Ship porn

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The support ships can probably dock in Portsmouth harbour, the Gerald Ford is too large to get in there. Many moons ago was sailing in the Solent at night and there was a ship lit up like a massive cruise liner, next morning we could see it was a US carrier, so went over there, was the Dwight D Eisenhower, absolutely stank of kerosene, had a constant stream of boats taking people to and from the shore. When the QE class ships were built they had to dredge Portsmouth harbour to make it big enough for them, every two or three days trains had to be suspended from the station as yet another WW2 bomb had been dredged up...

 

[A380]

1850s Ville de Paris.

 

[A380]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Seen that irl, was very impressive.

 

[A380]

 

[T & P]

HMS Nope.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

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Training ship. The complement of the Cutty Sark was 28.

 

[petee]

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a beautiful thing.

 

[T & P]

The Spanish Navy has the third largest tall ship in the world, Juan Sebastian Elcano. I remember when the time was nearing for my military service, which was assigned by a draw, I was praying to the gods not to be sent to the Navy in case I ended up serving on the fucker and required to climb up the masts.

Absolute beauty, though

 

[A380]

Turkish ship of the line Mahmudari in the 1850s

 

[A380]

USS Constitution in dry dock.

 

[bcuster]

USS Constitution in dry dock.

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she looks practically brand new!

 

[existentialist]

she looks practically brand new!

Theseus' Ship.

 

[weltweit]

Not enough guns

 

[bcuster]

Not enough guns

and no missiles! what did they do/ Throw stones at each other?

 

[A380]

Not enough guns

And the ones they do have are (replicas of) British ones...

 

[bcuster]

 

[A380]

 

[bcuster]

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That’s an idea of what NY harbor probably looked like just prior to the Battle of Long Island

 

[petee]

biggg

 

[A380]

Rose - which was HMS Surprise in the Master and Commander film- in dry dock .

 

[clusterfarce]

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Its an old tradition from the age of sail. When a ship was becalmed the midshipmen and those on their first voyage had to climb up and stand like that. Once the captain gave an order they had to start flapping their arms to billow the sails and get some motion. I am not sure it ever worked but did amuse the more experienced. (my memory may have gotten some details wrong)

 

[A380]

 

[petee]

 

[T & P]

 

[A380]

Lunchtime. One of my favourite pub windows.

 

[bcuster]

Modern Submarine Torpedo Attacks Are Nothing Like What You See In The Movies

Breaking down how modern torpedo attacks really go down and the types of torpedoes that are used to sink ships and other submarines.

getpocket.com

 

[steveo87]

Do they want 'back in'?

I mean, it'd fix Brexit.

 

[bcuster]

Do they want 'back in'?

I mean, it'd fix Brexit.

If it were up to me, I’d have the issue put to a referendum. Would you have us?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Do they want 'back in'?

I mean, it'd fix Brexit.

Yeah, when the wayward colonies return to the fold the EU wallies will rue the day they mocked proud Britannia!

(shame that white ensign is just their curtesy flag, flown when in UK waters)