#war ships

[rmsfranconia]

if ya know ya know

#naval history #war ships

[stone-cold-groove]

The Royal Navy battleship, HMS Vanguard.

#hms vanguard #vintage illustration #the royal navy #united kingdom #great britain #battleships #war ships

[misforgotten2]

From the photo album of my great uncle Lawrence Krettler's travels in the US Navy aboard the USS Altair 1923 - 1933 total mileage 85,020

#US Navy #war ships #smoke screen #ephemera #destroyers

[rabbleboy]

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#battle ships #boats #david ross #ferrys #pirate ships #sailing ships #ships #visual encyclopedia #war ships #yachts

[mfshipbracket]

#mf ship bracket #mf ship bracket 2023 #bonus round #kylo ren #rey #reylo #star wars #avatar: the last airbender #aang #katara #kataang #anti-reylo

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

#kai rambles #so like #i enjoy ships and learning about them and looking at them but like #i dont really care for warships #i dont hate them viscerally like i do cruise ships but i never really care for them #apart from the ones that were just like either ridiculously designed like the hms captain or the vasa or the novgorod #or the ones where just insane shit happened like with the william d porter #like this isnt even the extent of the porters unfortunate incidents like shr was sank by a kamikaze attack that MISSED #but somehow ended up below the ship and exploded and just like yeeted the porter out of the water #william d porter #uss william d porter #ww2 #world war 2 #world war ii #warships #again warships are really not my thing but god some of them are so fucking funny #uss iowa #fdr #franklin d. roosevelt #this suddenly got so many notes in like less than 24 hours what the fuck #shipposting

[literallyaflame]

okay. listen. if you ever find yourself falling into a new ideological circle, pay attention. if you notice that you’re among people who define themselves as part of an “in-group” with a pre-prepared human “enemy” to constantly rail against—if everyone fantasizes about the mental state of these loathsome monsters, if they participate in witch hunts or (perhaps worse) poke bears and court harassment on purpose to comfort each other over—get the fuck out. you haven’t been enlightened to some grand conspiracy, there are no evil “enemies” or “degenerates” trying to rip apart the fabric of society, and you do not have the moral duty to “enlighten” anyone to whatever you think the “truth” is. it’s neither safe nor normal to spend hours of your day fighting with strangers on the internet

a lot of people wear this shit like a badge of honor, but it’s also not normal to hide your “in-group” status as a form of martyrdom, relishing when the “enemy” slips up around you. it’s comforting in the moment, but in the long run, you’re alienating yourself from the world outside of your bubble. the more you alienate yourself, the more vulnerable and lonely you become, and the harder it is to reject the comfort of belonging to the “in-group”

i’m writing this from the perspective of someone who grew up in a cesspool of awful, cult-like rural churches—which is its own situation—but i see similar shit happening in online communities all the time, both within and 800 miles outside of my own ideological principles. yes, every toxicass radfem i block seems to be trapped in a version of this vicious cycle, but i also see it happening in random queer circles and niche fandom communities. no one is immune, not even me. i’ve watched people fall into this shit and never make it out. be careful

#some ideologies come pre-baked with this nonsense #because they naturally revolve around an in-group and an out-group #but i swear to god people will start acting like this over fucking #anime shipping wars #which probably seems harmless to most people #but those communities skew very young #and i have no doubt that it can be psychologically damaging #no matter how inconsequential it seems to my jaded 26 year old brain #me when i make a post

[t3rrarium]

Tbh the problem with ship wars is that everyone tries to find a moral high ground to prove their ship is superior when actually shipping should be about making two characters kiss like a kid playing with barbie dolls

#fandom #ship wars #ships #zutara #avatar the last airbender #harry potter #marauders era #jily #wolfstar #percy jackson #percabeth

[taffycatart]

He can’t help but feel proud. Based on this post.

#Star Wars #Ahsoka Tano #Darth Vader #Star Wars Rebels #star wars ahsoka #swr #anakin skywalker #star wars fanart #digital art #fan art #my art #Had a lot of fun doing vaders expressions and poses #do not tag as ship

[theshipwars]

THE SHIP WARS ROUND FOUR

#the ship wars #tsw round four 2024 #battles of 2024 #ineffable husbands #bubbline #polls

[mydairpercabeth]

sigh

#percy jackson #annabeth chase #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv #percy jackson the lightning thief #percy series #percabeth #percy x annabeth #THE SHIP WARS #OH MY GODS PLEASE #SOMEONE SEDATE ME #NO MORE PLEASE #leah jeffries #leah sava jeffries #walker scobell #live action pjo

[hira492]

WAKE UP, BAD BATCH NATION!!

#myart #the bad batch #tbb #star wars #sw #tcw #clone trooper tech #clone trooper wrecker #sargeant hunter #arc trooper echo #clone trooper crosshair #omega tbb #lula tbb #the havoc marauder #i worked insanely hard on this #please appreciate it #I had to watch some episodes frame by frame to understand that silly ship #tbb s3 #tbb spoilers #clone force 99 #tbb trailer

[stone-cold-groove]

A Royal Navy A-class submarine.

#vintage illustration #the royal navy #submarines #war ships #united kingdom #great britain

[misforgotten2]

See here:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Point_disaster

From the photo album of my great uncle Lawrence Krettler's travels in the US Navy aboard the USS Altair 1923 - 1933 total mileage 85,020

#US Navy #war ships #ship wreck #1920s #ephemera

[the-girl-who-sold-the-wxrld]

following what's happening on twitter from tumblr when i don't have twitter is the same feeling as following a tv show i don't watch just by seeing tons of post about it on my dash and ending up getting involved emotionally anyway, except that this time the vilain ain’t even hot

#twitter #elon musk #tumblr #twitter apocalypse #literally it's just like house of the dragon or wednesday or the sandman all over again #you know what would make things even better #a ship war #add a ship war #elon musk twitter #muskpocalypse #twitterpocalypse #twitter meltdown

[mfshipbracket]

#mf ship bracket #mf ship bracket 2023 #round 1 #shrek #shrek x fiona #shrek fiona #kylo ren #rey #reylo #star wars #i have a no kissing img policy and the other intimate pic i could find was ? rey being dead 😭 #ME SITTING THERE LIKE WHAT DO I DO….? #anyway. ngl this was the funniest one simply cuz i was doing the matchup system and realizing these two would be pit against each other. #sent a genuine shockwave thru my body ngl. #good luck everyone .