Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Pointy on February 16, 2008, 07:40:42 pm

Title: Sonar scan of wreck
Post by: Pointy on February 16, 2008, 07:40:42 pm

Just can't believe how detailed this sonar image is.
Had no idea that they had found this ship either.
Can you work out what ship it is....?

Title: Re: Sonar scan of wreck
Post by: gingyer on February 16, 2008, 07:51:45 pm

is it Ark Royal

Title: Re: Sonar scan of wreck
Post by: Pointy on February 16, 2008, 07:53:23 pm

Nope.

Title: Re: Sonar scan of wreck
Post by: Colin Bishop on February 16, 2008, 07:53:30 pm

It certainly looks like it, especially as the recent book says that the bow broke off when she went down. Certainly amazing detail. What will they find next I wonder?

Oh well!

is it a US carrier as part of the flight deck is missing and most of theirs were wooden in WW2?

Title: Re: Sonar scan of wreck
Post by: DickyD on February 16, 2008, 07:56:01 pm

Wreck of the Graf Zeppelin

Title: Re: Sonar scan of wreck
Post by: Colin Bishop on February 16, 2008, 08:01:28 pm

So it is - "Name that Ship" lives again.  ???

Title: Re: Sonar scan of wreck
Post by: Pointy on February 16, 2008, 08:01:58 pm

DickyD is spot on (please give your gorgeous German Shepard an ear-rub from me), wreck found in 2006, her actual sinking is something of a mystery as there are different versions of what happend to her. Most likely one is that the Russians used it to test weapons.

Another German ship with a mystery ending is this one:

Thought she'd been scrapped!

Didn't mean to start another name that ship thread, just wanted to talk about this as I'm in shock at seeing an intact German aircraft carrier!