Ships!

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Battleships HMS Barham and HMS Ramillies fire off a salute with the Battleship Dunkerque in the background, dressed up with a White Ensign, Spithead Fleet Review, 1937.

Three years later The Royal Navy shelled the crap out of Dunkerque and her sister ship Strasbourg at Mers-el-Kébir because the Vichy wouldn't surrender them.

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Second of two Lion-class battlecruisers, HMS Princess Royal.

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Russian salvage ship Kommuna. Commissioned in 1915, still serving dutifully with the Russian Black Sea Fleet

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https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/969570585650098177

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https://twitter.com/AncientSubHunt/status/969591125936918530

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USS INDIANA (BB-58) off Norfolk prior to her shakedown cruise.

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HMS Nelson



more - https://imgur.com/a/ry2Jf

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View of the DN-1, the Navy's first airship, at Naval Aeronautic Station Pensacola on November 7, 1917.

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Painting of the Navy's first aircraft carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), conducting flight ops as a ghost ship in company with USS Nimitz (CVN-68). The painting celebrates the commissioning of Nimitz 50 years after the first squadron operation off Langley in 1925. Artist R.G. Smith.

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R.G. Smith

Thanks for the heads up Mirth. Just checked out his stuff. Damn, but it's good. http://www.rgsmithart.com/index.php

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R.G. Smith

Thanks for the heads up Mirth. Just checked out his stuff. Damn, but it's good. http://www.rgsmithart.com/index.php

O0

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The United States Pacific Fleet anchored off San Francisco, circa 1930's. At 4:13pm. Shown are 6 battleships, 4 cruisers and the sister aircraft carriers USS Lexington (CV-2), Saratoga (CV-3) (with stripe) as well as tiny USS Langley (CV-1).

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USS John F. Kennedy docking in Malta, 2004

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Tomcats  :'( :'( :'(

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tomcats, a6s and vikings.....  a proper air wing.