#HMS Hermes

[usafphantom2]

The flight deck of HMS Hermes with Harriers of No. 800 Squadron FAA, heading for the South Atlantic in April 1982. The squadron lost two aircraft during the Falklands War, one by accident and another shot down during an attack on Goose Green. They destroyed 13 enemy aircraft.

@HMwarships via X

[barkingbonzo]

ROYAL NAVY

[ashvalentine16]

Violet Tempest, Blooming Lycoris rerun event

Extra build ships

HMS Hermes Retrofit (finally)

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“DOMINION'S AIR CREWS HELPED TO DEAL BLOW ON JAPS AT COLOMBO,” Toronto Star. April 10, 1942. Page 38. ---- Nipponese Planes Sink 22-Year-Old Aircraft Carrier Hermes Off Ceylon, But Most of Crew Believed in London to Have Been Saved ---- BRITISH FLIERS DAMAGE JAP CARRIER AND COUNT 18 FOE PLANES SHOT DOWN ---- H.M. AIRCRAFT CARRIER HERMES ---- London, April 10 - Canadian air crews are manning huge flying boats over the Bay of Bengal and already have performed heroic service against the Japanese, it was learned today. 

"They have played an exceptionally important and heroic part in recent air operations against the enemy," the air minister said. 

It was a Canadian air crew that played a primary role in the disastrous defeat dealt Japanese bombing squadrons in the enemy attack on Colombo, Ceylon, last Sunday, the air ministry revealed. 

At the same time the admiralty announced that Japanese planes have sunk the 22-year-old, 10,850-ton aircraft carrier Hermes off the coast of Ceylon, and that British fliers materially damaged a Japanese aircraft carrier and knocked down 18 planes in the same waters.

One informed source said the attacks in which the Hermes, Dorsetshire and Cornwall were sent to the bottom cost the Japanese fully 75 planes. He said the Hermes was sunk by bombs, not plane-launched torpedoes.

A Canadian-manned aircraft first spotted the Japanese bomber fleet headed for Colombo and "hence was instrumental in thwarting the attack," said an air ministry spokesman.

The reconnaissance crew flashed word enabling the city to prepare for the raid, with the result that a large portion of the 75 enemy aircraft were destroyed for certain. The admiralty said that Japanese claims of cruisers in addition to the Cornwall and Dorsetshire sunk off Trincomalee were known to be "quite untrue."

[AL: This is very slanted reporting, as we should expect war reporting. Colombo was not a disastrous defeat and the Japanese airplane losses were very low - Hermes was caught with its planes on deck, for one. A disastrous loss for sure.]

[eannpatterson]

Reasons I became an engineer: #1

This is the first in a series of posts in which I am going to reflect on my route to becoming an engineer.  These events happened around forty years ago so inevitably my recollections probably have more in common with folklore than reliable history.  Nevertheless, I hope they might be of interest. I was good at mathematics at school but also geography and when required to specialise at the age of…

[they-hermes]

listen to me. cybertronians having vigilito. you agree

sunstreaker has it but sideswipe doesn’t. this makes sunstreaker extremely pretty but 10x more unbearable bc hes hot shit and knows it. sideswipes only leverage is being nicer than that fucker

[astrocassette]

oop! gotta be careful with that chiton, boss!

[booksandmore]

moshang as persephone and hades writes itself

[freddie-77-ao3]

so yall know the popular headcanon that will is allergic to telling lies bc apollo is the god of truth? HEAR ME OUT one of the children of hermes is allergic to telling the truth. i--

[coriander-candlesticks]

I was pouring a promised libation out to Hermes, Apollo, Aphrodite, and Dionysus this afternoon (I'd asked them for help with a personal matter involving a sibling) and as I was looking up at the sky talking about the situation I saw three hawks start to circle something a little ways in the distance. Hawks aren't exactly uncommon here but it had been a while since I'd seen any, let alone three at once, so it caught my attention.

And while I was trying to figure out what type of bird they were (not an eagle, too short a neck to be a vulture, etc) one of them swooped down into a neighbor's backyard and back up along the tree in my backyard, close enough that, if a branch weren't in the way, I would have been able to see its feather markings. While hawks were somewhat usual, experiencing that certainly was not. So, of course, when I got inside I looked up if any Greek gods are associated with hawks.

And, of course, Apollo is.

I've been thinking a lot about the difference between "this is just a Thing That Happens" and a sign so it was nice to see a direct example of how something differs when it's coming from a god.

[skrunksthatwunk]

little brother

[astralflows]

a collection

[lesbiandonnanoble]

i can't lie and say it doesn't smell of disney -_-

[potatoesandsunshine]

the thing with the percy jackson show for me is like... it's an adaptation so i'm already pretty open to there being changes. i like seeing the story in a bit of a new way and i'm having a good time with it. the "the solstice has passed" reveal made me insane but in the fun way

[frogmascquerade]

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[kittieshauntedourfantasy]

Sorry I saw the chance and I took it

Acrylics on canvas, 2022

Inspired by images of the 1914-1917 Shackleton antarctic expedition as well as the 2018 series the Terror.