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Camiroq, on 07 July 2013 - 05:35 PM, said: Niiiice :medal: Tnx :honoring:

USS Wyoming (BM-10) was the second ship of the United States Navy to bear that name, but the first to bear it in honor of the 44th state. The first Wyoming was named for Wyoming Valley in eastern Pennsylvania.The keel of Monitor No. 10 was laid down on 11 April 1898 at San Francisco, by the Union Iron Works. She was launched on 8 September 1900 sponsored by Miss Hattie Warren, daughter of Senator Francis E. Warren of Wyoming, and commissioned at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, on 8 December 1902 with Commander Vincendon Lazarus Cottman in command. Panamanian independence: After fitting out at Mare Island, Wyoming ran her trials and exercises in San Pablo Bay and San Francisco Bay and conducted exercises and target practice off the southern California coast through the summer of 1903 before she headed south in the autumn, reaching Acapulco, Mexico, on 31 October. She subsequently shifted further south, to Colombia, where a civil war threatened American lives and interests. The monitor accordingly arrived in Panamanian waters on 13 November and sailed up the Tuira River in company with the protected cruiser Boston, with a company of Marines under Lieutenant S.A.M. Patterson, USMC, and Lieutenant C.B. Taylor, USMC, embarked, to land at Yariza and observe the movements of Colombian troops. The presence of American armed might there and elsewhere ultimately aided in independence for the Panamanians. During that time, Wyoming anchored at the Bay of San Miguel, Panama, on 15 December. The following day, a boat with 11 Marines embarked for the port of La Palma, Panama, under sail. While Boston departed the scene on 17 December, Wyoming shifted to La Palma on the following day. There, Lieutenant Patterson, USMC, with a detachment of 25 marines, commandeered the steamer Tuira and took her upriver. While the Marines were gone, a party of evacuated American nationals came out to the monitor in her gig. Meanwhile, Patterson's Marines had joined the ship's landing force at the village of Real to keep an eye on American interests there. Back at La Palma, Wyoming continued to take on board American nationals fleeing from the troubled land and kept up a steady stream of supplies to her landing party of bluejackets and Marines at Real. Ultimately, when the need for them had passed, the landing party returned to the ship on Christmas Eve. Wyoming remained in Panamanian waters into the spring of 1904 keeping a figurative eye on local conditions before she departed Panama Bay on 19 April, bound for Acapulco, Mexico. After remaining at that port from 27 to 29 April, Wyoming visited Pichilinque, Mexico from 3 to 9 May. She subsequently reached San Diego, on 14 May for a nine-day stay. West Coast service: For the remainder of 1904, Wyoming operated off the West Coast, ranging from Brighton Beach, California, and Ventura, California, to Bellingham, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. She attended a regatta at Astoria, Oregon, from 22 to 27 August and later took part in ceremonies at the "unveiling of monuments" at Griffin Bay, San Juan Islands and Roche Harbor before she entered the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, on 22 October. Wyoming was overhauled there into the following year. She departed the Pacific Northwest on 26 January 1905 and steamed via San Francisco to Magdalena Bay, Mexico, for target practice. Later cruising to Acapulco and Panamanian waters, Wyoming also operated off San Salvador and Port Harford, California, before she returned to Mare Island on 30 July to be decommissioned on 29 August 1905. Cheyenne: Recommissioned on 8 October 1908 with Commander John J. Knapp in command, Wyoming spent over two months at Mare Island refitting. Converted to fuel oil – the first ship to do so in the United States Navy – she underwent tests for her oil-burning installation at San Francisco, Santa Barbara, California, and San Diego, into March 1909. During those tests, Wyoming was renamed Cheyenne on 1 January 1909, in order to clear the name Wyoming for the projected Battleship No. 32. The ship consequently underwent more tests on her oil-burning equipment at Santa Barbara, San Pedro, and San Diego before she was placed in reserve at Mare Island on 8 June. She was decommissioned on 13 November of the same year. Submarine tender: Recommissioned, in reserve, on 11 July 1910, Lieutenant Commander Charles Trusedale Owens in command, Cheyenne was assigned to the Washington (state) Naval Militia in 1911 and operated in an "in commission, in reserve" status into 1913. Shifting to the Puget Sound Navy Yard early in February 1913, Cheyenne was fitted out as a submarine tender over the ensuing months. Finally, on 20 August 1913, Cheyenne was placed in "full commission" with Lieutenant Kenneth Heron in command. The newly converted submarine tender operated in the Puget Sound region until 11 December, when she sailed for San Francisco. In the ensuing months, Cheyenne tended the submarines of the Second Submarine Division, Pacific Torpedo Flotilla, at Mare Island, San Francisco, and San Pedro, into April 1914. Later that spring, when troubled conditions in Mexico threatened American lives and property, Cheyenne interrupted her submarine tending duties twice, once in late April and once in mid-May, to embark refugees at Ensenada, Mexico, and San Quentin, Mexico, transporting them both times to San Diego. World War I: Cheyenne then resumed her submarine tending operations on the West Coast, continuing them into 1917. On 10 April of that year, four days after the United States entered World War I, she proceeded to Port Angeles, Washington, the designated point of mobilization for the Pacific Fleet, in company with the submarines H-1 and H-2, arriving there on 16 April. Subsequently shifting to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Cheyenne remained at that port for most of a month taking on stores and provisions loading ammunition and receiving men on board to fill the vacancies in her complement. On 28 April Cheyenne guarded USS N-1 as she ran trials off Port Townsend, Washington. On 4 May, the warship returned to Puget Sound for drydock and yard work. Completing that refit late in May, Cheyenne shifted southward to San Pedro, California, where she established a submarine base and training camp for personnel for submarine duty. Cheyenne subsequently joined the Atlantic Fleet, serving as flagship and tender for Division 3, Flotilla 1, Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet. On 17 December 1918, the ship was transferred to Division 1, American Patrol Detachment. While with that force, Cheyenne lay at Tampico, Mexico, protecting American lives and property from 16 January to 9 October 1919. Proceeding north soon thereafter, the warship arrived at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 23 October 1919, where she was decommissioned on 3 January 1920. Training ship: While inactive at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the ship was classified as a miscellaneous auxiliary, IX-4, in the fleetwide designation of alphanumeric hull classification symbols of 17 July 1920. Subsequently recommissioned at Philadelphia on 22 September of the same year, Cheyenne was towed to Baltimore, Maryland, by the tug Lykens. Based there, Cheyenne was assigned to training duty with Naval Reserve Force (USNRF) personnel of subdistrict "A" of the Fifth Naval District, and trained USNRF reservists through 1925. Based at Baltimore, she occasionally visited Hampton Roads during her cruises. On 21 January 1926, the minesweeper Owl took Cheyenne in tow and took her to Norfolk, Virginia, and thence to Philadelphia, where she arrived on 27 January for inactivation. Decommissioned on 1 June 1926, Cheyenne was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 25 January 1937, and her stripped-down hulk was sold for scrap on 20 April 1939. Displacement: 3,225 long tons (3,277 t) Length: 255 ft 1 in (77.75 m) Beam: 50 ft (15 m) Draft: 12 ft 6 in (3.81 m) Propulsion: Screw Armament: 2 × 12 in (300 mm) breech-loading rifles 4 × 4 in (100 mm) guns 2 × 6-pounders Armor: Harvey: 5-11 inch Belt: 9-11 inch Barbettes: 9-10 inch Inch turrets: 7.5 inch

Camiroq, on 07 July 2013 - 05:40 PM, said: Really good ship :medal: Yeap

Falathi, on 05 July 2013 - 02:17 PM, said: Honestly I wouldn`t want to be in any ship hit by torpedo. Just in case. Me too :glasses:

Camiroq, on 07 July 2013 - 05:38 PM, said: GJ I'm glad you like it

Sivisoko, on 07 July 2013 - 05:25 PM, said: wtf :D Double post, nothing new :trollface: :glasses:

Tnx for nice post Keks!

Thank you very much Keks! :medal:

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Freiherr_von_Keks, on 04 July 2013 - 08:44 PM, said: thx smederevac nice post :honoring: Plz...Keks :glasses:

Model of USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) http://www.motionmod.../cc/ca2544.html

novadragon79, on 04 July 2013 - 06:12 PM, said: Really nice pics and great info I'm glad you like it

IJN Yukikaze Destroyer http://www.lowerre.c...JN Yukikaze.jpg The Kagero class destroyers were the largest destroyers built at the time. Their design was based off of the Asashio class coupled with improvements. They were considered the perfect fleet destroyer. The Kagero class was approved in the 1937, and 1939 Programs and were laid down in the same period. The ships were completed between November, 1939, and June, 1941. Of the eighteen completed, only one survived the war, the Yukikaze. Yukikaze "Snowy Wind" was a Kagero-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was the only member of her class to survive the war. The attrition rate of Japanese destroyers was extremely high due to heavy, prolonged combat and the need to use them to transport supplies to scattered Japanese island garrisons. http://imageshack.us.../4871/yukia.jpg Yukikaze, a 2033-ton destroyer built at Sasebo, Japan, was commissioned in January 1940. In December 1941, a few days after the beginning of the Pacific War, she supported landings at Legaspi, Luzon, and during the first two months of the next year was employed in the campaign to seize the Dutch East Indies. On 27 February 1942 Yukikaze was part of the Japanese cruiser-destroyer force that defeated the Allied naval units in the Battle of the Java Sea. http://imageshack.us...guatalcanal.jpg Yukikaze screened troop transports during the Battle of the Midway in June 1942. She was next in action in the long and difficult Guadalcanal Campaign, serving as an escort in the carrier battles of the Eastern Solomons in August and the Santa Cruz Islands in October. She also participated in the chaotic night action off Guadalcanal on the night of 13 November 1942. In March 1943 Yukikaze was one of the few Japanese ships that survived relentless U.S. Air Force attacks during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Four months later, in mid-July, she engaged Allied ships in the Battle of Kolombangara. In the June 1944 Battle of the Philippine Sea Yukikaze served as an escort for the Japanese oilers. On 24-25 October, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, she was part of the primary striking force which, after enduring U.S. carrier plane attacks in the Sibuyan Sea, battled American escort aircraft carriers and their destroyer companions in the Battle off Samar. Yukikaze participated in escort duty for ships in transit, particularly in the redeployment of Shinano during which the newly completed carrier was torpedoed by a USN submarine and sunk. http://imageshack.us...ukiwshinano.jpg Yukikaze's last major combat operation, on 7 April 1945, was as part of the force built around the battleship Yamato in a desperate, and intentionally suicidal, attempt to attack U.S. forces off Okinawa. She was joined in the sortie by her sister ship, the Isokaze. The Isokaze was damaged severly in the raid and the Yukikaze was forced to sink her with her own batteries. http://imageshack.us...558/optengo.jpg http://imageshack.us...05/optengo2.jpg Having escaped the air attacks that sank Yamato, Yukikaze returned to Japan. She spent the last months of the war on security duty in Japanese harbors and survived many Allied air raids. In late July 1945, shortly before the fighting ended, she was damaged by a mine, but was apparently not seriously hurt. As a result of participating and surviving some of the most dangerous battles the IJN had fought, Yukikaze is very popular in Japan, being called "the unsinkable ship" and "the miracle ship" much like Shigure prior to that ship's sinking by USS Blackfin (SS-322). But some others within the IJN regarded the ship as a bad omen because ships the destroyer was tasked to escort tended to be sunk with heavy casualties. One of the handful of Japan's larger destroyers (out of a hundred) to survive the war in serviceable condition, she was disarmed for use bringing Japanese military personnel and civilians home from that nation's former overseas empire. In July 1947, shortly after this task was completed, Yukikaze was transferred to the Chinese Navy, which renamed her Tan Yang. She accompanied the Nationalist Government to Taiwan after it was driven from the mainland in 1949 and continued in service for two more decades. The old destroyer was scrapped in 1971. Her rudder and one of her anchors were repatriated to Japan. Name: Yukikaze Launched: 24 March 1939 Commissioned: 20 January 1940 Struck: 5 October 1945 Fate: Transferred to Republic of China, 6 July 1947 Class & type: Kagero-class destroyer Displacement: 2,490 long tons (2,530 t) Length: 118.5 m (388 ft 9 in) Beam: 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in) Draft: 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) Speed: 35 knots (40 mph; 65 km/h) Complement: 240 Armament: 6 × 5 in (127 mm)/50 caliber DP guns up to 28 × 25 mm AA guns up to 4 × 13 mm AA guns 8 × 24 in (610 mm) torpedo tubes 36 depth charges

novadragon79, on 04 July 2013 - 06:23 PM, said: another very great post :medal: Plz.... :honoring:

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The La Galissonnière cruiser class was a group of six warships admitted in active service in the French Navy in the 1930s. They were the last French cruisers completed after 1935, until the completion of De Grasse in 1956. They are considered as fast, reliable and successful ships. Two cruisers of this class, Georges Leygues and Montcalm, took part, on late September, 1940, to the defence of Dakar against a vain attempt of British and Free French Forces to occupy this important naval base of French West Africa, under the Vichy control. With the cruiser Gloire, they joined the Allied forces, after the successful Allied landings in North Africa, on November 1942.The three other cruisers of La Galissoniere class, staying under Vichy control in Toulon, have been scuttled on November 27, 1942. After refit with American help, Georges Leygues, Montcalm and Gloire took part to various Allied operations, as covering the D-Day Normandy landings in 1944. Postwar they were flagship of the French Mediterranean Squadron, and carried out several operations off Indo China coasts, till 1954, and afterwards off Algeria coasts, or off Egypt, during the Suez crisis. They were scrapped between 1958 and 1970. Background: The French Navy, emerged from W W I with light cruisers, in very small number, aged (built at the turn of the 20th Century), and exhausted by war service.One Austrian (SMS Novara) and four German light cruisers (SMS Kolberg, SMS Stralsund, SMS Regensburg, SMS Königsberg), were received as reparations for war losses. They were renamed from Alsace-Lorraine towns, respectively Thionville, Colmar, Mulhouse, Strasbourg and Metz, armed with nine 100 mm guns for Thionville, and six to eight 150 mm guns for the other ones, 4,000 tons for Thionville, from 5,000 to 7,000 tons for the other ones, with a speed of 26-27 knots. They were retired from active service in the late 1920s, or the early 1930s. But after it had been considered on 1920, to build 5,200 tons light cruisers, with 5.5 in (138.6 mm) guns, capable of over 36 knots (67 km/h), funds were granted, in 1922 budget, for the three Duguay-Trouin-class cruisers, known as «8000 tons» cruisers, which were launched on 1923-24. They had four double turrets, for which was chosen the 155 mm (6.1-inch) caliber, in regular use by the French Army, and supposed to be more easy for supplying ammunitions. With nearly no armour, they had a speed of 34 knots. It remained too, after the war losses, armoured cruisers, built between 1900 and 1910 (with four to six outmoded funnels), obsolete when they had been commissioned. With their armament arrangement in two double turrets of 194 mm caliber, and various number of single turrets and casemates of generally 167.4 mm, (only the Edgar Quinet and Waldeck-Rousseau cruisers had fourteen 194 mm guns for the main artillery ), a speed of 23 knots, an armoured belt of 90 to 170 mm, for a displacement of 12,000 to 14,000 tons, they were outgunned by their British or German contemporaries. In the early 1910s, there had been a trend for increasing the displacement and armament of armoured cruisers, which led to the British HMS Minotaur class cruisers, the SMS Scharnhorst class cruisers and SMS Blucher, with eight to twelve 210 mm guns, on the German "large cruisers", or four 9.2 in (234 mm) and ten 7.5 in (190.5 mm) guns for the British ones. The SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau were nevertheless sunk at the battle of Falkland Islands, on December 1914, SMS Blucher, at the Battle of Dogger Bank, on January 1915, or HMS Defence, at the Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916),when they were rashly engaged against battlecruisers (HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible at the Falkland Islands, the «Splendid Cats» at the Dogger Bank, and SMS Lutzow at Jutland). The Washington Naval Treaty and the preeminence of the heavy cruiser: The 1922 Naval Washington Treaty forbade the armoured cruiser type, with clauses limiting the cruiser tonnage to 10,000 tons, and the caliber of their guns to 203 mm (8").As the war experience had clearly shown the importance of the safety of commercial maritime roads against corsairs, all the signatories of the Washington Treaty have built, till 1930, nearly only Washington heavy cruisers, (fifteen each for the United Kingdom and the United States, twelve for Japan, seven each for France and Italy). These cruisers bore eight 203 mm guns in four double turrets, in the British, French and Italian Navies, but nine to ten guns in the U.S. Navy, or the Imperial Japanese Navy, with a speed from 30 knots (56 km/h), to 35 knots (65 km/h), and a very light armour, for the earliest ships built, and a better protection, with a slightly reduced speed, for the next classes. On the first Washington heavy cruiser built, in the French Navy, Duquesne, the weight of amour was 430 tons, and the maximum speed on trials reached 35.30 knots (65.38 km/h), with 126,919 shp (94,643 kW), and, for the last one, Algérie, the weight of armour was 2,657 tons, and the maximum speed 33.20 knots (61.49 km/h), with 93,230 shp (69,520 kW). Germany was not subject to the restrictions in warship building resulting from the Washington Treaty, and the German Reichsmarine laid down, between 1926 and 1928, three cruisers with a displacement of 6,650 tons, armed with three triple turrets of 150 mm (5.9 in) calibre, with a speed of 30-32 knots, the Karlsruhe cruiser class, and, in 1929, a improved unit, the Leipzig, with a more powerful cruising diesel installation, and a more extended armoured belt, with nearly the same displacement (6,710 tons). The British Navy was considering that the Washington cruiser type was too large for its needs, and, in 1927, a slightly smaller 8-inch guns cruiser was laid down, the HMS York , with only six 8-inch guns. As the 1930 London Naval Conference has just opened, the United Kingdom announced the cancellation of the next projected 8-in guns cruisers, while the first unit of a new class was to be built, with a displacement of 6,500 tons and armed with eight 6-in guns, able to counter the Leipzig. It was the HMS Leander. The 1930 London Naval Treaty and the resurgence of the light cruiser: The 1930 London Naval Treaty introduced a distinction between Type A cruisers (commonly called "heavy cruisers"), with guns over 6.1-inch (155 mm) calibre (the main artillery on the Duguay-Trouin-class cruisers) and up to 8-inch (203 mm) calibre, and Type B cruisers (commonly called "light cruisers"), with guns of 6.1-inch (155 mm) or under. It fixed the limit for the number of Type A units of each signatory to the number of existing cruisers, and authorized their replacement only twenty years after her completion. In 1926, as France had started to produce classes of destroyers (Chacal, Guépard, and Aigle classes) which were superior in displacement and firepower to the destroyers of that period, in order to counter this menace, Italy decided to produce a new class of cruiser that would be of intermediate size between the new French destroyer classes and the cruisers built in that period. The four units of the Da Giussano class (first sub-class of the Condottieri cruisers group) were laid down in 1928, and completed in 1931-32, respecting the newly signed London Naval Treaty. On a displacement of about 5,200 tons, they were armed with eight 152 mm in four double turrets, and could attain the remarkably high speed of 37 knots (69 km/h), but with negligible armour and short radius. A new French cruiser had been ordered in 1926 and launched in 1930, specially designed as a school ship for midshipmen. The cruiser Jeanne d'Arc had the same 6.1-in guns, in double turrets, than Duguay-Trouin-class cruisers. But when, after the London Naval Treaty, a new cruiser Émile Bertin was designed to operate both as a minelayer and as a destroyer flotilla leader, she was armed with a completely new artillery, in calibre as in arrangement, nine 6-in (152 mm) guns in three triple turrets, for the first time in the French Navy. She had two double and two single mounts of 90 mm for secondary AA artillery. Reaching 39.66 knots (73.45 km/h) on speed trials, with 137,908 hp (102,838 kW), she was the fastest of the French cruisers ever built. The triple turret was unusual in the French Navy, which had preferred the double turret on its battleships, and on its previous cruisers, or the quadruple turret. In 1910, the Chief Naval Constructor, French Navy, had designed Normandie-class battleships with three quadruple turrets, and the quadruple turret was broadly used, on the Dunkerque-class battleships, for the main artillery, as for the dual-purpose secondary artillery. Triple turrets have been common in the Italian Navy battleships (uninterruptedly since the first Italian dreadnought built, Dante Alighieri) as in the Russian, W W I Austro-Hungarian, U.S. Navies (since the Nevada to the Tennessee battleship classes), and even in the British Royal Navy, with the Nelson-class battleships. On cruisers, the triple turret was used in all the U.S. Navy Washington heavy cruiser classes, on the Reichsmarine light cruisers, and on Deutschland-class "pocket battleships". This was on the basis of the Émile Bertin's armament, and on the Algérie's protection and propulsion that was designed the leadship of the La Galissonnière class, launched on November 1933. Apparition of the large light cruiser: But the Imperial Japanese Navy, and its great Pacific Ocean rival, the U.S. Navy were both interested by large cruisers, no matter they were classed "heavy" or "light". So, in the 1931 Program, Japan ordered the first units of a new light cruiser class, the Mogami class,[with fifteen 150 mm, in five triple turrets, and a speed of 37 knots (69 km/h), announcing, falsely a displacement of 8,500 tons. The U.S. Navy answered with the Brooklyn class class, with fifteen 152 mm guns, a speed of 32.5 knots (60.2 km/h), but a more exact displacement of 9,700 tons. The first units of this class were launched in 1937-38. The Royal Navy had laid down a class of four light cruisers, HMS Arethusa class, smaller than the HMS Leander with only six 6-in (152 mm) guns. They were launched between 1934 and 1936. To react to the building of the Japanese and U.S. large light cruisers, the United Kingdom had to cancel some projected units of the Leander and Arethusa classes. The two first British large light cruisers, after drawing drafts for a so-called Minotaur class, which became the Town cruiser class, were launched in 1936. They were fitted with twelve 6-in (152 mm) guns, in four triple turrets, and aircraft installations at the center of the ship, had a speed of 32 knots (59 km/h), and were nearly respecting the 10,000 tons displacement. Three vessels, De Grasse, Guichen and Chateaurenault, were authorized shortly before the war as improved La Galissonniere class, with a displacement of 8,000 tons, the same armament and arrangement of three triple 152 mm turrets, two fore and one aft, and three twin AA 90 mm aft, one axial and two lateral . Aircraft installations, two catapults, crane and hangar, accommodating three/four seaplanes, would have been fitted in the ship's center, aft a single large funnel. They were intended to have a more powerful propulsion machinery, 110,000 hp (82,000 kW), to reach 35 knots (65 km/h). The silhouette, with a massive fore tower, would have been inspired by the Algerie's one. But only the name ship was actually laid down in the Lorient Navy Yard, and as work was suspended during the war, she was launched in 1946, and completed only in 1956, on an integral anti-aircraft cruiser design.