Is this a destroyer, or a different class of ship? It is a still shot from this u tube clip. I love the clips of ships on wild seas. My current fad, collecting clips of ships at sea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx51ab2cUxA
Is this a destroyer, or a different class of ship? It is a still shot from this u tube clip. I love the clips of ships on wild seas. My current fad, collecting clips of ships at sea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx51ab2cUxA
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looks like a frigate to me but I am no expert
This is a destroyer. Indicated by the "D" in the pennant number D646. Frigate would be "F" and in F111 HMNZS Te Mana.
Average swell, have hit worse that this down in the southern ocean on Te Kaha. Some of the best moments in my life have been had on these ships.
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A tad off topic but if you like warships,my old lady makes a hobby of garage sales, ages ago she paid a couple of $ for some old photo albums,one of them was full of pics taken on the Hood, many of the crew all lined up in the best uniforms and many also taken at sea.Really interesting stuff and a strange thing to just be rid of at a garage sale i always thought.
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I went to the youtube clip, and it was clearly a Hyundai Santa Fe.
(And Wikipedia says it's a French Frigate : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:F...le_(D_646).jpg : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French...A9ville_(D646) ).
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I read somewhere that 'There is no such thing as a large ship on an angry sea' guess that would have been before the nucleur aircraft carriers.
I enjoy watching the various ships breaking through the big swells in rough seas. Probably not so much fun for the buggars on board.
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What saddens me is no more battleships and cruisers are being built. Not sure if any are even in service these days.
When I was a kid there was a wonderful TV series about WWI and some of it concentrated on early movie footage of the British battlefleet ships. In particular the battle with the Germans in the North Sea and around Scapa Flow.
Talk about titans of the sea. Respect for all of the sailors in them.
I think that with the missile system today, floating weapon platforms like the battleships are obsolete. A pity because the image of a huge battleship plowing through the waves, guns spouting flames and smoke are what gets little boys excited about the military. Same as pictures of fighter aircraft.
Somehow, looking at a row of silo domes just doesn't have the same effect.
Submarines seem to be the leading vessel of todays navys as far as effectiveness goes.
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Now completely obsolete and replaced by the carrier.
Delivering ordnance onto targets at greater ranges whilst carrying the ability to defent not only itself, but the whole battlegroup.
The coming fleet deployment of drones (X-48) will enhance this strike ability by increasing the strike range from 800 miles to over 2000.
The battleship has had her day.
Interestingly, with the defence cuts biting deep, a lot of naval duties are now being performed by cruise missiles.
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