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Gangway falls collapses to river Thames

Gangway falls collapses to river Thames

RE: Gangway falls collapses to river Thames

"She is the last remaining major warship from the two world wars."

I would have assume the author means British warship...

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

RE: Gangway falls collapses to river Thames

Maybe, not too many American ships left either

RE: Gangway falls collapses to river Thames

The straw that broke the camel's back!!

RE: Gangway falls collapses to river Thames

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Just over a year later, in November 1939, she struck a Nazi mine and spent the next three years undergoing repairs. However when she was relaunched in November 1942 the cruiser had been built up to be the Navy's strongest warship.

   The description is a bit extravagant.  She was a cruiser, not a battleship.  They do say "major" warship, which again, is extravagant.  Battleships and aircraft carriers are major.  Wikipedia describes HMS Belfast as a light cruiser.  Wikipedia also describes her as the largest, most powerful cruiser in the Royal Navy at the time.  She assisted in the destruction of the Scharnhorst.

   Canada still has the Haida, but that is a tribal class destroyer, definitely not a major ship.  The Americans still have a couple of their old battleships around, and possibly an aircraft carrier or two.

               JHG

RE: Gangway falls collapses to river Thames

It's unlikely to have seen much action in WW1 as it was launched in 1938.

RE: Gangway falls collapses to river Thames

I thought that too, initially, but that was not the statement.  The author did not specifically state that the ship was in both wars, only the only remaining ship from either war.  That's the way I took it.

The US does still have Big Mo, the New Jersey, and at least one carrier from the second world war.  I do not think any of Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, that would have taken part in the first world war, is still around though.   

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

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