#naval

[letmeinimafairy]

Back to the classic with icebound HMS Terror on labradorite, a long-awaited gift for a dear friend.

[gracieisgrowing]

Your belly button is becoming an abyss 😲

I bet it could be deeper 😈

[jrgdrawing-real]

l've always loved naval tools and aesthetics, especially the flags. Their patterns and colors are so cool, I wish I owned some real ones. I'd display these everywhere!!

[plaiesancier]

[captain-price-returns]

Swedish Navy corvette HSwMS Karlstad (K35), 5th ship of the Visby-class

[medievalistsnet]

How Medieval Navies Recruited Sailors Who Didn’t Want to Sail

Medieval navies struggled to find willing sailors, often resorting to bribes, deception, and even forced service to fill their ranks. From staged sea battles to promises of silver and spoils, recruiters used every trick in the book to turn reluctant men into seafarers.

How Medieval Navies Recruited Sailors Who Didn’t Want to Sail - Medievalists.net

Medieval navies struggled to find willing sailors, often resorting to bribes, deception, and even forced service to fill their ranks. From s

[destinationsjourney]

The USS Alabama (BB-8) was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1900 as part of the Illinois class. Built during a period of rapid naval expansion, she represented America’s growing ambition to become a major sea power at the turn of the twentieth century. Armed with four 13-inch guns in two twin turrets and supported by a powerful secondary battery, Alabama combined heavy firepower with thick armor protection typical of battleships of her era.

USS Alabama served in the Atlantic Fleet and later with the Great White Fleet period of American naval development, although she did not participate in major combat operations. Her duties included training exercises, fleet manoeuvres, and diplomatic cruises that demonstrated American naval strength abroad. By the 1910s, advances in battleship technology had rendered pre-dreadnoughts obsolete. USS Alabama was decommissioned in 1920 and later used as a target ship before being scrapped.