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I have created a website called The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com. I am a 66-year-old pensioner living in Japan; I have lived in the blue sky since 18 November 2024. The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com という艦艇の名前のサイトをやってます。
The title is "The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidou, Seba (Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture)."
The boat in the foreground is loaded with firewood, and in the background is a raft of lumber.
At the time in Japan, this type of water transportation was more common than horse and cattle.
Do you really want Japan to disappear that badly?
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03.03.2026 09:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Suisei 43 type (D4Y4), with five Type 4 auxiliary propulsion units http://angelof.web.fc2.com/sub6.htm This "Ko DY-42" is a prototype for the Suisei Type 43, and is the same aircraft as the dark green "Kor DY-42" seen in photographs from the end of the war. However, this image shows the aircraft in its earlier orange-yellow paint job. The original plan was to equip the aircraft with two rockets in the nose and three in the rear fuselage. It had previously been said that the location of the nose-mounted rockets was unknown, but their locations have now been determined from existing photographs, and so they have been reproduced.
https://x.com/gk0tairai/status/618071794868551680 Here, the "photograph of the underside of the aircraft described as the Suisei 43" is this photo. Note the elevators on the horizontal stabilizer. The Suisei's elevators extend to the tip of the horizontal stabilizer, but the aircraft in this photo only extends halfway up the tail.
I'm not an aviation expert so I don't know much about it, but the D4Y Suisei (meaning Comet) 43 model was said to have been "never used because it severely impaired flight characteristics," so I guess it was only tested.
See also ALT.
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This is the final appearance of Patrol Boat No. 102.
Today is Hinamatsuri.
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Judging from the following (in Japanese), it does not appear to have been used in actual combat.
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02.03.2026 22:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wouldn't surprise me if Trump and his billionaires are making good money on rising oil and gas prices. There's no limit on corruption in the US.
02.03.2026 21:22 — 👍 40 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
USS North Carolina fitting out of Brooklyn Naval Yard, 1941. She was in and out so many times she was derisively called “The Showboat.”
The name stuck. #BB55 #WW2 #NavalHistory
Undated photo of the Washington (BB-56) at Philadelphia Navy Yard. The ship has been commissioned as evidenced by the Union Jack at her bow, but has not yet been fitted with light weight A.A armament, fire control directors, or search radars. The date of this photo may be her commissioning day, 15 May 1941, as the flag at the main mast is either that of the Secretary of the Navy or the Under Secretary of the Navy. The only difference in these two flags is the color, which is impossible to tell in this B/W photo. Contributed by Mike Green / USN photo. https://www.navsource.net/archives/01/56a.htm
For this reason, they played the song "Show Boat" to the NC as it approached while playing "Anchors Aweigh."
02.03.2026 11:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
USS North Carolina Sailor Chesterfield Vintage 1941 Cigarette Ad Magazine Print
Also, since NC had a company there, it was also used in cigarette advertisements.
It is said that the USS Washington (BB56) was jealous of this.
Despite being a sister ship, she was only born one month later and received little attention.
BB-55 USS North Carolina June 1941, shortly after commissioning. USNI / USN photo. https://www.navsource.net/archives/01/55a.htm
It is certain that she was nicknamed Show Boat because she was a battleship built nearly 20 years after the Colorado class and attracted attention, and because she had frequent comings and goings due to vibration issues at high speeds.
02.03.2026 11:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In the upper right of the photo is Seino Choutarou, the governor of Nagano Prefecture at the time.
In the lower left is Takarabe Sanehide, a police bureaucrat who served as an administrative official in Akita Prefecture.
White plum blossoms and Kawazu cherry blossoms.
White plum blossoms and Kawazu cherry blossoms.
02.03.2026 04:23 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Stone Steps Minamiise Town, Mie Prefecture
Stone Steps
Minamiise Town, Mie Prefecture
You can see a finless porpoise and a great crested grebe at the bottom of the screen.
It looks like a finless porpoise has surfaced near the great crested grebe.
Can you see it?
Toba City, Mie Prefecture
This is the first time I've heard of such a thing as Superstition, but unfortunately it's already nighttime for me on the other side of the world.
I wish you good luck.
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In other words, these funnels are also yellow.
So when I think of HMS Sheffield, the first thing that comes to mind is a galley fire.
However, the basic principle is to eliminate anything that could catch fire during battle.
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HMS Sheffield D80 burns fiercely after being struck by an Exocet missile during the opening days of the Falklands War, May 4, 1982.
During the Falklands War, the RN's HMS Sheffield was said to have sunk after an Exocet hit ignited oil in a fryer.
A former IJN naval building officer took this baseless tabloid article at face value and turned it into a book, which was followed by specialist magazines.
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However, I didn't know that yellow appeared dark in the British black and white film of the time.
Apparently, there was a time when the ships at East Indies Station were painted yellow.
28.02.2026 23:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The funnels of the light cruiser Comus in this watercolor painting and in the link below are painted yellow, but was that really the case?
Perhaps they were painted that way specially because the ship was escorting the Renown, carrying the Prince of Wales?
Screenshot of Journey Plotter showing the 1894-1895 journey of USRC Bear, and the events recorded in her log-book for 28 February 1894.
Screenshot of Journey Plotter showing the 1886-1895 journey of USRC Bear, and the events recorded in her log-book for 28 February 1895.
This month's Journey Plotter update:
The journey of USRC Bear is amended with the years 1894-1895; US West Coast and Alaskan Waters.
Her journey now covers 1886 to 1895.
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Footage shows a number of Tomahawk cruise missiles before striking targets in #Iran.
28.02.2026 08:53 — 👍 65 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 1
Awesome.
Thank you for your cooperation.
