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Dreadnought Holiday
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There's only about thirty people on BlueSky that will get the reference and be amused by it, and I love every single one of you
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Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Handcrafted nonsense.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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There's only about thirty people on BlueSky that will get the reference and be amused by it, and I love every single one of you
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Willem van Ghent! Cornelius de Witt! Michiel de Ruyter! Your boys took one hell of a beating!
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Don't think anybody really knows! That they let it roll over a second time suggests the Iranians certainly don't!
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Yeah, but with the images of it partially gone over in the original incident it didn't really feel like the reason here. It goes despite (I think) having ropes ashore. I might be wrong on that though.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Yeah, and also how it behaves at low angles of inclination might be very different to what it wants to do when there's a proper lean on. The French predreads lost any righting arm at all surprisingly early, for example, but were thought to be perfectly stable as gunnery platforms.
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The dit appears to be that it flooded through the stern tube after work on the propellor shaft. Where the water went next is an interesting question - if it could flood asymmetrically then yes, that's part of your answer, but raises question about lack of counter-flooding and also why it went twice.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Stability curve, basically. Measures how much a ship is trying to get back upright as the angle of lean increases, and if it goes zero congratulations - your ship now really wants to be upside down
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You could probably take off some of the weight that's been added, and even remove original systems, but at this point it's looking like they've tried to squeeze too much into too small a hull. Might be far more efficient to start again, tbh.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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It's immaterial that it's managed to cross the Atlantic. Getting away with it once - or even many times - doesn't necessarily mean all is well. One was already lost in a dry dock (which again appears to have been flooding leading to capsize) - they're clearly not blessed with reserves of stability.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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And HMS Captain was thought to be the best sailor in the fleet until it wasn't.
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Patrick Smith
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I enjoyed this one, from the maritime museum in Amsterdam. There's Rochester, lower right, with the castle and cathedral. Dutch fleet giving Upnor Castle a kicking on the left. But what is this majestic mountain range? Apparently to someone from Holland, Bluebell Hill looks like the Hindu Kush.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Apparently one of the great joys about NATO exercises is being invited for everybody else's celebration of that one time they absolutely stomped you, and of course inviting them back in your turn.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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The Rijksmuseum is full of paintings from the 17th century of Dutch ships kicking British arse, but for some reason those go out of fashion in the 18th century...
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Well, a bit of it...
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Southgate's really been going all out to motivate his team for tonight
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Dreadnought Holiday
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They've definitely had more weapons systems added over time.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Officially the problem is flooding through a stern tube after prop shaft repair/maintenance. Pretty sure that's still not meant to result in this. That they can't get on top of it in port, knowing what's happened, with time to plan and all the kit, suggests no chance if it happened at sea.
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It's very much their thing, yes. The first one had a bit of what might be termed "assistance", mind.
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Second time in about 24 hours for IRIS Sahand here; one of its sister ships went over in a similar fashion a couple of years ago and another one - yes, I'd have stopped building them too - attempted to enter port via the breakwater with predictable results.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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I was very fortunate to be taught about GZ curves on social media, by somebody who teaches it at university. I'm absolutely screaming at the idea of discovering them via phoning my boss to explain that it's happened again.
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Update on that Iranian frigate - they got a heavy lift crane, cranked it back upright, and then forgot to do anything about that pesky balance issue. It's currently upside down again.
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John Bull
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Realised i've never put out the call here:
If you're interested in women's football in London, and helping INDEPENDENT ones compete against sportswashing, then I'm the vice-chair of a club and WE NEED YOU.
Volunteers, in person or remote, in ANY capacity or skill. Sponsors too! londonseawardfc.com
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Dreadnought Holiday
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I like to think it was swiped out of the captain's hands just as he received it. "Sorry, sir. Won't be needing that, sir. Probably just as well. Mad as a box of frogs, sir."
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Dreadnought Holiday
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"Hang on. I probably am the dust. Awkward."
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Yup, I regret to report that Iran's Moudge-class is at it again. This time it's IRIS Sahand that's experiencing verticality in a manner upsetting to its crew. Apparently it recently had a fair bit of top weight added, and it appears gravity took a view on that...
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Dreadnought Holiday
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I mean, on the plus side you don't have to keep giving all your electricals the side-eye any more, wondering which of the treacherous bastards are drinking all the juice, but...
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Hmm. They've not pledged not to, either - this is like all those taxes the tories said they hadn't promised not to introduce. See what happens. (More likely, increasing the range of ID is done by fiat rather than having to tie up parliament repealing the thing, so easier to achieve quickly)
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That certainly seems to have been the case. But to say there was nothing of a civilian nature up north is a bit too simplistic. Also the number of villas etc decline well before what could reasonably be called frontier areas, so something else going on too.
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As plans go it can't possibly be worse than throwing Chris Grayling at it and seeing what crawls out of the inevitable wreckage
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That's certainly not how it reads (and would be a bizarre point to make - "non-Roman Britain was not Roman? You don't say!")
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You were right the first time. Having lived with greyhounds and now a whippet, I can confirm they absolutely are dogs running on cat software.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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A cursory search throws up at least three houses found with mosaics in York alone.
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Bic Dastardly
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The name "marine" doesn't exactly stop me jumping to exactly the wrong confusion either!
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Yes, yes - I do know this, but y'know how these things are when you're used to certain abbreviations and acronyms
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Einstein says they're related, too
#BanThisSickFilth
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I can't be the only person who is massively confused by commentary on the RN in France. Keep wondering what the feck the Royal Navy think they're playing at.
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History)
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True Perhaps someone should share with them the Royal Navy's guidance from WW2 to the effect of 'it is the job of the enemy to allow water in and he should not be aided in this task unnecessarily'
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Had a bit of help with the first one, tbf
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Think I saw GZ Curve and the Metacentric Heights on the Jazz stage at Glastonbury a few years ago, actually...
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Mind you, I wonder how the radar works down there?
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Dreadnought Holiday
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The sonar dome isn't though?
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Dreadnought Holiday
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And let's not forget IRIS Damavand, which at least managed to float upright until such time as some berk parked it on a breakwater. It'd be a bit of an insult to call them a brown-water navy, but at times like this one wonders. It's certainly a brown trouser moment.
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Previous ships in the class include Talaieh, which didn't even manage to make it out of the drydock before filling itself with the ultimate in fire suppression systems. It's now being rebuilt under a new name: Shiraz. Apparently because every time it gets mentioned the admiral has a little whine.
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Dreadnought Holiday
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Yup, I regret to report that Iran's Moudge-class is at it again. This time it's IRIS Sahand that's experiencing verticality in a manner upsetting to its crew. Apparently it recently had a fair bit of top weight added, and it appears gravity took a view on that...
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You might think stability curves are for nerds.
But, y'know, so are upright ships...
www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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John Bull
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I CANNOT believe we didn't know this was here until the Finnish Defence Ministry tipped us off.
The Estonian Maritime Museum has an INTERWAR VICKERS-ARMSTRONG SUBMARINE!
To Dr Clarke's and my knowledge, this makes it the only surviving Brit-made period sub in the world youtube.com/shorts/cwNF5...
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Dreadnought Holiday
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What stunning gallery to place it in, too
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John Bull
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LOOK AT HER. LOOK AT HER BLUESKY! Clearly based on the U Class, but adapted for Baltic ops. That's an icebreaker bow (which makes her lines filth af) and she's rigged for minelaying above and below, hence the sidepods. Her tail is pure U though. I would marry this boat. She is utterly gorgeous.
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10/10 no notes
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