What warship?

[awa355]

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

[Rhys]

looks like a frigate to me but I am no expert

[The Reibz]

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.

F77 The Dog Pound

[98tls]

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.

[Ocean1]

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.

Sad to think there was nobody for whom it meant enough to keep.

What amazes me is that the ships of previous centuries managed the worst that nature could throw at them. Most of the time.

[pzkpfw]

You're all wrong.

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) ).

[huff3r]

You're all wrong.

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) ).

From said wiki article:

Note: The French navy does not use the term "destroyer" for its ships. Thus, some large ships, referred to as "frigates", are registered as destroyers

[Laava]

Sad to think there was nobody for whom it meant enough to keep.

What amazes me is that the ships of previous centuries managed the worst that nature could throw at them. Most of the time.

Yes. I have just finished yet another book about Cpt Cook, this one being his literal diaries. Fuck me they were tough guys. And tough ships. As an aside he was very impressed with the maori watercraft in general and their nav skills.

[Ocean1]

Yes. I have just finished yet another book about Cpt Cook, this one being his literal diaries. Fuck me they were tough guys. And tough ships. As an aside he was very impressed with the maori watercraft in general and their nav skills.

Aye, hard bastards indeed. Cook was a superb navigator, and that was before they had accurate timepieces, (it was all lead line and latitude), so he was very interested in all of the islanders' purely empirical methods.

[awa355]

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.

[Swoop]

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.

Not quite.
The Nimitz class can still get waves over the bow in the big seas.

Interesting to note the new carriers are fitted with active stabilizers.

[pzkpfw]

From said wiki article:

Yep. So it's French. And they don't use the term Destroyer. Thus the title saying it's a French Frigate.

[Winston001]

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.

[awa355]

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.

[Swoop]

What saddens me is no more battleships and cruisers are being built.

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.