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Warship Wednesday, Mar. 13, 2019: Putting the Yeoman back into the...
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Petrel does it again
Wasp dresses with flags for Navy Day while she anchors in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, 27 October 1940. Note the old flush-deck destroyer in the distance. (U.S. Navy Photograph NH 43463) Built with 15,000...
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Warship Wednesday, Mar. 27, 2019: Tehran’s Tangs
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Warship Wednesday, April 3, 2019: She’s was a lucky and lovely Flower
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The Terror of Castillo San Felipe
Osprey’s June offerings, to include US Navy Battleships 1886–98: The pre-dreadnoughts and monitors that fought the Spanish-American War by Paul Wright, looks on point when it comes to maritime art....
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Warship Wednesday, April 10, 2018: All Forms of Manly Sports
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The hard-serving Bangor-class and the last Canadian loss of WWII
An unsung class of warship during WWII was the 59-vessel Bangor/Blyth/Ardrossan-class oceangoing minesweepers. Despite their designation, these 600-ton/162-foot vessels carried a decent main gun...
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Warship Wednesday, April 17, 2018: Canadian Snorkel Power
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Warship Wednesday, April 24, 2019: The Tiger with 17 Battle Stars to Prove It
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Warship Wednesday, May 1, 2019: Indy Radio (on May Day)
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Warship Wednesday, May 8, 2019: Vladivostok’s Red Pennant
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Warship Wednesday, May 15, 2019: Lady Sara Never Looked Better
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A glimpse back in time
With the post today about HMS Centurion‘s figurehead, this 1877 painting by noted maritime artist James Tissot, entitled “Portsmouth Dockyard” seemed appropriate. Note, over the amourous Highlander’s...
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Warship Wednesday, May 22, 2019: The Defiant Bicyclist
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Warship Wednesday, May 29, 2019: About that new Marker in Times Square
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Warship Wednesday, June 5, 2019: Overlord’s First Loss, now 75 years on
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Warship Wednesday, June 12, 2019: The End of l’Ancien Régime, Beginning of...
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A sub, a monitor and a destroyer walk into a (dry) bar in Philly, 93 years...
Here we see a vintage Prohibition-era gathering that shows the old 3,300-ton Arkansas-class monitor-turned submarine tender USS Cheyenne (IX-4) (ex-Wyoming BM-10), inboard at left with the early...
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Warship Wednesday, June 19, 2019: Coming Full Circle, OTD 104 & 75 Years Ago
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Warship Wednesday, June 26, 2019: The sub-smoking Greenfish of the Amazon
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