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🇪🇸: Royal Navy en acción.

La fuerza central Británica en Movimiento en 1934. Lidera el HMS Nelson, seguido por su gemelo HMS Rodney, HMS Barham, HMS Warspite, HMS Valiant, y cerrando la fila los Cruceros de Batalla HMS Hood y HMS Renown.

🇬🇧: Royal Navy in action.

The British central force on the move in 1934. Leading HMS Nelson, followed by her sister ship HMS Rodney, HMS Barham, HMS Warspite, HMS Valiant, and closing the line are the Battlecruisers HMS Hood and HMS Renown.

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Warspite :: Iain Ballantyne

Warspite :: Iain Ballantyne

Warspite :: Iain Ballantyne soon to be presented for sale on the astounding BookLovers of Bath web site!

Barnsley: Leo Cooper, 2001, Hardback in dust wrapper.

Contains: Black & white photographs; Facsimiles; Maps; Appendix;

From the cover: The name HMS Warspitehas long been a part of British naval tradition. The first ship to bear this name sailed under command of Sir Walter Raleigh in 1596. The…

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1940, HMS Warspite scored one of the longest range gunnery hits from a moving ship to a moving target in history. During the Battle of Calabria, a 15-inch shell from Warspite hit the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare from a distance of almost 15 miles. The damage from the hit slowed Giulio Cesare, forcing the battleship to withdraw.

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Remember this fucker?

This ship is too big.

We know this. It's been discussed.

But usually just in terms of length. It along boi.

But it also a hefty boi.

265,876 tons. (All the tons in this are imperial short tons, because that's what displacements are listed in)

This is the Queen Elizabeth class battleship HMS Warspite. Big, mighty, grumpy.

A group of 4 Queen Elizabeths fought together at the Battle of Jutland, very intimidating group.

They displace 33,110 tons.

Ever Given is 8.0 Queen Elizabeths. They only built 5.

USD Iowa, pride of the US Navy. Absolute unit.

At launch, 47,825 tons. 5.6 Iowas per Ever Given.

Let's get ridiculous. The Battleship motherfucking Yamato.

Biggest battleship in history. Its turrets weigh more than some other warships total.

73,000 tons estimated combat load.

A cargo ship weighing 3.6 Battleships Yamato is ridiculous.

If you took both Yamato and its sister ship Musashi, and the USS Iowa, and HMS Warspite and its sister ship HMS Valiant, you'd still not have the weight of the Ever Given.

Go away boat you are too big, you do not fit.

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“The Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft from HMS Warspite is catapulted from the ship at the start of an anti-submarine patrol off the Seychelles. An aircraft carrier can be seen sailing in the background.”

(IWM: A 11027)

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Around 5.30am on 6th June 1944 the horizon off the Normandy beaches lit up as the vast armada of Allied ships began pounding the Atlantic Wall. Fortress Europe was about to have its door kicked in by the largest amphibious landing in history.

Many ships claim to have fired the first shots of D-Day. HMS Belfast, Orion, and Warspite are the most often quoted. The BBC at the time reported that HMS Nelson had fired the first shots. Nelson had the largest guns ever fitted to a British battleship and her sister is credited with killing the Bismarck. Her nine 16 inch guns were a force to be reckoned with and did put an end to a group of Tiger tanks in the follow up campaign.

Her crew were most impressed when they heard the news on the radio because, on that fateful day in 1944, HMS Nelson was in fact moored in Milford Haven on the South-West coast of Wales, some 270 miles away from the Normandy beaches.

Fake News, it seems, is not a new concept.

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HISTORY huge warships

this day in history: the brit fleet retreated including three  big british battleships. warspite moved north to the north-west coast of india but RESOLUTION' and *ROYAL SOVEREIGN westward. after these three  big british battleships hunted for jap huge battleships in sea near india. on april 4, 1942, *ROYAL SOVEREIGN and RESOLUTION got warning of approaching jap warships. a scout plane sent the message before jap zero-s shot it down. the japs were by 83e and equator. on  April 5,  these brit warships including WARSPITE hunted for the jap battleships: HARUNA, HIEI, KIRISHIMA and KONGO.

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Walrus starts with the battleship Warspite catapult.

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Top 7 Naked Kantai Collection Anime Pillow You Can Not Miss

 Kantai Collection (艦隊これくしょん Kantai Korekushon, lit. "Fleet Collection", subtitled as "Combined Fleet Girls Collection"), abbreviated as KanColle (艦これ KanKore), is a Japanese free-to-play web browser game developed by Kadokawa Games.With the seas under constant threat from the hostile "Abyssal Fleet," a specialized naval base is established to counter them. Rather than standard naval weaponry, however, the base is armed with "Kanmusu"—girls who harbor the spirits of Japanese warships—possessing the ability to don weaponized gear that allows them to harness the powerful souls within themselves. Fubuki, a young Destroyer-type Kanmusu, joins the base as a new recruit; unfortunately for her, despite her inexperience and timid nature, she is assigned to the famous Third Torpedo Squadron and quickly thrust into the heat of battle. When she is rescued from near annihilation, the rookie warship resolves to become as strong as the one who saved her.

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Kantai Collection Anime Pillow

You Can Not Miss

1.Ryūjō Dakimakura Anime Pillow

Ryuujou shares many characteristics with the Hiyou-class such as being a shikigami-using onmyouji, wielding a flight deck scroll and having some of the same clothing choices.She talks in Kansai-ben; she is often nicknamed "RJ" and with her cap, resembles somewhat like a McDonald's worker.

2.Hamakaze  Dakimakura Anime Pillow

She wears a short-sleeved white and blue button-up serafuku with a yellow scarf (similar to Yukikaze) on top of a Kagerou-class standard pleated skirt with black pantyhose under everything. On her back is her rigging. Like most of the Kagerou-class, she wears white gloves. She wields two pistol-like guns, one resembles the standard 12.7 cm twin gun, the other resembles an Anti-Air gun.

3.Kongou Dakimakura Anime Pillow

She plays one of the big roles in the anime television series. Her hair is brown and extremely long that she normally wears in two braided buns. She has brown eyes that matches her hair and wears a black skirt on a white kimono top matched with a thigh-high boot. All the Battleships wear the same signature winged headband. She is very cheerful and hyperactive both in a calm setting and during a battle. She prides herself to have an energy that has yet to be matched by any newbie. She is seen to be very fond of the admiral and mixes her Japanese language with English. On the first episode, she mentioned that she was constructed in England the reason she loves black tea.

4.Nagato Dakimakura Anime Pillow

She has a long black hair with enthrallingly fierce eyes. She wears a black and white, Japanese-style shirt that exposes her midriff and a short white pleated skirt. She wears a metallic garter-belt which holds in place her maroon thigh-highs and a grey metallic boots with very high heels. On the anime, she is the Admiral’s secretary ship – more like a captain. She is often seen as calm and composed person carrying a very serious demeanor. She is the one who gives orders to the fleet and generally plans the attacks. Although she’s only seen once in a battlefield, she impressed everyone with her battle skills and outstanding firepower. She is truly a woman in power!

5.Warspite Dakimakura Anime Pillow

Warspite behaves in (the Japanese impression of) the manner of a sedate, high-class British lady. Due to the connection of the English language, several of her lines reference Iowa and Kongou, and she is often depicted in fanart alongside one or both of the two. Due to her war history, she has a connection to several other ships, as well. 

6.Akizuki Dakimakura Anime Pillow

Akizuki's hourly lines reflect how, owing to being a later-war destroyer, her crew typically had to suffer through having a shortage of rations, where meat was rarely served. As a result, there are often jokes of her being in awe of being served even ordinary food, and having her mind blown by something luxurious. 

7.Teruzuki Dakimakura Anime Pillow

Teruzuki has a very soft-spoken tone and nervous personality, and looks up to her sister-ship Akizuki. When damaged, her worries about torpedoes and desire to jettison her own munitions stem from how detonation of her depth charges sank her historically.She's also known by fandom as "Teruduki" (pronounced as Teru"ducky" or Teru"dookey") due to the pun and romanization of Nihon-shiki of her name .

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For many, the mention of ‘cosmetic surgery’ conjures images of vanity.  The never-ending and inevitably fruitless attempt to stave off the years.  Add some here and take it off over there.  But what of the face left smashed and misshapen, burned or blown half off in service to country?

“Plastic” Surgery, the term comes to us from the Greek Plastikos and first used by the 18th century French surgeon Pierre Desault, has been with us longer than you might expect.  Evidence exists of Hindu surgeons performing primitive ‘nose jobs’, as early as BC800-600.  The Renaissance-era surgeon Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545-1599) developed new methods of reconstruction, using the patient’s own arm skin to replace noses slashed off in swordplay.

Lt. William M. Spreckley of the Sherwood Foresters was Dr. Gillies’ 132nd patient, admitted to the hospital in January 1917 at the age of 33 with a ‘GSW, Nose”. He was discharged 3½ years later.

A hillside battle at a place called Hastings changed the world in 1066 yet, if you were on the next hillside, you may not have heard a thing.  The industrialized warfare of the 19th and 20th century was vastly different, involving entire populations and inflicting unprecedented levels of destruction on the human form.

It is beyond horrifying what modern warfare can do to the human form

It’s been said of the American civil war and is no doubt true of any number of conflicts, that a generation of women had to accustom themselves to new ideas of male ‘beauty’.  The ‘Great War’ of 1914 – ‘18 was particularly egregious when it came to injuries to the face, neck and arms, as millions of soldiers burrowed into 450-mile-long trench lines to escape what German Private Ernst Jünger described as the “Storm of Steel”.

In the Battle of Verdun, German forces used 1,200 guns firing 2.5 million shells supplied by 1,300 ammunition trains to attack their Allied adversary on the First Day, alone.

For every soldier killed in the Great War, two returned home, maimed. Artillery was especially malevolent, with “drumfire” so rapid as to resemble the rat-a-tat-tat of drums, each blast sending thousands of jagged pieces of metal, shrieking through the air.

For many, severe facial disfigurement was a fate worse than amputation.  Worse than death, even.  To have been grievously wounded in service to country and return home to be treated not as a wounded warrior, but as something hideous.

The untold human misery of having been turned into a monster, misshapen and ugly.  For these men, life often became one of ostracism and loneliness.  The painful stares of friends and strangers alike, repelled by such disfiguration, offtimes lead to alcoholism, divorce and suicide.

Manchester Massachusetts sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd moved to France in 1917.  Inspired by the work of British artist Francis Derwent Wood and his “tin noses shop”,  Ladd founded the “Studio for Portrait-Masks” of the Red Cross in Toul, to provide cosmetic prosthetics for men disfigured by the war.

Ladd’s prostheses were uncomfortable to wear, but her services earned her the Légion d’Honneur Croix de Chevalier and the Serbian Order of Saint Sava.

The New Zealand-born otolaryngologist Dr. Harold Gillies was shocked at the human destruction, while working with the French-American dental surgeon Sir August Charles Valadier on new techniques of jaw reconstruction and other maxillofacial procedures.

The interior of the Plastic Theatre at the Queen’s Hospital.  Dr Gillie is seated, on the right

The sterile medical notation “GSW (gunshot wound) Face” does not begin to prepare the mind for a horror more closely resembling a highway roadkill, than the face of a living man.  I left the worst of such images out of this essay.  They’re easy enough to find on-line, if you’re interested in seeing them.  The medical science is fascinating, but the images are hard to look at.

Dr. Gillies watched the renowned French surgeon Hippolyte Morestin, a man known as “The Father of the Mouths” after multiple breakthroughs in oral surgery, remove a tumor and use the patient’s own jaw-skin, to repair the damage.

Joseph Pickard, of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, before and after Dr. Gillies.  H/T Daily Mail

Gillies understood the importance of the work, and spoke with British Chief Surgeon Sir William Arbuthnot Lane.  The conversation lead to a 1,000-bed facial trauma ward at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup, Kent, opened in June, 1917.

The largest naval battle of the Great War, the Battle of Jutland, unfolded between May 31 and June 1, 1916, involving 250 ships and some 100,000 men.

The Queen Elizabeth-class battleship HMS Warspite took fifteen direct hits from German heavy shells, at one point having no rudder control and helplessly turning in circles.

Petty Office Walter Yeo

Petty Officer Walter Yeo was manning the guns aboard Warspite and received terrible injuries to his face, including the loss of upper and lower eylids, and extensive blast and burn damage to his nose, cheeks and forehead.

When all else failed, there were the facial prosthetics.  The masks.

Yeo was admitted to Queen Mary’s hospital the following August, where he was treated by Dr. Gillies and believed to be the first recipient of a full facial graft taken from another part of his own body.

Dr. Gillies & Co. developed surgical methods in which rib cartilage is first implanted in foreheads, and then swung down to form the foundational structure of a new nose.

At a time before antibiotics, tissue grafts could be as dangerous as the trenches themselves.   “Tubed pedicles” were developed to get around the problem of infection, where living tissue and its blood supply was rolled into tubes and protected by the natural layer of skin.  These tubes of living tissue weren’t pretty to look but were relatively safe from infection.  When the patient was ready, new tissue could be “walked” into place, become whole new facial features.

Dr. Harold Gelf Gillies, the Father of modern plastic surgery, performed more than 11,000 such procedures with his colleagues, on over 5,000 individuals.  Work continued well after the war and through the mid-twenties, developing new and important surgical techniques.

Dr. Gillies received a knighthood for his work in 1930 and, during the inter-war years, trained many other Commonwealth physicians on his surgical methods.  Just in time, for the destruction of the following generation.

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May 31, 1916 The Man who Fixed Faces For many, the mention of ‘cosmetic surgery’ conjures images of vanity.  The never-ending and inevitably fruitless attempt to stave off the years. 

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Battleship Sailors: The Fighting Career of HMS Warspite Recalled by Her Men :: Harry Plevy

Battleship Sailors: The Fighting Career of HMS Warspite Recalled by Her Men :: Harry Plevy

Battleship Sailors: The Fighting Career of HMS Warspite Recalled by Her Men :: Harry Plevy soon to be presented for sale on the excellent BookLovers of Bath web site! London: Chatham Publishing, 2001, Hardback in dust wrapper. Includes: Black & white photographs; References; Appendix; From the cover: HMS Warspite was the most famous British battleship of the twentieth century. Winning more…

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“A Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft taxiing up to HMS Warspite after returning from a sweep in the Indian Ocean. A crew member is sitting on the top wing to the winch cable to the aircraft when it arrives alongside the battleship. An Illustrious-class aircraft carrier can be seen moored in the background. Alongside her is another vessel, possibly a hospital ship, and HMS Ludlow. A cruiser is moored aft of these vessels and a motor cutter is making its way from this group of ships towards the camera.”

(IWM: A 10650)

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