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30 Sept 1941 // During a German air raid on Tyneside on the night of 30 September two naval trawlers were sunk: HMT Eileen Duncan (8 men lost) and HMT Star of Deveron (5 men lost). They were moored side by side at South Shields when hit by a stick of four bombs. #WW2 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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30 Sept 1940 // HM Trawler Comet was one of a number of vessels sent out to search for traces of the armed yacht Sappho which had been sunk by a mine in Falmouth Bay during the previous night, when she too struck a mine and sank with the loss of 15 of her 17 crew. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

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30 Sept 1918 // HM Trawler Sealark II, a Hull boat in naval service as a minesweeper, sank off St John's point, County Down, Ireland, after colliding with naval trawler Henry Ford. Seven of her crew were lost and five survivors were rescued. #WW1 #RoyalNavy

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30 Sept 1918 // HMS Seagull, built as a torpedo gunboat in 1889 and rebuilt as a minesweeper in 1909, was sunk in a collision with merchantman SS Corribb off Dunoon in the Firth of Clyde. 53 men lost their lives and 21 survivors were picked up. (Imperial War Museum Q 75435) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Seagull, originally launched in 1889 as a torpedo gunboat and rebuilt in 1909. Photograph: Imperial War Museum, Q 75435. A warship under way, viewed from low on the starboard bow, with a shoreline of buildings visible in the background.

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30 Sept 1917 // HM Trawler Charlsin, a former German boat in naval service as a patrol vessel in the eastern Mediterranean, was escorting a transport from Sollum to Alexandria on 27 September when her engine broke down. The transport went on alone while the Charlsin's crew attempted to make repairs.

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30 Sept 1805 // 4-gun schooner HMS Flying Fish, anchored at Bermuda, had on board 15 French prisoners from the captured privateer Mathilde, guarded by a small detachment of soldiers. The privateer captain had given his parole and he and his men were allowed limited freedom to go ashore.

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30 Sept 1652 (O.S.) // English Navy 50-gun ship Antelope, newly built and only just commissioned, was wrecked on the Jutland coast while part of the escort for a Baltic convoy to England. She ran aground at about 3am in a gale. There were few casualties: most of her 260 crew were taken off safely.

Model of a mid-17th-century English warship, partially unplanked to show the internal construction, displayed on a wooden stand: three-quarter view from off the port bow. This model may represent the Antelope, launched in 1652, although with the Stuart royal arms are displayed on the stern, possibly added at the Restoration. National Maritime Museum: SLR0217.

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30 Sept 1782 // 100-gun 1st-rate HMS Ville de Paris, captured from the French in a damaged state at the Saintes on 12 April 1782, was sailing from Jamaica (where repairs had been carried out) to England when her convoy was struck by the violent storm of 16-17 September. She was left heavily damaged.

'The Ville de Paris, Foundering in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean', engraving from 1808. National Maritime Museum, public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. A view of the stern of a large sailing warship as she is overwhelmed by a violent storm. Men are gathered on the upper stern gallery and many more can be seen on the right struggling amid debris in the water.

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30 Sept 1744 (O.S.) // 14-gun sloop HMS Grampus, sailing from Spithead to Lisbon, was chased and captured by ships of a French squadron in the English Channel, and was carried into Brest. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 14h

30 Sept 1651 (O.S.) // 42-gun Constant Reformation, built for the Royal Navy in 1619, was wrecked in a gale off the Azores with over 300 men lost. She had been in Royalist service since her crew switched allegiance from the Parliamentarian navy in 1648, and was serving as Prince Rupert's flagship.

Willem van de Velde the Elder's depiction of the 'Constant Reformation' c1648. National Maritime Museum: PAI17253. A monochrome drawing of a large sailing warship showing only the hull, viewed from off her port quarter with her elaborate stern decoration, armament and other hull details meticulously depicted.

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It’s real! I just received my copy of Anglo-Norman Studies vol 48 which includes my article on the contribution of the abbey of Fécamp to the Norman invasion in 1066. Elisabeth van Houts’ article in vol 10 really inspired me, and I’m so pleased to have built on her work on the Ship List #MedievalSky

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Richard Dunley @redunley.bsky.social · 16h

My new book now has a cover - and I love it!

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Santtu Ahonen @luupilotti.bsky.social · 12h

Question for naval architects, historians and shipyardians: how did yards 100 years ago define the draught marked on their drawings? I've run into issues while drawing a couple of old ships in CAD. #ShipHistory #MaritimeHistory #NavalArchitecture #Shipbuilding #steamship #yachtdesign #boatbuilding

Difference between actual observed real water line and design water line in a 1923 designed ship frame.

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Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social‬ @briandunn.bsky.social · 13h

On this day in 1909, RMS Mauretania sets a transatlantic record crossing of 4 days, 10 hours, and 51 minutes measured from Queenstown, Ireland to the Ambrose Lightship off New York City. The record is held for twenty years until broken by the German liner Bremen in 1929. #MaritimeHistory

RMS Mauretania. Held the transatlantic record crossing for 20 years.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 17h

1/19 Eleven years after a church picnic in New York killed a thousand people, a company picnic in Chicago killed 844 more. The ship never left the wharf. She rolled over while the band was playing, in twenty feet of water, six metres from the bank. The SS Eastland. A 🧵. #maritimehistory

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 13h

#OTD 30/9/1953 #RememberRCN -The second of five Royal Canadian Navy Reserve Squadrons is formed at Kingston ON. VC 921 Squadron is tendered to HMCS CATARAQUI flying Harvard trainers and an Expeditor.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 15h

Today’s favourite #warart Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool, by Edward Wadsworth, 1919 Craig Moore on Facebook @dreadships.bsky.social #navalhistory #maritimehistory

Four dock workers cleaning the hull of a merchant ship in dry dock. The ship is wearing dazzle camouflage, and the painting has arranged the sides of the dock and other ships wearing dazzle in the back in such a way as to blend the picture creating some serious eye strain.

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hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social · 16h

1 181333 at the bottom of the photo is the reference number, whilst 18930 denotes 30/9.Shouwa 18 (1943). IJN Taiyou (meaning ‘Great Hawk’), converted from NYK Line passenger ship Kasuga Maru (named after Kasuga Grand Shrine in Nara) whilst under construction,

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hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social · 17h

At the top of the photograph is the caption: ‘Triangular waves behind the typhoon’. Goro Matsuura was the commander of the Nachi air group. Please refer to the following for details of the 4th Fleet Incident (note that ‘Mutsuki’ is referred to as ‘Mutsu’ in the text). #NavalHistory

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Case Details > The 4th Fleet incident

科学技術分野の事故や失敗の知識と教訓

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IJN Auxiliary minelayer Kuroshima Date: September 30, 1947 Location: Sasebo Photo: US Navy Situation: The day before leaving for Qingdao static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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IJN Aircraft carrier Taiyō Date: September 30, 1943 Location: Yokosuka Photo: Yokosuka Arsenal Situation: Immediately before starting torpedo damage repair static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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IJN River gunboat Suma (← HMS Moth) Date: September 30, 1942 Location: Hong Kong Photo: Situation: Completed on the day of transfer, Exorcism by Shinto priest static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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IJN Minesweeper No. 16 Date: September 30, 1934 Location: Tamano Photo: Mitsui & Co. Situation: Departing for Kure static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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