Littorio-class: the most beautiful battleships ever? Littorio, Vittorio Veneto, Roma, and Impero. 9x15" guns; 49,864 tons; 238m x 33m (780'x108'); 128,200 shp.

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1/ - The US Navy battleship North Carolina (BB-55) was first of two North Carolina-class 9x16" battleships, the other being USS Washington (now scrapped).

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1/ - Let's visit , the world's oldest steel warship, Commodore George Dewey's flagship, and flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay in the 1898 Spanish–American War. THREAD + VIRTUAL TOUR FOLLOWS...

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Happy Whit Sunday. Hope you have a better one that Nat. Hawthorne did at Tranmere Fair in 1855. Other options - steamship to Bristol or the Isle of Man, steam train to North Wales and the opening of St George’s organ.
Read all about it: https://t.co/Zjx2RQIpgk

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Beware of scammers - Victorian style. Warning: contains violence, strong language and exploitation

read all about it
https://t.co/fgncbfTnaq

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's tips on tax avoidance for US shipowners.

Anyone know anything of the Carpenters Clubs operating in Liverpool shipyards mid 19thC? (Nothing to do with Karen & Richard)

https://t.co/yRfZGF1Yu8

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Our first US visitor of 2020.

Unfortunately arrived while still dark but a few record shots at least.

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