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May 17 • 1 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Do we want a story, children? Then I'll begin...

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Jun 9, 2022
This thing here, apparently roleplaying as legendary Russian environmental disaster and part-time aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, is Italian submarine Tito Speri.

And to answer the obvious question - yes, that is exactly what it looks like. A submarine with a flamethrower. A submarine pokes its head up above the ocean surface. That bit's entirely normal. The ENORMOUS plume of fire and smoke emitting from it? Yeah, that bit. That bit's very much less normal.
Now I could fairly be described as a pyromaniac. I love playing with fire. The list of things I have successfully ignited whilst doing so includes televisions, greenhouses, and my brother in law.

Yet even I will concede that there is no place for a flamethrower on a submarine.
Apparently I'm just not Italian enough though, because I swear this is genuine.

Sadly there only appears to be one photograph, presumably because the institutional lunacy of their submarine corps was a closely guarded secret. It's the same photo. It's just as unlikely and as ridiculous as the first time. It's entirely possible that only one photo exists because only one was necessary. As a record of how utterly batshit this thing was it's unimprovable.
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Dec 12, 2021
This thing here, caught in an inconvenient photograph during a little embarrassment, is HMS Montagu.

In the finest tradition of British leadership the captain is presumably about to tell us he's as furious as everyone else, and that nobody had told him anything about this. A half-sunken pre-dreadnought battleship (without the ludicrous tumblehome of French examples, but emphatically with the same "covered in glue and rolled through the naval stores" aesthetic topside) alongside some rocks, titled "HMS Montagu ashore at Lundy" and with the printers name. It's also been lightly colourised by the printers
Launched in 1901, and commissioned in 1903, Montagu was amongst the Royal Navy's fastest and most modern battleships. In 1906 it was being used for radio trials, a technology that offered the tantalising prospect of hassling subordinates from two oceans away. HMS Montagu, "fully dressed" with signal flags decorating the rigging from stern to stem. The obvious bits to note are the booms for the torpedo nets, the two twelve inch guns forward, and the fact it hasn't yet sunk.
On May 29th Montagu was to communicate with the Isles of Scilly, but unfortunately the radio wasn't working.

In a pinch Morse keys are also useful for censorship, so presumably reporting that the bleeping radio was bleeped again, Montagu bleeped off home. "His Majesty's First Class Battleship Montagu", it says at the top of this photograph, and below that impressive title is his majesty's first class battleship Montagu, and I believe I've set a new record for utterly useless alt text. It has two funnels and is flying the Union Jack?
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Oct 11, 2021
A few weeks ago I asked for nominations of female pioneers and heroes that deserved a thread for #ADL21.

And I'm now going to ignore the lot of you and chat about the hive of badassery that were the female pilots of Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary instead. Five ATA flyers Lettice Curtis, Jenny Broad, Audrey Sale-Barker, Gabrielle Patterson and Pauline Gower in 1942 by an Airspeed Oxford trainer
It is an undeniable scientific fact that you could not throw a brick at this lot without hitting someone with an interesting story to tell.

You'd probably also receive the brick back with interest. These women were not here to play. Okay, so this is where my face blindness really sucks. There's clearly Pauline Gower in this staged group shot, but I'm jiggered if I recognise any of the others. They're all climbing out of an Airspeed Oxford (I think - I'm not much better at planes, and oh... wouldn't you rather follow a more competent account?)
The Air Transport Auxiliary was formed to provide courier and ferry pilots for the RAF, freeing up front-line pilots for combat.

Notably it was an early equal opportunities employer, happy to receive pilots with disabilities such as missing arms, absent legs, and being American. Male ATA pilots. Hilariously it's almost impossible to find photos of them because the female pilots are very much more famous in the internet age...
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May 22, 2021
*record scratch*
*freeze frame*

You're probably wondering how we got into this situation...
In 1923, Captain Edward H Watson of the US Navy had the unexpected honour of discovering California.

The inevitable court martial didn't quite describe it in those terms. Official US Navy photograph of - and captioned - Cdr Edward H Watson, USN 1915. He's a typical WWI US naval captain, looking smart and - possibly - slightly embarrassed to be posing for an official photograph.
At the time Watson was commanding Destroyer Squadron 11, with 14 ships under his command including his flagship USS Delphy.

Here it is flashing a bit of dazzle. USS Delphy photographed in late 1918. It's wearing (true) high contrast dazzle camouflage with a darker triangle upfront below a brighter bow, a brighter curve of paint amiships, and a much darker stern, Being black and white it's impossible to guess at the true colours, but it looks rather funky and demonstrates the advantage of these sort of schemes, as without my contact lenses in I'm struggling to make sense of this one, but as I'm anybody's after a glass of wine and a flash of dazzle I thought I'd throw it in. Guaranteed - this post will be retweeted more than any other in the thread, ...
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Aug 16, 2020
It occurs to me that some of you might not have got the joke here... Ooh, look! Alt text! You're about to see the words "old ship" a lot. Photo of Turbinia passing the Royal Navy at speed, labelled in the style of an Ikea catalogue. Turbinia has been labelled "Arshol" in mock Swedish. Yes, I am childish.
This account generally specialises in failure, but I will happily throw everything out the window for Turbinia.

It might look like a scale model but it is utterly, gloriously beautiful at speed. Turbinia at speed in 1897. This boat is shifting some, but check out the bloke leaning casually against the railings.
When Turbinia was launched in 1894 it was the fastest ship in the world. The only way to go faster was by sailing over the edge of a very tall waterfall, and you still wouldn't be going faster than Turbinia for very long. Turbinia still cracking along in 1894, still with that bloke leaning casually on the railings as if 34 knots ain't no big thing.
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