#sank

[distressedwalnut]

gently holding sank and patting him into a little ball

splendid

[habbhks]

[rabbitcruiser]

World War I: German submarine U-20 sank RMS Lusitania off the southern coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.  

[jmpphoto]

Ghost Boat of Government Wash by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Ghost Boat of Government Wash Lake Mead NRA Clark County, Nevada July 2022

[staticwings]

Waiting for the future.

[myplasticheart]

Sank Fly Bronze Age by @sanktoys is the latest dynamic figure featuring the Sank Diver in the popular Bronze Age colorway. Beautiful! Available for preorder now at myplasticheart.com #sank #sanktoys #resin #myplasticheart (at myplasticheart) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpz5V49uGRu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[saviorsen]

sank

under

[nothoward]

Shipped Jeep, Sheep Dip, Deeped Ship.

That, that, that!

[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

[bbyteach]

Title ideas for this little comic were ‘stede loves his heavily tatted wife’ or just ‘the inn just becomes a tattoo studio in 1717 AU’ idk

[travsd]

The Sunken Submersibles of Coney Island

I can’t believe it’s taken me ten days to think of this post, but on the other, prior to this was perhaps too soon and too close, and tempers were flying oddly high. For the post is obviously inspired by the recent implosion of the Titan submersible. Like everything of late, this event seemed to tear everyone on social media in two; I found myself in both camps. On the one hand, I am a huge…

[aquanzacadogan]

Shelfie.

[rabbitcruiser]

The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg, on April 15, 1912. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survived.

[jmpphoto]

Megadrought by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Megadrought Government Wash Lake Mead NRA Clark County, Nevada June 2022 From my hike last Friday morning. This speedboat has become a sad beacon for watching the water level drop on Lake Mead. Lake water completely surrounded the lower portion of the boat at the end of May. This photo was taken on June 24th

[staticwings]

SANK

[myplasticheart]

Sank Banana 🍌 by @sanktoys features an interchangeable banana accessory that can replace the classic feather. Order your own Banana boy now at myplasticheart.com #sank #banana #resin #diver #resin #myplasticheart (at myplasticheart) https://www.instagram.com/p/CncD52cOr4D/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=