HMS Protector arrived in 🇨🇱Punta Arenas, Chile on Saturday.

(alongside with Chilean icebreaker CNS Almirante Viel)

Via: Juan Pablo Berlinger

Carl Giles was a fascinating man. A few months after this he was with the Coldstream Guards when they liberated Bergen-Belsen.

The German camp commander got excited and kept banging on about how much of a fan of Giles war cartoons he was. Kept asking for a signed drawing. /1

Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Simms today? #2Historians Ep 6 YouTube video by Dr Alexander Clarke

The value of Mahan, Corbett & Simms ... today's #2Historians is with
Professor Captain Benjamin Armstrong himself - there could be no one better to handle the change
from the year of aircraft carriers to the year of leadership!
youtu.be/sX66qzC-JDI?...

The crew of the cruiser HMS Sheffield look on from the bridge as the cruiser negotiates heavy seas while escorting a convoy to Russia.

Civvies talk bad weather. Sailors do it in war.

Photo #1
Imperial War Museum Photo: A 14890
Photo #2
Imperial War Museum Photo: A 14892

Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 5 YouTube video by Dr Alexander Clarke

At 19:30hrs GMT, myself & the wonderful @mercoglianos.bsky.social will be discussing logistics and putting the world to rights, the traditional Christmas passtime! Please come on & join! youtu.be/PygBK6MveOU?...

Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 5 YouTube video by Dr Alexander Clarke

Well this starts in a little over an hour & a half youtu.be/PygBK6MveOU

@dralexclarke.bsky.social Thank you for the annual Christmas content on your channel. Im the family cook who prepares Xmas dinner in my household and I often listen to your channel as I cook Xmas dinner (as I am right now). Happy Holidays!

Seasonal reminder that Chris Rea is from Middlesbrough.

So "Driving Home for Christmas" is a wistful song about being stuck on the A1 just south of Doncaster, gagging for a piss.

A fantastic shot of the Navigatori-class light scout/destroyer Emanuele Pessagno, most likely pre-war and off Naples. 🧵

#navalhistory #waratsea #ww2 #mediterranean #regiamarina #destroyers

@rjhammond215.bsky.social @axe99.bsky.social @navalhistorian.bsky.social @dralexclarke.bsky.social

Santa's Sleigh... A Quick History - Key Aircraft Series 3, Aircraft 3 YouTube video by Dr Alexander Clarke

Santa's Sleigh... A Quick History - Key Aircraft Series 3, Aircraft 3
youtu.be/QaLwGqZfl94?... via youtube

Watch me get my behind handed to me 🙂

Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 4 YouTube video by Dr Alexander Clarke

Prof Harry Bennet & Me Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters... on the latests #2Historians youtu.be/-QA9616WoFc?... via YouTube

Latest news article:

Royal Navy’s last Trafalgar-class submarine sails for the final time

Farewell HMS Triumph

https://buff.ly/3Vv2ZmC

Photo: Stuart Wolf

Warships at sea: carrier, helicopter, frigates.

How did western Cold War Navies work together in practice? My article on the development of Royal Navy tactical doctrine in the cold war is out (link at end). It explans how year after year of Royal Navy work on classified doctrine was vital for RN and NATO success. This is a shameless plug. 1/x

The stack(funnel) is too thick and the superstructure looks more I class onwards with it's form... so I don't think so from that picture, if you send me more details I'll happily hunt down the formation and try to figure it out for you

Crop of a black and white photo showing a torpedo bomber attacking a warship

OK I know this might be a bit of overexcitement speaking, but...could this be the attack on HMS Fearless during Operation Substance, July 1941?

HMS Prince of Wales is returning to Portsmouth this morning following transit from Liverpool with families on board.

A large number of History posts at Britain's universities have already gone, and many more are under threat. In my view we could lose nearly a third of posts. The @royalhistsoc.bsky.social has prepared a toolkit for colleagues at risk, which is here: blog.royalhistsoc.org/2022/05/24/s...

Announcing the British Commission for Maritime History's 2024 Proctor Memorial Lecture, London, 12 Dec, 5.15-8pm. Hear @bradbeaven.bsky.social on urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c.1850-1900. #CoastalHistory To register: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/news/items/p...

Woodcut illustration from 1640, with maps, compass rose and a 3-masted ship. Image Attribution: from The British Library archives 534.b.18, title page

Treatises on navigation were essential for the safety of early modern sailors. Many of them are available online! This amazing cover comes from the 1640 edition of The Safeguard of Saylers, originally published in 1590.
Find it here: https://buff.ly/4fSGkbI

🗃️ 📜 📚 #oldbooks #maritimehistory

We have been wanting to do this since we started the magazine and it's finally here!!! 🗃️

Dread with a thread on King Alfred and why appearances aren't everything :)

#NavalHistory

Historiophon & Christmas Season Announcement/Schedules YouTube video by Dr Alexander Clarke

My weekend is looking full of #NavalHistory... fancy coming along to say hi? youtu.be/RFPpBxFXgm8?...

Victory! Dr. Clarke is here.

Check his YouTube out for some spectacular in depths on naval history.

(I'm only in like... two of his videos and one is a background cameo)

Dr Clarke has joined us over on BlueSky - welcome Alex 😊 Well worth a follow for naval history folk 😎 No pressure, but if you tag appropriate posts with #NavalHistory, they'll turn up on the naval history feed, and also in broader hashtag searches (or hashtag searches of just your posts).

@finger-post.blog Hi Alison, would you be interested in writing a blog about your work for @globalmarhist.bsky.social? I'd love to get some more interesting stuff about Arctic/Antarctic exploration on the site. Especially about the more ignominious stuff.

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