hood
              You know JJ, Him could do it....

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              • #37
                You know, I always thought the refit Colorado and Tennessee classes were very hansome ships.
                Hit Hard, Hit Fast, Hit Often...

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by maximusslade View Post
                  You know, I always thought the refit Colorado and Tennessee classes were very hansome ships.
                  Yes, very South Dakota-class in appearance.
                  “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
                    Yes, very South Dakota-class in appearance.
                    Yep.:)
                    Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                    • #40
                      Handsome:
                      1. Bismarck's
                      2. Iowa's
                      3. South Dakota's
                      4. Refitted Doria class
                      5. WWII-era Texas Class (Just for being mean looking)

                      Ugly
                      1. Coverted & non converted Ise Class
                      2. Nelsons
                      3. King George V
                      4. Richelieu
                      5. Hood

                      *Would pretty much agree with this list with exception to two.

                      Hood: Hood may not have been the most handsome, but theres a certain beauty to be had considering the era in which Hood appeared, she was most impressive for a battlecruiser, dignified, stately and rough looking all at the same time and with a name like Hood you wouldnt expect to see a super model.:)) My kind of ship.
                      Did I mention Hood also had one of if not thee coolest looking ships crests. The black crow with an anchor in its one foot.

                      KGV: I didnt mind these ships at all with exception to the turret set up, most diasppointing and oddballish in nature like the Nelson and Rodney and Richelieu were. IMO it would be a tough pick between the KGV's and the Vangard. Vangard had some nice lines but the ugliest dam stern ever seen, that and the "block: superstructure. What were they thinking having produced such beautiful ships up to that point.
                      Last edited by Dreadnought; 17 Jul 09,, 13:58.
                      Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                      • #41
                        Just a note: Although we judge the best looking ships and the worst looking ships from hindsight and pictures, there is something to be said for such ships (all nations) when they come into port and their public greets them or if you were a crew member aboard one and spotted her for the very first time. In that sense, all ships on those lists are quite beautiful and most impressive when held to an engineering scale. A moment in time that has since vanished with exception to few. Some of us can remember, some of us were too young to remember. Great ships the battleships.
                        Last edited by Dreadnought; 17 Jul 09,, 14:12.
                        Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                        • #42
                          ^^ Totally agree with you. With the advantage of hindsight, we can say they are ugly and handsome and all, but in the end it's how they did the job and the feelings they inspired in friend and foe alike. IMO, there should be a separate list for battleships which did their job the best, and another list for the battleships which were the most and least mean and brutal looking.
                          You know JJ, Him could do it....

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                          • #43
                            Excellent mixed footage (in port and at sea) of the Iowa class battleships spanning Korea,Vietnam, Reactivation in the 80's and the Gulf War to the tune of "Murder Incorporated".;)

                            YouTube - Deciding Forces: Iowa Class Battleships
                            Fortitude.....The strength to persist...The courage to endure.

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                            • #44
                              1/ Vittorio Veneto
                              2/ Hindenburg
                              3/ Vanguard
                              4/ Scharnhorst
                              5/ Richelieu/South Dakota tied

                              Ugly

                              1/ Gangut
                              2/ Nelson
                              3/ Florida
                              4/ Invincible
                              5/ Kearsage

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                              • #45
                                Handsome

                                1 Vittorio Venetto
                                2 Bismarck
                                3 Iron Duke
                                4 Renown
                                5 Hood

                                Ugly

                                1 Rivadavia class
                                2 Espana class
                                3 Dante Alighieri
                                4 Gangut
                                5 Moltke

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