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USS Mississippi (BB-41) fires a broadside salvo amid a high speed turn while on exercises with the US Navy Pacific Fleet. Ca. June 1919.
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USS North Carolina (BB-55) getting hull repairs at her berth in Wilmington, NC. Posted in WilmingtonBiz Magazine, June 30, 2021.
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American battleship USS Ostfriesland approaches New York on her way from Rosyth. Off Sandy Hook Beach, NJ, 9 August 1920
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USS Arizona with a pair of Wickes-class destroyers after completing her modernization, March 1931. Among the changes, a new black powder catapult was added, but its magazine is considered to have inadvertently led to Arizona's destruction at Pearl Harbor
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USS Duncan (DD-46) making 15 knots while running trials, 5 July 1913
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USS South Dakota (BB-57), USS Alabama (BB-60) and HMS Anson (79) in the North Atlantic, 1943
I wasn't aware that was going on. Those repairs are long overdue. I'm glad they're finally getting to it.
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about 10 minutes of video.
The Soviet boat engine, Zvezda M503 (3:00 minute mark) is here -- darn thing still scary to be around -- i wouldnt wanna stand next to it.
That Kawasaki 48 cylinder bike engine didnt sound like it was ever running right (7:17 minute mark)
coolest aircraft engine ever -- only cuz I had a chance to be close to one in a past life. Also a buddy (since passed away and sold his plan) had a P51 Mustang with one in it,
Rolls Royce Merlin 1650, built by Packard. 20 mins of Jay Leno, about 12:00 min mark he starts it up outside. Before that, he gives a good history of the engine and how he got it.
Rolls Royce Merlin 1650, built by Packard. 20 mins of Jay Leno, about 12:00 min mark he starts it up outside. Before that, he gives a good history of the engine and how he got it.
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Ostfriesland was a German Battleship claimed by the US after WWI. It was used to test Billy Mitchell's theories on air power. It was sunk by aerial bombs in July, 1921.
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USS Wisconsin (BB-64) moored in Norfolk
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USS Prinz Eugen IX-300, formerly the German Admiral Hipper-class Cruiser Prinz Eugen, at Boston Massachusetts in January 1946
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Battleship Tsesarevich ('Crown Prince') leads Slava, Andrei Pervozvanny, Imperator Pavel I during annual maneuvers of the Russian Baltic fleet. Armored cruisers Bayan and Pallada are seen on the left. The Baltic Sea off Reval (Tallinn), Summer 1912.
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A bow view of the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) underway during sea trials, Aug 29, 1988
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USS Tennessee (BB-43) makes a port call at Vancouver after winning gunnery contest among the units of the US Pacific Fleet. RMS Empress of Australia (former German liner Tirpitz) is in the background. Fall 1922.
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USS Maryland (BB-46) showing her blisters while in drydock at Puget Sound NS, July 2, 1941
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Battleship Tirpitz with guns trained to port.
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Stern view of the Bismarck, 1940-1941
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14“ naval guns and naval gun turret construction. Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem PA. 1918
