#SS-Class

[ironsagaarchive]

Blunderbuss Iron Head

Aalter saved up his money to specially modify his Iron Head to use a unique weapon capable of solid offense and defense. He also opted to give it a garish blue paint-job, despite how conspicuous it is.

Aalter uses his working salary to modify the special iron heads as much as possible, which was equipped with a multi-functional weapon system that combines attack and defense. As for the conspicuous blue color painting, that is completely his personal flavor.

[spockvarietyhour]

First Five Star Trek finales*

Star Trek "Turnabout Intruder" (1966)** Star Trek: The Next Generation "All Good Things..." (1994) Star Trek : Deep Space Nine "What You Leave Behind" (1999) Star Trek: Voyager "Endgame"(2001) Star Trek: Enterprise "These Are the Voyages..." (2005)

*not including The Animated Series **2006 remaster

[himulrai]

this is definitely not me trying to make audio file compression revision more appealing for myself wdym

[dearmyloveleys]

🫷dis gay shit too much for me to handle ye (and thank you moderator for making that comment we love an ally)

the PR team is probably holding jihoon at gunpoint to make sure he doesn’t scream sieun is in love with suho into the mic atp

can I also chip in and say that Wavve, the original platform that produced WHC1, is also producing South Korea’s first lesbian wlw dating show “together”/“to-get-her” this year. do what you will with this information

[lonestarbattleship]

"Three ships who have contributed much to the history of the sea are seen together at adjoining berths in the Hudson River at New York City, U.S.A., on Nov. 9, 1945. They are left to right: RMS Queen Mary, holder of the Blue Riband of the Atlantic; the USS MISSOURI (BB-63), on whose quarterdeck the Japanese surrender was signed and USS EUROPA (AP-177), former German luxury liner and onetime holder of the Atlantic record now being used as an American troopship."

Photographed on November 9, 1945.

Shared by David Ho.

AP PHOTO: link

[chernobog13]

Setting up the shots of the Enterprise and Botany Bay.

[your-resident-boat-person]

how long does it take to build an ocean liner?

So... to answer this question, we need to set up a precedent for size.

Ocean liners are measured by internal volume. It seems strange, so let me explain why.

The RMS Queen Mary is about 1,018 feet long. The SS United States is about 990 feet long. These two ships are about the same size, right? WRONG. The Queen Mary is about 80,000 GRT (Gross Registered Tons). The SS United States is about 55,000 GRT. Almost half the size. This is why internal volume is important. Another example: The SS America was 723 feet long. If you go by length, she's only 27% smaller than the SS United States. However, the SS America is only about 25,000 GRT. Going by tonnage, she's 54% smaller. In conclusion, internal volume is the measure of a liners size, not length. However, length is much more easily comprehended/visualized. I've been at this so long, I can ballpark a ships GRT based on its length, and vice versa.

ANYWAY...

Let's take the SS Oceanic, for example. Widely regarded as the first "modern" ocean liner. She went into service in 1870. At a length of 420 feet and 4 inches, she was 3,707 GRT. From the day construction began, to the first day of her maiden voyage was a little over 1 year.

Then, there's the RMS Oceanic of 1899. Named after the SS Oceanic, she was meant to celebrate White Star Line's progress and achievement over the past 30 years. She was 704 feet long, and 17,242 GRT. Construction began in 1897 (I couldn't find the month), and her maiden voyage began in September of 1899. That's at least 2 years, possibly closer to 3.

Then, finally, we have the RMS Olympic of 1911. She was 882 feet, 9 inches long, and 45,324 GRT. Olympic's keel was laid on December 16th, 1908. Her maiden voyage began on June 14th, 1911. So roughly, 2 and a half years.

It's worth remembering that shipbuilding techniques rapidly advanced and changed within this 40 year span, and Harland and Wolf (the ship builders) grew as well. The SS Oceanic was their first ship. Olympic was their four hundredth. I'm sure that if they rebuilt Oceanic in 1911, they'd have finished her faster.

So to answer your question, it depends! It depends on the size of the ship, the ship yard building her, the year she's being built, how many people are working on her, and even the construction methods! All of these ships were rivited together by hand. Nowadays, they're almost entirely welded together. But as a general rule of thumb, when discussing the "big" liners that people talk about most often, 2 to 3 years is a safe estimate for construction time. Thank you so much for your question!

[dottores]

YOU GUYS MUST LOOK AT WHAT TEE GOT ME FOR MY BDAY!!!! SHE GAVE IT TO ME EARLY FOR CONGRATULATIONS ON FINISHING MY FIRST WEEK OF LAW SCHOOL

[alphamecha-mkii]

SS Botany Bay by Mallacore

[spockvarietyhour]

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations To boldly go where no man has gone before.

[carsmashorpass]

[navaratna]

korean webnovels with found family trope is always superior

[lonestarbattleship]

"MIGHTIEST FOR WAR AND FOR PEACE. Uncle Sam's latest and largest battleship U.S.S. COLORADO' docked alongside the giant S.S. "LEVIATHAN."

Both Queens of the Seas. COLORADO, (left) the largest of Uncle Sam's battleships, was dwarfed in the shadow of the giant Leviathan as they lay together for the first time at the River Pier at West 44th St., N.Y. COLORADO looks like a tiny craft alongside of the mighty Levnathan."

Date: November 9, 1923

AP Photo: link

[weirdraccoon]

MC *pulling Sebastian to her room*: Did you bring protection?

Sebastian *turning nervous*: Why? What's in there?

[t0bey]

What were your endings for the characters in the routes for houses?

im assuming ur talking abt paired endings? thats a pretty broad question if ur asking in general, but for my silver snow run i finished recently:

petra & dorothea

ferdinand & bernie

lindhardt & lysithea (i was SO pleasantly surprised to find out she gets cured of her crests w him)

seteth & flayn

aaaand p much everyone else had a solo ending. except catherine, who was my only permadeath and got killed in the final battle against rhea (which honestly? she would've wanted to go out that way anyways)

[your-resident-boat-person]

I left this comment on an Alex the Historian video, but I want to leave it here too.

I live in Pennsylvania. If I ever do get the funds to travel and see the Queen Mary, it may be the only opportunity I ever get to do so.

I know that there are more... "pressing" repairs that need to be done, but I desperately want to see some of the historic rooms that were ripped out in the 70s to be restored to how they looked during her career. Mike Brady just covered a few of these rooms in his video covering the plans of the Queen Mary. I know that a lot of the interior decor would basically need to be recreated from scratch, but still. For example, the Synagogue is such an important and historic room. I'd love to see it restored. It was installed as a show of good faith from Cunard to show their Jewish passengers (especially the ones fleeing from nazi germany) that they would not stand for the rampant antisemitism they faced at home. For anyone who isn't the owner of a ghost hunting youtube channel, the main draw of the Queen Mary is her historic value. I don't want to see a bunch of new restaurants and shops and event spaces. I want the Queen Mary to reflect how she was during her career as closely as possible. The idea of trying to "modernize" the Queen Mary in any aspect seems... almost foolish and counterintuitive to me, aside from obvious things like modern air conditioning and sanitation and things like that. I know some of these post-long beach additions are popular and well loved, but if I'm booking a stay aboard the historic RMS Queen Mary, I dont want to eat in a modern restaurant that was stapled on to the ship in the last couple of decades. I'd want to be served in the first class dining room. I'd want to experience what the passengers experienced.

There aren't many liners left, but I think the Queen Mary is one of the best liners to have been preserved. She was designed in the late 1920's, built in the early 1930's, and despite her extreme modernity, she also features many things that more closely resemble the liners of the 1910s and 1920s than her then modern contemporaries. Like, she visually resembles the Aquitania from 1914 and Lusitania from 1906 much more closely than she resembles, say, the SS Rex or SS Normandie. The SS Rex, despite being nearly 5 years older, looks more like the SS United States of 1952 than any of the ships she succeeded. The Queen Mary is a beautiful collage of liner design spanning from the 1910s to the 1960s. So being on the Queen Mary can give you a great idea of what liners were like across many decades, which makes her invaluable as an educational tool, more so than any other liner that could have been preserved instead. If the Bremen, or the Rex, or even the Olympic had been preserved instead of the Queen Mary, it would have given a lot more narrow of a view of liner history. In the late 60's and early 70s, a lot of these spaces and decoration styles were seen more as outdated rather than historic, so the idea of preserving them didn’t seem extremely important. But now? If it were up to me, my primary objective would be to restore the Queen Mary to be as close as she was during her career as practical/possible. As a huge ocean liner enthusiast, I'd move to long beach in a hearbeat if it meant I could spend my life helping to preserve her, and with the loss of the SS United States, I think preserving and restoring the Queen is more important than ever.