Monthly Archives: October 2023

John Currin, Bush Townsend, Basil Rutherford and in behind, Buck Taylor enjoying a few tots somewhere in the South China sea – Photo 2 John Currin, Bushman Townsend and BJ Smith – tots in the South China Sea

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Aussie Powell, John Currin(me) and Korean matelot – Chinhae, Korea and photo 2 – Horse Horsefield and Bushman Townsend – Chinhae, Korea

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British armoured cruiser HMS Shannon as built with short funnels.The funnels were raised 15 feet (4.6 m) in 1909 to eliminate smoke interference with the bridge. See before and after photos on my blog – click here https://ift.tt/R9aUz2Z

  HMS Shannon after her funnels were lengthened. HMS Shannon (1906) guns being assembled at Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering in Barrow-in-Furness in England The Minotaur class was a three-ship class of armoured cruisers built in the first decade of the twentieth century for the Royal Navy. These were the last class of armoured cruisers builtContinue reading “British armoured cruiser HMS Shannon as built with short funnels.The funnels were raised 15 feet (4.6 m) in 1909 to eliminate smoke interference with the bridge. See before and after photos on my blog – click here https://ift.tt/R9aUz2Z”

HMS Phaeton was a second class cruiser of the Leander class which served with the Royal Navy.

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HMS Kempenfelt/HMCS Assiniboine a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s.

  A flotilla leader, she saw service in the Home Fleet before World War II and the ship made several deployments to Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1939Continue reading “HMS Kempenfelt/HMCS Assiniboine a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s.”