May 02, 2012

Name This Mystery Ship XVI

Sometimes the Mystery Ship I trot out for these contests are found long in advance, carefully stored away until the time comes to spring them on my unsuspecting readers.  Other times, it's serendipitous.  They fall in my lap completely by accident as I'm doing something else altogether.

FDM, CXT, you two have been moved to to "master-level," so you can't play on this one.  Everybody else, take your best shot!  The winner gets a post on a topic of their choice... but no cheating.  If you cheat, you make little duckies cry, and big duckies angry.

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1 U.S.S. Savannah?

Posted by: brickmuppet at May 02, 2012 06:00 PM (EJaOX)

2 Yeah, it sure looks like the Savannah to me.  I was looking at French, Italian, and British cruisers, but nothing matched the 3-gun turrets, two funnels,and main deck line.

Posted by: Siergen at May 02, 2012 07:14 PM (3/gGt)

3 USS It's Not The Savannah.

Posted by: Wonderduck at May 02, 2012 07:20 PM (6CHh4)

4 That's funny, the other night I was half-watching TV and there was a program that briefly mentioned this ship.  In a context rather far-removed from the above photo, though.

Posted by: flatdarkmars at May 02, 2012 07:47 PM (I55Es)

5

Speaking of oddities, certain events over the last couple years had me re-reading some of the books in my collection, which fits in amazingly well with this particular ship.  And it probably cover the same circumstance, or at least the period of time, FDM mentioned.

Interesting ship, that.

 

Posted by: cxt217 at May 02, 2012 07:56 PM (YFCvg)

6 OK, then how about the USS Philadelphia? I could've sworn that is was right over there...

Posted by: Siergen at May 02, 2012 08:00 PM (3/gGt)

7 It's also not the USS Phila


                                                                           delphia.

Posted by: Wonderduck at May 02, 2012 08:36 PM (6CHh4)

8

The white paint job is curious. That isn't combat colors. I wonder whether it's part of the "Great White Fleet", before WWI?

Also, those are mighty small guns. Can't be a BB, and probably isn't a CA either. I'm guessing it'll turn out to be a CL.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at May 02, 2012 08:50 PM (+rSRq)

9 Using Wonderduck's last hint, finding the matching photograph is trivial. The only difference that I see is that the original has a noticeable U.S. Flag, which is shopped away in this picture for some reason.

Posted by: Pete at May 02, 2012 08:51 PM (5OBKC)

10 If I get two guesses, then my last one is the USS Phoenix.  I'm pretty sure that Brickmuppet got the class right, and I think I found the matching photo just before logging for bed. 

Why do you have to run these on work night? 

Posted by: Siergen at May 02, 2012 09:01 PM (3/gGt)

11 The flag was shooped out, Pete, to make it marginally more difficult to identify. 

Siergen, I'm afraid you don't get two guesses.  I declare this one to be a no-winner.

Posted by: Wonderduck at May 02, 2012 09:55 PM (6CHh4)

12 I made a few attempts to figure it out, but came up empty.  The white paint led me correctly to South America, but I didn't investigate thoroughly enough, mostly because I was at work.  If it was still open, I'd probably be figuring it out about now.

Posted by: David at May 02, 2012 10:29 PM (Kn54v)

13

The white-ish paint was used quite a bit on US Navy ships deployed in the tropics during peacetime - USS AUGUSTA had a white-ish hull color scheme when she was assigned to the Asiatic Fleet, for example.  The PHOENIX spent some time visiting South American ports prior to the outbreak of the war, so the photo is probably from that time.

C.T.

Posted by: cxt217 at May 02, 2012 10:42 PM (YFCvg)

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