Monthly Archives: April 2020

HMNZS Royalist 1962 – I probably helped paint the side at this time – 

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Cape Egmont lighthouse K4088;NGA 4788

Album name: arnosi51 / New Zealand Rating (1 votes): (Show details) Current status (active, not active, museum etc): active Construction details (year of built, shape etc): white iron tower Height of the tower, m: 20 Focal plane elevation above sea level, m: 33 Light Description (light sectors, colour of the light, number of flashes etc): Flashing, 8s,Continue reading “Cape Egmont lighthouse K4088;NGA 4788”

Barbate lighthouse D2408

Album name: Bergwind / South and east coasts of Spain Rating (1 votes): (Show details) Current status (active, not active, museum etc): active Construction details (year of built, shape etc): 1980 Height of the tower, m: 18 Focal plane elevation above sea level, m: 23 Light Description (light sectors, colour of the light, number of flashes etc):Continue reading “Barbate lighthouse D2408”

Battleship USS Iowa entering floating dry-dock ABSD-2 at Manus Island, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea), December 28th 1944. Notice how her dual-purpose secondary armament can aim almost at the zenith to tackle not only surface threats but also high-level bombing.

Battleship USS Iowa entering floating dry-dock ABSD-2 at Manus Island, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea), December 28th 1944.  from JC’s Naval, Maritime and Military News https://ift.tt/3aUtRmV via IFTTT

Orion class battleship HMS Conqueror. I have seen this picture sometimes identified as HMS Orion but base the naming here on the Clyde-built database. The first British superdreadnoughts, the Orion class vessels represented an increase in gun size from 12″ to 13.5″, along with the abandonment of wing turrets for the main armament. From now on, the main armament would be mounted in the more efficient centre-line arrangement with superfiring turrets (although the Orion class still had a Q turret awkwardly placed between between the aft funnel and the aft superstructure).

Orion class battleship HMS Conqueror. from JC’s Naval, Maritime and Military News https://ift.tt/34kPM3Y via IFTTT