That sounds like the final attack in Alistair MacLean’s novel “HMS Ulysses”.Originally Posted by Half Moon
That sounds like the final attack in Alistair MacLean’s novel “HMS Ulysses”.
Velas Latinoamerica 2022!
Starting back in 2010, the Velas Latinoamerica (Sails Latin America) event is a tall ship race and regatta organized by the navies of Latin America who operate sail-powered frigates, brigantines, and schooners as school ships. This has included Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela in the past, with the occasional participation of out-of-area tall ships such as the USCGC Eagle and Portugal’s NRP Sagres.
Held every four years, this year’s event is hosted by Brazil, a country celebrating its bicentennial, and has tall ships from five countries attending.
BAP Unión (BEV-161) of the Peruvian Navy. She is the largest sail vessel in Latin America and is thoroughly modern, with a Caterpillar/Rolls Royce engineering suite under the hood.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Warship Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022: Long Lance in the Night
Here we see Hr.Ms. Java was under attack by Japanese Nakajima B5N “Kate” high altitude bombers from the light carrier Ryujo in the Gaspar Straits of what is today Indonesia, some 80 years ago this week, 15 February 1942. Remarkably, the Dutch light cruiser would come through this hail without a scratch, however, her days were numbered, and she would be on the bottom of the Pacific within a fortnight of the above image.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Last voyage of HTMS Sri Ayudhya / the Manhattan Rebellion
Thailand’s two Thonburi class warships of WWII were very unique and interesting designs, but very little has been written about them.
The second ship of the class, HTMS Sri Ayudhya, was later sunk in one of the strangest situations of post-WWII naval history; a big-gun capital ship fighting in the downtown of a major inland city. Outside of Thailand even less has been written about that. So, perhaps this will be of value.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Large x Huge version HERE
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Lt. Dick McCool is one awesome name
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Warship Wednesday, April 6, 2022: The Forlorn Hope
Photo by F.A. Roe, U.S. Navy First Lieutenant, via the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command. Catalog #: NH 286
Here we see the recently commissioned Hartford-class screw sloop-of-war USS Pensacola (23 guns) as she appeared in November 1861, off Alexandria, Virginia, dressed and yardarms manned as she is receiving President Lincoln. The image is labeled that the vessel, soon to be on the way to the Gulf of Mexico to join Flag Officer Farragut’s newly created West Gulf Blockading Squadron, is the “Forlorn Hope” of Farragut’s fleet. She would prove a valuable, if somewhat irritating, addition to his force.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Thanks for the Pensacola link. I was not aware of the ship or its' history. However, noting it was built of live oak, I am aware of the Naval Live Oaks preserve just east of here, which was probably the source of the timbers for the ship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_...ks_Reservation
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