Month: January 2020
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Restored B-25 Mitchell medium bombers prepare to take off from USS Ranger during a re-enactment of Doolittle Raid 50 years later. April 21st, 1992.
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Argentine battleship Rivadavia, New York, August 6th 1913.
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French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme, the first armoured cruiser, Brest arsenal drydock, early 1890s. – The French navy suffered major defeats at the hands of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars and subsequently looked for ways to remedy its inferiority. It was thought initially that steam power and iron-plated ships could equalize the field through ‘quality over quantity’ but the British naval industry soon built ships with those same qualities and at a much faster rate, so this proved to be a blind alley. During the latter decades of the 19th century, officers of the so-called Jeune Ecole devised a strategy called Guerre de Course, according to which the best way to defeat Great Britain was to destroy its merchant fleet and isolate the British Isles from trade and from the resources of its colonies. As a result, France began to build a series of powerful commerce raiders, fast enough to evade the battleships of the time but with strong enough armament and armour to overcome cruisers and smaller vessels. Dupuy de Lôme was the first of this new breed of warship, the armoured cruiser.
French cruiser Dupuy de Lôme, the first armoured cruiser, Brest arsenal drydock, early 1890s. from JC’s Naval, Maritime and Military News https://ift.tt/2REzdv8 via IFTTT
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German light cruiser SMS Bremen in 1907.
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Warship Wednesday Jan 29, 2020: The Lion of Goa
laststandonzombieisland 1d // keep unread // hide Here at LSOZI, we are going to take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1946 time period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest places.- Christopher Eger Warship Wednesday,…