The ships include, from left to right: the French station ship at Saigon, the former battleship LOIRE (ex-HOCHE, ex-PRINCE-JÉROME, ex-ANNIBAL) which was at Saigon during 1886-1897; a French river gunboat (in the foreground); the Russian armored cruiser PAMIAT AZOVA (1888-1919); an unidentified Russian armored cruiser, probably the VLADIMIR MONOMAKH (1881-1905); a Russian gunboat, probably theContinue reading “French & Russian Ships in Saigon Late 1880s”
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CSS Stonewall Jackson was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.
Stonewall Jackson was selected in January 1862, by Capt. James E. Montgomery to be part of his River Defense Fleet at New Orleans. On 25 January Montgomery began to convert her into a cottonclad ram by placing a 4-inch (100 mm) oak sheath with 1-inch (25 mm) iron covering on her bow, and by installing double pine bulkheads fitted with compressedContinue reading “CSS Stonewall Jackson was a cottonclad sidewheel ram of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War.”
Naval History – The dusty cardboard box of Kaiser Karl
laststandonzombieisland by laststandonzombieisland The Habsburgs by the 1860s had at least five assorted life guard units in their Household Division, with probably the most elite of them– on regular watch anyway– being the Imperial-Royal Trabant Lifeguards (k.k. Trabantenleibgarde). Composed of long-serving Army officers and career NCOs, the half-company-sized Trabantenleibgarde was responsible for mounting the interior guard at theContinue reading “Naval History – The dusty cardboard box of Kaiser Karl”
Exercise Tiger: How the top secret rehearsal for D-Day went devastatingly wrong – Briohny Williams 28th April 2024 at 9:00am https://ift.tt/OVWSfoa
Watch: How the top secret rehearsal for D-Day went devastatingly wrong In the early hours of 28 April 1944, 30,000 American service personnel were preparing to take part in a rehearsal for the Normandy Landings. Slapton Sands in Devon was chosen as the landing area for Exercise Tiger as it closely resembled Utah beach, havingContinue reading “Exercise Tiger: How the top secret rehearsal for D-Day went devastatingly wrong – Briohny Williams 28th April 2024 at 9:00am https://ift.tt/OVWSfoa”
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