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Ringbolt

@ringbolt.net

Physicist by education, naval aviator cum mission system engineer by profession, maritime historian and game designer by avocation, science fiction reader for mind expansion. FLY NAVY.

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 20/08/2026

First go at HMS Majestic from 1895, worked up for @navalestimates.bsky.social

Graphics model of HMS Majestic (1895) rendered for use in the game Naval Estimates. A Victorian Royal Navy battleship, seen from the starboard bow with guns trained to starboard. Steaming in a calm sea.

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 18/08/2026

Started building pre-Dreadnoughts using @navalestimates.bsky.social. Here is HMS Queen

3D render of ship model. 1900s pre-Dreadnought battleship steaming in a calm sea

Summary description of HMS Queen for the game Naval Estimates, showing deck plan, side elevation and ships statistics.

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 09/08/2026

No sketch this week, as I have been absorbed in the wonderful elouda.itch.io/naval-estima... by @navalestimates.bsky.social A wannabe naval architect's dream - see attached for my version of SMS Derfflinger. #navalhistory

Wire frame model of alternative German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger showing armour distribution.

Model rendering of alternative German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger alongside in a dockyard.

Model rendering of alternative German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger at sea with main armament trained on the port quarter

Summary statistics of alternative German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 11/07/2026

If you see this, post an archer

Model of a British Archer self propelled antitank gun

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 07/06/2026

The first battleship of the Imperial German Navy to fire its guns in anger, but in the service of the Ottoman Empire, not the Kaiser. The first and only battleship to be sunk by a British submarine. navy.ringbolt.net/posts/kfw/ #navalhistory #maritimehistory

A montage of images of a battleship of the Imperial German Navy, including two group photos of crewmen, one of them while in service with the Ottoman navy.

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 31/05/2026

A post about torpedo boats, propaganda, and losing a naval race. Featuring Admiral August von Heeringen, one of Tirpitz's "Torpedo Gang". navy.ringbolt.net/posts/heerin... #NavalHistory

A lithograph of a early German torpedo boat at speed in a rough sea and looking very dashing.

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 19/05/2026

In the summer of 1878, two German ironclads collided off the Kent coast, sending over 250 sailors to their deaths as SMS Grosser Kurfürst went to the bottom. The disaster led to the withering away of the German battle fleet over the next decade. navy.ringbolt.net/posts/arammi... #NavalHistory

A contemporay sketch of survivors from the German Ironclad *Großer Kurfürst* being rescued from the sea by a fishing boat from Folkestone. In the background is the damaged ironcld *König Welhelm* which had just sunk its consort in a collision.

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 14/05/2026

For four funnelled ironclad enthusiats, here is link to a post on the mighty "cement factories" of the Kaiserliche Marine. navy.ringbolt.net/posts/baden1... #NavalHistory

A low view from the starboard bow of a nineteenth century Ironclad, the German Baden, steaming in a calm sea. The four funnels arrabnged in a square are prominent from this angle.

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Ringbolt @ringbolt.net · 07/03/2025

Didn't stop the Japanese having a go - this is *Zuiho* at Leyte in 1944

Japanese aircraft carrier Zuiho at the battle of Leyte in 1944

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