1 HMS Hermes

2 WRONG!!!  *points, laughs*

3 I was going to guess the USS Sable or USS Wolverine, the training carriers that sailed mostly in Lake Michigan.  But the pictures don't quite match up. It was a wag anyway. 

4 I wrote about the Wolverine back in May of 2010 anyway!

5 There's a point of honor about not using Google image search, right?

6 Ed, I have no way of knowing if you're doing so.  I think it's cheating and that you're less of a human being if you do, but I can't stop someone from using it.

I can understand the temptation; after all, a post on a topic of your choice is an incredibly valuable thing *rolls eyes*.  I don't condone it, but I understand it.

7 Only carrier I can come up off the top of my head with an island configuration like that is HMS Eagle.  But some of the hull details do not match up.

8 On a couple of previous "name that ship" competitions, after I'd given up, I did an image search just to see, without any intention of using that as my answer.  Neither time did I get a result.

9

Oh....I just realized my mistake.  You got a GOOD one, Wonderduck!  Hats off to you!

I take back my guess - it is not HMS Eagle, and you ruled out HMS Hermes.  That means it is S.S. Mamari or Fleet Tender C.  A decoy ship used by the Royal Navy during Big Mistake #2 to fool the Luftwaffe.

Good one!

C.T.

 

10

CXT got it!  Name your prize, C... remember, no pr0n, politics or religion, but otherwise anything goes.

11 Also, what style/flavor of hat are you going to feast upon?

12 Dang.  I know I didn't win, but how about a post about the "fleet tenders"?

13

Sorry about the delay in getting back but I have been preoccupied with a few things over the weekend.  Some pleasant, some not so much.

Hmmm....Let me think about that, Wonderduck.  I have to go really deep to find something that I like covered (At least with regards to military history.) for a write-up.  Hmmmm....