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vanvlak
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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 8:28 pm 
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This is the former USS Tuscaloosa, now La Fiamma (the flame) of Venice.
Any Venetian would recognise the 'CX' emblem on the hull - it refers to the 'Consiglio dei Dieci' (Council of Ten) which were originally a legislative body but ended up effectively ruling Venice.

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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:41 pm 
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Nice !  Blog updated old boy!

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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 9:45 pm 
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Nice V, keep it up!

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Quote (vanvlak @ 16 May 2006 (20:28))
This is the former USS Tuscaloosa, now La Fiamma (the flame) of Venice.

USS Tuscaloosa? I might be wrong, but shouldn't that be CSS Tuscaloosa?

In any case, nice work, V. Very creative use of historical minis for sci-fi.  :cool:

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PostPosted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:08 pm 
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Quote (Dwarf Supreme @ 16 May 2006 (13:55))
USS Tuscaloosa? I might be wrong, but shouldn't that be CSS Tuscaloosa?

Who care what those crazy Americans called it, for now, it has reached a much more glorious station in life as La Fiamma.   :p

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PostPosted: Wed May 17, 2006 6:43 am 
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Hi Dwarf - apparently, it IS USS. Can't say why, but that's the only ref I found.

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V just to be clear, it is a CSS. It was built and used by the South and thus would be the CSS.

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CSS Tuscaloosa

Casemate ram
Dimensions:  length 150'-170', beam 34', draft 7'
Displacement:  500? tons
Speed:  2 ? knots
Crew:  120
Armor:  4" casemate
Armament:  One 6.4" Brooke rifle, three 32# smoothbores
Authorized:  1 May 62

Tuscaloosa: Similar to Huntsville. Built at Selma AL. Launched 7 Feb 63 and taken to Mobile for completion. Commissioned fall 63. Used as floating battery due to poor engines. Provided men for boat expedition to Pensacola FL Apr 64. Exchanged fire with Federal recon flotilla near Mobile 15 Aug 64. Sunk 12 miles above Mobile in Spanish River to prevent capture and block the river 12 Apr 65. Some sources replace the Brooke rifle with an English Blakely rifle, but this seems unlikely. Commander: Cdr. Charles H. McBlair (late 64). (?)

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coo! Fancy that. In my ref it's listed as USS - but no details are given. Must be a typo, then. it DID look Southern, mind you - the Virginia-like look is a bit of a give-away.... :)

Thanks for the info Dafrca - and aplogies to DS for my St. Thomas act :(
PS - hey Dafrca, where is the info from? Interesting!  :D  :cool:

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So, where are the rayguns? The volley guns? The torpedo launchers?  Wireless mast? :;):  :laugh:

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Quote (Mojarn Piett @ 17 May 2006 (09:01))
So, where are the rayguns? The volley guns? The torpedo launchers? ?Wireless mast? :;): ?:laugh:

I might be growing old, Mojarn, but these ships are so strange and the models so nice I just couldn't bring myself to modify them. ?:( Remember the Imperial Man O'War ships we'd traded ages ago? It's the same with those - and, incidentally, I'm feeling really happy I hadn't painted them back then. Although they belong to a different age, they too will probably wear Venetian colours - along with my Bretonnian and Dwarf fleets!

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Quote (vanvlak @ 16 May 2006 (23:59))
PS - hey Dafrca, where is the info from? Interesting! ?:D ?:cool:

Well, I took the specs from a listing of all the CSS Ironclads. The photo from a website discussing the attempt to raise her from the river and restore her.

In any case, I found her listed in a few lists of CSS Ironclads.

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Thanks Dafrca. :D :D

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I might be growing old, Mojarn, but these ships are so strange and the models so nice I just couldn't bring myself to modify them.


:O

Did you really post that V? :D

Did I hear Dwarf Fleet?  You dont happen to have a psare Dwarf Submarine do you?

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Quote (Tas @ 17 May 2006 (14:10))
I might be growing old, Mojarn, but these ships are so strange and the models so nice I just couldn't bring myself to modify them.


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Did you really post that V? :D

Did I hear Dwarf Fleet? ?You dont happen to have a psare Dwarf Submarine do you?

I don't have a psare one, but I'll see what I can do.... now what would you want that for..... aren't you the one whose job it is to sink 'em? :oops:  :p
And yes, that's my post. I AM getting old, I guess.

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Quote (vanvlak @ 17 May 2006 (06:16))
And yes, that's my post. I AM getting old, I guess.

You and me both my friend, you and me both.  :80:

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