How long did it take to build a WWII Battleship?
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The USS Missouri (1944-1998) took 3 years for completion.\n\nNotable dates:\nLaid down:6 January 1941\nLaunched:29 January 1944\n\nThe USS Iowa took less time:\nLaid down:27 June 1940\nLaunched:27 August 1942
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Ok.....a full answer to this would take 200 pages minimum.  This is the stuff graduate thesis are made of....but to summarize.........\n\nYou have to change how you view what WW2 was.  It was essentially a late and last ditch effort for a newly resurgant Russian and German empire to expand territory.  Both countries have always had flexible borders (borders that often change) over their histories.  And Russia in particiular has always sought expansion for warm water ports.  If you look at the geography of it......Germany and Russia are natural rivals.  This is why Russia so distrusted any form of a unified Germany following ww2....Russia has always seen invasions from German territory...even before there was a Germany.  In the early-mid-late 30's both countries were already expanding.....but the Germans were bogged down with Yugoslavia and Poland, and the Russian expansion was bogged down in Finland.  Both leaders also distrusted their militaries....and had to consolidate domestic power at various times.  The alliance/non-agression pact was always meant to be a temporary measure.  Hitler rose to power screaming about communism and socialism.  He was always a direct rival of Stalin.  Stalin and the communist party in Russia saw Hitler as an enemy of the proletariat...and historically feared Germany.  In other words both Stalin and Hitler knew that they were going to be fighting at some point.  The non-agression pact was a mutual agreement to take care of other concerns before this happened.  Germany over came it's problems/obstacles before the Soviets did (they had a 70 year advantage on industrialization, and a more centralized/homogenous population) and broke the Warsaw Pact first.  Stalin's reaction was simple disbelief....and when he did find out the invasion was real he hid for days inside of a bunker and Russia was in chaos.  He finally emerged...and ww2 was fought on the the plains of Russia.  To say that ww2 was a land war between Germany and The Soviet Union would not be too far off the mark.  Both sides benefited from the non-agression pact....but Germany was quicker to take advantage.  As far as appeasement.....the initial German expansion was more bluff than anything else.  THe german war machine could quickly have been stopped in places like Czeck.  To understand appeasement you have to understand the Versailles treaty (the treaty/surrender that ended ww1).  The German State lost territory, had to make reparations, etc.  They had limited military production.  The French (who suffered the worst of ww1) were the primary driving force behind the humiliating (to German thinking) Treaty of Versailles.  The English always felt the sanctions on Germany were unfair and unenforcable.  Because of this....when the Germans entered areas like the Sudatland......the British saw it as fair.  The french lacked the strength or will to fight...especially without international support.  By the time that Germany entered Poland (a mutual invasion with Russia actually), their war machine and industry was far greater...and Hitler's domestic power was far more consolidated.  The Germans already had a huge buffer zone.  Appeasement lead to the inevitable and eventual war with a stronger Germany.
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The Final Countdown (1980)\n\nPlot Outline: A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, planes and midget submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy issued a surprise attack on the US under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. This attack brought the United States into World War II. At 6:00 a.m. on December 7th the six Japanese carriers launched a first wave of 181 planes composed of torpedo bombers, dive-bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters. The Japanese hit American ships and military installations at 7:53 a.m.. They attacked military airfields at the same time they hit the fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. Overall, twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific fleet were damaged and the death toll reached 2,400.
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No. The A34 Comet Cruiser didn't enter service until the very end of 1944, and saw no major battles during the war. (Too bad, because i think it would have been highly successful.)
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When I started this project, I had no idea how big it would get. I figured that I would just use a few of my reference books on naval ships so that people on the Netnews group rec.arts.startrek.misc would ask fewer uninformed questions about naval history. I used to post it regularly to that newsgroup, until Joe Creighton offered to put it on his "Star Trek Archive" web site. (April 1995) The hit rate astonished me! People were really reading this stuff! Anyhow, people started e-mailing me with additional information, suggestions for improvements, etc. It got to be a bit overwhelming. Now I'm finding that it's not just Star Trek fans who are interested. I'm now finding links to this site on real naval history sites! I suppose I should point out to any legitimate naval historians out there that this was originally designed for fans of the various Star Trek television series, and so references to future history (23rd & 24th centuries) and an obscure incedent aboard CVN-65 in 1986 involving one Pavel Chekov are of course, fiction. I was also a bit sloppier about references than I should have been. When I started this, I was doing it for a (then) small community of Star Trek fans on the Internet, and I wasn't really planning on it being an academic work with footnotes and references. Some things got lost in the shuffle, and probably a few errors have crept in during transcription. Nevertheless, I've tried to at least list my sources, and thank those who have contributed. Thanks for reading! \n\n\n1705 - 1707 6th Rate Vessel. (UK) \n\nLength: 110 feet \nBeam: 28 feet \nDraught: 15 feet \nCompliment: 115 \nArmament of 24 guns \nDisplacement: 320 tons. \nPreviously French vessel L'Enterprise before her capture in May of 1705. Served in the Mediterranean under command of J. Paul. May 19, 1707, her new captain takes command, W. Davenport, and she saw action off of Leghorn, (Livorno) Italy. She wrecked on October 12, 1707 off of Thornton. \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1709-1749 5th Rate Vessel. (UK) \n"HMS Enterprize" (sic) \nLength: 118 feet \nBeam: 32 feet \nCompliment: 190 \nArmament: 40 guns \nDisplacement: 531 tons \n4 April 1709, built at Lock, Plymouth, England. \n\n28 April 1709: Completed and launched on \n\n1709-1712: patrolled the Virginia under command of Nicholas Smith. \n\nJune 1711: expedition to St.Lawrence under Rear Admiral Sir Hovenden Walker. \n\n1712-1718: Patrolled home waters from 1712 to 1718. \n\n1718: undertook a major repair and refit. \n\n1719: destroyed depot formed at Donan Castle by the Spanish expedition to the coast of Scotland. \n\nOctober 1719: capture of Vigo by Vice Admiral Mighells. \n\n1721-1724: Patrolled off of Virginia again. \n\n20 February 1740: Renamed Liverpool, a hospital ship. \n\nSeptember 1745: decommissioned. \n\n3 April 1749: sold off for 280 pounds. \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1730-1764 sloop (UK) \nUsed in War of Austrian Succession and Seven Years War. Broken up in 1764. \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1738 - Enterprize, \nSmall wooden English Private passenger vessel. The following is a German translation of an immigrant registration for German and Swiss immigrants leaving for America via England, bound for the Philadelphia ports to live in Pennsylvania:" December 6, 1738, Palatines imported in the snow Enterprize, Lynell Wood Master, from London, 120 passengers." \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1743-1748 Eight Gunned Sloop. (UK) \n"HMS Enterprize" (sic) \n\nPatrolled the Mediterranean under the command of T. Henning. \n\n11 February 1744: took part in the Battle of Toulon. \n\n1748: Sold \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterprise \nBack to Top \n\n\n1759 - ? Frigate. (France) \n\n" L'Entreprise" (sic) \n\nSource: \n\nHistory of the Vessel Enterpri
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The Sinking of USS Indianapolis\n\nThe USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1932. The ship served with honor from Pearl Harbor through the last campaign of World War II, sinking in action two weeks before the end of the war. On 30 July 1945, while sailing from Guam to Leyte, Indianapolis was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-58. The ship capsized and sank in twelve minutes. Survivors were spotted by a patrol aircraft on 2 August. All air and surface units capable of rescue operations were dispatched to the scene at once, and the surrounding waters were thoroughly searched for survivors. Upon completion of the day and night search on 8 August, 316 men were rescued out of the crew of 1,199.\n\nFor a good account of this event, watch the movie Jaws.\nRichard Harris (Quint) tells the story GREAT.
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Maybe a week. I had this done a long time ago and it didn't take long at all.
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The turrets of a battleship can fire the shells in any direction but forward. Each barrel can be elevated independently. Powder bags are used to fire the projectiles and each turret requires from 77 to 110 men. The turrets are in reality not attatched to the ship, but to rolers, in the even that the ship sinks. Only the top turret protudes above the main deck. Back during WWII, the projectiles were fired by percussion, but nowadays, they haveto be fired electronically. The guns are 66 feet long. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.chuckhawks.com/armor_schemes.htm\nhttp://navalhistory.flixco.info/H/54503/8330/a0.htm\nhttp://www.bigstockphoto.com/photo/view/795138\nhttp://www.stormingmedia.us/74/7493/A749381.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_class_battleship
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They obviously didn't spend near enough on her.\nWikipedia has enough information on the Titanic to sink a ship:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic\n\nTaking three years to build at a cost of  $7.5-million \nEstimated cost to build in today's dollars: over $400,000,000\n\nCost to make Titanic, the movie (1997): $200-million-plus \n\nPrice of single first-class passage: $4,700 \nPrice of single first-class passage in today's dollars: $50,000
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I know our my state battleship USS Nevada was just run aground and survived to battle in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres.  The USS Nevada was the only battleship able to get underway during the 7 December 1941 Pearl Harbor Raid, \n\nNevada was the object of intense attacks by Japanese aircraft. Left in a sinking condition after receiving one torpedo and several bomb hits, she had to be beached. \n\nNevada returned to combat during the Attu landings in May 1943. Transferred to the Atlantic in mid-1943, her 14" and 5" guns were actively employed during the Normandy Invasion in June 1944 and the Southern France operation in August and September. \n\nThe battleship then returned to the Pacific, where she assisted with the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945. Though damaged by a suicide plane on 27 March and by an artillery shell on 5 April, Nevada remained in action off Okinawa until June 1945.
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I think the great battleships of the WWII era have the greatest form...from the USS Iowa and Missouri, HMS King George V, the Bismark, the Yamato.
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This project will take 3 years to complete./ The web site is not complete yet so only some of the links work\nListed below is the web site
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It was the US entry in the race to develop the atomic bomb. If we hadn't done it, the Germans or the Japanese would have because they were only a bit behind us in the race. It was inevitable that it would be developed one way or another.
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It's called 'The Final Countdown'\n\nIt is 1980 and the USS Nimitz puts to sea off of Pearl Harbor for routine exercises. After encountering a strange storm and losing all contact with the US Pacific Fleet, nuclear war with the Soviet Union is assumed and the USS Nimitz arms herself for battle. However, after encountering Japanese Zero scout planes and finding Pearl Harbor filled with pre-World War II battleships, it is realized that the storm the Nimitz went through caused the ship to travel back in time: to December 6th, 1941.\n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080736/\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00019GHQ6/whatisthedavi-20
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not all that sure, but in 1950 the british battleship Vanguard fired an eight inch reinforced base shell from a 15" gun using a double sabot and achieved a muzzle velocity of 4630 fps and a carry range of 37 nautical miles!..
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With operated-gun turrets and man held machine guns like on the deck sort of like the ones in the movie Pearl Harbor that the African American used. You know, that guy who did the Radio movie as well. There should be at least two air craft even though its not a carrier and a battleship. Two mini man subs.... Sonar, radar, everything. missiles but why do you want to know? Hmm? I looked at your answering history and you're obsessed with war man. Of course the above is just something I made up.