zorares opened this issue on Apr 08, 2009 ยท 31 posts
theschell posted Thu, 14 May 2009 at 8:50 AM
Ty Antonia for pointing that out... how ever... it should be noted that the Minnesota underwent several refits... 5 i beleive it was to be exact... from 1914 to 1920... during which her superstructure, masts, and armaments were completely stripped out and rebuilt.... newer turrets were installed, new masts etc etc... some of her armaments (present pre-war) were completely removed... and the origional deck plans i've looked at don't even come close to what the ship looked like during and leading up to WW1 (or after the war for that matter).. i have also found numerous discrepancies in pictures of the vessel and of vessels in the same class in which it is possible that pictures were either miss-labled. or the ships pictured were miss-identified...an all too common problem with pictures of the day... also i should point out that i build ship models for museum displays and that ww1 is the main area that i model... in large scale.... i am building this model based on a best "educated" guess at what is accurrate based on a wide range of photo's of this vessel specifically and also on other ships of the era in-order to hopefully preserve some reasonable accurracy of what the Uss Minnesota BB-22 looked like... It would seem that even paintings and postcards of the ships of this era can't agree on the appearances of the vessles of that day in age... since the ship could change drastically during refits and even ships of the same class didn't look like one another after the naval yards got done with them...lol... I've also found major discrepancies in the listings for the armaments the ship was to have had and where they were located... and when...