I saw the Olympia many years ago with my favorite uncle. Then about 20 years ago he told me it was in very bad shape. So I can believe it has gotten worse.
Any updates on efforts to save this beautiful & historical ship?
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- Sat Oct 12, 2013 6:00 am
- Forum: The Ironclad & Pre-dreadnought Era (1860-1905)
- Topic: Why can't history buffs act? USS Olympia 1893
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8828
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:37 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Sinking of HMS Glowworm
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4647
Re: Sinking of HMS Glowworm
I have always thought that was one of the most amazing and admirable actions of WW II, and would make a great painting!
- Tue Aug 13, 2013 3:35 am
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: 1919: Analysis of Hood's magazine protection
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7997
Re: 1919: Analysis of Hood's magazine protection
Very interesting, thanks!
I was just looking for that old thread about the Hood's front magazine also possibly exploding from the blast channeled down the length of the ship. In spite of the bow apparently being blown off, it seems unlikely to me as eyewitness accounts don't seem to verify it.
I was just looking for that old thread about the Hood's front magazine also possibly exploding from the blast channeled down the length of the ship. In spite of the bow apparently being blown off, it seems unlikely to me as eyewitness accounts don't seem to verify it.
- Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:54 am
- Forum: Ship Models, Plans and Drawings
- Topic: Iron Shipwright vs new Kombrig Seydlitz 1/350?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11790
Iron Shipwright vs new Kombrig Seydlitz 1/350?
I am looking to buy a 1/350 Seydlitz kit, and might be able to get a deal on the Iron Shipwright kit. But if the Kombrig is really a better kit, I'd rather wait a little while and get the best. Anyone know where I could find some sort of comparative reviews? Anyone know much about the relative quali...
- Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:10 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Bismarck v Warspite
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8867
Re: Bismarck v Warspite
Ha well put!Dresden wrote:
Only God could write that scenario.
- Wed Dec 19, 2012 5:39 am
- Forum: World War II
- Topic: BATTLE FOR SAIPAN-13 JUNE-9 JULY 1944
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9753
Re: BATTLE FOR SAIPAN-13 JUNE-9 JULY 1944
Sorry, but there seems to be a pattern here...
- Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:28 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Ersatz Yorck/Mackenson vs Hoods
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3082
Re: Ersatz Yorck/Mackenson vs Hoods
Every time? I'm not convinced. I think they would have some advantage, especially the speed. But that ability to absorb punishment served the German battlecruisers quite well at Jutland. The speed of the British did not serve them nearly as well. And I believe the Hoods were vulnerable to 15" f...
- Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:46 pm
- Forum: Naval History (1922-1945)
- Topic: Naval fire support in Normandy
- Replies: 33
- Views: 13945
Re: Naval fire support in Normandy
Thank you pg for your story-mine was much the same but embellished; as in later life he obviously saw it as a shameful act and tried to mitigate himself.Another became an SS man -he had the tatoo confirming this; and the other Poles censured him for that; but he just shrugged "So What" PS...
- Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:27 pm
- Forum: Hypothetical Naval Scenarios
- Topic: Ersatz Yorck/Mackenson vs Hoods
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3082
Ersatz Yorck/Mackenson vs Hoods
The best of the German vs. the best of the British battlecruisers.
The Hoods have the speed and the tonnage. The German BCs have the amazing ability to take a beating and still blow hell out of the opposition.
The Hoods have the speed and the tonnage. The German BCs have the amazing ability to take a beating and still blow hell out of the opposition.
- Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:15 am
- Forum: Naval History in General
- Topic: The Greatest Naval Battle in History
- Replies: 257
- Views: 283641
Re: The Greatest Naval Battle in History
i would add that no more was at stake than was at Salamis, and that result was least of all predictable.
- Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:03 am
- Forum: World War II
- Topic: Was US participation in WWII superfluous?
- Replies: 146
- Views: 89197
Re: Was US participation in WWII superfluous?
^^^They apparently even had US ships, with US crews, that were bought or leased or whatever by the Russians, sailing right under the noses of the Japanese to deliver US raw material and food. According to one source I found, almost half of US aid to Russia got there this way--though apparently it wa...
- Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:17 am
- Forum: World War II
- Topic: Was US participation in WWII superfluous?
- Replies: 146
- Views: 89197
Re: Was US participation in WWII superfluous?
Yes, this almost implies that the British and Americans did to much to help the Soviets, and brought the Cold War upon themselves. It's a mystery to me as to just how complacent the US in particular was about allowing the USSR to overrun Eastern Europe. Well of course there wasn't much choice about...
- Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:48 am
- Forum: World War II
- Topic: Was US participation in WWII superfluous?
- Replies: 146
- Views: 89197
Re: Was US participation in WWII superfluous?
Let's not forget, when discussing the great success of the Red Army from late '43 on, that the US basically mobilized that army by providing it with almost half a million vehicles. US Lend Lease aid to Russia: "14,795 aircraft, 7056 tanks, 1800 self propelled guns, 131,633 Submachine guns, 345....
- Sun Nov 25, 2012 12:22 pm
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289068
Re: Bismarck construction flaws
Apparently WW I German battlecruisers had 4 shafts?
- Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:50 am
- Forum: Bismarck General Discussion
- Topic: Bismarck construction flaws
- Replies: 397
- Views: 289068
Re: Bismarck construction flaws
OK just read the text portion of Tirpitz the Floating Fortress by David Brown. Basically a more compact but very well done coffee table book. But in it, the author mentioned that had the Bismarck had 4 shafts instead of 3, he might have been able to deal with that nasty torpedo hit a little more eas...