Damn, where did that iceberg come from?

At a (way out in the) country volunteer fire station playground:

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Stern of the USS John Hancock:

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The helmsman, was he texting or watching porn? :haha:

If he's the one who spun that big fucker around, I'd he was on the job.

It prolly slewed around on its own, though.

Ya think he was hooning? :haha:

Biggest hoonigan, evar.

Damn newfangled driverless container ships. Next thing you know, they will let cars have no drivers!

Ran over the buoy and everything....

Mighty MO...

Meh, just shoot it out.

Well, that left a mark...

Correction, it was a Mitsubishi Ki-51 "Sonia" that hit the HMS Sussex.

Looks like one of my landings but at least I was able to use the aircraft again. :blush:

There's some rather onerous conditions attached to reproducing the full text, hence the somewhat brief extract above.

WW2 People's War for the full article.

Thank you, sir!

Some more info has emerged:

Link

There is no mention of an explosion so effective anti-aircraft fire and a large slice of good luck seem to have saved the day.

Nothing like a fat slice of luck.

With sprinkles.

Ahh, good find, that explains a lot. :thumb:

Neighborhood bully and his gang...

Dat be da old and busted...

Dis be da new hotness:

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You see this coming atcha, you're gonna have a bad time.

:devil:

When the Wasp & Co hove into view, Tojo shook.
When the those new kids come around Kim Fatty the Third, ain't scairt. :headshake

Only 'cuz he's bug nuts.

Well yeah, but that doesn't help. People with delusions of invincibility are the most dangerous.
If Kim Fatty the Third or Tiny Hands starts shit, and are squashed like a bug 35 seconds later, that doesn't necessarily stop the shit he started. Think of the military like a huge boulder on the side of a hill with one little chock to keep it there. Some asshole pulls that chock and stopping that boulder once it's in motion is a Herculean task.

Tojo wasn't the Emperor.

Awesome metaphor dude.

You're disagreeing with someone agreeing with you.

I'm just saying the only reason he "ain't scairt" is "'cuz he's bug nuts". Any sane person would be scairt.

Who said he was?

I'm not disagreeing, I'm reiterating that makes him worse.

He can crap his pants all he wants; the Emperor thinks things are great.

Similar to Kim. I expect his generals know that a war would be a disaster for them, but who's going to tell him?

But Tojo was running the government and the war, Hirohito was a mushroom, kept in the dark and fed shit.

Revealed: Viet Cong Commandos Sank a Navy Aircraft Carrier

Attack on the USNS Card

Wait, whut? Charlie sunk a carrier?:eek:

USS Card

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Well, helicopter transport.;)

Yeah but it was a sneak attack...

USS Juneau hull was found by Paul Allen's team on St Patrick's Day, 2.6 miles below the surface of the Pacific, near Guadalcanal.
Sunk by two Jap torpedos in 1943, the Juneau is most noted for the five Sullivan brothers being among the 700 crew.

Another one of Mr Allen's discoveries.



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The Guardian

Smithsonian

He's on a roll this month.

???

some were not rescued before scuttling? I think and hope that's merely an awkwardly constructed sentence

It was scuttled because of damage sustained during the battle in which 200 were killed.

Neat.

When the water first pours in the windows, and when the deck is first awash...Those moments make my blood pressure go up a tick, or two.

Better bigger.

There's carriers and there's carriers...

Ain't it cute?

Bless their hearts.

Nobody said it would be plane sailing.

They started out with two french jump jets and some helicopters, but couldn't afford the upkeep.

...and the jump jets kept flying backward.

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I saw this picture in a UK newspaper but with little detail of the circumstances surrounding the collision.

My first thought was how did the ferry manage to ram the container vessel amidships in broad daylight, assuming that the photo was taken soon after the collision.

I did a bit of digging and found this from the WSJ:

Anchored? How on Earth....

WSJ Link

Reference points are probably misleading, even when they exist, at sea. Sort of like how a plane landing can seem to be hovering in place when seen from a car moving in just the right way. The ferry may have assumed the Virginia was moving perpendicular to their course, and would be out of the way by the time they got there.


Or they may have just fallen asleep at the wheel.

Thanks for your take on that, I see what you mean.

Autopilot?

Road rage.

The ferry's bow is about half-way through the container ship and was still there three days later acting as a plug to keep the latter from sinking.
Trucks and passengers on board the Ulysse, captain likely in the brig.
T-bone!

That's his new nickname.

German ship...

...there's a hole, there's a hole, there's a hole in the ship on the top of the sea.

She looks a lot like a modern High Speed Catamaran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Vulkan
High speed catamaran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_craft
Maybe that's why she was so fast 12 Knots when 10 knots was considered fast for a ship of that size.

or floating dry dock

Further to my post #108...



Judging by the starboard anchor chain passing over the port side of the bulbous prow, the container ship has rotated somewhat in the collision.

I know little of maritime law, but I thought that there was a requirement to maintain a lookout at all times. Not that I'm suggesting negligence, you understand.

Anyway, there's likely to be a delay in collecting the next consignment of half a million Chinese plastic dog turds. (Guaranteed to break the ice at parties).

Here it is.