Despite prominent features I have failed to identify this ship. The photo has on the back "Suez - May 1916"
Anyone recognise this one?

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The severe tumblehome would suggest a French warship

Suffren ?

The battleship portrayed in post #5 is a British "Lord Nelson" class battleship, either "Lord Nelson" or "Agamemnon".

Simon

Well done Armidale, I have to agree it is the Jaureguiberry.

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/jaureguiberry.htm

Simon sounds very sure of his identification, so we should perhaps see a pic of one or both of the Nelsons before settling on Jaureguiberry.

Thanks. It doesn't look like either of them to me - what do you think ?

The penultimate photo on the right I would think confirms it as Jaureguibbery: http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/jaureguiberry.htm The prominent midships bulges give it away.

This one of the Jaureguiberry is even more convincing

http://heninen.net/bekman/alfred/tsesarevi...reguiberry.html

To quote the general in Mony Python "boring, too boring"

Why are people whittling on about various British warships? As I pointed out at the beginning of this thread battleships with that exaggerated degree of tumble home shown in the photo were French. Armidale is almost certainly right and if he's wrong the ship is some other French battleship.

Boring? Perhaps. But it would be rather sad if someone passing through this thread had seen the two photos shown in post #5, seen the captions and left with the erroneous impression that it was a French battleship. There can be no doubt that the ship in THOSE photos is a "Lord Nelson", pre-1917 judging from the height of her funnels.

It would seem from looking at a sketch of the plan that Armidale's original warship is indeed "Jaureguiberry".

Simon

Which was never the subject of the thread but a red herring

My apologies to Simon - I missed the reference to post #5, and I agree that it does .

Configuration of the masts in Post 1 is fooling me, is this Charlemagne class..? Nice photo. In looking at other mast configs its annoying how easy it is to dismiss others yet not pinpoint this one!

Suffren http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/suffren.htm
Charlemagne http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/charlemagne.htm

Of the ships suggested, I think Jaureguiberry is most likely.

This thread is almost incomprehensible thanks to extraneous post, pictures, comments and, as Centurion put it, Red Herrings.

May I add to the confusion by asking - Does anyone know what the Jaureguiberry was doing at Suez in May 1916?

regards
Michael

Michael,
Suez Canal defence/guardship but not sure for how long in 1916.

Many thanks H2
I'd previously come across the REQUIN and the D'ENTRECASTEAUX, but not his one

Best regards
Michael

I'm confused how Simon in post #4 could comment on something in post #5. Is this forum software so bad that they renumber posts when one is deleted?

tone

Apologies Tone (and anyone else confused). It's not the forum at fault, but for some reason I put post #4 when I meant post #5.

Simon

Several posts have now been delted from this thread, at the time when he wrote Simon was referring to the then post#5. The posts get renumbered, but this doesn't happen with the content of a post. As the red herrings have been deleted, I've also deleted my posts relating to them.

C'est Bon!
Great photo. Thanks for the explaination.