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The US destroyer USS Edsall (DD-219) was lost in the early phases of the war in the Pacific in mysterious circumstances. Recently it was announced that her remains had been found off the coast of Java. This video covers the history of the ship and her remarkable, but ultimately unsuccessful stand ...

They would've been nice-looking ships for sure! I agree, here's what J. E MacDonnell had to say about his creation (Which IMHO probably used a Fletcher Class destroyer as the start point for the authors imaginings...) Destroyers are the prettiest of warships, but Ascari's line was beautiful. A ...

It's quite possible, if not likely that had this class been built, they would have completed in 42-43 with the single 37mm mounts, considering the design date of 1939 for the single mount. Here is the full armament as pulled from the novel: 5 x 4.7inch guns (Five single mounts), 6 x TT (Two triple ...

What a co-incidence, I've been reading through one of J. E. MacDonnell's later (1977) novels and from the limited description the Italian destroyer in that novel would probably be close in appearance to the ship above, the two major differences are in armament, the torpedo tubes are two triple sets ...

Nice job on a tricky subject, if you're ever looking for more fictional ocean liners, there's a blog called 'Model Ships In the Cinema' that has a few of the more obscure ones, including the model used for a 1953 Titanic movie that after being given a 'funnelectomy' (Four stovepipes replaced with ...

Thank's for finding that one I was not aware of it's existence and there are some significant differences between Design 'D' and the Pr. 23 battleships. For one thing Gibbs & Cox went for a 'sting-in-the-tail' by making C turret a quadruple mount for another, the Sovetsky Soyuz owed more to the ...

Two videos covering the 1930s battleship designs created by Gibbs & Cox for the Soviet Union, the last of which (Design 'D') would have given the Russians something capable of going toe-to-toe with an Iowa Class battleship... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAjud8wGaNY https://www.youtube.com/watch ...

From the pages of the 1958 J. E. MacDonnell novel ' Coffin Island ', a complete surprise, what looks to be a Japanese Montana... HIJMS Satsuma Satsuma Class Battleship (Fictional) Length: 'almost' 1000ft (304.8m) Displacement: 50,000tons Depth of Main Armour Belt: 2ft Two Funnels Four shaft ...

A user on the Secret Projects forum called that_person has posted a link to a scanned version of the fourth volume of the US Navy Springstyles drawings over on that forum. Looks to be no battleship designs, so the USS Kentucky (BB-66) conversion into an AA ship that I mentioned in the OP of this ...

Since the last known volume of the 'Amanda Garrett' series has at last been released. USS Cunningham (DDG-79) Cunningham Class Destroyer Length: 580ft (176.8m) Weight: 8000 tons Armament: 2 x 1 76mm OTO Melara (Fore and Aft), ?x Advanced Phalanx (1x4 25mm & 2x quad RAM), 10 x TT (10 x Mk. 50 ...