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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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“DOMINION'S AIR CREWS HELPED TO DEAL BLOW ON JAPS AT COLOMBO,” Toronto Star. April 10, 1942. Page 38. ---- Nipponese Planes Sink 22-Year-Old Aircraft Carrier Hermes Off Ceylon, But Most of Crew Believed in London to Have Been Saved ---- BRITISH FLIERS DAMAGE JAP CARRIER AND COUNT 18 FOE PLANES SHOT DOWN ---- H.M. AIRCRAFT CARRIER HERMES ---- London, April 10 - Canadian air crews are manning huge flying boats over the Bay of Bengal and already have performed heroic service against the Japanese, it was learned today.

"They have played an exceptionally important and heroic part in recent air operations against the enemy," the air minister said.

It was a Canadian air crew that played a primary role in the disastrous defeat dealt Japanese bombing squadrons in the enemy attack on Colombo, Ceylon, last Sunday, the air ministry revealed.

At the same time the admiralty announced that Japanese planes have sunk the 22-year-old, 10,850-ton aircraft carrier Hermes off the coast of Ceylon, and that British fliers materially damaged a Japanese aircraft carrier and knocked down 18 planes in the same waters.

One informed source said the attacks in which the Hermes, Dorsetshire and Cornwall were sent to the bottom cost the Japanese fully 75 planes. He said the Hermes was sunk by bombs, not plane-launched torpedoes.

A Canadian-manned aircraft first spotted the Japanese bomber fleet headed for Colombo and "hence was instrumental in thwarting the attack," said an air ministry spokesman.

The reconnaissance crew flashed word enabling the city to prepare for the raid, with the result that a large portion of the 75 enemy aircraft were destroyed for certain. The admiralty said that Japanese claims of cruisers in addition to the Cornwall and Dorsetshire sunk off Trincomalee were known to be "quite untrue."

[AL: This is very slanted reporting, as we should expect war reporting. Colombo was not a disastrous defeat and the Japanese airplane losses were very low - Hermes was caught with its planes on deck, for one. A disastrous loss for sure.]

#hms hermes #colombo #trincomalee #aircraft carrier #eastern fleet #carrier air group #war propaganda #air raid #imperial japanese navy #royal navy #death from the air #indian ocean #pacific war #world war ii #sunk

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ktat · 1 year

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CORDELIA CRUISE

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headekavatsustega · 1 year

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#sri lanka #trincomalee

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anjalinrk · 2 years

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@4doner #trincomalee #anjalinrk #foodie https://www.instagram.com/p/CeDh0oYr5dL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#trincomalee #anjalinrk #foodie

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ltwilliammowett · 5 days

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HMS Trincomalee (1817), Hartlepool UK

#tall ship #hms trincomalee #1817 #age of sail #frigate

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clove-pinks · 3 months

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HMS Trincomalee, at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool.

A Leda-class frigate like HMS Shannon, she was built in Mumbai (Bombay) by master shipbuilder Jamsetjee Bomanjee Wadia, who lived c. 1754-1821 (Wikimedia Commons).

It was Wadia who ceremonially hammered a silver nail into Trincomalee's keel, following Parsi Zoroastrian tradition. I'm fascinated by the melding of global maritime traditions.

#hms trincomalee #age of sail #royal navy #naval history #jamsetjee bomanjee wadia #yeah i'm going to mention shannon every time i bring up a sister ship #maritime history #we rightly condemn imperialism but empire by its definition combines different cultures #i love the shipbuilder's portrait #the sea

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aber-flyingtiger · 1 year

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Visited the Hartlepool branch of the National Museum of the Royal Navy on Thursday, including HMS Trincomalee. I’d highly recommend this small but very interesting museum.

#personal #my photos #hms trincomalee #sailing frigate #frigate #age of sail #Nelson’s Navy #hartlepool #royal navy

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lonestarbattleship · 1 year

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"What your favorite warship says about you" by History in the dark: link

I agree with his assessment.

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105nt · 1 year

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Research dump. Working on a theory that Leda Strike was named Leda not because of the well-known myth depicted on the wall of the Rivoli, but because her father was a ship-enthusiast. It keeps me out of trouble. And it's long struck me as an odd name to choose for a child.

HMS Leda was an 18pdr-armed, 38 gun, Fifth Rate frigate, built at the Chatham Royal Dockyard. The ship went on to be the lead vessel of a class of 47 large frigates.

Two of the Leda class still exist, and one - HMS Trincomalee - was, for some time, moored in Falmouth.

So pretty. I know that's not the point.

There was also a minesweeper called Leda but I can't find a Cornish connection. Not that there needs to be one, I suppose. Ted and Leda's father might have been interested in war ships in general.

#wild speculation #leda strike #hms leda (1800)#hms trincomalee #hms leda (1936)#research dump

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lacnunga · 10 months

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Also, HMS Trincomalee 🥰😘

#shes very pretty tho not as much as the great britain or warrior #but well worth a visit if youre in hartlepool #rl shit

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mutant-distraction · 7 months

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Hiroki Kitani

Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

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anjalinrk · 2 years

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Never giveup coz great things take time ❤️🖤 #anjalinrk #srilanka #trincomalee #vibe #nevergiveup (at Trincomalee) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd4z6YDLdBD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#anjalinrk #srilanka #trincomalee #vibe #nevergiveup

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hinducosmos · 1 year

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