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Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · Nov 19

Starting a temporary thread of threads so I can find stuff again, starting with a subject close to my heart...

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · Oct 8

This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War.

Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...

Wren Janet Okell, staring at the camera with a slightly awkward smile. Fair enough - as we'll see, she did her best work hidden behind a screen...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 1h

For the prosecution or the defence?

(Full disclosure - the hidden track off the Magic Treehouse was on my mixtape that I listened to before races)

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3h

a man wearing glasses and a leather jacket says yeah yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied

Alt: Jeff Goldblum giving it the old "your scientists..." quote

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3h

I hope you at least gave them an accession number before filing them?

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3h

Over here hush puppies are rather comfortable but boring shoes. I was briefly wondering why you would fry one, but then remembered there are times you run out of midshipmen.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 3h

Even now a crack team of Scottish culinary scientists are racing against time to discover a way to deep fry it.

juux @juux.com · 3h

omg part deux

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 4h

Kipling's gone surprisingly out of fashion these days. Some critics suggest his Edwardian jingoism is now rather dated, whereas others point to his refusal to produce a caterpillar birthday cake.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 4h

A pump and dump scheme, no less

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 4h

What's the worst that can happen?

Brazilian superstar Ronaldo, wearing a haircut that can only be described the tragic consequences of a young man left a long way from home in a hotel room devoid of any entertainment except the hair clippers. You know that experiment that showed people would rather electrocute themselves than do nothing? It's exactly that as a haircut.

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 7h

It's on the RAIB section of gov uk

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 8h

Pretty much the same here. If I'm writing I'll often end up with a dozen open, but they'll be closed down as soon as I'm finished. It's one reason I use incognito mode so often - it's really quick and easy to dump them all at once!

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, it just seems to have been mooching around after the rib, which isn't a particularly evolved plan, is it?

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Iain Ballantyne @iainballantyne.bsky.social · 9h

Here's a video of how a Norwegian frigate was sunk by a submarine-launched torpedo off Norway www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovdn... Caution: if you are prone to seasickness the up close angles of the finale may not be for you 🤢 More to come in Warships IFR magazine...

#maritime #news #weapons #naval

NORWEGIAN WARSHIP TORPEDOED

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, I read the report. Still trying to work out if there's an angle to take.

I mean, not the one it's sitting at there, obviously, but...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 9h

That’s not very typical.

(Hope it's relatively expected bleeding and not just your delayed entrance into the mooted episode of House)

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 9h

Leaves on the line are a lot less funny than they sound, tbf

Aftermath of the Salisbury rail crash of 2021, with two passenger trains wedged in a tunnel and emergency services on scene. One driver suffered life-changing injuries, 13 others were treated in hospital. The cause was leaves on the track leaving one of the trains unable to stop, then passing a signal at danger.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 20h

Cirencester's a weird example that likely identifies somebody as a visitor from another century (likewise Pontefract)

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 20h

There's a whole rule book written in blood...

(I was mostly joking about the idea of official reports taking the tone of this account, but if I had the technical knowledge - and I don't - the actual work wouldn't be a problem for me. It all saves lives in the long run.)

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not saying I'd be 100% right, btw. But I bet rather more people would read it...

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21h

Look, if anything is possibly going to fall down I'm absolutely not the person to send. To explain to other people why doing x, y and z was a bad idea, on the other hand...

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21h

Oh they are, and I read them all. Ditto for the MAIB and AAIB.

They're all very accessible for the lay reader and highly recommended to anybody in a position of leadership. You can learn a lot about teamwork and how to work (or not work!) a problem.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 21h

btw anybody interested in this might like to know about @rwldproject.bsky.social

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, but the railway companies had lots of material taking people not to do that. Not their fault if nobody listens, is it?

(Spoiler: totally their fault still)

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22h

Glad to hear it

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22h

I've read a lot of the ones for the old York station, and it's a hilarious litany of "as I told you last time this idiocy caused an accident, just three months ago, STOP BLOODY DOING THIS!"

The old York station was an operational embarrassment. It makes for great reading.

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22h

A successful one, I hope?

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