Ship Photo of the Day

[PhrogPhlyer]

They don't wear medals on the sleeve or that low in real life, and nothing on the pants.

Reasons why North Korean Generals wear so many medals - World History Edu

North Korea’s generals are often seen adorned with an overwhelming number of medals, even though the country has not engaged in a full-scale war since the Korean War over seven...

worldhistoryedu.com

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

How we saw the future of Russia's navy.

"The Russian Navy is Reborn"​

Speculative Russian Navy Ships envisioned by US Naval Architects​

LIFE Magazine, Dec 17, 1945.​

 

[Sonog]

The term battle cruiser is SO cool. Jutland really ruined it for the rest of history, huh?

 

[number9]

That's become a more recent thing in the Commonwealth, with folks wearing a close ancestor's medals on the right side wearing your own on the left. Does it seem to be common from what little I've seen? No, but it is a thing that is done:

Yeah, as a former Commonwealth subject I've done that before myself; I've worn my grandfathers' medals for ANZAC Day ceremonies.

The Commonwealth style of "One row of medals, no matter how wide" cracks me up. Here is Daniel Keighran VC:

 

[Randy Daytona]

The term battle cruiser is SO cool. Jutland really ruined it for the rest of history, huh?

The British decision to store extra cordite outside of the magazines and disregard safety precautions to maximize rate of fire was the main culprit. Flash earlier recommended “Castles of Steel” and “Dreadnought” by Ronald K Massie and I will second that - excellent books about the naval arms race in the early part of the 20th century.

As an example of the ability to withstand damage, here is the German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz, hit by a torpedo and 21 major caliber shells at Jutland to include the aft turret being knocked out. (The aft 2 turrets had been destroyed and rebuilt previously at the Battle of Dogger Bank.)

Commissioned: 22 May 1913, Scuttled at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919

Length: 658’ 2”, Beam: 93’ 6”. Displacement: 28,550 tons
4 turbines to 4 screws, 88,500 HP gave 26.5 knots

Armor: Belt - 11.8”, Deck - 3.1”
Main armament: 10 (5x2) 11” SK L/50 cannons firing 666 lb shells
12 5.9”, 12 88mm, 4 19.7” torpedoes








Seydlitz, heavily damaged during the battle of Jutland and attempting to limp home

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

A short article about the role of Zeppelins at the Battle of Jutland.

WERE GERMAN ZEPPELINS AT THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND?

The Royal Navy’s colossal intelligence failure concerning the presence of German Zeppelins at the Battle of Jutland, and its long-term effects on the U.S. Navy. By Bruce McWhirk, January 7, 2022 “E…

nauticaspace.com

 

[BigRed389]

The British decision to store extra cordite outside of the magazines and disregard safety precautions to maximize rate of fire was the main culprit. Flash earlier recommended “Castles of Steel” and “Dreadnought” by Ronald K Massie and I will second that - excellent books about the naval arms race in the early part of the 20th century.

As an example of the ability to withstand damage, here is the German battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz, hit by 21 major caliber shells at Jutland to include starting fired that knocked out the aft 2 turrets but the ship survived- barely - after the magazines were flooded.

Commissioned: 22 May 1913, Scuttled at Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919

Length: 658’ 2”, Beam: 93’ 6”. Displacement: 28,550 tons
4 turbines to 4 screws, 88,500 HP gave 26.5 knots

Armor: Belt - 11.8”, Deck - 3.1”
Main armament: 10 (5x2) 11” SK L/50 cannons firing 666 lb shells
12 5.9”, 12 88mm, 4 19.7” torpedoes



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Seydlitz, heavily damaged during the battle of Jutland and attempting to limp home

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Holy shit. Those battle damaged shots look like a capital ship that can’t make up its mind whether or not it wants to become a submarine.

 

[Randy Daytona]

Holy shit. Those battle damaged shots look like a capital ship that can’t make up its mind whether or not it wants to become a submarine.

The Royal Navy lost 3 of its modern battlecruisers at Jutland to magazine explosions: HMS Queen Mary (20 survivors), HMS Invincible (6 survivors) and HMS Indefatigable (3 survivors) - all had crews of over 1,000. Admiral Beatty’s flagship Lion nearly suffered the same fate after a direct hit on a turret but was able to flood its magazine just in time.

The German Navy lost the battlecruiser SMS Lutzow which was battered with 24 major caliber hits and eventually sunk, but it did not explode. SMS Seydlitz pictured previously above spent 3 1/2 months in drydock before returning to service.

 

[number9]

Did they lose the HMS Hood to a magazine explosion too? Admittedly it was in WW2 and not WW1, but...

 

[Randy Daytona]

Did they lose the HMS Hood to a magazine explosion too? Admittedly it was in WW2 and not WW1, but...

The magazine explosions the Royal Navy experienced in WW1 were due primarily to faulty operational and safety procedures. The explosion of HMS Hood was much more of a golden BB - you can see the deep trough abeam the aft mainmast where it is likely Bismarck’s 15” / 1800 lb shell hit (around the 34:45 mark). Here is one theory:

 

[Randy Daytona]

The vessel with the longest unrefueled range in WW2 were the I-400 class of submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The largest submarines in the world, they could travel a massive 37,500 nm at 14 knots (for comparison, the longest ranged battleships, the Iowas, could travel 15,000 nm at 15 knots). 18 were planned, 3 were completed.

These submarines included a hangar for aircraft: a few missions planned for but never executed were to bomb the Panama Canal locks and to use biological weapons to spread the bubonic plague along the West Coast.

Length: 400 ft, Beam: 39 ft, Displacement: 6,500 tons


I-401, with its long plane hangar and forward catapult


U.S. Navy personnel inspect I-400′s aircraft hangar after World War II.