Dreadnought Holidayさんのイラストまとめ

Happy Cape St Vincent day, for those who prefer to say it with hot iron

@R_P_one

In 1825 Laskarina Bouboulina became a Rear Admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy, and in doing so overcame the traditional prejudices against promoting people who were:

a) female, and
b) dead

Seeing as it's apparently World Book Day, a reminder that British Rail asked Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake to produce a railway safety book for kids and that it was everything you could have hoped for.

Can't believe the HMS Polyphemus thread wasn't already in the thread of threads - makes it all the more odd that I regularly get comments from people who have discovered it and now I'm wondering how.

Because torpedo rams sound impossibly cool. That's how.

Nuclear powered airships were definitely an idea that was floating around at the time - albeit not literally - the Soviets were also thinking about building one...