#torpedo boats

[illustratus]

Torpedoboote beim Evolutionieren by Claus Bergen

[todaysdocument]

John F. Kennedy's Change of Duty December 21, 1943

Collection JFK-1: John F. Kennedy Personal PapersSeries: Boston Office FilesFile Unit: John F. Kennedy Personal Papers: Boston Office, 1940 - 1956: Personal: Correspondence: Navy Records

MOTOR TORPEDO BOAT SQUADRON TWO F08-2/P16-4/00 21 December 1943 From: Commander, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWO. To : Lieutenant John Fitzgerald Kennedy, D-V(G), USNR. - 116071. Subject: ORDERS. 1. In accordance with a despatch [sic] dated 14 December 1943, from Commander South Pacific, which cannot be quoted herein, you will consider yourself detached from duty in Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron TWO and from such other duties which may have been assigned you. 2. You will proceed via first available air transportation, PRIORITY FOUR, to the United States, and report to the Commanding Officer, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center, Portsmouth (Melville), Rhode Island for duty. 3. You are hereby authorized to delay thirty (30) days in reporting to your new station, this delay to count as leave. Keep the Bureau of Naval Personnel advised of your address while on leave. 4. A per diem of seven dollars ($7.00) in lieu of subsistence will be allowed while in air travel status outside the United States in obedience to these orders. A.P. CLUSTER. D. AGNER, By direction. Copy to: BuPers [illegible] COMTBS Tr Ctr, [handwritten] Certified to be a true copy John Kennedy [illegible]

[haunted-planes]

Concept art for a horror comic about boats and torpedoes.

[vox-anglosphere]

The sinking of Lusitania in 1915 was considered the spark that drew the United States into WWI. The British ship leaned so far starboard that most of the lifeboats were useless and in 18 minutes she was gone, taking 1200 innocent passengers with her.

[dansidoon]

Tennstedt und Hoffmann - Das Boot, 2018

[rollerman1]

[all-action-all-picture]

1974 ad for Dinky Toys.

Model 291 - Atlantean City Bus. This was the Leyland Atlantean double-decker bus. Get on board!

Model 675 - Motor Patrol Boat. Appears to be the Royal Navy Brave Class motor torpedo boat. The RN only had two (HMS Brave Borderer and HMS Brave Swordsman) and both had retired by 1970 but others were built for the export market.

Model 692 - Leopard Tank. This was the German Leopard l tank that came into service in the 1960's.

[spookyvalentine]

who are your rooks all romancing? :)c just saw your neve post lol, shaking your hand its such a good romance.

So I’ve just finished Lascaux’s play through and they romance Neve and literally dude I’m dying I love her sm

Lemuria will be romancing Bellara, I like my tall quiet one with the small yappy one 🥰

Altamira I’m not sure yet!! Was originally taash, but might be davrin….

SPOILER AHEAD CONCERNING ENDING

Blighted Neve and Lascaux succumbing to the Calling are boiling my brain the worms are worming

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[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1899 – Creation of the Electric Boat Company by the father of the modern submarine, John Philip Holland.

Holland emigrated to the US in 1873. Holland’s first submarine submission was rejected by the Navy Secretary as ‘a fantastic scheme of a civilian landsman’. The navy eventually relented and purchased it’s first submarine from Holland’s company in 1900 for $150,000. Holland also had a strong interest in aviation writing a paper in 1891 titled ‘The Practicality of Manned Flight’. He is buried in…

[crystal-grotto]

//clutches sketchbook and pen nngh

[postcard-from-the-past]

Ottoman torpedo boat in Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy region of France

French vintage postcard

[haunted-planes]

Some Cars Npcs for Lost Anchor

[admiralnelsoniii]

Type VIIC U-boat, U-363 at the Battle of Narvik in WWII. I watched a documentary on YouTube about this battle and I must say the pitiful story of this U-boat's time there was crazy. The captain tried again and again to attack the British warships (tincans and HMS Warspite) but EVERY torpedo he fired just didn't work! And we are talking quite a few attempts here! In fact, if his torpedoes had functioned correctly he would have inflicted some serious damage upon the British forces. The documentary mentioned the captains radio messages back to fleet HQ basically screaming that someone should pay dearly for issuing worthless torpedos to a ship at war. I don't know exactly what the man said, but for him to make a special trip out away from Narvik and risk a radio transmission during an ongoing operation, I imagine he was completely enraged. Poor fellow. Ended the battle in surrender I understand. U-363 taken by the Royal Navy.

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