Hands down, US Fletcher class destroyer. 175 built, the next two US destroyer classes based off of it. It was the destroyer that screened the US carrier battle groups. 5 duel purpose 5" guns, numerous AA guns, 10 21" torpedo tubes (only effective after the US solved its torpedo problem). speed, 38 knots. a true warship. also, one could argue they won the war for the US. It was basically the Navy’s version of the Sherman tank. plus, the last one was decommissioned in 2001, so a life of 57-59 years depending on when it was commissioned.
Hitlers Lost fleet FOUND!
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That is an excellent find Garg, thanks.
Who would have thought there were U-Boats operating in the Black Sea(without an IC build!). -
Very cool read. Coincidentally my maternal grandfather was also a Rudolf Arendt.
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I read about the coastal U-Boats in the Black Sea, I was surprised how little tonnage they sunk.
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Nice work Garg!
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That’s interesting, thanks for sharing.
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Garg,
––Nice work! I thoroughly enjoyed reading this. It was quit an engineering feat!
----It reminds me of drawings I’d seen many years ago of German Destroyers and Cruisers proposed overland movement. Keep up the good work!
“Tall Paul”
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Overland movement is one thing…
Imagine Overland Deployment! A cruiser parked on land at the outskirts of town holding off hordes of russians… lol that would be something!
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Even as a child, I always imagined myself holding off hordes of Russians!
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I vaguely recall seeing an old Popular Mechanics cover which showed an alternate solution to the problem of widening the Panama Canal to accommodate warships broader than the 110-foot width of the locks: building a railway that would allow the US to move battleships overland from the Atlantic to the Pacific and vice-versa.