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Interesting video, with background of what happened in the 90s when USSR went missing in action. The focus on the fleet of Black Sea. This is probably biased based on the side producing the document but nonetheless very interesting.

"How Putin began taking Crimea long before 2014"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDn_09I8co4

#history #navalHistory #blacksea_fleet #ussr #ukraine #russia

⚓️ Portrait of an Ottoman Naval #Sailor, 1810s #NavalHistory

Before we kidnapped the President of Venezuela, I had planned to write about Letters of Marque. So i did it anyway. Please like, boost, donate if you are able.

https://ko-fi.com/post/Letters-of-Marque-M4M81RNUYH

#NavalHistory
#USCivilWar
#NotThatCivilWar
#Pirates
#LettersofMarque
#USNavy
#Raiders
#Commerce

The USS Iwo Jima: A Mighty Warship in the Spotlight of International Drama
Full details here>> https://tinyurl.com/3pv83djw

#USSIwoJima #MaduroInNY #NavalHistory #MilitaryVessels #PoliticalJourney #ShipOfState #IwoJima #DiplomaticVoyage #MaritimeNews #GlobalPolitics

What is the USS Iwo Jima? Ship taking Nicolás Maduro to New York

HSwMS Drottning Victoria, was a Sverige-class coastal defence ship of the Swedish Navy. She was launched on 15 September 1917 at Kockums in Malmö and delivered to the Navy on 12 March 1921. Armament consisted of four 28 cm guns and a secondary armament of eight 15.2 cm guns. The ship was decommissioned in 1957 and was later sold for scrapping. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/hswms-drottning-victoria-swedish-coastal-defence-ship/ #coastaldefenceship #swedishnavy #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #HSWMSdottningVictoria #warship

HSwMS Drottning Victoria, was a Sverige-class coastal defence ship of the Swedish Navy. The vessel was the third and last ship in the Sverige class along with HSwMS Sverige and HSwMS Gustaf V. HSwMS Drottning Victoria was launched on 15 September 1917 at Kockums in Malmö and delivered to the Navy on 12 March 1921. Armament consisted of four 28 cm guns and a secondary armament of eight 15.2 cm guns. During the interwar period, the ship underwent several modernizations and was one of the most powerful vessels in the fleet during the Second World War. The ship was decommissioned in 1957 and was later sold for scrapping.

HNLMS Sumatra was the second of the Java-class light cruisers built for the Royal Netherlands Navy.

In 1944 she was transferred to the Royal Navy and scuttled on 9 June 1944 at Ouistreham, as part of a gooseberry pier to protect an artificial Mulberry Harbour built by the Allies as part of Operation Overlord. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/netherlands-cruiser-hnlms-sumatra/ #maritimehistory #NavalHistory #cruiser #RoyalNetherlandsNavy #HNLMSSumatra

#OTD 1 January 1892:
USS Yorktown (PG-1), at anchor off Valparaiso, Chili.

From midnight until 12.30am the New Year was celebrated by the ringing of bells, the firing of guns and rockets and the burning of lights from the town, the forts and Chilean war vessels in harbor.

🎇 Happy New Year 🎆

#NavalHistory #History #USNavy #Citizenscience

Screenshot of Journey Plotter showing the 1891-1892 journey of USS Yorktown, and the events recorded in her log-book for 1 January 1892.

Midnight to 4am:
Clear, calm and pleasant.
From midnight until 12.30am the New Year was celebrated by the ringing of bells, the firing of guns and rockets and the burning of lights from the town, the forts and Chilean war vessels in harbor.

4am to 8am:
Fine weather, warm.
Calm.

8am to meridian:
Clear, NE and Southerly airs.
Absent without leave: Thomas Brady, Private Marine.
Received visit of Captain of "Duchaffault".

Meridian to 4pm:
Clear, warm and pleasant.
Gentle to moderate breeze from SSW.

4pm to 8pm:
Clear, with light breeze to light airs from South.

8pm to midnight:
Clear, cool and pleasant.
Light airs from South first hour, afterwards calm.

🚢😆 Oh, look! The administration thinks they're building "battleships" because, you know, they're big and float. Who needs guns or armor when you've got a title and a misguided sense of naval history? The closest relative might be a Kirov class, but who cares about accuracy when you can confuse people with grandiose claims? 🤦‍♂️⚓️
https://www.navalgazing.net/No-its-not #battleships #navalhistory #misleadingscience #shipbuilding #satire #HackerNews #ngated

#OTD 25 December 1880:
USS Jeannette is beset in ice northward of Wrangell Island for the second Christmas in a row.

The day's events also show part of the Captain's journal, listing their Christmas menu.
"Our mince pies were a work of art; though they were made from pemmican and flavored by a bottle of brandy"

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#NavalHistory #History #USNavy

Screenshot of Journey Plotter showing the 1879-1881 journey of USS Jeannette, and the events recorded in her log for Christmas Day 1880.

The pumping forward is done by hand at the spar deck bilge pump, and such water as filters aft, through and under the bulkhead, into the fire room, is pumped out by hand at the bilge pump attached to the main engine.
The steam cutter's boiler is used for distilling.
Falling barometer and pleasant temperature.
Low red dawn at 9am & bright starlight. At 9pm auroral streaks in N.W. radiating like a fan; at midnight an auroral arch extended from N.W. through zenith to S.E.

Captain’s Journal (vol. 2 p. 496):
The day was made as acceptable as possible fore and aft, by the providing of a good dinner from our resources. And I think we may refer to our bills of fare with pardonable pride. Our mince pies were a work of art; though they were made from pemmican and flavored by a bottle of brandy, they were as delicate to the taste as if compounded from beef fresh from market. Hot whiskey punch in the evening fore and aft brought an agreeable close to our second Christmas in the pack.

CHRISTMAS DINNER, 1880

CABIN:
The usual Saturday Soup
Roast Seal, Apple Jelly
Tongue
Macaroni
Tomatoes
Mince Pies
Plum Pudding
Figs
Raisins
Dates
Nuts
Candy
Chocolate and Coffee

BERTH DECK:
Soup
Roast Seal, Apple Jelly
Bacon (broiled)
Macaroni
Tomatoes
Mince Pies
Figs
Raisins
Dates
Nuts
Candy
Chocolate or Coffee

British Aircraft Carrier HMS Formidable
https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/british-aircraft-carrier-hms-formidable/ #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #HMSFormidable #AircraftCarrier

HMS Formidable was an Illustrious-class aircraft carrier ordered for the Royal Navy before the Second World War. Formidable’s aircraft played a key role in the Battle of Cape Matapan in early 1941, and they subsequently provided cover for Allied ships and attacked Axis forces until their carrier was badly damaged by German dive bombers in May.

Formidable made several attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway in mid-1944 as part of the Home Fleet. She was subsequently assigned to the British Pacific Fleet (BPF) in 1945 where she played a supporting role during the Battle of Okinawa and later attacked targets in the Japanese Home Islands. She was hit twice by kamikaze aircraft on the 4th and 9th of May. In both instances, she was saved by her armoured deck and was able return to flight operations rapidly. The ship was used to repatriate liberated Allied prisoners of war and soldiers after the Japanese surrender and then ferried British personnel across the globe through 1946. She was placed in reserve the following year and sold for scrap in 1953.

HMS Princess Royal was the second of two Lion-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before the First World War. Participated in the Battles of Battle of Dogger Bank and Jutland. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/hms-princess-royal-british-battlecruiser/ #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #RoyalNavy #Battlecruiser #battleship #HMSPrincessRoyal

HMS Princess Royal was the second of two Lion-class battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before the First World War. Designed in response to the Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, the ships significantly improved on the speed, armament, and armour of the preceding Indefatigable class. The ship was named after Louise, The Princess Royal, a title occasionally granted to the Monarch's eldest daughter.

Completed in 1913, Princess Royal participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight a month after the start of World War I in August 1914. She was then sent to the Caribbean Sea to prevent the German East Asia Squadron from using the Panama Canal. After the East Asia Squadron was sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December, Princess Royal rejoined the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron (BCS). During the Battle of Dogger Bank, the ship scored only a few hits, although one crippled the German armoured cruiser Blücher. Shortly afterward, she became the flagship of the 1st BCS, under the command of Rear-Admiral Osmond Brock.

Princess Royal was moderately damaged during the Battle of Jutland and required a month and a half of repairs. Apart from providing distant support during the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1917, the ship spent the rest of the war on uneventful patrols of the North Sea. She was placed into reserve in 1920, then was sold for scrap in 1922 to meet the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.

HMS Vanguard run-aground while being taken for scrapping https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/british-battleship-hms-vanguard/ #maritimehistory #navalhistory #battleship #HMSVanguard #RoyalNavy

The last battleship built for the Royal Navy, HMS Vanguard was laid down on 2 October 1941, launched on 30 November 1944 and commissioned on 12 May 1946. Designed to take advantage of 15-inch gun turrets available, Vanguard was anticipated to be in service faster than the Lion-class battleships then under construction. The Lion-class would take longer to complete, due to the complexity of their triple 16-inch turrets.

During the Second World War, construction of Vanguard was stopped and restarted several times, due to competing priorities in ship construction. The designed was also altered to incorporate war experience. Vanguard served until 1955 when she was placed in reserve. She was sold and scrapped in 1960.

#Novorossiysk Was #Russia’s Last Sanctuary. It Just Fell.
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«[The] sense of safety ended yesterday (Dec 15)

Confirmation came from the highest levels and was quickly corroborated by open-source intelligence.

The Institute for the Study of War (#ISW) reported that #Ukrainian forces conducted an unmanned underwater vehicle (#UUV) strike against a #Russian submarine — the first confirmed attack of its kind in #NavalHistory — on the night of December 14–15»

#War

https://www.theconcis.com/p/novorossiysk-was-russias-last-sanctuary?utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

⚓ Illustration of the Ironclad Imperial Frigate Abdülkadir and the Torpedo Boat Şahin-i Derya, 1890s. #navalhistory

⚓ An Ottoman Göke Ship from 15th Century #NavalHistory

#OTD 8 December 1914: #WW1 Battle of the Falklands
HMS Bristol was the last ship to leave harbour to join the fleet.
She sunk Santa Isabel, a German collier, after letting her crew transfer to HMS Macedonia.
The image shows the events she recorded in her deck log.

#NavalHistory #History #RoyalNavy

Screenshot of Journey Plotter showing part of the 1913-1919 journey of HMS Bristol and the events recorded in the log-book for 8 December 1914.

In honor of December 7, 1941 - a little something about ships who weren't in Pearl Harbor, including one who rushed to Honolulu,

#History
#Histodons
#NavalHistory
#PearlHarbor
#WorldWar2
#USNavy
#SanDiego
#Seattle
#Iceland
#Convoy '
#Lendlease

https://ko-fi.com/post/December-7-1941--The-Other-Ships-Part-Two-T6T31PUVCO

#OTD in #NavalHistory, 6 December 1917: HMSs Changuinola and Knight Templar witnessed the #HalifaxExplosion.
The images show how they reported it in their deck logs.
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#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #History #WW1 #CitizenScience

Screenshot of Journey Plotter showing part of the 1914-1919 journey of HMS Changuinola and the events recorded in the log-book for 6 December 1917.

7.00am: Hands fall in to clean holds for receiving cargo
8.00am: No 1 Hopper made fast alongside
8.15am: Coaling party arrived alongside
8.30am: Commenced coaling
8.50am: Explosion in Docks followed by fires
9.05am: Hands fall in
9.15am: Cutters away with officers & men to help ashore
9.50am: Stretcher Party to shore
11.45am: Hands to Dinner
1.00pm: Landed 18 Marines. Gig called away
1.45pm: Gig returned
2.30pm: Shore party returned for dinner
2.40pm: Cutter left for shore. Trawler CD15 came alongside
3.40pm: Trawler left
3 Boats axes lost ashore by rescue party & one hammer
5.40pm: Gig sent to OLD COLONY with stores for survivors
7.40pm: Landed Officers in Gig
9.00pm: Boat left for shore
9.45pm: Boat returned
11.00pm: Boat left for shore
11.35pm: Boat returned
Sick list 2

Screenshot of Journey Plotter showing the 1917-1918 journey of HMS Knight Templar and the events recorded in the log-book for 6 December 1917.

9.15 am: Heavy explosion in harbour causing ship to shear about badly, eventually pulled posts out of wharf – adrift
Ran lines to other posts and heaved back alongside
10.00 am: Landed party ashore to render assistance
Sub Lieut Mackie returned to duty from hospital
MO and SBA ashore rendering assistance to wounded
Carpenter fell down hatch, severely bruising himself

Book Review #15 for 2025 is Walter Borneman's The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King - The Five -Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea. This was a good comparison/contrast of American naval leadership in WW2. The flaws and the strengths of each man are part of the narrative. ☕☕☕☕ #ww2 #navalhistory #history #books #bookreview @histodons @bookstodon

#navalHistory

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