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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 4h

Not so quick sketch

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Great thread, thanks for writing/sharing, and bumping to the #NavalHistory feed.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 6h

Fun story about one of the first dogfights between the Zero and Hellcat. The attack on 10/5/1943 was the biggest carrier raid of the war so far, 3 fleet carriers and 3 light carriers. Flight ops were a mess so planes began heading to the island captured by the Japanese in December 1941 on their own🧵

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Eddie Jenkins 🦤 @eddiejenks510.bsky.social · 10h

Happy birthday to the Arctic whaler, explorer and scientist William Scoresby Junior (1789-1857). 237 years young!

A sepia photograph of William Scoresby Junior, relaxed and holding a book

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Steamship Historical Society @shiphistory.bsky.social · 10h

On Saturday, October 10, join SSHSA Archivist Astrid Drew at the New England Wireless & Steam Museum’s Yankee Steam Up for a presentation on Corliss Steam Engines in Rhode Island at 1:00 p.m. ET. #MaritimeHistory

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Military Ship Daily @militaryshipdaily.bsky.social · 4h

USS Kansas (BB-21) USS Kansas (BB-21), a pre-dreadnought battleship, joined the Great White Fleet's 1908–1909 world voyage that demonstrated American naval power. 📷 National Museum of the U.S. Navy (public domain) · Wikimedia Commons #navy #NavalHistory

A sepia-toned photograph of an early 20th-century battleship underway at sea, painted white with four tall smokestacks emitting dark smoke, seen from a slight angle showing its full length from bow to stern.

USS Kansas battleship underway at sea, broadside view with smoke billowing from three funnels and cage masts against open water.

USS Kansas steaming at speed with full bow wake, cage masts and funnels smoking, a smaller vessel nearby in open water.

USS Kansas battleship at anchor, full broadside view with masts and multiple funnels reflected on calm water.

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Snapshots of Naval History @ssonh.bsky.social · 5h

Aboard the German Panzerschiff Deutschland, a Heinkel He 60 float plane is being moved by the ship’s port-side crane. #deutschland #germany #cruiser #panzerschiff #heinkel #plane #aviation #floatplane #kriegsmarine #warship #ship #navalhistory #history

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Codex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 6h

#OTD On Oct 5, 1939, the Hawaiian Detachment, U.S. Fleet consisting of carrier Enterprise (CV-6), cruiser divisions, destroyer squadrons and auxiliary ships sails for Pearl Harbor.This measure establishes a sizeable naval presence given Japan’s continuing aggression against China #WWII #navalhistory

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Codex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 7h

#OTD On Oct 5, 1939, British and French navies formed eight hunting groups to stop German commerce raiders like Admiral Graf Spee, which were attacking Allied merchant ships in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean during the early weeks of WWII. #WWII #WW2 #history #navalhistory #militaryhistory

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Military Ship Daily @militaryshipdaily.bsky.social · 10h

USS Constitution USS Constitution, a wooden frigate launched in 1797 and designed by Joshua Humphreys, is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat, now berthed in Boston. 📷 Benoît Prieur (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons #navy #NavalHistory

The three tall masts and rigging of a historic wooden sailing warship, USS Constitution, silhouetted against a dusk sky with a snowy dockyard and city skyline in the background.

USS Constitution firing a 21-gun salute in Boston Harbor, smoke rising, flags and pennants flying from its masts, tugboats and a fireboat spraying water nearby.

USS Constitution under full sail in Boston Harbor with the city skyline in the background on a clear day.

USS Constitution with full rigging and signal flags sailing past the Boston skyline, escorted by small boats.

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Eileen Schnabel Author @eileenschnabel.bsky.social · 13h

⚓ Battles at Sea! 3 Revolutionary War Trivia Questions • Scholar Level 🧠 #KepWestguard #RevolutionaryWar #HistoryTrivia #NavalHistory #AmericanHistory #HistoryChallenge

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 14h

5 Oct 1944 // Motor launch HDML 1227 was withdrawing from Makronisi island in the Aegean after landing a patrol when she was attacked by two German torpedo boats, which shelled her and set her on fire. All the crew were rescued and taken prisoner by the Germans. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 14h

5 Oct 1940 // HM Trawler Kingston Sapphire was sunk by Italian submarine Giacomo Nani off Cape Trafalgar. The submarine was on the surface at about 3am when she sighted the trawler nearby. She was manoeuvring to fire from her stern tubes when the trawler saw her, and turned towards her to attack.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 15h

5 Oct 1914 // Two trawlers in naval service as minesweepers disappeared with all hands while sweeping together in the southern North Sea: HMT Princess Beatrice (10 men lost) and HMT Drumoak (11 men lost). Explosions were heard, but no trace of the two could be found. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 15h

5 Oct 1909 // Destroyer HMS Lee was wrecked in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, Ireland, during a Home Fleet exercise. A boat from the cruiser HMS Doris got into difficulties in the bay, and the commanding officer of the Lee, Lt Duncan Carmichael, attempted to bring his ship inshore to render assistance.

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Military Ship Daily @militaryshipdaily.bsky.social · 15h

USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) Built in 1936 as the German training ship Horst Wessel, this barque was taken by the U.S. as war reparations and became USCGC Eagle; here she sails the Elbe near Cuxhaven, Germany, in 2011. 📷 Tvabutzku1234 (CC0) · Wikimedia Commons #navy #NavalHistory

A three-masted tall ship with furled sails, painted white with a red, white, and blue diagonal stripe reading U.S. Coast Guard, underway on calm blue water under a partly cloudy sky.

USCGC Eagle full broadside view under sail in Chesapeake Bay, tall ship with bare masts and red-white-blue hull stripe against blue sky and calm water.

USCGC Eagle underway on the East River with full rigging, flags flying from the masts, New York skyline visible in background.

USCGC Eagle sailing toward Brooklyn pier, bow-on angled view showing entire hull and three masts with colorful signal flags strung between them.

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 15h

5 Oct 1768 // The 4-gun schooner HMS Duke William sailed from the Isles of Scilly to return to Plymouth late in September and was never seen again, presumed lost with all hands. The Admiralty gave up hope of her and closed her books on this date. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 15h

5 Oct 1744 (O.S.) // 100-gun 1st-rate HMS Victory (launched 1737), flagship of Admiral Sir John Balchen, was with her squadron returning to England from Gibraltar when the ships were scattered by a violent storm off Ushant. HMS Victory, driven towards the Channel Islands, was lost with all hands.

Peter Monamy, 'Loss of HMS Victory, 4 October 1744' (c1744-5). National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, public domain via Wikimedia Commons. This is an imaginative re-creation of the last moments the Victory was seen, with lanterns in her rigging, her sails blowing loose, firing distress guns, and about to be overwhelmed by the storm. It is not an accurate depiction of the ship as she was at the time of her loss.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 15h

#OTD 5/10/2004 #RememberRCN -HMCS CHICOUTIMI suffers a major electrical fire, a rogue wave had entered the sub the day before. Power/propulsion was shutdown, effective firefighting/damage control saved the sub. 9 sailors were wounded, tragically Lt(N) Chris Saunders dies later.

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 15h

#OTD 5/10/1994 #RememberRCN -HMCS FRASER (2nd) is paid-off and is the last of the St. Laurent class destroyers.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 17h

1/28 On 28 April 1789, the mutineers of HMS Bounty put their captain into a 23 ft launch with 18 loyal men and barely a hand's breadth of freeboard. Forty-seven days later, he stepped ashore on Timor. This is Bligh after the Bounty. #maritimehistory

Charles Joseph Staniland, 'Captain Bligh Leaving the Bounty After the Mutiny', illustration, before 1916. Public domain.

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hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social · 22h

Although some of the photo used are captioned as having been taken in 1941, they are in fact from the NY Expo in 1939. Therefore, please do not assume that the US was still using biplanes to attack ships as late as 1943. In fact, the aircraft used in Operation Leader were Wildcats and Avengers.

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HMS BELFAST DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR: OPERATION LEADER 5-6 OCTOBER 1943

USS RANGER and TUSCALOOSA under way during Operation LEADER, an attack on German shipping in Norwegian fiords around Bodo.

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 22h

IJN Minelayer Itsukushima Date: October 4-7, 1935 Location: Tokyo Bay Photo: Situation: Participation in the 1935 LargeExercise static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 22h

IJN Light cruiser Yura Date: October 4-7, 1935 Location: Tokyo Bay Photo: Situation: Participation in the 1935 Large Exercise static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 22h

IJN Heavy cruiser Furutaka Date: October 4-10, 1935 Location: Off the coast of Shinagawa Photo: Situation: Aoba and Kinugasa on the left www.history.navy.mil/content/hist...

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JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social · 22h

IJN Heavy cruiser Kinugasa Date: October 1927 Location: Near Kure Photo: Situation: Immediately after the completion of construction, at the time of sailing to Kure static.ow.ly/photos/origi...

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tomorrow in Seaford, East Sussex! Were the wreckers of Seaford called the 'Seaford Shags'? Did they use false lights to wreck and then plunder ships? How did their stories develop? It's been fun writing this talk using archival sources, plays, prints, and news reports! #SussexCoast

Title slide: 'Sharks, Shags and Cormorants: Seaford Wreckers and Wrecking Considered' by Dr Cathryn Pearce, University of Portsmouth and Trustee, Newhaven Historical Society. The background is an old Ordnance Survey map of the Seaford area and Seaford head.

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ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com · 04/10/2026

Only a week or so ago but feels ages already - the more exotic part of Co. Down.

The Strangford shore of the same lough with some beauties, from dark red to rust orange and paler yellow

Tiny, delicate pale pink lilies on Temple Water - easy to miss, difficult to get to with a phone camera

Looking up (or down) Temple Water, from under the palm trees’ shade on a day very warm for September

Seaweeds near a pontoon, Strangford Lough

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Drawing of fish smoking in Kamchatka, Russia, 18th Century. This drawing comes from an 18th-century travel book, shows the Indigenous peoples #Itelmen, also called #Kamchadal, found in the #Arctic #Kamchatka Peninsula. It shows the process of butchering and smoking salmon. #coastalhistory #muSEAum

Fish smoking in Kamchatka, Russia, 18th-century artwork. This engraving is from a 1771 volume of Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und Lande (General history of travel by sea and land), a travelogue edited by the German scholar Johann Joachim Schwabe (1714-1784).

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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alanya Harbor (known in antiquity as Kalonoros) was a thriving Mediterranean port from antiquity, flourishing through Roman and Byzantine times. 🧵1/ 📷Oct. 4 This is a panoramic view of the harbor and the historical peninsula from the Viewing Terrace /Seyir Terası , even with the rain.

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What About @whataboutvideo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New 4K Documentary Out Now 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📺 Join us on Loch Lomond for a special look at the ongoing restoration of the Maid Of The Loch. 👉 Watch here: youtu.be/QaAxuGAGSR0 #MaidOfTheLoch #Balloch #LochLomond #Scotland #paddlesteamer #steamship #maritimehistory #steampower #history #heritage #restoration

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Maid of the Loch Restoration Tour | Ship and Historic Winch Room, Balloch, Loch Lomond

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Radio No One Cares @radionoonecares.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Blessing of the Fishing Fleet Day! A wonderful nod to rich coastal traditions, honoring the brave crews who head out to sea and the long-standing maritime heritage that keeps port communities thriving #BlessingOfTheFishingFleet #MaritimeHistory #radionoonecares #CoastalLife

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Codex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD On Oct 4, 1943, VC-9 TBF Avengers and F4F Wildcats from the escort carrier USS Card caught four German U-boats resupplying north of the Azores. The U.S. aircraft successfully sank two of them: U-460, a vital supply submarine and U-422. #WWII #WW2 #history #militaryhistory #navalhistory

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Codex Silens @codexcultus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD On Oct 4, 1943, USS Ranger launched the only U.S. carrier operation in northern European waters, attacking German ships in Norway. VF-4 Wildcats shot down 2 German planes, while other aircraft sank 4 steamers and a transport, damaging 5 more vessels. #WWII #WW2 #history #navalhistory

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Osprey Publishing @ospreypublishing.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Catch up with historian and author Mark Lardas discussing his book, "U-Boat vs Royal Navy Capital Ship, 1939–45" on the Company of Makers YouTube channel. 🎥 Watch the full discussion: bit.ly/3VpZKQn 📚 Discover the book: bit.ly/4rSS991 #NavalHistory #MilitaryHistory

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On the Line with Historian & Author Mark Lardas - U-Boat v RN Capital Ship #WW2 #WWII #RoyalNavy

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Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#OTD 4/10/1944 #RememberRCN -HMCS CHEBOGUE torpedoed in stern by U1227 mid-Atlantic while escorting convoy ONS-33, 7 sailors are killed. She is successfully towed 800 miles to port. Considered a Total Constructive Loss CHEBOGUE is not repaired. Photo HazeGray

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct 1945 // Motor launch MDL.1226 was sunk by a mine while clearing a minefield off the island of Samothraki. She was manoeuvring to clear her sweeps, which had become snagged on an obstruction, when her stern ran over a mine. Three of her crew were killed. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct 1944 // Frigate HMCS Chebogue was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic by U.1227 while escorting an outbound convoy, losing thirty feet of her stern. Seven of her crew were killed. She was towed to Port Talbot and was written off as a constructive total loss. #RoyalCanadianNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct 1940 // Whaler HMS Whippet, towing a lighter from Mersa Matruh to Tobruk and escorted by HMS Svana, was subjected to two dive-bombing attacks: the first at 7pm was a near-miss, but the second, one hour later, scored a direct hit and she sank with one man lost. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct 1940 // Submarine HMS Rainbow was lost in the southern Adriatic with all 56 crew, cause unconfirmed but she almost certainly sank after being struck while submerged by Italian merchantman MV Antonietta Costa, which was in a convoy from Bari to Durazzo (Durrës). #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct 1918 // HM Submarine L.10 was sunk in the Heligoland Bight after breaking surface while attacking a German destroyer flotilla. She successfully torpedoed and sank destroyer S.33, but other vessels in the German flotilla pursued and sank her. All 38 crew were lost. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct 1918 // Special service vessel HMS M. J. Hedley, hired and converted to act as a decoy ship, was written off after capsizing and sinking while taking on coal at Barry, South Wales. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct 1918 // HM Drifter Coleus, a Lowestoft boat in naval service as a net barrier tender, struck a drifting mine off Dover and sank at around 1am with the loss of four men. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4 Oct 1912 // HM Submarine B.2, taking part in exercises off Dover at around 6am, was rammed and sunk while surfaced by German liner SS Amerika. Just one man from B.2's crew of 16 survived: Lt Richard Pulleyne was blown out of the sinking submarine by escaping air. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

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