Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 28, 2019, 11:43:48 AMif there's no sails, what are all the lines for?laundry
if there's no sails, what are all the lines for?
Quote from: bayonetbrant on May 28, 2019, 11:43:48 AMif there's no sails, what are all the lines for?Signal flags. Radio was kinda new-fangled then.
Kearsarge-class pre-dreadnought battleship USS Kentucky (BB-6)
Flyover of USS John C Stennis
USS Leyte (CV-32). At anchor in Sasebo harbor, Japan, in November 1950, during a break in her Korean War combat operations
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28367/navys-f-35c-stealth-fighters-wont-fly-from-troubled-new-ford-class-carriers-for-years
The Invasion of Normandy - D-Day, 6 June 1944. Canadian Minesweeping Squadron 31, supported by USS Emmons (DD-457) and USS Doyle (DD-494), cleared a bombardment support lane to the Normandy coast during the night before H-Hour. Watercolor on Paper by Dwight C. Shepler, 1944.
French light cruiser Glorie in the Hudson River, New York City, during July 1939