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Reply #975 on: December 22, 2019, 11:49:45 AM
Don't tell Herman..............

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Reply #976 on: December 22, 2019, 12:23:23 PM
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Charlie class SSGN INS Chakra alongside INS Viraat



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Reply #977 on: December 22, 2019, 12:24:29 PM
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HMS Britannia after having been torpedoed by UB-50, Nov 9, 1918 off Cape Trafalgar. One of the last British warships lost in WWI.



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Reply #978 on: December 22, 2019, 12:25:19 PM
Incredible picture.

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Reply #979 on: December 22, 2019, 12:30:30 PM
Dreadnought passing through the Swing Bridge. This was HMS Monarch and it was taken in 1911. It clearly shows the tight fit afforded to these ships by the Swing Bridge. Again much of the superstructure has been disassembled to allow the ship to pass under the High Level, Redheugh and King Edward bridges

It would be coming down the Tyne from the Vickers yard.


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Reply #980 on: December 22, 2019, 12:32:29 PM
^very cool  :bigthumb:

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Reply #981 on: December 22, 2019, 12:34:56 PM
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HMS Naiad shadowing a Soviet Kiev class aircraft carrier



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Reply #982 on: December 22, 2019, 12:35:39 PM
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HMS Indomitable, July 16, 1942



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Reply #983 on: December 23, 2019, 12:15:18 PM

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Reply #984 on: December 23, 2019, 12:49:58 PM
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Reply #985 on: December 23, 2019, 12:52:42 PM
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The battleship SMS Ostfriesland in the dry dock. Preparations are underway to repair damage caused by a mine explosion after the Battle of Jutland.



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Reply #986 on: December 23, 2019, 12:53:37 PM
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The first dreadnought battleship built for the Regia Marina, Dante Alighieri, fires her 12 inch guns.



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Reply #987 on: December 23, 2019, 12:55:29 PM

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Reply #988 on: December 23, 2019, 07:19:20 PM
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The battleship SMS Ostfriesland in the dry dock. Preparations are underway to repair damage caused by a mine explosion after the Battle of Jutland.




The SMS Ostfriesland was the 'war prize' target ship used during the inter-war bombing exercises championed by General Billy Mitchell.

His brass-annoying efforts initially got him court-martialed and then later got a medium bomber named after him that went on to be first to bomb mainland Japan.  ::)

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Reply #989 on: December 24, 2019, 09:55:11 AM
Discussion of teething troubles on Chinese carrier Shandong.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3043042/smaller-fighter-jet-force-expected-chinas-new-aircraft-carrier

Hope they don't have a person with foresight and initiative as the USN had with Billy Goat Reeves on the Langley.

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