This ship has been parked outside my town for a couple days now and I’m wondering if it is military. The boat finder app tells me that all of its information isn’t available. Does anyone know what type of craft this is and who it belongs to?

Germany had never been a country with much if any naval experience, any historical shipbuilding prowess, an old and vast colonial empire or any other kind of knowledge on how to have a large and powerful ocean-going navy. Their goal to become a large naval power and challenge the British only started to materialise in the 1890s. So how were they able to not only rise to the rank of second-most powerful navy pre-WW1 and build good warships in large numbers in such a short time period? Where did they get that know-how and expertise from?

I've read that the ammo for the AGS costs about $1 million per projectile because the Zumwalt was cut from 30 ships to 3. If this is the reason for the cost then did the Navy consider a cruiser that used as many off-the-shelf parts as possible plus the Zumwalt's AGS or was there something else?

The largest modern naval gun was on the USS Zumwault, but they don't even have ammo for that and currently it is being removed from the Zumwault

Good evening, r/warships. Fair warning: This post is rather long-winded.

I'm here to seek answers to questions I am having a difficult time researching, and to hear opinions on my scenario set-up.

I am writing a series of short-form historical fiction pieces surrounding naval combat during the first and second world wars, in case anyone is curious as to what utility these answers provide me- It always bugs me if I get something wrong, so I prefer to do my fact checking beforehand. I feel like the way things play out here is a little contrived, and I want to make the battle seem realistically constructed.

The specific scenario I am writing is as follows; an Iowa-class battleship and a small escorting group are assisting with the invasion of an as-of-yet unspecified pacific island in early 1944. All ships are moored in a loose formation and the remaining parts of the battlegroup are escorting the transport ships they arrived with away from the area- too far away by the time of engagement to be of any help.

The Battleship's group consists of herself, one Cleveland-class light cruiser, two Mahan-class destroyers, and four Fletcher-class. The enemy force attacking will consist of three Akizuki-class destroyers. Japanese command in the area wishes to damage the Battleship while it is vulnerable, but sufficient resources for a highly effective strike are too far out of range, so they send what can be spared for a torpedo hit-and-run attack. The Mahan-class destroyers would be at anchor near the battleship, listening on hydrophones for submarine engine sounds. The Fletchers patrol at slow speeds, occasionally stopping their engines as they run anti-submarine duties.

The three destroyers come in at high speed and take the group by surprise. Crew on the battleship is called to general quarters as the Fletchers feed her information on where the Japanese are. She singles out the closest destroyer and scores a direct hit with one of her main guns and destroying it before it can launch torpedoes. She turns away to make distance while firing based on radar targeting with secondary battery. Japanese destroyers launch torpedoes in a panic, missing the battleship but hitting the bow of the Cleveland (causing severe flooding but not sinking the ship) and destroying one of the Fletchers. Most of the destroyers end up in a knife fight as two of the remaining fletchers screen the BB. Both remaining Japanese destroyers are severely damaged and attempt to retreat, both being sunk by continued fire from the combined American force, whose destroyers sustain minor damage from return fire.

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So, that's what I have. I don't know that it's particularly realistic- especially with something as valuable as an Iowa class not being heavily guarded, even for a single night. I plan to explain this by having the destroyers come from an unexpected angle, passing through gaps in other defensive screens.

Now, a set of questions- At anchor in a potential combat zone, would the Iowa class likely its boilers lit and if not, how fast could she make turns for Flank speed in an emergency such as this? How fast could her crew get to battlestations and have the main guns ready to fire?

Sorry for being so long-winded. I'm hoping that some fellow ship nerds can help me make the backdrop for my story feel realistic (within the context of it being alternate history).

Anyway, if you got this far thanks for reading!

On first glance, having missile just ready to fire in vertical tubes, aka VLS, is way more simple than the complicated mecanical system that are necessary to reload arm launchers. So why old era missile ship got arm launcher and VLS are a modern system ?

Recently I went down the dark and somewhat depressing story of how they came quite close to preserving hms vanguard and I wondered as if they tried to save any other ships after ww2. Obviously I’m aware hms Belfast was saved and I’ve picked little by little that hms Gambia came close aswell however I am not as knowledgeable on this subject as u suspect some of you are. To this end if anyone knows where there others they tried to stop from going to the breakers and if so do you know where I might see more about this as information seems to be incredibly scarce. Thanks

I've often heard the Kirov-class cruisers being referred to as 'battlecruisers' or that they are at least in 'a class of they'r own', different from all other modern cruisers (like Ticonderogas ect.) For the me the term 'battlecruiser' does not make sense since that term was coined in order to differentiate faster less armored battleships from slower dreadnoughts, which stopped being a factor in most navies after WW2. To me the Kirovs are just missile crusiers (exept on growth hormones), just like all cruisers built after ca. 1960.

At first I thought it was a bow wave but after noticing that there's no smoke coming out of the stack and the flags not blowing back, it appears that she's moored rather than underway

JS Kaga arrived vicinity Oahu this morning and she was quite a sight offshore Diamond Head at sunrise. I’m glad this time they are on our side.

Hi there. For some reasons I may need some photos of old warships, preferably during WWII for making a nice poster, any help is deeply appreciated!!

Hello! Browsing through the US section of 1927 Jane's, I've found mentions of one 45ft and one 55ft Thornycroft CMBs built in 1922 for US Navy. Neither Jane's of 1930s nor Weyer's of any year seem to mention them.

Here's the entry: https://imgur.com/a/aElTXRO

Is there any information about them and their service in the US Navy, including numbers, if any? I can't find them in any hull number tables on NavSource or Tim Colton's, despite them supposedly existing in 1920s, after US Navy introduced official hull numbers.

Thank you.

Drachinefel's YouTube channel's Five Minute Guides have a series of ships in the title sequence. Does anyone have a shot by shot guide to what ships those are?

I've been researching this legendary carrier and it's my understanding that a ship like the now retired Enterprise would have a CDC (Combat Direction Center) as well as a room called a flag plot where a commanding officer would issue orders pertaining to fleet strategy during a battle. Would anyone happen to know the exact placement of these rooms? I've been unable to find a comprehensive cross section or schematic of the Enterprise to see exactly where such rooms are located. My understanding is that the CDC would be under the flight deck and the flag plot would be within the island/superstructure albeit lower than the bridge and without windows for safety reasons. I'm beginning to think it's classified.

I hope my terminology isn't abhorrent.

Currently reading the The Naval War of 1812 by Theodore Roosevelt and he describes the ships and what there classifications are but not how there classified. What makes a frigate a frigate, a slope a slope, a line of war a line of war, a gun boat a gun boat? Yes I understand its down to gun caliber, masts, # of decks but what specifically? How man decks? What Caliber of guns? How many masts?

Anybody have any clue what type of subs these are and if they are more capable than the subs that Ukraine has attacked in the course of the war?

These are off the east coast of Russia between Japan and Russia.

Are the facilities clean? Do you get access to the outside when you want if you’re claustrophobic/ depressed? Can you hear the jets when they land?

Hoping someone in this community can give me a hand with this!

My relative is one of the three men standing in the foreground of this photo. He was in NROTC from 1946 to 1950, so I bet this was taken on a ROTC cruise or visit, since the men are not wearing officer's caps. That would date it from 46-50.

Can anyone give me some info on what ship this might be, or at least what class of ship? I think I can rule out the Independence class, since they were all out of commission during his freshman year. And the island looks too large to be a CVE, so could this be an Essex?

https://preview.redd.it/u2vys2v93j1e1.jpg?width=2162&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd5b099c623cb59bb67236fea1af4fe9106bd03d

I know the technically correct answer would be it depending on the mission, however if you were building a random mission generator for a Naval war game what would you pick to represent the typical carrier battlegroup, battleship battle group, or amphibious assault battle group? I'll be asking about other navies as well

Hello, my Great Grandfather served aboard the USS Atherton from 1944-1946 I believe and I’d like to see if anyone is really good at researching things and could help me find out more about him. I have searched on ancestry and found some of his service records stating his service aboard USS Atherton, and it lines up with the story of his ships sinking of one of the last U-Boats of WW2 which is pretty neat I’d just like to learn more about him to immortalize his life’s story. His name was Sterling Leon Tallman.

An old pre 2002 photo of my dad infront of an unknown CV from Cali or Hawaii

I know that the main difference on the South Dakota / North Carolina class BBs main battery and the Iowa class BBs main battery was barrel length (resulting indifferent muzzle velocities, etc.). However, was the ammunition the same? In other words: did all of the "modern" US Navy BBs with 16 inch guns share the same armored piercing and high explosive shells? I also believe that the shorter caliber meant one less propellant bag...

Trying to settle a question.

I just had a discussion with someone who said that they were a bad class of battleships. Are they right?

My first thought is that it’s either the light cruiser HMCS Ontario or Quebec, or a visiting Royal Navy light cruiser. IMO the bridge structure looks like a rebuilt Town-Fiji-Minotaur from the post war era but it’s hard to say.