But they taught our fledgling Navy most of what it knew about sailing and fighting.
So any ringknockers, squids, and bluejackets here, like me, might enjoy this
So any ringknockers, squids, and bluejackets here, like me, might enjoy this
I'm a proud Surgeon's Steward, Apothecary, Loblolly Boy, Pharmacist Mate... Hospital Corpsman
Anchors aweigh and drink to the fucking foam!
^^^^ You forgot the most important one! Dick smith!
You mean "Pecker Checker".
Now let's all line up down the passageway outside the Aft Battle Dressing Station (BDS) after "pulling out" of Subic for our reamer screamers and square needles.
@308pirate You forgot "Pelican Raper".
"Former Enemies"?
Still are......
www.businessinsider.com
Still are......
Boris Johnson's government is privately 'desperate' for Trump to lose the election to Joe Biden
Biden and Johnson aren't natural allies. Biden opposed Johnson's pet project of Brexit and reportedly called him a "clone" of President Donald Trump.
www.businessinsider.com .....and I'll have you know.......
Our commercial maritime Industry, particularly whaling, dominated the world post revolution up until the point we destroyed our commercial fleets in the Civil War.
Nantucket became today's Saudia Arabia on their back for sailing around the world and making it back filled with riches.
England was outclassed by US Mariners early and often.
John Paul Jones for the win.
Our commercial maritime Industry, particularly whaling, dominated the world post revolution up until the point we destroyed our commercial fleets in the Civil War.
Nantucket became today's Saudia Arabia on their back for sailing around the world and making it back filled with riches.
England was outclassed by US Mariners early and often.
John Paul Jones for the win.
Technologically and tactically the US Navy was an also ran from 1815 or so until the interwar years of the 20th century. I know national pride is hard to swallow, but them's the facts.
Yeah, we turned submarines and aircraft carriers into operational weapons, but our subs were outclassed by German ones until fleet boats came to the fleet and naval aviation had to wait till the big one to rise.
Not talking about the Navy......I'm talking about our commercial fleet.
We were more successful at infesting the seas at that time than any other Commercial operation.
Gotcha. Not sure what England was focusing on at the time but I'm sure their merchant fleet wasn't absent.
Surprised me to see we were the best at commercializing whaling.
Seems our ideas of "mass production" at sea were novel and superior.
pretty amazing that small island was able to conquer or control half the world, powered by the wind.
This series came out about 20 years ago, but it does show some interesting aspects of the British navy.
Based on the Horatio Hornblower series.
Based on the Horatio Hornblower series.
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