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Re: Be vewwwy, vewwy quiet...I'm hunting Richard's CVE
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lugnet.pirates
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Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:35:41 GMT
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I forgot to ask for some information on the ship....what is it? The bow has
abandoned the reverse sloping bow of WWI era ships, but it still has a has a
rear-facing forward turret, which seemed to dissappear on ship design by the
start of WWII. So, at a guess, early thirties? Looks a bit light to be a
BB, so a HC (I don't recall any Japanese BC)?
Bruce
In lugnet.pirates, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Seeing as how Kenneth Tam was mentioning how crowded the South
> Pacific is getting, now's probably the time to point out that
> it looks like the population's now one 400-pound Nihon Kaigun
> (and only barely piratical) gorilla larger:
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> http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~lfbraun/takao-lfb-03.jpg
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> I'd be kind of spooked if I were an escort carrier cavorting
> around the Archipelago these days. ;)
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> ...more to come, as Brickfest galleries go up and I can produce
> a proper page...
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> -LFB
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| (...) Excellent powers of deduction, Bruce! :D It is indeed a heavy cruiser, of the post-Treaty sort (built 1927-1932). It's meant to represent the heavy cruiser Takao (but could also pass for the Atago), normal displacement ~13,000 tons, length at (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jul-02, to lugnet.pirates)
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