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For the first question,After abolishing the slave trade in 1808, Britain spent 62 years hunting down slave ships in the Atlantic.
The Terror Rewatch: episode 3. Does anyone know anything about why they still set Lieut. Gore's place at the wardroom table?
Just seems absolutely peculiar to me that they're setting his place out at the table (nice china & silverware and all) when he's died.
Terror rewatch: ep 2. Can't stop thinking about the scene where (fake) Hickey's caulking the captain's seat of ease then he & Crozier have a drink. I think he gives himself away *twice*. Firstly he uses a slur (or at least, a rude word) for Irish *catholics* about himself & by extension Crozier. Yes, Crozier was Irish & suffered prejudice from that, but he was Church of Ireland/Protestant! Unsure if (real) Hickey was Catholic or not, but being from Limerick, he certainly wouldn't use that word of himself (slur reclamation wasn't a thing yet, yo!). Secondly, when they toast -- Hickey's clearly never heard of/is unsure of why Crozier toasts "Ourselves, then" (as, he later says, a bad joke). It's because of this (screenshot from wiki attached)
The Royal Navy do seated toasts every day at wardroom dinners -- Crozier asks what day it is, it's Wednesday, then says "Ourselves, then" because that's Wednesday's toast! Hickey (though not an officer) should be familiar with this already, but he's *not* - because he's an impostor! I think Crozier's suspicious of him from this point on, because of both these reveals, but is too depressed/alcoholic/distracted to actually *do* anything about it.
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 Surviving ships of D-day: 1) Battleship U.S.S. Texas (BB-35) berthed in La Porte, TX 2) Light Cruiser HMS Belfast berthed in London, UK 3) S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien berthed in San Francisco, CA 4) U.S.S. Laffey (DD-724) berthed in Mt. Pleasant, SC.
Quentin Tarantino upon hearing this awesome movie idea.
I couldn't resist rebloging this after hearing this idea.
have you yet had the cognitive dissonance that comes with learning that Jon Pertwee was an actual spy in WWII or have you not yet had that pleasure
i HAVE and it's so funny - imagine being a real life British spy and, posthumously, your most recognized achievement is playing a gay science magician on children's television
it's what he would have wanted
Le Maillé-Brézé a Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) , Quai de la Fosse dans un anneau de the Artist #Buren , sur les bords de Loire (44)
This scarce war ship is dating from just after WW2, and a rare still alive in Europe from this period.
For that it was necessary to bring him for the movie "Dunkirk" near in the Channel , after some soft modifications, to appear like a WW2 English destroyer.
As its motors were and are out of duty , the vessel was tracked until Dunkirk to serve in the film !
After that it returned at home on the Loire river , to welcome visitors in his harbour : Nantes (Naoned)
Montre « Marine Nationale » Navygraph à mouvement automatique développée par Yema !
Automatic Watch « French Navy » edited by Yema and French National Navy !
Franzosiche Uhr für die KriegsMarine , Yema hergestellt !
Nelson : when you won the battle , but lost the life !
His jacket when he was shot by a French sharpshooter during Trafalgar battle
HMS Iron Duke
So I finished grinding the Orion in World of Warships, great ship btw and I will definitely keep her. Now I’ve unlocked the next one ship of the Royal Navy battleship tree, HMS Iron Duke. As I also only needed two more elements to complete the Dunkirk Collection and I did have coal to spare, I bought a couple of containers and got Jack Dunkirk for finishing it. I already have Bert Dunkirk and use him as a commander on HMS Neptune. These unique commanders do have some traits that make them a stronger pick than the normal commanders.Â
Anyway, my decision to add the British battleship line to the many lines I already grind does leave me a bit undecided what I should spend my coal for.
Thunderer the tier 10 reward ship is a pretty nifty boat and sports 457 mm main guns and got the British zombie heal, but I already own Warspite, Nelson and Hood as premiums, so do I really need her?
On the other hand there is the IJN Yoshino, she’s basically Azuma’s nastier big sister and also has torpedos which Azuma lacks.
But then I already own two other super cruisers, the USS Alaska and the KM Ägir.Â
But then that’s a decision I don’t need to make right now as I’m still about 70.000 coal short for what each ship would cost. So I guess that will mean more grinding for me then!
The Italian battleships Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare at Napoli, 1938. On 9 July 1940 these two battleships and their escorts met with a small British fleet under the command of Admiral Cunningham. The ensuing engagement became known as the Battle of Calabria.
Initially the Italian heavy cruisers outgunned their lighter British opponents, who fell back. Cunningham in HMS Warspite, seeing his cruisers under pressure, opted to leave behind the flagging battleships Royal Sovereign and Malaya and move on the Italians alone. Though technically outnumbered, Warspite was the superior ship - and being Warspite she delivered. Opening up at long range, a 15″ shell smashed into Giulio Cesare after a near 15 mile flight (24 km). With one record setting shell fired from a range of 26,000 yards, the battle was over. The Italian fleet turned and made for Messina and under threat of land based air attack the British too went home.