Anyone interested in a print of this? I'm doing one for the owner of the car so it makes sense to have more done
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Anyone interested in a print of this? I'm doing one for the owner of the car so it makes sense to have more done
This is one of the best interactive historical map sites I've found recently - mapping ships that sank during the SWW. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/41d4... 🗃
Well-written Ian, thanks for putting that together - it's important to remember these things (sorry for clunky words, my brain's a bit had-it). #MaritimeHistory
Learned on here via @dreadships.bsky.social that today is #MerchantNavyDay. To mark it, I thought I'd port over a successful thread from the other place. A thread about tragedy and courage at sea, starring a small boat with a story to tell... A thread 1/x🧵
No casualties is the perfect result for an embarrassing maritime mess-up! Great thread Robert, thanks for writing/sharing, and bumping to the #MaritimeHistory feed 😊
@dreadships.bsky.social A story in 3 pictures Built by Cantiere Navale di Riva Trigoso for the Navigazione Generale Italiana (NGI) shipping company the ship was intended for the NGI's South American service. The Principessa Jolanda has also been called the first true Italian luxury liner.
Gadzooks you do the GZ well, love your work Dread 😎 #NavalHistory
Lots of people understandably keen that I see this result of drawing the GZ curve upside down...
Yet to read this, but such a great cover, too - enjoyed reading the interview with its designer yalebooks.co.uk/an-interview... #NapoleonicHistory
A new docu-series beginning on September 11 on #Ohio #publictelevision station WBGU will tell the stories of eight #LakeErie #lighthouses. #GreatLakes #MaritimeHistory #lighthouse
3 Sept 1914 // Minesweeper HMS Speedy, sweeping off the Humber estuary, was near minesweeping trawler Linsdell when she struck a mine and sank. The Speedy moved to pick up survivors from the Linsdell but also hit a mine and sank with one man lost. (IWM image Q 40195) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
3 Sept 1914 // HM Drifter Linsdell, a Lowestoft boat in #RoyalNavy service as a minesweeper, was sweeping at the entrance to the Humber Estuary when she ran over and detonated a mine. Her stern was blown apart and she sank with the loss of five men. #WW1 #NavalHistory
3 Sept 1691 (O.S.) // 3rd-rate HMS Harwich, seeking shelter from a gale with other ships from the Channel Fleet, was driven ashore under Mount Edgecumbe, Plymouth. She was so badly damaged that she was broken up where she lay. Reports say 'most of the men' in her crew of 420 were lost. #RoyalNavy
3 Sept 1691 (O.S.) // A gale in the Channel caused the ships of Admiral Russell's fleet to seek shelter in Torbay and Plymouth. 90-gun HMS Coronation was wrecked off Penlee Point when her anchors dragged at the entrance to Plymouth Sound. As many as 600 men may have lost their lives. #RoyalNavy
#NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory Tonight at 9pm on BBC2 (not BBC1 as the logo says on the website), they’re showing part 1 of a two part documentary series about a maritime archaeological investigation in to scuttled U-Boats off the coast of Northern Ireland. See Alt-Text for more details.
#OTD #Aviation #NavalHistory 🗃️ news (1925) - The US Airship Shenandoah destroyed by intense wind storm over the midwest. 14 crew are killed in the breakup and crash, including the captain. Responders rush to the scene by air from several bases in the east. www.reporting-history.com/2025/09/03/s...
7:40pm, 3rd September 1939. Off the north-west coast of Ireland, the heavily-laden passenger liner SS Athenia was hit by a torpedo, fired by the German U-Boat U-30 under Lt Fritz-Julius Lemp. She began to settle by the stern and all 26 of her lifeboats were launched. 🧵 1/10
Great thread Brian, cheers 😊 There's an interesting article on these guns by Sergei Vinogradov in Warship 2023. Based on that, 7 of the barrels are still extant, 4 in Finland and 3 in Russia - a pretty impressive result and quite possibly one unmatched by any other since-scrapped battleship.
The ship whose guns travelled further than she did. The Russian dreadnought Imperator Alexsandr III was the third and final ship of the Imperatritsa Mariya class battleships built for the Imperial Black Sea fleet. She was launched in 1914 before the outbreak of the Great War.🧵 #NavalHistory
#OTD #CivilWar #NavalHistory news - The British press may have lionized the ram Arkansas, but their smugness was short-lived!
🔱⚓ From Stamps to Seas: The Legacy of Admiral de Ruyter 📮🌊 www.instagram.com/p/DOJFr8gjkb... #Philately #StampCollectors #StampsOfInstagram #PostalHistory #PageAndPostage #DutchHistory #NavalHistory #DeRuyter #MaritimeHistory #StampsAndStories
3 Sept 1939, SS Athenia of the Donaldson Line was sunk by German submarine U-30. She left Glasgow 2 days prior but war on Germany was declared earlier in the day of 3 Sept. 128 perished of the 1,418 on board. #maritimehistory #history #skystorians #navalhistory #ww2 #WWII
Agree - there's certainly enough to support a book on each of the three landing sites (and I don't think I've seen individual works, but I'm also very hazy-brained tonight). Glad Atkinson's chapter did a good job too 😊
I’m looking to take on more freelance research/writing/historical consultancy work over the next 6-8 months, and would like to hear from you if you’ve got a project in mind! You can find out more about my work at www.lucybetteridgedyson.co.uk or by dropping me a line
Escorts are secured five abreast in Halifax harbour in March 1944 in this photo taken from HMCS TRENTONIAN. HMCS AMHERST (K148) is second from the left and HMCS REGINA (K234) is in the centre. @RLitwiller #RCNavy Photo Collection. See MORE zurl.co/lBEmW
Really good thread ⬇️⬇️⬇️
🚣♂️ The Maclean Brothers are coming! This 8 Sept 11am the brothers will row into the museum after setting a world record for the fastest unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/record-breaking-rowers-in-conversation-with-the-maclean-brothers-tickets-1648896928099?
Reading about the fierce Naval battle outside Casablanca as part of Op Torch in Rick Atkinson's book. Good grief! Not a topic that is often discussed. Any recommendations for more books on this topic? #histbookchat
#OTD in 1943, Reggio Calabria. Operation Baytown, the invasion of the Italian mainland. Troops disembarking. #WW2 #HISTORY
#OTD in 1943, Messina, Italy. Operation Baytown, the invasion of the Italian mainland. Troops embarking. #WW2 #HISTORY
I don't want to write a piece that's lost in the noise. Suffice it to say that with the end of the #SecondWorldWar came also the death of the Japanese Empire, aged but 77 years. Its corpse remained for two years, but its spirit never left the weatherdeck of the Missouri, 80 years ago today.
According to Captain Murray's recollections, MacArthur's signature was published in an old newspaper article, and Halsey printed out his signature on the spot, while Murray signed each one individually for safekeeping.
Also, if you want to dive into the details, there are 6 pages on Jean Bart's experience in Jordan and Dumas' "French Battleships 1922-1956". Sorry, will stop rambling now!
+1 for O'Hara's book. I found the chapter (on the landings overall, not just at Casablanca) in Auphan's "The French Navy in World War 2" good for the French perspective, and for the US perspective the relevant chapter in Stern's "The US Navy and the War in Europe".
The National #Lighthouse Museum in #StatenIsland, #NewYork, is offering a bus tour to the 1828 Twin Lights Lighthouse in Navesink, #NewJersey on Wednesday, October 8. The lighthouse, decommissioned in 1949, was the first in the US to host a #Fresnel lens. #museumsky #MaritimeHistory
The value of comparing modern and historical ethnographic examples of fishing from #indigenouscommunitiessuch #France, #SierraLeone& #Namibia. And what can they tell us about past human/environment interaction? 1/6 #coastalhistory #oceanspast #OceanHeritage #TraditionalKnowledge
L. to R.: Lt. Commander Maxner, Commanding Officer HMCS PORT DAUPHIN; Commander W. Graham Allen, Commanding Officer HMCS SCOTIAN; Captain Littler, Chief of Naval Staff (LAC a161780.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History
Commemorating the day the American War of Independence made an unlikely appearance on the Yorkshire Coast. The refurbishment of the Flamborough Head toposcope. #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #WarofIndependence
#OTD 3 September 1813 a 🇩🇰Danish-🇳🇴Norwegian gun boat squadron with 7 gunboats under 1st Lt Martin C. Klaumann defended a position off Büsum in the Elbe against 10 Royal Navy gunboats and 4 launches. The 🏴flotilla fled after 4.5 hrs combat with loss of two destroyed gunboats. #navalhistory
#OTD 3/9/2015 #RememberRCN -HMCS CHICOUTIMI commissioned and is the last of four Victoria class submarines to enter service with the RCN and continues in service. RCN Photo
#OTD 3/9/2003 #RememberRCN -Sept 3rd declared Merchant Navy Veterans Day! Honouring Merchant Sailors who sailed in the convoys during the Battle Of Atlantic. Over 2200 Canadian/Newfoundland Merchant Sailors were lost during the War & not officially recognized until 58 yrs later.
#OTD 3/9/1944 #RememberRCN -SS Livingston (Bowater's Paper, Newfoundland) torpedoed & sunk by U-541 northeast of Louisburg, Cape Breton, killing 14 merchant sailors. HMCS BARRIE rescued 14 survivors. This Great Lakes ship was pressed into ocean convoy service.
#OTD 3/9/1942 #RememberRCN -SS Donald Stewart (Canada Steamship Lines, Montreal) torpedoed by U-517, S of the Strait of Belle Isle, NF, 3 killed. The Laker carried concrete, aviation fuel & lumber to build airfield at Goose Bay. HMCShips SHAWINIGAN & TRAIL rescue 17. @Canada Steamship Lines
#OTD 3/9/1939 #RememberRCN -England & France declare war on Germany. Within hours U30 torpedoes & sinks passenger liner SS ATHENA, killing 118. Fifty-four Canadians are amongst the dead including, crew member Hannah Baird & she is the 1st Canadian merchant sailor killed in WWII.
Andrew Lambert's a very safe pair of hands - thanks for sharing and bumping to the #histbookchat feed 😊
📚 New book by our member 'No More Napoleons, How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One' by Prof. Andrew Lambert Giving the 2025 annual Peter N. Davies Memorial Lecture (#BCMH @NauticalHistory), Lambert launched his book at @warstudies : buff.ly/q8d1g36 #navalhistory #NRS #history
Brilliant thread, thanks for writing/sharing both the thread and the linked posts 😊 Reading the first sentence of that memo is, indeed, entertaining and certainly a choice by the author!
#OTD in 1941 the Kriegsmarine sent this banger to the Regia Marina, explaining to them what was so special about submarines. Spoiler: they can operate under water. @rjhammond215.bsky.social @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social @alanallport.bsky.social @ima-naval-history.bsky.social #navalhistory #ww2
IJN No.1-class landing ship No. 16 Date: September 3, 1945 Location: Yokosuka Photo: US military Situation: www.history.navy.mil/our-collecti...
Thai week’s podcast is on the Polish navy’s defensive operations in the Baltic in the first week of September 1939 open.spotify.com/episode/4Bcg... #navalhistory #ww2
USS CAVALLA nested alongside the submarine tender USS PROTEUS in Tokyo Bay on V-J Day, eighty years ago today. #NavalHistory #MarititmeHistory
Great thread - thanks for writing/sharing, and bumping to the feed 😊 #NavalHistory
2nd September 1937. First flight of the Grumman XF4F fighter, which would become known as the Wildcat. Its performance was initially inferior to the rival Brewster Buffalo, and the aircraft required an extensive redesign before being put into production. 🧵1/9
Witnesses to the surrender on USS Missouri #OTD in 1945 received a souvenir card. Some officials in the U.S. requested the extra copies, but CAPT Stuart Murray insisted they were only for those present. The unused cards were burned, and the printing plates were thrown overboard.
As a navigation officer with a specialisaton in safety of navigation, this cartoon has always appealed deeply. Sadly, I do not know who to credit with it.
The Merchant Marine has helped ensure U.S. security in peace and war since the founding of the nation. usni.org/magazines/p...
September 2, 1945: Japan surrenders aboard USS Missouri (BB-63). General Douglas MacArthur states: "Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always. These proceedings are closed!" pacificwrecks.com/da... #TokyoBay #Japan #Surrender
#OTD in 1945, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the agreement that formalized the surrender of Japan, was signed by Allied powers and Japan on the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. It marked the end of hostilities in World War II. This photo depicts one of the more controversial signings.
Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years Later www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRv... #envhist #coastalhistory #raceandenvironment #environmentaljustice
Land & Sea - Eel Fishing near Glovertown "Land & Sea looks into the Eel fishery on the Terra Nova River. The Newfoundland Eel was considered very high quality in the European market." www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_r... #envhist #coastalhistory cc: @greenleejw.bsky.social
Paul Kreiling of the East End Seaport Museum on #LongIsland, #NewYork, will give a lecture entitled “Bug #Lighthouse: Past and Future” on Saturday, September 6 at 10am at the East Marion Firehouse. #museumsky #MaritimeHistory
#OTD #MaritimeHistory news - RMS Majestic sails despite the ongoing seaman's strike over pay. The Majestic, previously Bismarck, was reparations to replace the Britannic (lost to a mine in 1916). She was the largest ship in the world until the Normandie. www.reporting-history.com/2025/09/02/m...
Shipwreck Hunter Finds Large Freighter That Sank in Lake Huron During the 'White Hurricane' 112 Years Ago: The 529-foot-long vessel is submerged 190 feet deep, resting upside down on the American side of the lake @SmithsonianMag #Shipwreck #LakeHuron #History #Maritime #Diving
#OTD in 1940 HM/Sub P.38 was laid down. A U-class submarine, she was sunk after only one success on patrol, tragically an Italian merchant carrying POWs from North Africa to Italy, killling 138 POW. HM/Sub P.38 was lost with all hands to RTp Circe. #navalhistory rommelsriposte.com/2010/05/22/s...
Certainly is, thanks for tagging to the feed and sorry to miss it 😊
#NavalHistory, I think…
2 Sept 1944 // Anti-aircraft vessel HMS Glen Avon (a paddle steamer, formerly with the White Funnel Line, requisitioned as a minesweeper 1939, converted to AA ship 1941) was anchored off Ver-sur-Mer, Normandy, when after about 21:00 the weather worsened into a full gale. [1/4]
2 Sept 1811 // 12-gun brig HMS Manly was cruising off southern Norway with 10-gun brig-sloop HMS Chanticleer when three Danish brigs were sighted approaching from the coast. When the nearest was close enough the Chanticleer hailed her. The brig replied with a broadside. [1/3]
2 Sept 1809 // 12-gun brig HMS Minx, stationed as a light vessel off Skagen at the northern tip of Jutland, sighted six gunboats gathering between her and the shore at about 10am. When they began to row towards her, she raised anchor, made sail and steered for the open sea. [1/4]
2 Sept 1775 // Sloop HMS Liberty, tender to HMS Otter, was blown by a storm from her moorings in the Elizabeth River, Virginia. Nobody was on board at the time. She came ashore near Hampton where the locals stripped her of everything that could be removed before burning her. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
2 Sept 1667 (O.S.) // 6-gun fireship HMS Allepine (or Allepin), purchased in 1666, sank in poor weather, perhaps in the Irish Sea, while on her way to Kinsale. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
I'd call it important history, and the idea that this is not appropriate for advertising, given what can have advertising attached, is ridiculous!
Well, #YouTube says these memories from the crews of HMS Canberra and US destroyers at the Battle of Savo Island are too violent, racist and/or controversial for advertising. I call it history. What do you think? #history #maritimehistory #navalhistory #ww2 #USNavy youtu.be/o-h9KiEcI8Q
Part 2 of The Sinking of RMS Lusitania available now! The struggle to survive has begun, while the world reacts to the shocking news. www.shipwrecksandseadogs.com/85 #history #podcast #Lusitania #maritimehistory #skystorians #navalhistory
HMCS MAGNIFICENT unloading army vehicles Port Said, United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), 13-Jan-1957. (LAC e010777396-v8.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History
#OTD 2/9/1940 RememberRCN -HMCS SKEENA rescues 20 survivors from SS Thornlea (British), torpedoed mid-Atlantic by U-46 while in Convoy OB-206. The merchant ship was carrying 6400 tons of coal destined for Montreal.
Presumably if one of these blokes downs his broom and wanders off, he'll be going Absent Without Leaves.
Best of luck with the big box and sort 😊
Today in 1945, off the coast of Japan, men of the British battleship HMS DUKE OF YORK cheer as the aircraft carrier HMS SPEAKER passes. The carrier is transporting some of the first Allied prisoners of war liberated from camps in the Tokyo area Photo: Sub Lt Cross / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Surrender of Nihon, Toukyou Bay, 2 Sep. 1945: Representatives of the Nihon on board USS Missouri (BB-63) during the surrender ceremonies. For the names of the Nihon's delegation, please refer to the ALT.
On 2 September 1945, Japan formally surrendered aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, marking the official end of World War II. www.sea.museum/WWII-80-years
I like the look of that, hope you enjoy 😊
The story of the Point Bonita #Lighthouse in #SanFrancisco Bay. #MaritimeHistory #California
#OTD 2/9/1925 #RememberRCN -HMCS ARMENTIÈRES strikes an uncharted rock in Pipestem Inlet, BC. and begins taking on water. The crew attempts to beach the ship as it sinks. Local fishing boats rescue the entire crew. The Battle class trawler is re-floated on 26 October & repaired.
US Aircraft Carrier USS Franklin CV-13 www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-m... #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #USNavy #WW2 #aircraftcarrier
IJN Aircraft carrier Ryūjō Date: September 2, 1938 Location: Enshunada Photo: Yoshi Horimoto from Kaga Situation: Participating in the 8th Basic Exercise of the Combined Fleet static.ow.ly/photos/origi... static.ow.ly/photos/origi... static.ow.ly/photos/origi...
I could not agree more 😊
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Great shot, thanks for sharing Matt, that's made my morning better 😊
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I've flagged that Starmer bloke as being a bit funny!
At 04:45 on 1 September 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on Westerplatte, Danzig, Poland. German troops then stormed the defences, but Polish soldiers continued to resist until, a week later, they ran out of ammunition and surrendered.
Intriguing! Thanks for sharing and bumping to the #MaritimeHistory feed 😊
Mayda, with its many pseudonyms, is one of the most enduring phantom islands of the North Atlantic, though its origin is largely unknown. Its signature crescent shape first appears in 1367 with the label Brazir, with the more common name of Mayda appearing only later in 1553.
Not far off now - nice writing, and bumping to the #histbookchat feed 😊
Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released 6 November 2025 in the UK. Preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brit...
On this day in 1985 the wreck of the Titanic was discovered by Dr Robert Ballard and his team 73 years after she sank. The wreck lies 2.4 miles beneath the surface of the North Atlantic. #Titanic #MaritimeHeritage
Jackstay transfer aboard HMCS UGANDA, directed by Cdr. H.F. Pullen (LAC a136055.jpg) #RCN #Photos #History
1 Sept 1944 // Minesweeper MMS 117 was sweeping in the harbour of Civitavecchia, Italy, when her stern was blown apart by a large explosion. She sank very quickly with only two survivors from her crew of nineteen. It was presumed that she had triggered a magnetic mine. #RoyalNavy #WW2
1 Sept 1940 // HM Trawler Royalo, a minesweeper, was sweeping in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, after an enemy aircraft was seen to drop objects into the water, when a mine exploded under her stern and she sank with 12 men lost from her crew of 20. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory