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Slowly piecing together a world of floating islands, forgotten ruins, crystal formations, battleships and futuristic cities.
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One of my family members died with cancer he didn't make it I'm losing everybody I love why? 😭😭😭 I love my uncle he was a good person to a certain degree but he was stubborn and I will always love it when he told me stories when he was a marine or in the navy with the battleships and I loved it… read more
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On This Day in History - November 27, 1942
November 27, 1942 #OTD World War II: Scuttling of the French fleet at Toulon At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of German hands. The French destroyed 77 vessels, including 3 battleships, 7 cruisers, 15 destroyers, 13 torpedo boats, 6 sloops, 12… read more
1y
Why does Norway put barcodes on their battleships?
So they can Scandinavian!
1y
On This Day in History - November 11, 1940
November 11, 1940 #OTD World War II: Battle of Taranto At 2300 hours, 21 Swordfish aircraft of British carrier HMS Illustrious flew over Taranto Italy, where the Italian fleet was harbored. 11 aircraft attacked with torpedoes, sinking battleship Conte di Cavour was sunk, and damaging battleships… read more
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On This Day in History - October 25, 1944
October 25, 1944 #OTD World War II: Battle off Samar During the Battle of Leyte Gulf off Samar Island, in the Philippines, the USS Johnston (DD-557) a Fletcher class destroyer would lead an attack alongside a handful of light ships which had inadvertently been left unprotected in the path of a… (edited) read more
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On This Day in History - October 25, 1944
October 25, 1944 #OTD World War II: Battle off Samar During the Battle of Leyte Gulf off Samar Island, in the Philippines, the USS Johnston (DD-557) a Fletcher class destroyer would lead an attack alongside a handful of light ships which had inadvertently been left unprotected in the path of a… read more
1y
On This Day in History - November 23, 1939
November 23, 1939 #OTD Edward Coverley Kennedy, Royal Navy sailor who is remembered as the captain of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi who engaged the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. After 30 to 40 minutes of bombardment, all guns were out of action and the Rawalpindi was… read more
2y
On This Day in History - January 8, 1941
January 8, 1941 #OTD World War II: British Wellington bombers from Malta attacked Italian battleships Guilio Cesare and Vittorio Veneto moored in Naples, Italy. Guilio Cesare was badly damaged by 3 near misses but Vittorio Veneto was hit without serious damage. Both ships would be moved to La… read more
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On This Day in History - February 11, 1942
February 11, 1942 #OTD World War II: Operation Cerberus, begins. The German battleships Genisenau, Scharnhorst, and Prinz Eugen begin their famed channel dash from the French port of Brest, Their journey takes them through the English Channel on their way back to Germany. Pictured: "The… read more
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On This Day in History - February 8, 1941
February 8, 1941 #OTD World War II: Operation Berlin German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau detected Allied convoy HX-106, but did not attack due to the presence of British battleship HMS Ramillies. Pictured: German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau at anchor together, summer 1939.
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On This Day in History - November 12, 1940
November 12, 1940 #OTD World War II: Battle of Taranto, ends in a British victory. The 19 surviving Swordfish aircraft of the 21 sent to attack Taranto, Italy at 2300 hours on the previous day returned to the British carrier HMS Illustrious. Italian battleships Vittorio Veneto, Andrea Doria, and… read more
2y
On This Day in History - February 11, 1942
February 11, 1942 #OTD World War II: Operation Cerberus, begins. The German battleships Genisenau, Scharnhorst, and Prinz Eugen begin their famed channel dash from the French port of Brest, Their journey takes them through the English Channel on their way back to Germany. Pictured: "The… read more
3y
On This Day
March 18, 1915 #OTD World War I: Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign Later in the day, Irresistible was disabled by a mine in Erenköy Bay. Once it became apparent that the ship could not be saved, all of her surviving crew was taken off by destroyers except for her commanding officer and… read more
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On This Day in History - November 12, 1940
November 12, 1940 #OTD World War II: Battle of Taranto, ends. The 19 surviving Swordfish aircraft of the 21 sent to attack Taranto, Italy at 2300 hours on the previous day returned to the British carrier HMS Illustrious. Italian battleships Vittorio Veneto, Andrea Doria, and Giulio Cesare, having… read more
1y
On This Day in History - January 23, 1941
January 23, 1941 #OTD World War II: Operation Berlin German pocket battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (Top and Bottom) were spotted in the Great Belt between mainland Denmark and the island of Zealand by a British agent who alerted the Admiralty in London, England, United Kingdom.
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On This Day in History - July 14, 1945
July 14, 1945 #OTD World War II: American battleships USS South Dakota, USS Indiana, and USS Massachusetts and escorting destroyers bombarded Kamaishi, Honshu, Japan; the primary target was the Kamaishi Works of the Japan Iron Company, but several destroyers shells overshot the target and hit the… read more
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On This Day in History - February 18, 1940
February 18, 1940 #OTD World War II: Operation Nordmark German pocket battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, along with destroyers Wilhelm Heidkamp, Karl Galster, and Wolfgang Zenker, make a sortie towards the Shetland Islands. This is "Operation Nordmark" and is… read more
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On This Day in History - December 17, 1941
December 17, 1941 #OTD World War II: Allied and Italian naval forces engaged in the First Battle of Sirte as convoys of each side unexpectedly came across each other 185 miles northwest of Benghazi, Libya. Italian battleships Littorio, Andrea Doria, and Giulio Cesare fired on Allied cruisers and… read more
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On This Day in History - September 14, 1940
September 14, 1940 #OTD World War II: British battleships HMS Barham and HMS Resolution, several British destroyers, and French sloops Commandant Domine and Commandant Duboc arrived at the Crown Colony of Freetown in West Africa to refuel. These warships were en route to French-controlled port of… read more
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On This Day - Battle of Jutland
May 31, 1916 #OTD World War I: Battle of Jutland British battleship HMS Invincible, sunk by German battleships SMS Lützow and SMS Derfflinger, resulting in 1,026 deaths including Rear Admiral Horace Hood. Pictured: HMS Invincible exploding at Jutland, taken from a destroyer nearby.
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On This Day
June 5, 1942 #OTD World War II: Battle of Midway Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Akagi (Pictured) was scuttled by direct order of Combined Fleet chief Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. At 0520 hours, she sank bow first after two or three torpedo hits out of four fired into her starboard side by Arashio,… read more
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On This Day in History - October 28, 1940
October 28, 1940 #OTD World War II: Ermland (Pictured) broke through the Denmark Strait into the North Atlantic Ocean, but since battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisneau could not do the same, Ermland was ordered to sail to Brest, France.
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On This Day in History - June 11, 1904
June 11, 1904 #OTD The order for battleship Schleswig-Holstein (Pictured firing on Polish troops in September 1939) was placed. Schleswig-Holstein fought in both World Wars. During World War I, she saw front-line service in II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet, culminating in the Battle of… read more
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On This Day in History - December 6, 1941
December 6, 1941 #OTD Nearby, Vice Admiral William Pye (Pictured) told Kimmel (via intelligence officer Edwin Layton) that war with Japan was inevitable, although Pearl Harbor was not a likely target, thus there was no need to send the battleships out to sea as a precaution.
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On This Day in History - February 4, 1941
February 4, 1941 #OTD World War II: Operation Berlin German pocket battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau broke out into the Atlantic Ocean via the Denmark Strait undetected by the British Royal Navy. Pictured: German battleships Scharnhorst (Top) and Gneisenau (Bottom).
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On This Day in History - March 28, 1941
March 28, 1941 #OTD World War II: 150 miles off Cape Matapan, Greece at 0635 hours, Italian seaplane spotted a group of four Allied cruisers, and three Italian cruisers moved in to attack, engaging in combat at 0812 hours, to be joined by the big guns of Italian battleships at 1055 hours; after… read more
3y
The terror of Metal Sonic: Unimaginable.
Rated 18+ Story description: Metal Sonic was created by Dr. Ivo Robotnik as a robotic clone of Sonic the Hedgehog, with the sole purpose of destroying him. Metal Sonic was programmed with a bloodthirsty desire to eliminate Sonic, and was given advanced weaponry and powers to aid in his mission.… read more
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On This Day in History - December 20, 1941
December 20, 1941 #OTD World War II: US Navy battleships Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Tennessee, damaged during the attack earlier in the month, departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for shipyards on the west coast of the United States. Pictured: Battleships USS Pennsylvania (Top), USS… read more
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On This Day in History - March 29, 1941
March 29, 1941 #OTD World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan, ends. British battleships HMS Barham, HMS Valiant, and HMS Warspite continued to shell the Italian fleet off Cape Matapan, Greece. Italian cruiser Fiume, cruiser Zara, destroyer Alfieri, and destroyer Carducci were sunk, while destroyer… read more
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On This Day in History - June 29, 1940
June 29, 1940 #OTD World War II: Operation Catapult: The British Admiralty gave Vice Admiral James Somerville (Pictured) explicit instructions to secure the transfer, surrender, or destruction of the French warships at Mers-el-Kébir, Algeria. Force H under his command consisted of battleships HMS… read more
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On This Day in History - December 31, 1942
December 31, 1942 #OTD World War II: A furious AH ordered the scrapping of the German Navy's battle fleet after Royal Navy destroyers drove off the mighty Lützow and Admiral Hipper from attacking a convoy in the Barents Sea. Saying his battleships were useless "like so much old iron". Admiral… read more
2y
On This Day in History - November 23, 1939
November 23, 1939 #OTD Edward Coverley Kennedy, Royal Navy sailor who is remembered as the captain of the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi who engaged the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. After 30 to 40 minutes of bombardment, all guns were out of action and the Rawalpindi was… read more
2y
On This Day in History - June 5, 1942
June 5, 1942 #OTD World War II: Battle of Midway Japanese aircraft carrier IJN Akagi (Pictured) was scuttled by direct order of Combined Fleet chief Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. At 0520 hours, she sank bow first after two or three torpedo hits out of four fired into her starboard side by Arashio,… read more
2y
On This Day in History - December 19, 1941
December 19, 1941 #OTD World War II: Italian Navy divers of Decima Flottiglia MAS carried out the Raid on Alexandria, attacking and disabling two Royal Navy battleships with manned torpedoes. Pictured: The six Gamma frogmen of the Raid on Alexandria (left); Junio Valerio Borghese, Captain of the… read more
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On This Day in History - February 18, 1940
February 18, 1940 #OTD World War II: Operation Nordmark German pocket battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, along with destroyers Wilhelm Heidkamp, Karl Galster, and Wolfgang Zenker, make a sortie towards the Shetland Islands. This is "Operation Nordmark" and is… read more
