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Reply #1185 on: June 03, 2020, 08:03:30 AM
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Early French ironclads Cerbere and Belier, circa 1870. Used as coastal defense/floating batteries, 3 were constructed and deployed in the Russian shore during the Crimean War. Steam powered, they also featured twin mainmasts for sail in emergency.



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Reply #1186 on: June 03, 2020, 08:04:30 AM
Silly buggers built them upside down.

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Reply #1187 on: June 03, 2020, 09:28:09 AM
These look like they would roll a lot in any kind of sea.  Gunnery must have been challenging.

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Reply #1188 on: June 04, 2020, 02:05:32 PM
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USS Gerald R Ford and USS Harry S Truman conduct dual carrier operations in the Atlantic ocean, 4th June 2020



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Reply #1189 on: June 04, 2020, 03:36:39 PM
I wouldn't get too close to Ford if I were Harry. He was kind of accident prone.  :notme:

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Reply #1190 on: June 04, 2020, 07:41:51 PM
Too late- it looks like the Truman's island already got knocked over.

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Reply #1191 on: June 04, 2020, 11:03:12 PM
Do you think maybe they are racing each other?

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Reply #1192 on: June 05, 2020, 06:33:42 AM

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Reply #1193 on: June 05, 2020, 06:36:12 AM
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Close up of a German S-boot S-100 class and her bow 20 mm gun while operating in the English Channel.



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Reply #1194 on: June 05, 2020, 09:38:58 AM
https://www.eugeneleeslover.com/Humor/Navy_Recruiting.html

Historic navy video.
Farragut only had a 5"/54 and we really were jealous of 16"ers after this.

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Reply #1195 on: June 10, 2020, 04:09:49 PM
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Launch of the italian submarine Argo, lead ship of her class in Monfalcone 1936.



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Reply #1196 on: June 10, 2020, 04:19:21 PM
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HMS Indomitable as seen from HMS Victorious, on a Malta convoy run, August 1942



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Reply #1197 on: June 10, 2020, 04:26:34 PM
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Italian battleship Giulio Cesare leaving Malta in 1938, likely on 24 June 1938



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Reply #1198 on: June 10, 2020, 10:57:22 PM
Looks like the guys with the Field Guns are about to take her on.  :hehe:

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Reply #1199 on: June 11, 2020, 06:27:14 AM
Its only a salute, honest  :whistle:

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