Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/USS New Jersey, 1918 (2)

USS New Jersey, 1918

Original, not for !voting - The pre-dreadnought battleship USS New Jersey (BB-16) in 1918, near the end of the First World War. Note the camouflage scheme she has been painted with and the 8-inch guns mounted on top of the 12-inch turrets. This was an experiment only tried with the Kearsarge and Virginia classes, and was not repeated. Normal mountings were used on the following Connecticut class, while all American battleships after that utilized a superfiring arrangement.

Edit 1, for !voting - Durova's compensation for the tilt.

Reason

Image is of high quality and great composition.

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USS New Jersey (BB-16)

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Navy Department

• Relisted, support as nom - previous nom (ended in no quorum) here. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 04:26, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
• Um, Edit1 and Original are the exact same image right? So why put up the edit? --jjron (talk) 10:42, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
  • That was me being an idiot; it should be fixed now. Thanks! —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 20:12, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
• Support, a nice shot considering the age of a notable ship; obviously not reproducible. J Milburn (talk) 20:09, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit per nom. Durova⁴⁰⁵ 02:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
• I guess I prefer the edit, but I've just noticed that the mast is cut off. That's annoying. Do we know what the ship in the background is? J Milburn (talk) 18:21, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
  • Nothing we can do about the mast, unfortunately. But look at the bright side: only a small bit is missing, and the cage mast isn't cut off at all! ;) I tried to zoom in on the ship, but it's just too blurry for me to give a definitive answer. To me, it looks like a member of the Connecticut class. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 18:53, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
    • No, the superstructure (or something?) is too high. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 18:56, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
      • Navsource says that it is probably New Jersey's sister ship Rhode Island. —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 18:59, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
        • I don't know about that; you can clearly see the turret face for the 12" guns, but it doesn't look like there's a superimposed 8" turret above it. It actually could be a Colorado class ship; compare it with this contemporary photo of New Hampshire. Parsecboy (talk) 19:53, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
          • You mean the Connecticut class? :P You're right re no superimposed turret. I think that we can definitively say that it is either a Maine or a Connecticut based on this: it's obviously a predreadnought, there is no superimposed turret (rulling out BB's 5–6, 13–17), and there are multiple funnels lengthwise (ruling out BB's 8–9). I think that BB's 1–4 were too low in the water to be this ship. If only we had more detail... —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 16:37, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
            • Yeah, one of those "C" states...Parsecboy (talk) 03:38, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support prefer edit .. GerardM (talk) 00:50, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Fletcher (talk) 01:56, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit. Original had tilt and too much seawater, this better frames the subject. Mostlyharmless (talk) 02:16, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit. This is a high quality and interesting image the ship. Nick-D (talk) 10:47, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support edit. Parsecboy (talk) 14:58, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:USS New Jersey (BB-16) in camouflage coat, 1918 edit.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:40, 5 February 2010 (UTC)