One of those movies that is best on a large screen, all the lights off and volume up really high so you can hear the creaking of the ship and sea.
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One of those movies that is best on a large screen, all the lights off and volume up really high so you can hear the creaking of the ship and sea.
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We went to a maritime museum in Norway and boarded a old square rigged vessel. We felt very tall. As you can imagine we all started discussing how to fight and defend the ship. In the end we decided the men that sailed and battled with those ships were submariner crazy.
It does!I’ve been putting the wood stove ashes on my garden for years. Have no idea if it helps, but it sure doesn’t seem to hurt… and that’s the closest place to dump them!
Absolutely...
There wasn't anywhere to go...so battles are ferocious... Ships of the line launching broadsides while rigging is touching the enemy ship is seriously balls of steel right there!
1805 is the closeout of the 1st Barbary War. U.S. is still trying to figure out the whole "Navy" thing
I've worked 24 and 32 pound naval guns out of a shore battery. It's freaking cool
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It freaked me out to be honest. I just couldn’t even imagine it. Every time I watch the master commander movie I remember being on that ship. Then imaging the medical triage after battle with resources and skill set available takes it to another level. Just seemed kind of like a knife fight, even the winner is bleeding. No thanks…..I think I would have dove overboard into mothers arms and swam to shore.
I struggled with Combat Lifesaver training. No way I could be a medic. I can butcher any animal just fine and play animal doctor, but dealing with combat wounds and screams and what not, hell no
You would have performed admirably and as ordered I'm sure
As the saying goes... this won't hurt me at all
Sand the deck!
When I was a young teenager I picked up one of Forrester's Hornblower novels. Don't remember which one I started with. Read pretty much all of them over the next few years. Pretty vivid detail, although some have argued that O'Brien and others surpassed them and I'm not going to argue that. Little did I know that there was a movie with a youngish Alec Guiness loosely based on one of those books.
It's really hard for Hollywood to recreate a major naval battle - I think the choices with master and Commander were good.
I'd run across a few people who had been on the recreated HMS Rose when it was under sail for some reenactment up in the R.I. area. Super cool.
When I was a young teenager I picked up one of Forrester's Hornblower novels. Don't remember which one I started with. Read pretty much all of them over the next few years. Pretty vivid detail, although some have argued that O'Brien and others surpassed them and I'm not going to argue that. Little did I know that there was a movie with a youngish Alec Guiness loosely based on one of those books.
It's really hard for Hollywood to recreate a major naval battle - I think the choices with master and Commander were good.
I'd run across a few people who had been on the recreated HMS Rose when it was under sail for some reenactment up in the R.I. area. Super cool.
The best Hollywood naval battle movie was the original Midway… why? Cause they used actual footage from 1942
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O that’s funny right there.literally made me laugh out loud! Last time I heard that quote was right before I got slashed to have a drain inserted. Hah!You would have performed admirably and as ordered I'm sure
As the saying goes... this won't hurt me at all
I agree. Me thinks if you didn't jump ship before getting out to sea you'ld been a part of the team.
Or you'd be up in the masts with musket and swivel gun with the rest of the Marines!
That was pretty close to the exchange between the docs and my dad after they drilled a drain in his head.
Yea forgot about that. I'm told Das Boot is quite good. Sorry I missed it when it was in the theaters.
But from the age of sail, obviously no film, a few photos and those from later, and hardly any ships left.
Far better naval historians than I note Master and Commander as being highly accurate
How about Under Siege haha
Shame they never made the sequel
Or that Battleship movie in like 2016 lolI think I threw up a little
Getting closer. Almost 190°.
I usually smoke them in tin pans but not this time. It looks like I will have a little clean up. Not to worry. Scrape it with a gasket scraper and vacuum out the belly and I'm ready to go for the next round.
That was the best thing in either movie. The Battleship.
Ever seen the movie “Sink the Bismarck”? Great movie. Fairly accurate…
Spoiler Alert: don’t read farther
if you believe the British accounts and not the scientific stuff that has come out since that disproves the British actually sank the Bismarck (an expedition a few years back found that no British shells or tornadoes penetrated the Bismarcks hull. They found blast holes from the inside out and on the main water valves, basically the Germans scuttled her after her guns were knocked out. )
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