#naval ships

[emostudent]

no way! this is totally something we have never done before!

imagine

different cultures around the world

using the power of the wind

to move across the ocean!

omg!

it's so innovative you guys!

totally not something we have been doing for thousands of years!

[a-4skyhawk]

USS California BB-44

[captainsvscaptains]

Sea Battle of the Fictional Ships

Was Battleship your favorite game as a child ? Is it still ? Here’s your opportunity to reacquaint yourself with the game ! Pick your favorite naval ships and sink their opponents to lead them to victory !

A few rules (the important stuff is in bold) :

We're talking naval ships. Spatial ships are banned, non military ships are allowed.

They have to be fictional. Mythological is alright. Religion-related is debatable. Fictionalised real ships are up to debate.

If someone/something can shapeshift (yes, I know what my pfp looks like) but their boat form is not their main one, don't submit them.

All kinds of ships are fine (unclear, rafts, battleships, yachts, pirate ships, canoes, barges, drakkars/longships, etc). Sentient is okay.

Unnamed is alright but be specific in your description if there are several ships in your media (identify by owner, passagers, physical characteristics or whatever)

There are 3 ships that'll make it automatically in the bracket. I'm not disclosing which ones to know how to seed them (spoilers : they're really well known, they'll be submitted but I don't know at which rate)

Submit as many ships as you want but only once each, please

I can't think of any more rules at the time. My askbox is open if I've forgotten to specify anything.

Submissions close on May 15th unless I get too many of them but I'll warn you at least three days before I close them anyway. If I don’t get enough, I’ll just keep them open for two more weeks or something

Submissions are open

It's been almost a week and I've been procrastinating so I guess I'll just tag some of my favorite tournament blogs and hope they'll reblog this.

@fictional-train-fight @glowstick-showdown @blue-character-brawl @enemies-to-lovers-bracket @best-book-brotp @best-fictional-detective @best-fictional-cat @twinkpoll @fictional-dragon-bracket @greenhairandpronouns-tournament

[rexstewartoriginals]

American Privateer...the rigging begins.

[ghostwarriorrrr]

🇷🇺Russia / USSR 130 mm/70 (5.1") AK-130 AND 🇺🇲USA 5"/62 (12.7 cm) Mark 45 Mod 4 .NAVAL GUN SYSTEMS:WHİCH DO YOU LİKE THE MOST?

[nickysfacts]

You could say their support for their country was really “going over their heads”!😂

🇺🇸⛵️🇫🇷

[metallicumbrage]

COMM: Kaiju Battle

Illustration commission for Blaine39 and crew, featuring the start of a huge kaiju battle!

Posted using PostyBirb

[theseaiscallingme]

Hey all — meant to be more active here, but I’ve found the prospect of rebuilding a presence from scratch to be rather daunting/require time I just don’t have at the moment. But! Five weeks ago, I started training as prospective sail crew on the Star of India (right behind me there) at the Maritime Museum of San Diego. Tomorrow morning I take my basic seamanship qualification test. Wish me luck!

[blueiskewl]

The Russian Navy's Humiliating Defeat 117-Years Ago 'The Battle of Tsushima'

Since Russia launched its attack on Ukraine in late February, a heavily outnumbered and outgunned adversary has handed the Russian navy several high-profile losses.

The Russians have lost at least five Raptor-class patrol boats, one Tapir-class landing ship, one Serna-class landing craft, and most notably the Moskva, a Slava-class guided-missile cruiser that was also the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet.

The losses themselves are not catastrophic for the Russian navy and are unlikely to alter the course of the war or the balance of power in the Black Sea, but they are blows to Russian prestige and come a little over a century after another historic debacle for Russia: the Battle of Tsushima, the last time a Russian navy flagship was sunk in combat.

The Japanese and Russian empires fought in the waters between Korea and southern Japan on May 27 and 28 in 1905. The battle cemented Japan's rise as an equal to Western powers and had a lasting impact on both empires.

Competing empires

Japan's overwhelming victory in the Sino-Japenese War in 1895 had stoked tensions between the Japanese and Russian empires.

Japan, equipped with an organized, modern army, pursued ambitions in Korea and China that brought it dangerously close to Russian interests, especially in Manchuria and Korea.

Of particular importance to Russia was Port Arthur — now Dalian, China — which it leased and was the Russian Empire's only warm-water Pacific port. Port Arthur became the headquarters of Russia's Pacific Fleet and the government had plans to connect it to Russia via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Negotiations between Japan and Russia over the future of the region went nowhere, and on February 8, 1904, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the main part of the Russian Pacific Fleet at Port Arthur, formally declaring war hours later.

Japan gained a naval advantage relatively quickly. It fought off an attempt by the main part of the Russian Pacific Fleet to break the blockade of Port Arthur and largely defeated Russia's Vladivostok-based squadrons at Chemulpo Bay and Ulsan — victories that allowed Japan to effectively dominate the Pacific.

Unwilling to concede defeat, and with Japanese ground forces beginning a siege of Port Arthur itself, Russia's Tsar Nicholas II ordered the creation of the 2nd Pacific Squadron, which would be made up of ships from the Baltic Fleet.

Commanded by Vice Adm. Zinovy Rozhestvensky, some 40 ships — including 11 pre-dreadnought battleships, nine cruisers, and nine destroyers — composed the 2nd Pacific Squadron.

Sailing from the Baltic in October 1904, they were supposed to relieve the Pacific Fleet at Port Arthur, destroy any Japanese ships they encountered, and cut the supply lines between Japan and mainland Asia.

Russia's doomed fleet

Russia's navy had been modernized in during the latter half of the 1800s, but while the 2nd Pacific Squadron appeared strong on paper, it was not a first-rate naval force. Some of the warships were new and untested, but many were old and bordered on obsolete. Others were little more than auxiliary ships with guns mounted on them.

Russian Navy leadership was also of low quality. Many of its officers came from wealthy and connected families who simply bought their commissions. The rank-and-file sailors were not much more professional, as many of them were inexperienced conscripts.

These issues were on full display during the seven-month, 18,000-mile journey to the Pacific.

While in the North Sea near England, the fleet opened fire on British fishing trawlers, somehow thinking they were Japanese torpedo boats. The mistake killed two fishermen, injured one, and sunk one trawler while damaging four others. In the chaos, some of the Russian ships even fired on each other, causing casualties and damage.

Diplomatic maneuvering managed to prevent the British from joining the war on the side of Japan, but the Russian fleet's troubles were only beginning.

Most of the fleet sailed around Africa rather than through the Suez Canal. The longer journey took a toll on the crews, who had never experienced such a different climate or such a long time at sea. The ships themselves were also under considerable strain. During gunnery practice with a mock target towed by a cruiser, the only thing the fleet hit was the cruiser.

With no allies, the Russians couldn't dock in friendly ports, and so they had to take on more coal while at sea. Conditions on the ships deteriorated, and disease and respiratory issues killed a number of sailors.

By the time the fleet was in Madagascar in January, Port Arthur had fallen. Their mission was then changed: They were to meet the remnants of Russia's Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok before engaging the Japanese in a decisive battle.

Slaughter at Tsushima

When the Russian ships finally reached the Tsushima Strait on the night of May 26, 1905, Rozhestvensky attempted to slip through unnoticed. Unfortunately for him, a patrolling Japanese vessel had spotted one of his ships.

Even more unfortunately, the Russian ship mistakenly believed the Japanese vessel was a lost Russian ship and signaled that more Russian ships were nearby.

With the location of his enemy confirmed, Japanese Adm. Tōgō Heihachirō's Combined Fleet — which included four modern battleships, over 20 cruisers, 21 destroyers, and 43 torpedo boats — set out to meet them.

On the morning of May 27, the fleets made contact. Before the firing began, Tōgō hoisted a signal flag that conveyed a predetermined message to his fleet: "The Empire's fate depends on the result of this battle, let every man do his utmost duty."

The ensuing battle was a slaughter. In addition to better training, discipline, and experience, the Japanese were equipped with modern armor-piercing rounds that tore the Russian ships apart.

By the end of the day, the Japanese had sunk four Russian battleships. Imperator Aleksandr III sank with its entire crew of over 700 sailors, while Borodino sank with all but one of its more than 800 crew members.

The flagship, Knyaz Suvorov, sank with all but 20 officers, while about half of Oslyabya's crew went down with the ship. The Japanese sunk a number of cruisers and destroyers as well.

As night fell, the survivors attempted to make it to Vladivostok under cover of darkness. Tōgō's destroyers hunted them down, picking off two more battleships and several other warships. By the following afternoon, most of the survivors surrendered.

Lost prestige

Russian losses were immense: 21 ships sunk or scuttled, and seven captured. Only three ships reached Vladivostok, though six others made it to neutral ports in China, the Philippines, and Madagascar.

The Japanese killed over 4,000 Russian sailors were killed and captured almost 6,000. The Japanese lost only three torpedo boats with just 117 killed and about 500 wounded — including a young Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, who lost two fingers in the battle.

The Russian navy's prestige never recovered after Tsushima. It saw little major action in World War I, being unable to rebuild to the same grand scale. The Soviet Navy also only saw limited action in World War II and never truly proved itself during the Cold War, though Soviet submarines were a constant concern for NATO navies.

Today, the Russian navy boasts a smaller, more modern fleet that focuses on green-water operations rather than high-seas campaigns, but its surprising losses against Ukraine show it has yet to regain the dominance it lost a century ago.

By Benjamin Brimelow.

[kyokasuiigetsu]

Looking at old ships excites me

[a-4skyhawk]

USS Hancock CV-19

[kckramer]

Standard Terran Naval Classes- Iron Horizons

So, this one was a case study example of Scope Creep. I initially envisioned like... 900 words tops. It came out at around 3700 words. It went dramatically further than I expected.

And if that's not the perfect example of why I have yet to finish a large project, I don't know what is.

[rexstewartoriginals]

Research...research...and more research will give you the amazing answers to what you’re searching for. And yes, it takes patience (and sacrifice); but you will ‘arrive’! Here, after pouring over hundreds of figurehead images, I finally put together my version for the American privateer I’m undertaking.

What makes such work(s) sought-after is: originality, coupled with passion and focus. History also plays an important part to why I indulge in producing the concepts I do. After careful study, I was able to design this probable concept that graced the bow of this fighting ship -the American privateer of which 20,000 roamed the seas during the Revolution under The Letter Of Marque.

[news4nose]

#MEA #India Launches Operation Ajay To Bring Back #indians from #Israel .  

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[wombocombo4x3]

HISTORY!? In MY gacha game??