Six 19th Century coins and tokens have been discovered beneath the foremast of HMS Victory.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8p4yqen0go

The discovery connects directly to a long-standing maritime tradition in which coins were placed beneath a ship's mast as a symbolic act.

The newly discovered coins and token, together with the earlier coin discovered beneath Victory's main lower mast, will go on display in the Victory Gallery at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

#numismatics #CoinCollecting #coins #history #navy #RoyalNavy #histodons #ship #shipping #NavalHistory @numismatics @histodons

The Missile Genius America Lost—and China Gained

How the United States forced out one of its greatest scientific minds, driving him into the hands of the enemy and spawning Communist China’s missile program.

U.S. Naval Institute
#NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory after a 7 year volunteer project recataloguing of ADM 1 Captains’ Letters has been completed. A document display for staff today showed some the letters which are now easier to access, plus one of the original Admiralty index books which previously the only way in
HMS Spartan was a British light cruiser commissioned on 12 July 1943. In Jan 1944, Spartan was stationed off Anzio during Operation Shingle. On 29 Jan she was attacked by German aircraft using a guided bomb, probably a Henschel Hs 293 radio-controlled glide bomb. Spartan sank quickly in shallow water with heavy loss of life among her crew. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/hms-spartan-british-light-cruiser/ #cruiser #hmsspartan #LightCruiser #maritimehistory #NavalHistory #royalnavy #secondworldwar #warships #worldwartwo #ww2 #WWII

When history is reduced to a single moment of fire and impact, what remains of the men who stood within it? #HistoricalFiction #NavalHistory

https://alluringcreations.co.za/wp/broadside-and-boarding-small-scale-action-in-the-age-of-fighting-sail-by-antoine-vanner/

Broadside and Boarding: Small Scale Action in the Age of Fighting Sail by Antoine Vanner

When history is reduced to a single moment of fire and impact, what remains of the men who stood within it? #HistoricalFiction #NavalHistory

Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books - Travel via Stories
The edited 1900-1902 logs of USC&GSS CP Patterson, US West Coast and Alaska, have been published with four @JourneyPlotter maps.
Our thanks to editor Keith. ⚓🌎
https://www.naval-history.net/OW-US/Patterson/USCGSS_Patterson-1900-02.htm
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I've heard that in the U.S. Navy since WW2, surface-ship sailors, submariners, naval flyers, and marines have always prepared to go to war against up to three enemies at the same time.

(Those enemies being U.S. marines, naval flyers, submariners, and/or surface-ship sailors).

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I'm reading Six Frigates and I had *Thoughts* about who should really be called the Father of the U.S. Navy. So running a poll. Share your thoughts. Either comment there re here. Vote. It's all in good fun.

https://ko-fi.com/polls/Father-of-the-U-S-Navy-L4L21Z71W7

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Father of the U.S. Navy? - Click to view on Ko-fi

Scuttlebutt added a poll on Ko-fi

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