Name this Naval Vessel

It could be said that several other battleships were fitted with "bath tubs" - that was the slang term for the .50-caliber machine gun position at the very top of the mast in reconstructed battlehsips like the Nevada and Pennsylvania classes. This held four single water-cooled .50s and was probably not the battle station for anyone afraid of heights!

Someone fire the next salvo!

 

I thought it was the tub that William Taft got stuck in XD

 

Halsey had one installed on the Missouri for a while as he had a skin condition requiring a daily soak....

 

So, name this carrier

 

It looks like there are a couple of Fairey Swordfishes sitting on her deck, she must be British then!

Name: MV Adula
Class: Rapana Class (tankers)
Type: Merchant aircraft carrier (MAC-ship)
Ships in Class: Rapana, Ancylus, Acavus, Alexia, Amastra, Miralda, Adula
Displacement: 16,000 tons full load
Propulsion: Diesel, 1 shaft, 4,000 bhp
Speed: 11.5 knots
Armament: Armament: 1 4 inch, 2 40 mm, 6 20 mm

 

Yes she is British.

 

I'll take a guess and go with the "Empire Maccabe"

 

Easier than I though it would be. It is the MV Empire MacCabe one of four semi-sister ships converted to MAC.

 

The only listing for a shipwreck off New Calodonia is for a " Le Snark "

 

Try this one:

 

Tough call, can't find many good pictures of the sisterships.
But it is either HMS Pozarica or HMS Palomares
Best shot I could find HMS Palomares

 

wrong one Poazrica not Palomares.

 

I've decided to liven this up a bit. I'll give a salute to a right answer for this one.

 

It's the German auxiliary vessel Sperrbrecher 13 (ex Minerva) in her 1943 camouflage pattern!

 

You are correct.

 

Thanx for your salute, Chief! Much appreciated!

The sequence of pictures below shows an historic event.
What happened and what is the name of the ship involved?

 

Looks like Italia taking a Fritz X enroute to Malta.

 

Italian yes, but not the Italia, taking a Fritz X hit.

 

More likely it's the unfortunate Roma, she actually took two Fritz-X the second one penetrated her forward magazine and the secondary explosion broke her back. Littorio/Italia took a near miss and a hit with only superficial damage. Those picture are most likely from a Gerrman film.

 

Right on the spot TOS.

In the March 1968 issue of the British magazine Flying Review Intl. there is an interview with the former Luftwaffe pilot Heinrich Schmetz who performed the attack on the Roma. He was assigned to the KG 111/KG 100 operating the long-winged Do 217K-2. On September 9th, 1943 he took off to intercept the Italian fleet heading south. The Roma was the first capital ship to be sunk in action by a guided missile, and it carried the Italian Fleet Commander, Admiral Carlos Bergamini and 1254 italian sailors with it.
Perhaps most important, the Fritz X served as 'grand-daddy' to a fleet of later guided air-to-ground missiles, among them current US and Russian weapons.

Below is an image of a similar attack on the HMS Warspite later on by the same Kampfgruppe. The ship didn't sink but she was crippled to an extent that she was withdrawn from service for the rest of the war.

A salute to you, TOS!

Images are from the above mentioned magazine.