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For anybody interested, Anthony Tully (one of the authors of Shattered Sword) wrote a book about this naval action, simply titled <em>Battle of Surigao Strait</em>
It's not as good as Shattered Sword, but that's like saying a song isn't as good as <em>Ode To Joy</em>. It's an excellent look at a rather confused battle.
For those who can watch iPlayer, there's a three part series on her which is fascinating.
TK-20 Severstal' farthest,
TK-17 Arkhangelsk next to it (the one with the famous walkthrough)
both mothballed
so I am guessing the one in front showing its broadside is TK-208 Dmitriy Donskoy
You can see them in this sat picture of Severodvinsk http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=64.572875&lon=39.768384&z=16&m=b Plus, a third one docked to the south
Here they are again in cold weather
k30.kn3.net/taringa/7/F/9/4/7/4/JuanpastorDiaz/E82.jpg
http://www.cnet.com/pictures/a-tour-of-the-ballistic-missile-submarine-redoutable/
The pictures are not as large as any of us would prefer, but there are some really interesting sections, including showing the cavity where the reactor compartment used to be and the very French lounge / Officer's Mess.
German Warships of World War I: The Royal Navy's Official Guide to the Capital Ships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Submarines, and Small Craft, 1914-1918 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1557503036/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_b1UZCbZJS6TW1
"Frigate Congress, commissioned May 1842, was the last fully sail-powered frigate built by the U.S. Navy. As the Pacific Squadron flagship, she carried the flag of Commodore Robert Stockton during the Mexican War and frequently visited San Diego while the village served as the logistics base for American naval operations along the Mexican west coast. Her deep draught was ill-suited for San Diego Bay, where twice she ran aground. The first navyman to die and be buried in San Diego was Ordinary Seaman John Simpson, who fell from the fore royal yardarm of Congress while at anchor in the bay and was later buried at Fort Rosecrans Cemetery. Congress met her demise famously in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in battle with Confederate ironclad Virginia the day before the remarkable engagement between Virginia and Monitor."
- from <em>The Navy in San Diego</em>, by Bruce Linder. NHHC credits the artist of the painting simply as "Vandenburg."
I'm curious about this myself. D.K. Brown has a bit on the Ms in The Grand Fleet. He describes the gun as having been fired many times without any apparent damage to the sub's structure, so it's probably a combination of adequate shock absorption and the fact that subs of that era were tremendously overbuilt structurally.
He describes the tactics they would use: the sub would surface until the gun barrel was six feet above water, then the muzzle door would open and the gun would be fired via periscope, at a range of about 1200 yards at which a hit was "almost certain". Although accuracy was obviously not a problem, they apparently never tested the effectiveness of a single hit above the waterline on a merchant ship (the intended target), which would be unlikely to result in a sinking.
I just ordered this book which I'm hoping will cover this issue.
I raise you HMS Hood and USS Intrepid
Ahhhhhhh... how nice to see Project Habbakuk (note correct spelling) mentioned on here! Does my heart proud, it does. Thanks to /u/KapitanKurt for the grin!
If you're interested in even more detail, the book British Aircraft Carriers: Design, Development, and Service Histories by David Hobbs has a chapter on it.
Well, remember Italy was also the home of Giulio Douhet, probably the most famous aerial strategist from the interwar period. There's no lack of appreciation by some strategists and Mussolini of the potency of airpower - whether that gets implemented at the procurement and air force organization levels is a different story. Same goes for the naval requirements branch. It's all too easy to assume one aspect of a country applies to every part of it, and we need to be careful about making such generalizations. I wish I had Bagnasco and de Toro's book on the Littorio class at hand - I suspect it would provide some more definitive answers regarding these unique windows.
Overly complex weapon systems are overly complex. I wouldn't be surprised if pilots are resistant to flying them. War is boring did an article recently on some of the issues. I hadn't even thought about brown outs until I read it. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/your-periodic-reminder-that-the-v-22-is-a-piece-of-junk-db72a8a23ccf
This is a good point. Missiles look more like submarines and less like jets though.
On that note, I want the US to develop a missile that looks like a scale model of a fighter jet. That way, when its coming towards the enemy, they'll just think its a very distant and very fast plane. Until its too late.
edit: check this thing out: https://medium.com/war-is-boring/6f5a0093cab0
This is a different book, but I'm familiar with this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Dreadnoughts-David-Howarth/dp/0809427117
One anecdote from the Jutland section of this book involved one particular ship that had burned down to the waterline. There was no visible means of identification, it was just a blackened corpse of a ship that bounced aimlessly into both British and German ships throughout the battle, still emitting steam and smoke but absolutely no chance of life onboard.. Sailors on both sides were unsettled at this reminder of what could happen to them. It eventually sank completely after both fleets withdrew. After the battle, they more or less concluded this was the remnant of the HMS Black Prince:
That's it.
Yea, been a while since I read it and thought I might be wrong.
I'll never forget that the HMS Brazen's ASW helo was "Hussy" - but in real life it was Harlot.
https://navynews.co.uk/archive/news/item/4581
The helo was in the Falklands and Gulf War
"After serving with flights aboard HMS Coventry, Brazen (call sign ‘The Harlot’) and Battleaxe (call sign ‘Asterix’), XZ720 joined HMS Gloucester in July 1990 as 216 Flight."
"She spent the second two decades of her 30-year active life flying mostly from the back of Type 42 destroyers Edinburgh, York and Manchester under various call signs including ‘The Tardis II’ and ‘Jorvik’ (the latter during her time with York)."
Castles of Steel is generally the go-to for WW1 naval engagements. It's quite a brick though. For lighter fare (but still excellent) I'd suggest Dreadnoughts, part of Time-Life's "Seafarers" series. It's a more general overview of WW1, but is excellent nonetheless & can be found for super cheap.
A US submarine retrofitted for space travel with the allegedly antigravity Dean Drive appeared on the cover of a 1960 issue of <em>Astounding Science Fiction</em>.
> typhoons which was NOT a fun experience on a destroyer.
The US Navy lost USS Hull, Monaghan, and Spence in Typhoon Cobra. USS Dewey's captain later wrote a book about his ship's near death - the collapse of one of the ship's two stacks was the only thing that saved her by cutting down on the sail area the wind could push on. Up until that point the ship was rolling past the inclinimeter's maximum and he relates hanging from the bridge overhead and looking down through the bridge's side windows into the sea below as he hung with his feet dangling.
How do you keep a ship alive through that? What's it like on the inside as she rolls like that and you have too keep the fires lit and the machinery running?
This book is John Campbell's 'Jutland: An Analysis of the Fighting'. It's excellent, but if I had to recommend one book on Jutland it would be John Brooks' 'The Battle of Jutland'. But it depends on what exactly you want from a book.
If you're interested in a concise but interesting book on this old beauty try Bowfin by Edwin P. Hoyt.
Indeed they are and I agree, I also find a rusting SSBN is fascinating somehow.
Probably because we both know they are one of the very few, most powerful weapons ever invented and now they're just there, slowly fading into oblivion while they could have wiped out most of continental europe, for example, just by themselves.
Unfortunately, quite a bit of this comes from my various reading of Italian books and magazines, so it's not very useful unless one wants to go there and try make something out with Google translate or something...
The best next thing about this would be what is in the book "The Littorio Class: Italy's last and largest battleships".
Reminds me of the big model of a generic battleship that used to be in our Fourth of July parade in the 80s. And occasionally puttered around on the lake.
https://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Go-Incognito-Battleship/dp/1591295181/ref=nodl_
I CURSE YOU TO THE END OF TIME.
Shut up with that concrete bullshit.
If it's in concrete, then how the hell could we possibly put four nuclear reactors and a particle beam gun on it, and then use it to ride a fiery wave out into the bay and stop the goddamned Soviets?
Didn't think of that, did you college boy? Didja?
"All boats have single screws and manoeuvring qualities are easily obtained by a bow rudder in addition to the one astern A flock of swallows could not manoeuvre more adroitly at close distance than do the German boats" - from Naval Vessels. General: Pamphlet Collection] at google books (https://books.google.com/books?id=oJotAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA158&ots=ZlWbFkO5Xm&dq=bow%20rudder%20german%20ship&pg=PA158#v=onepage&q=bow%20rudder%20german%20ship&f=false)
I have this thing for looking up situational pictures in satellite imagery. She's here:
you can see how they moved two decomissioned SSBNs, HMS Repulse and Renown next to two other (Resolution and Revenge) to make way for her.
I found this just now. Apparently Warspite's cat had had enough of life at sea on a battleship during the Normandy campaign.
Yeah there was something about that a while back when Crimea was in the headlines.
Here is one of the articles debunking the story.
Ft. Worth (LCS 3) is undergoing builder’s trials at the Marinette Marine Corporation Shipyard before delivery to the U.S. Navy in 2012. Source
There's also a 1:1 scale layout of the ship's port bow located outside of this museum.
It sure is, but unfortunately I didn't take it. I found it on Flickr.
I've always been surprised that she wasn't scrapped, but in the immediate post-war era the price for commodities totally collapsed because of all the military equipment that was being scrapped. By the time they scuttled her she had become a white elephant and a source of major embarrassment and they just wanted her gone plus in the Washington treaty she would have counted towards Great Britain's total. There were a few other proposals one was to make her into a breakwater.
You might find this paper interesting its a pretty in-depth look at her history. (You have to sign in to view/download it). Its worth it though the entire paper is about 100 pages.
Yep, she fired the official first shot in anger for the US during WWII. [The actual gun was removed and is now on the grounds of the Minnesota Capitol](http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=44.951495&lon=-93.103662&z=19&m=b&show=/18227081/USS-Ward-(DD-137-APD-14/-Deck-Gun-Memorial-) since the mount and ship was manned by Minnesota Naval Reservists at the time.
In an odd twist of fate, the Ward (then in APD form) was mortally damaged by a Kamikaze on December 7th, 1944 in Ormoc Bay. She was subsequently sunk by gunfire from the USS O'Brien (DD-725), whose CO was in command of Ward on December 7th, 1941.
I cannot timestamp this video as I’m on mobile (every time I’ve tried to modify it it doesn’t work), but I can link this article with May and November 1944 US documents that assign certain names to vehicles. This includes vehicles the British never operated and thus couldn’t have named, like Jackson and Pershing, and explains the origin of the “General” prefix.
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/302581/45876028
Used at Rolls-Royce, Ansty, to finalise pipe runs, wiring schemes, component siting, etc., prior to production.
The Marine Spey has provided power to 10 different warship classes. Kawasaki, Japan, continued manufacturing it under license into the late 2000s to power four classes of destroyers, the latest of which entered service less than a decade ago.
They trying to prove data that was predicted from Air wake data predictions. This should help visualise for you. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Queen-Elizabeth-Class-Aircraft-Carriers%3A-and-Kelly-White/bad37f4d801dd2f25353c143247e970786421b24
I found it on Amazon Canada! But it will only work in a region 2 DVD player or a computer.
You should! I eat that kind of stuff up, love it.
If you get a chance, seek out a copy of United States Destroyer Operations in World War Two. I checked out a first edition hardcover from the Pentagon Library when I worked there and it had gorgeous, photo quality, glossy pictures pages.
It's fairly exhaustive and detailed if you like crunchy bits. The picture pages in the first edition are fuckin' money.
Edit: It had a black binding and was kind of fragile. Not sure what the Amazon 'first edition' listing is, but the one I checked out had no dust jacket.
That sounds cool. Definitely gonna grab a copy.
Here's the Amazon link to "Blind Man's Bluff" for those that are interested in it.
Me too. Great liberty port with a ton of British transition. That was back in the late 60's and early 70's. Off limits was an area called The Gut. Of course, that's where a sailor is gonna go for liberty call. Apparently, the place has cleaned up some since based upon this review...
The Gut
In the old days, when thousands of British airmen were based on the island and Royal Navy ships used regularly to call in, Strait Street, known as "The Gut", was Valletta's red-light district, where rouged and be-henna'd ladies of the night used to lounge in doorways enticing drunken sailors and airman. When I went though, one December morning last year, it seemed to have gone depressingly respectable. I wonder if it livens up at night.
In late 90s and 2000s NATO was expanding into former WP because it was perceived that Russia might also join the alliance.
Putin says Russia, if treated as an equal, might eventually join NATO
But you're right, r/WarshipPorn is not the place for these kinds of discussions :D
I would suggest just watching science YouTube videos. If you watch enough, it's 80% of the way to a engineering degree. Here is a good link. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-science-youtube-channels-you-cant-miss/
I stumbled upon this submarine but it's quite interesting.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/HMS_X1
> HM Submarine X1 was conceived and designed as a submersible commerce raider for the Royal Navy; at the time of her launching she was the largest submarine in the world. The idea of a submarine cruiser had been proposed as early as 1915, but was not put into practice until 1921. X1, which was based on the uncompleted German U-173 class of 2,000-ton "U-cruisers", was laid down on 2 November 1921 at the Naval Dockyard Chatham and completed on 23 September 1925, commissioning in December 1925.
> The 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, of which Britain was a signatory, did not ban submarines but it did ban their use against merchant ships, which was X1 's unacknowledged purpose; its armament had been designed to successfully engage the classes of vessels likely to be escorting convoys, such as destroyers and frigates. Therefore, a certain amount of secrecy surrounded X1, the government even going to the lengths of taking a national newspaper to court over its pictures of the new submarine following her launch, all copies of the paper being seized.
The ears on the main mast are indeed the most obvious ones, also if you're looking at the deck she retains the outlines of her AA gun emplacements from WWII.
On the others the bases for the gun mounts were removed completely but you can just barely see where they used to be if you strip the deck down to the bare steel (or rust in this case) https://goo.gl/photos/szbNdp8urL51ZX6R8
(above picture is from Iowa)
There are some interior differences as well notably the layout of the wardroom.
I made this a couple of years ago so can't recall exactly where it's all from - losely speaking all the footage is from "navy" searches on archive.org e.g. https://archive.org/search.php?query=navy%20war%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies l There's loads of amazing stuff on archive.org so I really recommend having a browse if you've a spare hour or two (although their search could be better).
Mostly it's made with american WWII public information films, but there's some WWI and other things as well. I'll dig out my notes this evening, to find the sources.
I hope you enjoy it!
So thats where all those Dutch ships went I was wondering after reading this from war is boring
The Frobisher account comes from this,
I'd happily give you the page number for the joy of rereading the account but don't have my copy of that book to hand. It's on a shelf in another house in another country.
The Nelson one goes back further and deeper, I can't remember where I read it, a old book, blue or black hard cover, bought from a a second hand book shop, probably in Camberwell south London in the mid 1990's.
So the story goes,
Nelson was chasing someone.
"Put her over more," he said.
"No my Lord," replied the helmsman. (If Nelson was getting the "my Lord," his career must have been advanced.)
Nelson paced his deck and came back,
"Put her over more."
"No my Lord," came the reply
He paced his deck again.
"Put her over more."
"No my Lord."
"I tell you she can take it, put her over more."
"No my Lord."
"Are you calling me a liar? She can take it"
"No my Lord."
I think it says something very interesting that at this point Nelson retired to his cabin
It reminds me of Lientenant-Gerneral Carton de Wiart who armed himself with a walking stick rather than a revolver for fear of shooting his own people if he lost his temper.
You'll find that in the last paragraph of page 69 of this,
http://www.bookdepository.com/Happy-Odyssey-Adrian-Carton-de-Sir-Wiart/9781844155392
Britain's BAE Systems’ Replica design (cancelled in the 90's) apparently influenced early F-35 studies. Also, about 300 hundred British companies are involved in the F35 programme, which is why Britain is the only level 1 partner.
For anyone interested in the actual mechanics of the surrender, internment, and scuttling, I'd highly recommend The Grand Scuttle. It's easy to say that the High Seas Fleet surrendered, was interred, and eventually sank itself, but the actual mechanics of moving dozens of ships and tens of thousands of men, and then keeping them supplied and in line while their government collapsed behind them is truly fascinating.
So most of the people on this sub to from modern war ships. And Oh my god I've learned so much from you. So many things and so much more than I would have thought.
I've sailed on actual square rigs. For a while but also a long time ago.
This post makes me feel insane. An image like figure 2 from this document about the USS eagle is so much better
It also doesn't do any justice to what a sail plan is actually like. It should include as many of the lines as it can. It's a useless stupid picture.
Also, as all of you probably know. It doesn't let you know how the words are actually said. If somebody actually said "top" gallant. I ... I don't even know.
Rant over. But ugh.
This wiki page is a compilation of ship's badge designs and this stock image is the first one I found showing HMS Queen Elizabeth's badge on the actual ship.
Assuming those are standard 8" hatches you can buy on Amazon, this looks to be around 15 feet/4.5 meters long, though with large error bars as the perspective distorts things beyond my skill to correct. The beam is easier to guesstimate at about six hatches, or four feet/1.2 meters.
As this was recovered and destroyed by Russia, this would almost certainly be a Ukrainian craft, as otherwise I'd expect Russia to repair it and return it to service.
The cylinder decking is odd, and I've got nothing beyond wild speculation. If it were for cargo I'd expect to see clear signs of a hatch around the hump (no handle or hinges I can see). It could be additional fuel, or perhaps a crude system to ballast the boat down and make it more difficult to detect. It could also be an explosive charge for a boat designed to sneak into one of the Russian military mooring locations around Sevastopol (there are at least three) and attack some of their ships or one of the numerous drydocks (floating or otherwise)).
When Saki was attacked a month ago I speculated this could be due to saboteurs, possibly Ukrainian special forces inserted by boat. This may be a resupply vessel stocked with weapons, as I presume the operatives can blend into the civilian populace to buy food rather than hide in the hills all the time.
Another post here says they aren't magnetic, but it would be easy to make a magnetic one using something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Quartet-Whiteboard-Magnetic-Infinity-Surface/dp/B00HDSX824
It's basically a sheet of glass with a magnetic backer. Instead of a white or black film between the glass and magnetic backer, you could use a printed image like they have behind the glass in OPs photo.
This is an excellent book by the (then) captain of one of one of the destroyers that went through the typhoon and almost didn't make it. If memory serves they went past the limits of the ship's instrument for measuring roll (blanking on the name and don't think it's inclinometer) a few times.
Had this one on my shelf for ages.
Dreadnought by David Armine Howarth. An excellent intro to dreadnoughts in the Great War (and earlier) if you don't feel like reading the massive brick that is Castles of Steel by Robert K. Massie!
Best I can find is this mention in a book about the A4 Skyhawk
It's pretty close to home for me, I went last summer. Well worth the trip.
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPZxatYLnSymNkLLfoFF_q8R3VXiHLS8Pzq_sWY
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The Chinese-to-English translation of wikiwand for the page with this photo is interesting indeed:
>Weaponry
10-door 8-inch 55 times the diameter of the main gun
4 5-inch 25 times the diameter of the anti-aircraft guns
2 three loaded 533 torpedo tube (after removal)
I was curious as to what was actually protected on this ship:
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Borodino-class_battleship
Everything has mediocre armor. It's like the opposite of an All or Nothing scheme.
I know you're probably partially joking, but here is an interesting article from 1981 when the pilot in charge of bringing her in retired:
Talks a lot about why it happened. Mainly space issues and that before hand he had said the restaraunt needed to move and the owner had said he would and then day of refused.
Might be an old guy just trying to save his reputation but an interesting perspective nonetheless:-)
The AQS-13G (German version; lightweight, digital) weighs 600 lbs. That's exactly the payload of the Fire Scout C UAV (14 hour endurance). Apparently flight crews can operate two of these for the same effort as a single LAMPS III.
How would your job be affected if the opposing force magically doubled their ASW helo fleet?
And would you suggest the USN do the same?
^^I ^^know ^^these ^^are ^^broad, ^^one-dimensional ^^questions, ^^but ^^you ^^obviously ^^know ^^what ^^you're ^^talking ^^about, ^^so ^^anything ^^you ^^say ^^is ^^worth ^^hearing.
At least for the US in WW2, yes. After the war the US military had a large-scale effort to return the remains of servicemen whose families requested them. This was described in some detail in Last To Die.
I see it now, thank you
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=41.348055&lon=-72.083133&z=18&m=b
it's even showing the aft section of a sub and another docked Virginia class (I think)
It's named in honor of the French Fusiliers Marins at the battle of Diksmuide, which is a town in Belgium. As for pronunciation, according to this frenchman its Deeks-Moot
Anyone interested in the Wahoo should check out "War Fish", written by one of the officers on Wahoo, who was transfered before she was sunk.
https://www.amazon.com/War-Fish-Thrilling-Firsthand-Submarine/dp/B0007DXWDM
GOG.com (Good Old Games). I looked for the game and didn't find it, so now I'm not sure if they don't have it any more, or if I found it elsewhere and have forgotten...
EDIT: The game has since been abandoned, download here.
Those clothes in August? Must have been a very cold day.
Edit: Low of 67, Hi of 81 in Central Park on Aug 27 1945.
FArmer's Almanac:
On August 27th, 1945, the closest available weather station to New York, NY (HEMPSTEAD N Y/MITCHEL AFB, NY), reported the following conditions:
High Temp: 75.4°F *
Low Temp: 57.4°F *
Average Temp: 65.5°F ( 24 )
Dewpoint: 52°F ( 24 )
Sea Level Pressure: 1013.6 mb ( 24 )
Station Pressure: n/a
Visibility: 13.8 miles ( 24 )
Wind Speed: 10.3 knots ( 24 )
Max Wind Speed: 16.9 knots
Max Wind Gust: n/a
Precipitation Amount: 0 inches I
Snow Depth: n/a
Observations: n/a
Thanks! I haven't tried to do a blend yet. With these kind of pictures I usually like the result of the compressed mode more. It tends to remove a lot of artifacts.
The colorization is done by DeOldify. It doesnt work wel with al pictures, but you can get some great looking images.
Back on laptop now. Thanks for the help! Here is a good article on the photo op with a link to an album. Interesting read on one of the better blogs out there.
If you want to learn more on this subject, I whole-heartedly recommend Forgotten Fleet: The Mothball Navy.
Have you read Thunder Below by Eugene B. Fluckey? Submarines certainly did use a deck gun. Why else would they have them?
https://www.amazon.com/Escort-Carrier-Second-World-War/dp/1844152200/ref=nodl_ Their crews referred to them as that. They were slow, had a tendency to explode when hit, and a number of them were sunk in WWII. The big carriers got the glory while these guys did a lot of the dirty work. Unsung heroes in my opinion.
Yes, typhoon cobra is Halsey’s Typhoon (of which there is a good book of the same name).
Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue https://www.amazon.com/dp/0802143377/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_X734VBQDXR33EH7GGC6Z
I'm rather pleased to say that I got all of them correctly... as I'm more of a Pacific War guy, I'm not particularly well-versed in the vissitudes of European battleship design... usually I pull out a cheap reference book that Barney's and Ignobles sold in their bargain section an age ago.
Although it was the best known ship that gave me the most trouble. My thunderstorm-addled brain kept saying "no, that's not the Bismarck." but my logical mind (which I store in a mayonnaise jar kept on Funk & Wagnall's porch sis-boom-bah.) was saying "what else could it be?"
It just didn't look like the Bismarck to me. So I got them all correct, but I'm not really proud about it. Pleased, sure. Proud? Meh.
Good lord I'm babbling.
Source - The Navy in Puget Sound by Cory Graff
"USS Pennsylvania (ACR-4) and USS Charleston (C-22) are moored side by side at Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1911. A postcard version of the image includes a comment from a shipyard worker: “The crane is 100-ton capacity and when visitors ask what it is, the sentry tells them it’s an airship landing (mast). I put in two months on that crane driving rivets.” (Puget Sound Navy Museum.)"
It was either this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1862274533/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Or this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1848322488/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
The author had found diaries and accounts from sailers on the ship.
This below isn’t the same book by the sounds of it - but is a great personal account of a salvage diver at the scene:
This below isn’t the same book by the sounds of it - but is a great personal account of a salvage diver at the scene:
The captain of the cruiser Yahagi, Captain Tameichi Hara, beat the odds and survived the war. His memoirs Japanese Destroyer Captain are an excellent read and glance into a side of the war most westerners don't hear about.
I have just learned that Bagnasco and de Toro are releasing their Italian Battleships: Conte di Cavour and Duilio classes in April 2021. I wonder if this will be sufficient 'evidence' for a certain wikipedia mod that the ship's name was Duilio.
Folks interested in this topic might find the following book of interest.
https://www.amazon.com/Naval-Anti-Aircraft-Gunnery-Norman-Friedman/dp/1591146046
It's somewhat of a tedious read, but goes into detail on how such ships reacted to air attack and the limitations and assumptions of the targeting solutions available to the ships of the time.
"Favorite" it on Amazon and you'll probably be able to get a cheap Kindle sale price (as I did).
I'll counter your book suggestion with a better, more recent, book on the same subject: <em>The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force</em> by David Hobbs and and the not-quite-an-appendix book <em>Moving Bases: Royal Navy Maintenance Carriers and Monabs</em> which is about the logistical side of the BPF.
I tend more towards Endurance Racing these days... the two big 24 Hour races at Daytona and Le Mans are big, exhausting, weekends for me.
>More pics from 800 NAS’s visit to USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1984. ‘Ike’was the carrier earmarked by the Pentagon to intervene in the Falklands war if required - and part of a contingency plan to evacuate US nationals from Argentina
Source is Rowland White, the author of the new Harrier 809, about the Harriers that saw combat during the Falklands War.
Asia probably.
I just bought these on amazon a few weeks ago:
8 Sets 3D-Puzzle Model Battleship Aircraft Carrier Toy Submarine, Plastic Model Warships Ship Kits, Navy Ship Battleship Models for Collection by Kvvdi https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QKTLJR4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_KRcaEbR3076K8
The journey of the St. Laurent and Polar Sea to reach the pole was captured by a documentary crew. The serendipitous meeting of the Yamal really threw everyone for a loop. They had all these kids and their families on board for a television show that was being broadcast back to Moscow. All these kids in costume got out and started performing songs on the ice while TV crews filmed for the show.
Afterwards, crews from all three ships got together for a meal and some impromptu diplomatic relations. This was only three years after the end of the cold war. A pretty surreal event, actually.
If anyone is interested in this kind of thing, you can watch the documentary on Amazon. I saw it decades ago on TV, but I'm think I'm going to watch it again this weekend now that I've found it online. Really cool stuff, especially when in context of the recent cold war. The Yamal meetup is in Part 2.
This was on one of the last of the Nimitzes. It's possible my speed reading was inaccurate but this app (GPS Status) has generally been very accurate for me in the many years I have used it.
In the middle of reading The Yard : Building a Destroyer at the Bath Iron Works, by Michael Sanders.
That's why I am interested in the Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes by Capt. Tameichi Hara, I really like hearing both sides in a conflict. Yoko's Diary is also an interesting read in that respect. She was a 13 year old girl from Hiroshima and talks about her life. She was killed in the atomic bomb blast. Baghdad Burning is another diary/blog from an Iraqi woman, for one from a more modern conflict.
Thanks for the recommendation! May I add Edward Beach's Submarine! as well?
It has narrated extracts of missions in various submarines, mostly centered on Trigger, where he served most of the war.
If you can find it, I highly recommend John Winton's The Forgotten Fleet: the Story of the British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forgotten-Fleet-British-Pacific-1944-45/dp/0951448005
Ah haa! Another book for my growing collection ;-) Thank you - it looks great. BTW - my last naval history book was this:
British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After Hardcover – Illustrated, 23 Aug 2012 by Norman Friedman
excellent and nerdy ;-)
Huh. I read this in Arthur Herman's To Rule the Waves. Good overview history, but I do wonder about the accuracy of some points that he makes.