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#OTD in 1916, the Navy's "super-dreadnought" USS Nevada was commissioned. The Nevada would survive Pearl Harbor and go on to provide support at Normandy, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. After the war, the Nevada was painted orange and used as a target ship for the Bikini atomic tests.
11 Mar 1915 // At 05:15am, armed merchant cruiser HMS Bayano (ex Elders & Fyffes, requisitioned 1914) was torpedoed by U-boat U.27 off Corsewall Point near Stranraer. She sank in under five minutes. 196 of her 220 crew lost their lives. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
It's important to observe Tomahawks from a safe distance to ensure that you don't interfere with their migratory patterns.
11 Mar 1942 // Light cruiser HMS Naiad was torpedoed by U-boat U.565 south of Crete while sailing to Alexandria, and sank with 82 of her crew lost. (Imperial War Museum: A 447, HMS Naiad photographed in 1940; A8388, some of Naiad's survivors on the deck of HMS Jervis) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
11 Mar 1943 // Destroyer HMS Harvester, escorting a North Atlantic convoy, was torpedoed by U-boat U.432 and sank very quickly with 145 men lost. Damage received earlier, from ramming and sinking U.444, may have contributed to her rapid sinking. (IWM image FL 22661) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
In 1939, on the outbreak of the Second World War, fearing the effects of air bombing, Britons killed hundreds of thousands of their pets.
In 2026, in Dubai, British migrants fleeing the war with Iran are abandoning their animals in their thousands.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Good morning! Ep 68 is out today - it's a mammoth episode, with aircraft designer Joe Wilding taking us through the history of Cold War Bombers. Jane goes AWOL half way through due to tech issues, but @jamesjhistory.bsky.social holds the fort!
www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...
Windows 11 has an updated Minesweeper game
Bunging 'Hormuz' into the catalogue, as you do, to see what comes up.
A short sequence of official Admiralty photos show the crew of the frigate HMS Loch Lomond responding to a medical emergency aboard the Shell tanker Volvatella in April 1960. A short thread 🧵
![MAN STOLE TERRY THOMAS'S £2,000 HOLDER – POLICE
THE £2,000 cigarette holder belonging to Terry-Thomas, the comedian, was mentioned at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court today when two men were remanded on bail until March 21. James J. Tarbuck (20), comedian, of Queen’s Drive, Liverpool, was accused of stealing a diamond studded cigarette holder, worth £2,000, belonging to Thomas Terry Hoare Stephens (Terry Thomas), on February 27, and Alan Williams (28), unemployed salesman, of Stockville Road, Liverpool, was accused of receiving two diamonds, total value £40, on March 11. Mr. J. W. Bonner, prosecuting, said Terry-Thomas was appearing in midnight variety performance at the Odeon Cinema, London Road, Liverpool. [subheading] Left in room. At 1.15 a.m. he went on the stage, leaving his cigarette holder in his dressing room. When he returned at 3.20 a.m. it was missing. Williams was seen yesterday by detectives Exley and Hammond in Whitechapel, Liverpool. Told that it was vas believed he had some diamonds, he was said to have replied: "I've only got two." It was alleged that he brought out from his pocket a jewel box containing two diamonds and said: "A man asked me to sell them for him." [subheading] ‘It was me’ Later the same day, Tarbuck was questioned by the detectives about stolen diamonds. He was alleged to have replied: "You seem to know all about it. It was me who took Terry-Thomas's cigarette holder." The detectives went with Tarbuck to his home, and there, the court was told, found hidden in a rolled-up carpet in the hall, were 40 diamonds and pieces of gold setting.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vckf3haopb3yncclmf7o2m3f/bafkreiddbmakqqoxwb7aafviorua3htkagpiqhrmqdfz3feeuym7hq7i24)
In showbiz news today, it’s the 66th anniversary of gap-toothed comedian Jimmy Tarbuck robbing gap-toothed comedian Terry-Thomas backstage at a theatre in Liverpool. He nicked a “custom-made cigarette holder ... decorated with 42 diamonds and a gold spiral band. It was insured for £2000” 🧵
Ever wonder why the UK still has military bases in Cyprus...Good thing there are people out there to explain it. We explain it here.
youtu.be/5v22DC_8l74
10 Mar 1800 // 3rd-rate HMS Repulse was wrecked on a reef off Brest in a storm when her first lieutenant, John Rothery took her too close inshore while Captain James Alms was confined sick, due to an injury, in his cabin. Rothery had wrongly assumed that the Captain had placed him in command. [1/3]
10 Mar 1944 // Corvette HMS Asphodel, escorting a Freetown-Liverpool convoy, was torpedoed by U.575 while investigating an asdic contact about 300 miles west of Cape Finisterre. She sank very quickly: just 5 men survived from her 97 crew. (Imperial War Museum: FL1109) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
In this episode, we go back to Babi Yar, the largest open-air shooting of the Holocaust which took place in Kyiv in September 1941.
I talked with Victoria Khiterer about the massacre, bystanders, and the incredible struggle to commemorate this event.
thhp.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...
How the British and Indian Army prepared their mules for service 🫡
#MuleMonday (click vid for full size)
To mark the 80th anniversary of the March 10, 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, a thread introducing one of the most remarkable primary sources I've come across in the archive:
Gen. Thomas Power's eye-witness report, recorded while circling over the firestorm for nearly two hours. 1/
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1445hrs 11 Dec 41 RTp (Regia Torpediniera - escort destroyer) Alcione is struck by a torpedo from HM/Sub Truant off Crete as she attempts to counter-attack the sub.
@rjhammond215.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social @axe99.bsky.social @ima-naval-history.bsky.social #maritimehistory #navalhistory
Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at some of the non-military plans for nuclear weapons that were thought up by either the United States or the Soviet Union during the Cold War
youtu.be/FDtBRr--B5I
Mirage IV
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Join my new nuclear book club, the Doomsday Library.
Vote for the books, get a video on the 1st of each month, and chat on the dedicated thread.
First up: THE CHRYSALIDS by John Wyndham.
Are you, or is anybody you know, potentially interested in learning WHY Iran has a nuclear program in the first place? Are you curious as to how the developed it and if they had help in doing so?
Have i got the video for you... youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg
Only 1% of the 660,000 women serving in the Red Army fought in the tank forces, but even the stories of that 1% are not fully known. Here is just a small portion of the women who fought and died in #tanks in the Great Patriotic War. #history #WW2 #WWII #InternationalWomensDay
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #InternationalWomensDay🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
Six years ago today, in one of the most French bits of French news this account is aware of, the French health ministry issued a statement to the French people warning them that using cocaine would not protect them from Covid
The USS Argonaut (formerly V-4, renamed 1930) was a unique minelaying submarine laid down in 1925 and commissioned in April, 1928. Built to the largest permissible size under the Washington Treaty, she carried two 6" guns, four bow-mounted 21" torpedo tubes and could carry 60 mines.
#NavalHistory
Set aside for a minute the stupidity of starting this whole war (we'll come back to it)
This strike on a school shows why war is serious business for serious people.
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www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/m...
An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?
From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)
Ships sunk by submarines since World War Two, thread
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4th Dec 1971, Pakistani submarine PNS Hangor sunk India frigate INS Khukri with a torpedo
