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Dave Long
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Personal account, all opinions my own and not representative of anyone/thing else. Interested in critical thinking, naval history and raising ME/CFS awareness. Also, random nice photos :)
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Dave Long @axe99.bsky.social · Jan 12
[Pinned] Welcome to the Naval History Feed 😊 This feed aims to bring together posts about naval history (anything from 20 years or so ago and older). To have your posts or replies show up in the feed, just tag them with #NavalHistory. For more on this feed and feeds in general, read on 😊 (1/8)
A black-and-white photo of the aircraft carrier Argus in dazzle camouflage.
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#OTD Nov. 30 1908 the Root-Takahira Agreement was signed, one of many preventative steps to avoiding war between the U.S and Japan. Both agreed to maintain the status quo in the Pacific in addition to Japan honoring the open door in China and America acknowledging Japanese mastery in Manchuria.
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Happy first day of summer! ☀️🌊

It’s also National Water Safety Day the perfect moment to recognise the generations of lifesavers who’ve been keeping Australians safe in the surf for nearly a century.
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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A very interesting (if somewhat grim) document well-discussed.

#MaritimeHistory

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December 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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What a wonderful weekend of Augustin Fresnel performances! Happy 150th to Currituck Beach Lighthouse and thank you Northern Outer Banks and Corolla NC for your hospitality!!!

#lighthouses #150thAnniversary #lighthousehistory #lighthouselovers #maritimehistory #fresnel #currituck #corollanc
Joseph Smith as Augustin Fresnel Joseph Smith as Augustin Fresnel
November 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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USRC Thetis logkeeper struggling with the Russian name of a seaman (should be Constantine Yakovlev - Яковлев in his language). After Jokoflef, Jokofleff and Jkofliff he gives up and write just Constantine 😄

Luckily I could link all these names, sometimes it can be tricky

#NavalHistory #OldWeather
December 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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The Fortune of War by British artist Geoff Hunt

This was the artwork used for the novel of the same title by Patrick O’Brian

#AubreyMaturin #RoyalNavy #Ageofsail
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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IJN Aircraft carrier Chiyoda
Date: December 1, 1943
Location: Inside Tokyo Bay
Photo:
Situation: Completed remodeling to an aircraft carrier and undergoing public testing

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December 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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IJN 1st Supply Unit
Date: December 1, 1941
Location: North Pacific
Photo: Morikazu Takeda from the Kyokuto Maru
Situation: Kokuyo Maru, Nippon Maru, Shinkuni Maru from the top

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December 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Anyone else’s Apple Watch ⌚️ in the boot loop? How do I fix it?
November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I’ve had an excellent couple of days at the Fécamp herring festival. A charter from 1088 granted the abbey of Fécamp permission for a herring fair. Today, as well as the vendeurs and grilleurs, there is the crowning and weighing of a Herring Queen (equiv to 1,501 herring, incase you wanted to know).
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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These Muslim pirates sailing out of the ports of North Africa terrorized the seas for several centuries.
#history #historybookchat #maritimehistory
Cover of Barbary Corsairs: Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580 by Jacques Heers.
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Greenwich day trip now live at youtu.be/_4O9-EuEbAs - Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark #greenwich #london #greenwichpark #uk #royalobservatory #maritimehistory
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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At the Roysth Dockyards, Scotland seen from HMS Sutlej, the Anglo-American Boxing Championship put on by the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet.

#boxing #championship #grandfleet #royalnavy #usnavy #ww1 #worldwar1
#navalhistory #history #sport #competition
November 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Any ideas how to access this diary. The online version appears to be no longer available. Am researching HMS Capetown #navalhistory

www.loc.gov/collections/...
Herbert Raymond DeGenere Collection
Radioman Second Class, Navy, World War, 1939-1945 - Newport, Rhode Island; New York; Pennsylvania; Norfolk, Virginia; Pacific; European Theater; England.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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30 Nov 1944 // Minesweeper HMSAS Bever hit a mine while sweeping with HMSAS Seksern in the Aegean off Nauplia, and sank in seconds: 17 of her crew of 25 lost their lives. The end of a small ship with a distinguished fighting record, particularly at Tobruk. #SouthAfricanNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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30 Nov 1944 // Frigate HMS Duff struck a mine off Ostend which exploded under her forward boiler room, killing three men and leaving her seriously damaged. She was able to reach Harwich under her own power but was declared a total loss and not repaired. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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30 Nov 1940 // HM Trawler Chestnut was minesweeping off Portsmouth with another trawler, HMT Ash, when two mines detonated nearby, one close on her port side, the other 100 yards away. The Ash took her in tow but she sank soon afterwards. There were no casualties. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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30 Nov 1919 // Motor launch ML.378 was driven onto the Longships reef off Land's End in a gale after losing power, and was wrecked with the loss of one man. The other eight members of her crew were saved by the Sennen Lifeboat in a courageous rescue operation. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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30 Nov 1916 // HM Drifter Eskburn, a Whitby boat in #RoyalNavy service as a net barrier tender, sank off Oldstairs Bay between Deal and Dover after a collision with paddle minesweeper Kylemore. No lives were lost. #WW1 #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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30 Nov 1812 // 10-gun schooner HMS Subtle was lost in a squall in the Leeward Islands while pursuing an American privateer. Observers on Saint Barthélemy saw her disappear into the squall, but she never reappeared. A search found no trace of her, and no survivors. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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30 Nov 1805 // 4-gun schooner HMS Pigeon struck a sandbank off Texel, Dutch Frisian Islands, in poor weather while carrying despatches from Great Yarmouth to Bremen. She could not be refloated, and when Dutch soldiers approached she surrendered. There were no casualties. [1/4]
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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30 Nov 1783 // Hulk HMS Jersey, a former 60-gun 4th-rate warship built in 1736, was abandoned and burned at her moorings in Wallabout Bay, New York, as the British withdrew following defeat in the American War. Hulked in 1770 as a hospital ship, she was converted to a prison ship in 1780. [1/2]
'The Jersey Prison-Ship', undated 19th-century engraving, New York Public Library via Wikimedia Commons. Engraving of the ship, starboard side profile view, with explanatory text below. Text reads: The history of this prison ship, which was used as such at the Wallabout, where the Brooklyn Navy Yard now is, is so familiar to all Americans, that it is not necessary to repeat it here. The following, having reference to figures on the engraving, is a description of her: 1. The flag-staff, which was seldom used, and only for signals. 2. A canvas or awning tent, used by the guards in warm weather. 3. The quarter-deck, with its barricades about ten feet high, with a door and loop holes on each side. 4. The ship's officers' cabin, under the quarter deck. 5. Accommodation ladder, on the starboard side, for the use of the ship's officers. 6. The steerage, occupied by the sailors belonging to the ship. 7. The cook's room for the ship's crew and guards. 8. The sutler's room where articles were sold to the prisoners, and delivered to them through and opening in the bulk head. 9. The upper deck and Spar deck where prisoners were occasionally allowed to walk. 10. The gangway ladder, on the larboard side, for the prisoners. 11. The derrick, on the starboard side, for taking in water, &c. 12. The galley, or great copper, under the forecastle, where the provisions were cooked for the prisoners. 13. The gun room, occupied by those prisoners who were officers. 14-15. Hatchways leading below, where the prisoners were confined. 16. Foot of the gang-plank. 17-18. Between decks, where the prisoners were confined at night. 19. The bowsprit. 20. Chain cables, by which the ship was moored.
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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30 Nov 1780 // 16-gun fireship HMS Pluto encountered 24-gun French privateer Duc de Chartres early on a foggy morning south-west of the Scilly Isles. An exchange of broadsides was followed by a chase, which ended with the Pluto surrendering after being overhauled. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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30 Nov 1768 // 6-gun schooner HMS Boston was accidentally burned in her winter anchorage on Lake Ontario at some point during November 1768, precise date unknown. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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30 Nov 1775 // Sloop HMS Chippewa, used by the Provincial Marine of British Canada to carry stores, was driven ashore and wrecked near Long Point on the north shore of Lake Erie during November 1775, precise date unknown. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM