I don't quite understand, but should I just repost everything that has the hashtag #NavalHistory?
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SBS men with their canoes outside a building, probably on the southern coast of Lake Comacchio rather than on one of the islands seized during Operation Fry.
Extract of a map showing southern Lake Comacchio and marked to show the four islands seized by Partisan and SBS men during Operation Fry.
🗓️ #OTD in 1945 – COPP 2 finds a way through Italy's shallow Lake Comacchio that will allow supplies to get to Partisan/SBS men on islands that were taken in recent Operation Fry. Previous supply attempts failed when boats ran aground. (📸 IWM HU 71358; 🗺️ Uni Texas) #NavalHistory
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Keep on doing/reading/learning #NavalHistory, #MaritimeHistory, #CoastalHistory and #PirateHistory - or any other type of history. History is hugely important (and incredibly interesting) and if more people understood the past there is no question the present would be better off.
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As seen from Cava Island in Scapa Flow, five interned German warships. From available maps, the ships are as follows from left to right; SMS Kronprinz Wilhelm, Cöln, Bremese, Dresden, & Markgraf.
#warships #battleships #cruisers #ww1 #germany #navalhistory #history #worldwar1 #hsf #scapaflow #uk
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5 Apr 1942 // Minesweeper HMS Abingdon was severely damaged by Axis air attacks while awaiting repairs to earlier war damage at Kalkara Creek dock, Malta. She was beached in Bighi Bay and subsequently abandoned as a total loss. Her wreck was broken up in 1950. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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Royal Navy destroyer HMS Gallant photographed in 1938. Image Imperial War Museum: FL 22249. Description: black and white photograph of a small destroyer at speed in open water, viewed from low on her port bow.
5 Apr 1942 // Destroyer HMS Gallant was rendered a total loss after being damaged by German bombing while under repair at Valletta, Malta. Her hulk was expended as blockship at St Paul's Island off Malta in September 1943. (Imperial War Museum FL 22249) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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5 Apr 1942 // Armed merchant cruiser HMS Hector (formerly Holt & Co passenger/cargo liner SS Hector, requisitioned 1939) was set ablaze and sunk by Japanese aerial bombing while docked at Colombo, Ceylon. Her wreck was refloated and scrapped in 1946. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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Royal Navy destroyer HMS Tenedos. Imperial War Museum image: FL 19818. Description: a small warship under way at high speed, throwing a very large bow wave and producing a dark cloud of smoke from her funnels.
5 Apr 1942 // Destroyer HMS Tenedos was attacked by Japanese aircraft while under repair in Colombo harbour, Ceylon. She received three direct hits from bombs and one near-miss, and sank with the loss of 33 officers and men. (Imperial War Museum image: FL 19818) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMS Cornwall. Imperial War Museum image: FL 8539. Description: a large three-funnelled warship under way at sea, with the coast visible in the background. Large numbers of men are drawn up in ranks on her deck.
Royal Navy heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire. Imperial War Museum image FL 2120. Description: a large three-funnelled warship at anchor in enclosed water with low hills visible behind and a barrage balloon in the sky overhead.
5 Apr 1942 // Heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were attacked and sunk by Japanese dive-bombers south-west of Ceylon. 424 men from the two ships died and 1122 were rescued. (Imperial War Museum: HMS Cornwall FL 8539, HMS Dorsetshire FL 2120) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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5 Apr 1941 // Mooring vessel HMS Buffalo, based at Singapore, sank after hitting a mine while assisting with the recovery of a RAF aircraft which had crashed close to one of Singapore's defensive minefields. 30 people, including dockyard staff and RAF personnel, were killed. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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#Navalhistory
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Yamamoto Isoroku's reputation has been somewhat sanitized over the years, and at times he's wrongly cast as a peace figure within the #IJN.
It's not unfair to say that he hesitantly sent the Navy to war, having largely been dragged there by the #IJA. He deserved a better end. #NavalHistory #PHG
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On the #PHG blog today: marking the birth of Takano Isoroku, the man who would go on to command Japan's Combined Fleet. #PacificHistoryGuide #NavalHistory
www.pacifichistoryguide.com/post/otd-bir...
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4 Apr 1942 // Oiler RFA Plumleaf was bombed and sunk at Parlatario Wharf, Grand Harbour, Malta. She had already been damaged in an air raid on 26 March, and after sinking on 4 April she was declared a total loss. The wreck was scrapped in 1947. #RoyalFleetAuxiliary #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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4 Apr 1941 // Auxiliary merchant cruiser HMS Voltaire was sunk by German auxiliary merchant cruiser Thor after a fierce battle midway between the Cape Verde Islands and Barbados. 72 of Voltaire's crew died and the Thor picked up 197 survivors. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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4 Apr 1918 // HM Drifter J & A, a former Buckie boat in naval service as a patrol vessel, sank after being in a collision with SS Avocet in the North Sea about 150 miles east of Bridlington. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
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Royal Navy destroyer HMS Bittern. Imperial War Museum image: Q 42670. Description: a profile view of the port side of a small warship in harbour, with the shoreline, buildings and other vessels visible in the background.
4 Apr 1918 // Destroyer HMS Bittern was rammed in thick fog by merchantman SS Kenilworth off the Isle of Portland and sank with all 60 crew lost. The enquiry placed the blame on the Kenilworth, which was off course and showing no lights. (Imperial War Museum: Q 42670) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
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Royal Navy submarine HMS E.8. Imperial War Museum image: HU 57612. Description: a submarine under way very slowly on the surface, her bows towards the camera, and many men visible on her conning tower and casing.
4 Apr 1918 // HM Submarines E.8 and C.26, part of a British submarine flotilla in the Baltic, were scuttled at Helsinki. The Royal Navy did not want them falling into the hands of either the advancing Germans or the Bolsheviks. (Image: HMS E.8 IWM HU 57612) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
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Apr 1810 // 4-gun schooner HMS Cuckoo was wrecked on the Haak Sands off Texel due to an error by the pilot. All 20 people on board took to the rigging, where two died of exposure while awaiting rescue: a seaman, and the captain's 5-year-old son. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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4 Apr 1798 // 32-gun frigate HMS Pallas was driven onto rocks in Cawsand Bay, Cornwall, when her anchor cables parted in a storm. All but one of those on board were safely brought ashore, but the ship could not be refloated and was eventually broken up where she lay. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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4 Apr 1781 // Brig sloop HMS St Fermin, sailing from Gibraltar to Menorca with dispatches, was captured off Malaga by two Spanish xebecs after a lengthy chase. The British had captured St Fermin from the Spanish in 1780, and she was now returned to Spanish Navy service. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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Her guns were salvaged, but almost all the cargo was stolen. Captain Fish was criticised for doing nothing to help: 'he lies abed and cries instead of saving any of the wreck'. Despite this, and his poor showing as captain generally, he was cleared of all blame. [4/4] #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
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USS Akron (ZRS-4) landing at Sunnyvale, California, May 13, 1932.
On this date in 1933, the US Navy airship Akron crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in a storm off the coast of New Jersey.
73 men died in the crash, including Admiral William Moffett, the chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics.
There were only three survivors.
#NavalHistory
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Naval Classics starts Monday. 40 titles over 18 months. Bi-weekly spotlights. Each title gets a full week of posts, excerpts, and historical context. Follow along. #NavalClassics #NavalHistory #WarshipsAndNavies
#NavalClassics #NavalHistory #WarshipsAndNavies
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Lord Nuffield (William Morris) with Dwight D. Eisenhower at a meal hosted by Morris to promote Anglo-American cooperation. The meal was held at Nuffield House at 9 Halkin Street in February 1944. Now the Caledonian Club, Nuffield House was then a junior officers’ club where prices were set according to ability to pay.
🗓️ #OTD in 1944 – leading industrialist William Morris (📸 IWM H 35833), who's been ennobled as Lord Nuffield, visits submarine base HMS Dolphin at Fort Blockhouse in Gosport and is drawn to COPP’s two X-craft midget subs that are based there ahead of the D-Day landings. #NavalHistory 🧵
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Map from Admiral Kent Hewitt’s post-Operation Husky report showing beaches considered for landings and annotated to show the approximate area of COPP 4’s recce aboard HMS Unruffled. They will return to this area later in April 1943.
HMS Unruffled entering Valletta harbour, date unknown, to come alongside the ‘stone frigate’ submarine base HMS Talbot.
🗓️ #OTD in 1943 – Sicily reconnaissance resumes as men from COPP 4 leave Malta in submarine HMS Unruffled (📸 IWM A 14689). They're heading to beaches in Sicily's south-east corner. #NavalHistory 🧵
▶️ buff.ly/FDGeVOu
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A great #NavalHistory story 😎
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This week’s feature is part one of an examination of one U-boat Captain and his command style negatively impacted the crew and almost led to disaster.
jerijerod14.substack.com/p/peter-zsch...
#ww2 #history #navalhistory #uboat
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