#hms warspite

[theworldatwar]

A British Supermarine Walrus seaplane takes off from the deck of HMS Warspite as it heads out on a U-boat patrol just off the coast of the Seychelles - date unknown. A British aircraft carrier can be seen in the background

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #wwii era #ww2history #hms warspite #walrus #Supermarine #seaplane #royal navy

[lonestarbattleship]

Regarding that one post about Warspite, I remember hearing something about Warspite’s steering gear being replaced at some point, is that not the case?

She took a direct hit by a German shell to her port side steer during the battle of Jutland. While it was repaired, something like that can never be fully repaired. Plus, it didn't help that a mine exploded near her rudder later on.

But I believe the biggest damage that she took and nearly sent her to a watery grave, was a direct hit by a Fritz X missile and another that missed and exploded under her hull. For those who don't know, the Fritz X was an early guided anti-ship glide bomb developed by the Germans.

"This bomb caused damage to X engine room and shock put X turret out of action. It also opened a gash in her anti torpedo bulge.

The direct hit penetrated six decks, wrecked a boiler room, and exploded in the double bottom of the ship. Four of the five boiler rooms were flooded out and all steam power was lost. Some 5000 cubic meters of sea water flooded the ship (5000 tonnes). Shock damage had put all radars out of action as well as all wireless communication. Steering was jammed. Unable to move on her own, she was taken in tow, eventually reaching Malta.

Warspite was eventually patched up and returned to GB for further repairs. The destroyed boiler room and X Turret could not be repaired and remained out of action for the rest of her career."

Side note: As much as the naval fans wish she had been saved, she was not in any shape to be a museum ship.

Thanks for the ask.

source

#HMS Warspite #ask #WWII #thesiroccoofthesea #my post

[all-action-all-picture]

Battle Modern Master Plan No. 8 - H.M.S. Valiant. Entered service with the Royal Navy in 1966 and was decommissioned in 1994. It was one of two subs in the Valiant class with Warspite being the second.

Is it a ship or a boat? In the Royal Navy a submarine is known as a boat. I've heard and read a number of explanations for this (many of which sound reasonable). Probably best just to leave it that its a historical term that has just stuck with it.

From Battle Picture Weekly No. 65 cover dated 29 May 1976. Treasury of British Comics.

#29may #1976 #battle modern master plan #battle #hms valiant #hms warspite #treasury of british comics #royal navy #cutaway

[the-delta-42]

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[playitagin]

Apr.131940.第2次ナルヴィク海戦

第二次世界大戦中の海戦の一つ。ナルヴィクのあるノルウェーのオフォト・フィヨルドで、戦艦ウォースパイトを中心とするイギリス艦隊がドイツ軍ナルヴィク攻略部隊の駆逐艦を攻撃し、全滅させた。

#Apr.13.1940. #Battles of Narvik #Norwegian Campaign #Royal Navy #Kriegsmarine #Norwegian #French #British #Polish #Nazi Germany #HMS Warspite

[ltwilliammowett]

1930 British Naval Cutlass Drill performed by Naval Cadets onboard TS Warspite (ex HMS Arethusa) - Grays -Essex - England, UK

So

#naval history #naval cadets #cutlass drill #early 20th century #age of steam

[elbiotipo]

One thing that it's not actually stupid about Star Wars is the ship names. The British Empire had ship names like "HMS Destruction" "HMS Lucifer", "HMS Warspite" and of course the good old "HMS Terror". As well as other arrogant names like "HMS Invincible". With that, a spaceship named "Executor", "Malevolence" or "Death Star" doesn't sound that strange.

They were the original evil empire after all.

#cosas mias #star wars #I'm sure there were more evil names these are just what I found or remember #also conscious or not it was a choice that the Star Wars Empire looks like British officers on Nazi uniforms

[captain-price-unofficially]

A view forward from the after part of the upper deck, showing damage suffered by HMS Warspite (1913) on 31 May 1916 during the Battle of Jutland. Shell damage is visible on the starboard side of the quarterdeck and the hit by a 5.9in. shell on the left gun of 'Y' turret can be seen. This photograph was taken in No.1 Dry Dock at Rosyth.

#wwi #battle of jutland #european theater #western front (wwi)

[usafphantom2]

Albacore aircraft of No. 820 Squadron FAA having just taken off from HMS Formidable in the Indian Ocean, 29 May 1942; photo taken from HMS Warspite

@hiddenhistory via X

#albacore #faa #royal navy #aircraft #ww2

[icedfairy]

During the battle of Cape Matapan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8I2HavEEPE HMS Formidable approached the stalled Italian destroyers in the battle line.  It seems her deck gunners fired several salvos before Warspite realized she was there, and told her to stop fooling around and pull out of line.

A commission that little factoid has had in my mind for some time put together by the fine https://twitter.com/OrangeDactyl

#Azur Lane #Formidable #meme

[judgemark45]

Veteran battleship HMS Warspite was the first ship to open fire, hammering German positions around Gold Beach.

[philibetexcerpts]

“On the night of 28 March 1941, as darkness fell off the coast of Cape Matapan, at the southernmost point of the Peloponnese, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, in his flagship, HMS Warspite, was leading his battleships – including HMS Valiant and HMS Barham – towards three Italian cruisers. ‘My orders,’ Prince Philip noted in his log, ‘were that if any ship illuminated a target I was to switch on and illuminate it for the rest of the fleet, so when this ship was lit up by a rather dim light from what I thought was the flagship I switched on our midship light which picked out the enemy cruiser and lit her up as if it were broad daylight.’ Then the fun started: ‘She was only seen complete in the light for a few seconds as the flagship had already opened fire, and as her first broadside landed and hit she was blotted out from just abaft the bridge to right astern. We fired our first broadside about seven seconds after the flagship with very much the same effect … By now all the secondary armament of both ships had opened fire and the noise was considerable. The Captain and the Gunnery Officer now began shouting from the bridge for the searchlights to train left. The idea that there might have been another ship, with the one we were firing at, never entered my head, so it was some few moments before I was persuaded to relinquish the blazing target and search for another one I had no reason to believe was there. However, training to the left, the light picked up another cruiser, ahead of the first one by some 3 or 4 cables. As the enemy was so close the light did not illuminate the whole ship but only about ¾ of it, so I trained left over the whole ship until the bridge structure was in the centre of the beam … she was illuminated in an undamaged condition for the period of about 5 seconds when our second broadside left the ship, and almost at once she was completely blotted out from stern to stern.’

It was at this point that ‘all hell broke loose, as all our eight 15-inch guns, plus those of the flagship and Barham’s started firing at the stationary cruiser’. Through the noise and the pounding – ‘the glasses were rammed into my eyes … flash almost blinding me’ – Philip kept his searchlight on target. ‘More than 70% of the shells must have hit,’ he recorded, with justifiable satisfaction. ‘When the enemy had completely vanished in clouds of smoke and steam we ceased firing and switched the light off.’”

Philip: The Final Portrait by Gyles Brandreth

#philip did THAT #he was awarded with the greek war cross and mentioned in dispatches bc of it #prince philip #battle of cape matapan #hms valiant #anecdote

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

the HMS Warspite is no joke. That beautiful beast refused to die peacefully i love her

is this the humanized ships and planes fans i heard about

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[somethingusefulfromflorida]

I'm surprised no billionaires have ever tried to build Captain Nemo's Nautilus to live a self-sufficient life at sea. It could never work, but that's the exact kind of mad project that someone like Elon Musk would cook up to waste money if space travel weren't in vogue right now. Nuclear reactors can run for years before needing to refuel, and modern subs can make their own oxygen from seawater, so they can stay submerged for as long as their supplies last (the record is 111 days set by the HMS Warspite in 1982-3). I don't think a sub could stay underwater forever by fishing for all its food, but then again I'm a rational adult with common sense and the ability to recognize the impossible, while a billionaire just wants his neat toy to work no matter what. It's like that Australian guy who wanted to build a replica of the Titanic and a "real" Jurassic Park with lifesize animatronics, and gave up after he realized they would take a lot more time and money than he imagined at first impulse.

Thing is, as funny as it would be to watch someone like Musk try snd fail to build the Nautilus, there's no incentive for him to do it. All his half-baked ideas are designed to fail from the start because the failure is the point; there's always a benefit to his failures. The hyperloop was never really supposed to exist, he only hyped it up so California would cut funding for high speed rail. SpaceX rockets explode more often than they succeed so they're not really gonna take anyone to the moon or Mars anytime soon, this program is just a blank check from the government so the US could hypothetically launch military supplies anywhere on Earth within a couple hours. A real life Nautilus would have to be some scam, a cover for something heinous like a prison camp for the homeless straight out of some 80s sci-fi dystopia movie, or a cartoonish distraction from horrors of war like an underwater drone program or American terrorists privateers attacking fiber optic cables and gas pipelines owned by eastern companies.

The eccentric billionaire is a myth designed to make the worst human being you could possibly imagine look like benevolent innovators who want nothing more than to Propel Humanity Into the 22nd Century Today™!

Tony Stark isn't real. Nobody alive is like him, nobody ever was, nobody ever will be.

#nautilus #nautilus submarine #captain nemo #nemo #jules verne #20000 leagues under the sea #the Nautilus #eccentric billionaire #elon musk #tony stark #hyperloop #spacex

[admiralnelsoniii]

Type VIIC U-boat, U-363 at the Battle of Narvik in WWII. I watched a documentary on YouTube about this battle and I must say the pitiful story of this U-boat's time there was crazy. The captain tried again and again to attack the British warships (tincans and HMS Warspite) but EVERY torpedo he fired just didn't work! And we are talking quite a few attempts here! In fact, if his torpedoes had functioned correctly he would have inflicted some serious damage upon the British forces. The documentary mentioned the captains radio messages back to fleet HQ basically screaming that someone should pay dearly for issuing worthless torpedos to a ship at war. I don't know exactly what the man said, but for him to make a special trip out away from Narvik and risk a radio transmission during an ongoing operation, I imagine he was completely enraged. Poor fellow. Ended the battle in surrender I understand. U-363 taken by the Royal Navy.

#u boat #narvik #ww2 art #ww2 #history #wwii #art #artwork #warbird #warship #fighter #panzervor #kriegsmarine #submarine #unterseaboot #das boot #battleofnarvik #torpedo

[pinturas-sgm-marina]

Howdy, its me again sir. I've named every ship in my collection except for this one. My searchs say SMS Emden, which is very wrong, or HMS Warspite, another incorrect answer. Hope you have an idea and I thank and appreciate your help very much. 🙏🙇

Hello, it's easily recognizable as the first modern battleship, HMS Dreadnought. The port looks to me like Malta on account of the bastion forts, and thus the date should be September-October 1913

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