WWII Quiz

George said:
Got it! Old Spanish Cruiser captured during the Span-Am War and used as a school ship at Annapolis. Captain's family authorized to live aboard.
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Phew, I was starting to run out of ships, as it was I had to consult a book on unique ships of the world's navies.
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OK, To the best of my knowledge, what was the last " class" & "ship type" designed with intentional ramming as a design feature. Format answer would be like the "Pink Panther" class of "Patrol hydrofoils".
 
George said:
What is called a "Senior Moment" , it's right there but you can't quite grasp it.
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Hehe ain't that the truth, the class of ship I was thinking about were quite small corvette/frigate sized but there is an argument to say that HMS Warspite had a ram bow and as I recall two WW1 American battleships had them as well.
 
George said:
I meant disregard the Battleships...
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As far as I can tell the last "Western" ram ships were the USS Katahdin a pure ramship and the HMS Polyphemus which was a torpedo ramship but neither of those made it to WW2, then you have the likes of the Italian MT boats that were designed to ram a ship and explode and they served through WW2.
 
MontyB said:
As far as I can tell the last "Western" ram ships were the USS Katahdin a pure ramship and the HMS Polyphemus which was a torpedo ramship but neither of those made it to WW2, then you have the likes of the Italian MT boats that were designed to ram a ship and explode and they served through WW2.
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I didn't mean only weapon, but that intentional ramming was specifically included when they designed the ship(s). Also not including Explosive Motor Boats (Shinyo, Italian, German).
 
George said:
clarification. The class had a bluff bow, not a ram bow, but designed for ramming w/o damaging the bow.
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This question has annoyed me for a long time as I have run into the answer several times but forgotten it by the time I remember the question.
 
Answer is...The Eagle class Sub Chasers, as far as I know the last class of ships designed with ramming included in the design
 
Odd I looked at and discounted that class as they were not designed with a "ram bow" but it just now occurs to me that your question did not mention ram bow just that it was designed for ramming.

That should teach me to read the question properly. :)
Seems you get the next question.
 
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