April 19, 2012
Name This Mystery Ship XIV
Easy one this time...
Get it right, win a post on a topic of your own choice. No pr0n, politics or religion, but otherwise it's fair game. Please, do not cheat with imagesearch or anything like that... I can't stop you and won't ever know you did it, but have some pride.
Get to work!
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Get it right, win a post on a topic of your own choice. No pr0n, politics or religion, but otherwise it's fair game. Please, do not cheat with imagesearch or anything like that... I can't stop you and won't ever know you did it, but have some pride.
Get to work!
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USS Borie?
Posted by: brickmuppet at April 19, 2012 08:32 PM (EJaOX)
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All I know is it's a four-stack destroyer. Based on "Hey! That looks like a model I had as a kid!" And the only one of those I know by name is the USS Ward, so. Sharper marbles than I possess are required to know the answer to "Hey, why isn't there a giant number painted on it, like every other photo of those I've ever seen?" 
Posted by: andy at April 19, 2012 08:35 PM (R9Rm2)
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I can answer that last part, Andy: if it had the number on the bow, it'd give the ship away, which is why I photoshooped it out. That's also why I shooped the reflection of the ship's number in the ocean out.
Alas, neither the Borie nor the Ward is this ship.
Alas, neither the Borie nor the Ward is this ship.
Posted by: Wonderduck at April 19, 2012 08:54 PM (PVVuW)
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USS Buchanan, later HMS Campbeltown. Good job photoshopping out the bow number... I was initially looking at Clemson-class boats until I realized it was a Wickes.
Her claim to fame is being stuffed with explosives and blown up during the St. Nazaire raid.
Her claim to fame is being stuffed with explosives and blown up during the St. Nazaire raid.
Posted by: flatdarkmars at April 19, 2012 08:58 PM (I55Es)
Posted by: Wonderduck at April 19, 2012 09:14 PM (PVVuW)
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I have a thought for Mystery Ship that you should do, but I don't want to post it in comments for everyone to see, and you (understandably, I guess) don't seem to have an e-mail address on your blog.
Anyway another Mystery Ship of your choosing would be spiffy.
Anyway another Mystery Ship of your choosing would be spiffy.
Posted by: flatdarkmars at April 19, 2012 09:26 PM (I55Es)
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Check your e-mail, FDM...
Posted by: Wonderduck at April 19, 2012 09:40 PM (PVVuW)
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How can you tell that it's USS Buchanan? Are there unique identifying
features if you know what to look for? Many of the other Mystery Ships I
remember have been outwardly unique in some fashion, but this one looks
to me to be just like the other zillions in the class.
Posted by: andy at April 19, 2012 10:08 PM (R9Rm2)
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Andy, my guess is that FDM knew about the HMS Campbeltown, and had seen the picture somewhere. Or he did an image search. Or he knows more about the 4-stack destroyers than anybody these days should know, and could tell it was a Wickes-class... and that there was only one Wickes-class DD that had an interesting story behind it.
Posted by: Wonderduck at April 19, 2012 10:18 PM (PVVuW)
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I did recognize it as a Wickes-class destroyer (though the first thought that sprang to mind was the Clemson-class, with which I am more familiar). Then I started looking through the Wikipedia pages for every Wickes-class ship (ugh, they built lots of 'em), until I found one with an interesting story. Once I found the Buchanan I checked the photo gallery for that ship on navsource.org and there recognized the original picture with bow number un-photoshopped... http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0513123.jpg
Posted by: flatdarkmars at April 19, 2012 11:01 PM (I55Es)
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Incidentally, I tried image searching after I had already found it, just to see how easy it would have been to cheat, and Google image search didn't turn up a match for this one.
Posted by: flatdarkmars at April 19, 2012 11:03 PM (I55Es)
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