Devs-question

[mason531]

What is your favorite warship in history and other people what’s yours myna the USS Arizona

[williammiller]

Its really hard for me to to narrow down the choice to a single class of ships or single ship, I have a number of favorites. However, if I had to pick a single ship, I would have to go with the USS Enterprise (CV-6), since it carried so much of the early load on its shoulders and was involved in so many battles/operations in the Pacific portion of the war, but only to end up sold for scrap instead of being preserved as a museum, which was a shameful fate for such a fine ship.

[oldpop2000]

Dec 18, 2018 12:00:17 GMT -6 mason531 said:

What is your favorite warship in history and other people what’s yours myna the USS Arizona

I guess mine would be the USS Saratoga, CV-3, my fathers old ship. It was very fast but could not avoid torpedoes. It was hit twice, once on January 11,1942 and then again on August 28,1942. It was sunk at Bikini. My father was in the harbor and watched it sink. It held the record for the crossing from San Diego to Pearl Harbor until that record was broken by the USS Nimitz. 

[slew]

I'm not sure if the question includes me but my favorite ship is the USS Ranger (CV-4) which completes the trifecta of prewar US carriers who survived the war.

The Navy had to wait a long time for Ranger. She would follow the Lexington and Saratoga, 7 years her seniors. Finally, a third large carrier allowed for experimentations with more than one carrier per side. Less-than-half her sisters' tonnage, she was a rude awakening to a Navy well-accustomed to gargantuans. Forced to reevaluate its tolerances the Navy grew to accept less ideal carrier operations. Above all Ranger set the standard that large air groups were the key trait of US carriers. A trait which would serve the US well in war.  

Ranger was the first carrier to adopt a wartime conditions and met the Navy's inescapable commitments in the Atlantic. There she performed important service with great efficiency. The opportunity to transfer her did not appear until 1944. By then the need for carriers had been outstripped by the need for pilots. In spite of McCain's request for her to serve in CarDiv 7 with her prewar sisters, she saw out the war in the Carrier Training Squadron. The only one never to face the Japanese in combat, a persistent myth developed believing the Ranger to have been considered 'unfit'. Her disposal was quiet and history has seen fit to continue to be silent on her contributions to prewar and wartime carrier operations.

[AiryW]

Dec 18, 2018 14:00:12 GMT -6 williammiller said:

Its really hard for me to to narrow down the choice to a single class of ships or single ship, I have a number of favorites. However, if I had to pick a single ship, I would have to go with the USS Enterprise (CV-6), since it carried so much of the early load on its shoulders and was involved in so many battles/operations in the Pacific portion of the war, but only to end up sold for scrap instead of being preserved as a museum, which was a shameful fate for such a fine ship.

On the plus side she is going to get a buttload of spaceships named after her.

[dorn]

For me it is Grand old lady.

She fought well in Jutland, their 15" guns were quite dangerous and she was well armored as proved in battle.

When WW2 started in 1939 she was almost 25 years old and still fighting in frontline helping destroying German destroyers near Narvik, her Swordfish sunk as first aircraft German submarine, later flag ship of the Mediterranean fleet fighting much more modernized Italian battleships, even brand new Littorio class and especially airforce which practically non-exist when she was launched. She was able score one of the longest hits, she sunk Italians heavy cruisers, she helps defending convoys, she protected british carriers and finaly she was heavily blowed by weapon which at her launch could be think as miracle. Last time she bobmard during D-day. When she was approved for scrap she refused so ending her long carrier at sea.