On this day – 10 February 1941
After returning from service in the Mediterranean, the cruiser HMAS Sydney (D48) is photographed moored off Sydney Cove, with crew members at their stations preparing for the arrival of dignitaries.
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Risky buisiness:
youtu.be/o-kHn2rR8SQ
British? In slouch-hats? Surely that's a capital offence!
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The Titan submersible outside in the cold with its machinery in its tail cone exposed to the elements.
To save money, OceanGate left the Titan submersible outside in a parking lot in St. John's, Newfoundland for 3 months during the Canadian winter, exposing the carbon fiber hull and Titan's machinery to freezing temperatures. (1/2)🧵
#Titan #Titanic #maritimehistory #history
The Navy Wings-operated Fairey Swordfish Mk I W5856 biplane torpedo bomber at the Clacton Air Show in 2024 seen from the right against a blue sky with white cloud, above a seagull, which was the name for the Curtiss SOC floatplane
Fairey Swordfish I and Curtiss SOC
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Proceedings Archive: An eyewitness recounts what he saw during the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Saratoga (CV-3). https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2015/february/kamikazes-and-barking-dog
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A reminder, before a certain movie probably makes a big thing of it again:
A young Irish couple did not provide the critical data that made Stagg tell Ike to delay D-Day.
The most critical data came from HMS Hoste, alone out in the Atlantic.
The Blacksod story is nice. But it's not true. /1
Newsreel footage (now long since in the public domain) really is helpful - along with the eras propaganda movies and instructional films - in painting a picture of these events:
youtu.be/M06tbQ5oeoo
A "fry" of Spitfires?
A "barbecue" of Spitfires?
A "grill" of Spitfires?
Just a flesh wound ...
13.02.2026 22:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yeah, but it is "efficient". The package was delivered. On time. The rest is gravy.
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A Mandaic curse bowl in the Royal Ontario Museum. It has a spiraling Mandaic text that leads to an encircled x at the center.
This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.
08.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 1177 🔁 382 💬 40 📌 67Zummwalt and Littoral Combat ships ... all over again (by different names)
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Front cover of the February 2026 edition of Warships IFR magazine, showing the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS St. John's. Photo: Sandy McClearn.
A new Warships IFR mag is now out & packed with news, views, great pics & a dash of history. Cover pic by Sandy McClearn. It's of Canadian frigate HMCS St. John's returning to Halifax after a very busy time on NATO duties. Avail hard copy & digital sundialmedia.escosubs.co.uk/subscribe/wa...
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The final hard copy script for the novel 'Martin's Eyes'.
Long hours across several weeks (day job permitting) in 'the bunker' (with occasional parole) to get 'Martin's Eyes' over the line. The final big edit is done...and dog-eared hard copy seen here.
#book #WW2 #historicalfiction #thriller #novel
More info here www.chiselbury.co.uk/bookstore/p/...
05.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0If you were expecting us to say the Mary Rose, that was our first thought, but we have a reason for picking the Regent, based on the ship in the original post...
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1920s advert by Blackburn company for its amazingly disfigured biplane that it somehow managed to sell to the drunken sailors manning the Royal Navy’s procurement team at the time. The Blackburn Blackburn proved that a plane could fly more economically if it utilised the force of the earth’s revulsion at its ugliness as a means to keeping airborne. Facebook ‘Biplanes at war’ group
Italy has a saying that goes ‘every roach looks pretty in the eyes of its mother’ and Blackburn went hell for leather proving that by naming its most amazingly ugly offering the Blackburn ‘Blackburn’. This is a plane that had its meal sheets beaten hard.
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Roger Young: Heavy assault ship dock
07.02.2026 01:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0But they didn't ask: "Which one?"
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Result of a Tallboy bomb penetrating the roof of a U-Boot bunker in Brest. #WW2 #HISTORY
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A painting memorializing the service of aviation in the Royal Canadian Navy through the decades. A scroll with the words “Our History, Our Pride” sits at the top, with eight head and shoulder figures clustered beneath and appearing to float in the sky, wearing uniforms from the last 100 years, both naval and aviation. The front figure is a woman, one of the seven men is black, the rest are white. In the seas beneath are aircraft carriers, naval rescue ships and a naval helicopter, with a jet plane visible on the deck of an aircraft carrier.
The RCAF has a Naval Aviation museum in Shearwater, Nova Scotia. Active as an air base since the 1920s, the co-located museum has some breathtaking exhibits. So well worth a visit – here are a few sights that caught my eye…
#navalhistory #maritimehistory #coastalhistory
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"It just works"
youtu.be/OIf7vLeGa70
Fairey Swordfish biplane - originally designated TSR II (for Torpedo-Spotter-Reconnaissance)
Revive the TSR II!
26.01.2026 15:21 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Today is my birthday, and the best gift for me will be a retweet. My name is Vitalii. I am from Ukraine and open for commissions, so if you would like to get #SciFi artwork (spaceships, vehicles, dystopian future), I will gladly do this. You can contact me here or via valahor@gmail.com
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The armored cruiser San Giorgio served in the great war and all along the 20s and 30s. In 1940 she was placed in Tobruk harbor to act as a floating AA and coastal battery.
Here's the story:
youtu.be/WAcT5tK4_1c?...
A line drawing of a street scene with children skipping, a bike going by and birds in the sky
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
You’ll be doing well to spot 12 deliberate mistakes.
From Treasure magazine, 1963
Official answers coming soon
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Great show. Standout concept and writing. Can't wait.
24.01.2026 11:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The issue is the prevalence of comic books and picture books. History books take a modicum of commitment to read.
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Anyway, here’s the book www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/book/fleet-a...
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