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Reply #1320 on: August 05, 2020, 05:53:25 PM
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Italian monitor Alfredo Cappellini



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Reply #1321 on: August 05, 2020, 05:56:04 PM
 ??? :o :biggrin:

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Reply #1322 on: August 05, 2020, 11:16:35 PM
Obviously a design to confuse the enemy. And a good one too. Because , I'm more confused than usual.

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Reply #1323 on: August 06, 2020, 06:48:48 AM
Difficult to tell what the calibre of those guns are, maybe 16", but I wonder how far astern the ship went when they fired 'em?

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Reply #1324 on: August 06, 2020, 08:02:32 AM
If the ship ran onto a sandbar it could blast itself backward to freedom.

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Reply #1325 on: August 06, 2020, 10:33:19 AM
Or... they back the ship toward the enemy, they think, 'This thing has no guns'. And then.....  :doh:

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Reply #1326 on: August 06, 2020, 10:33:57 PM
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HMS Diamond as seen from the bow of HMS Victory



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Reply #1327 on: August 07, 2020, 06:08:46 AM
That is a terrific picture  :bigthumb:

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Reply #1328 on: August 07, 2020, 11:23:01 AM

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #1329 on: August 08, 2020, 09:38:50 AM
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Strasbourg scuttled, behind it the cruiser Colbert is on fire, Toulon, November 1942, with Loire 130 flying boat.



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Reply #1330 on: August 08, 2020, 09:41:29 AM
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Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Harriers onboard SS Atlantic Conveyor on the way to the Falklands, just off Ascension Island 1982. She was sunk by a stray Exocet missile with the loss of 12 of her crew on the 28 May 1982



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Reply #1331 on: August 08, 2020, 11:46:26 AM
Brings back sad memories.

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Reply #1332 on: August 14, 2020, 09:51:50 PM
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35708/the-navy-now-has-a-submarine-aggressor-squadron

The Navy is planning to implement an Aggressor submarine force to use foreign navies tactics and doctrines.
This is like Top Gun and Red Flag flying an agressor squadron with foreign air forces tactics.

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"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #1333 on: August 14, 2020, 11:12:09 PM
I would buy THAT on Pay-Per-View.  :D

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Reply #1334 on: August 18, 2020, 09:30:55 AM
Bow of USSGrowler after a night time melee with a Japanese patrol boat.
During this captain Howard K Gilmore was machine gunned.  To save the ship he cleared the bridge and ordered "Take her down".
In Clay Blair's book, Silent Victory, it is stated that Growler was surprised by an airplane. 

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.