#ww2 ships

[frozenbassist]

Ship poll

For reference: Space Battleship Yamato

The Japanese WW2 Battleship Yamato - the heaviest and most powerful battleship ever built

USS Yamato NCC-1305-E from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Galaxy class starship, sister ship to the Enterprise

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[wombywoo]

#OC Vincent~

[cid5]

Seaplane of the German cruiser Admiral Hipper (1942).

[judgemark45]

[driftsart]

I honestly really like your bumblebee design and need more of it plz

Sure, have a doodle!

Plus an extra comic:

Blitzwing is currently a war prisoner to the autobots! That's how Bumblebee knows him. No I DO NOT ship Blitzbee (bumblebee's 20 and Blitzwing's in his 50's (in robot years) and that's just weird). Bumblebee usually sneaks into the prisons just to talk to him and ask him stuff. Blitzwing's annoyed by his presence (mostly because of his situation and because of bumblebee's questions).

[usafphantom2]

A 389th assembly ship, a war weary bomber used to aid bombers into their formation. Once done, it returns to base. It has no guns nor bombs- won't need them. #WWII

@Francesbekafigo via X

[lonestarbattleship]

USS WEST VIRGINIA (BB-48) en route to the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, for permanent repairs and reconstruction.

Date: April 30, 1943

National Archives via Battleship North Carolina Archives: P2016.026

[northwoodscarving]

The new website is live! This year has grown so quickly with original and custom paintings that Northwoods Art by David Cogley is here! New pieces will be added to the site every week as they're finished, so bookmark, share and enjoy! The site is full of my available original acrylic pieces, and a detailed process of how to get started with custom commissioned work if you like my style but don't seethe one you want! Let's get started!

Northwoodsart.co

[bmtillerbabe]

Some of my older Stucky art (from 2018)

Prewar Cuddles 🥰❤️

I ship them so hard 🥹😭

[lonestarflight]

Grumman F6F "Hellcat" night fighter flies past USS HORNET (CV-12) as its pilot drops a message, during strikes on Formosa.

Photographed on October 12, 1944.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-284466

[ghostwarriorrrr]

WW2 Mark 29 3"/50cal Armor Piercing Capped Round Used on U.S. Naval Ships

[cutecountryballs]

gerbi: good night dad

other links:

[brezelzeit]

WIP of an Emmeriktor/Voss x Gantz picture I’m doing

One of the alts for the text is slightly fruitier than the other haha. I’m also showing this pic to people on another platform where people don’t know I ship them so I came up with two versions of the text. But the latter alt is gay asf and very friendly for Tumblr here haha

*nonpolitical, I am only interested in these characters. Fuck Nazis irl and I actually block anyone I see who has those leanings*

[judgemark45]

A stunning shot of the German battleship Gneisenau in the Atlantic, 1942.

[swedebeast]

An example of dazzle camouflage. French light cruiser "Gloire", circa 1944.