#ship posting

[sushisocks]

i wake up and i am immediately thinking about those characters. i eat breakfast and i am thinking about those characters. i do chores and i am thinking about those characters. i do any work, i study, i walk the dogs, and i am thinking about those characters. i go to bed and i am thinkign

#teki talks #rdr2 #YES THIS IS ABOUT MACSUMMERS SPECIFICALLY #but also like the entire vdl gang lets be fucking forreal #rdr thoughts #ship posting

[ghostb3rry]

happy lemres day this is my contribution

#puyo puyo #lemres puyo puyo #schezo wegey #lemschez #shitpost #little meme i did for his birthday smilly face #Last minute ik but still #ship posting

[irldrfan]

kokoford they way they look at each other

#rain code #master detective archives: rain code #raincode #fubuyuma #kokoford #ship posting #also shinigami i guess in the background

[qsmpbutwithsignlanguage]

The logical part of my brain: QSMP is an acronym, you should pronounce it "cue-ess-em-pee"

The other half of my brain: haha cwah-sump

#no that's exactly what i do #why #why is this happening #why is my brain like this #qsmp #ship posting #qsmp shitpost #text post

[mapo-leon]

Guess who managed to get themselves on board a ship just to see how it looked inside

#me #its me #it was very nice #and three separate people offered me to stay for the trip #me talks #ship posting #ship photos

[max-veers]

Hi, General!

Uh, sir….. hypothetically speaking, do you know if Grand Admiral Thrawn likes blondes?

- a very flustered medical officer

Speaking purely hypothetically and with no bearing on reality whatsoever, I can say that he has drunkenly kissed at least one blond army officer. Hypothetically.

#the general’s askbox #ship posting #maximilian veers #thrawn

[kineticpenguin]

“Is it better to scrap warships and immortalize them as waifus or start a massive tax fund to preserve them as museums,” the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

#ship posting

[pathfinderswiftpen]

#age of sail #ship posting #mutiny on the bounty

[toast-com]

Ships are mermaids, Trains are centaurs.

#toasty talks #no context #loco posting...adjacent #ship posting

[sushisocks]

wdym this isn't canon?

#it is canon in my heart #had this one rangling in my head for a while so decided to share #id make an edit out of this entire scene just to add arthur being like 'youth culture confuses me' like leslie at the end yk #maybe another time take this for now #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #sean macguire #lenny summers #karen jones #karen jones x sean macguire #macjones #macsummers #sean macguire x lenny summers #rdr2 memes #i love these three they are my faves if you couldnt tell #rdr thoughts #ship posting

[soopysoap]

bro chrincess is def that couple that every person under the sun is jealous of. jealous of their relationship w each other, jealous of their combined confidence, jealous of their fucking humor, JEALOUS OF HOW THEY R BOTH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PPL TO GRACE THE PLANET, jealous of how nice/chill/down to earth they are, THE LIST GOES ONNN

#they rlly are That Couple idk #ocs #ship posting

[charliessinferno]

this is so random but here's a list of OUAT characters i ship together :3 most of them involve the mad hatter bc he's my fave

★ Madgold (The Mad Hatter x Mr. Gold)

★ Rumbelle (Mr. Gold x Belle French)

★ Swanqueen (Emma x Regina)

★ Madarcher (Tilly x Robin) (ZELENAS DAUGHTER ROBIN)

★ Maddoctor (The Mad Hatter x Victor Frankenstein)

★ Madbeauty (The Mad Hatter x Belle French)

★ Captainswan (Emma x Killian) (I'm not a huge fan of this one but I think it's cute :D)

★ Madcharming (Mad Hatter x David)

★ I forgot the ship name for Regina x Robin but them too :,D

★ Redslippers (Ruby x Dorothy)

★ Henry x Violet (forgot their ship name as well)

★ Henry x Jacinda

★ Madqueen (Mad Hatter x Regina) (MY OTP)

★ Madswan (Mad Hatter x Emma)

★ Rumbellerson (Mr. Gold x Belle x Jefferson)

★ Woodenhatter (August x Mad Hatter)

★ Candyhatter (Nick x Mad Hatter)

★ Hatsman (idk if that's their ship name) (Mad Hatter x Graham)

(Hate DNI plz! ^^)

#ignore the fact its a whole LIST #me when theres a ship involving the mad hatter 😍😍😍 #me after shipping every character known to man with the mad hatter😍 #silly #sill #ouat #once upon a time #my ships #ship list #ship posting #shipposting #shiplist #ouat ships #madqueen #madswan #madarcher #swanqueen #mmm men #ouat🖤

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

hi i know this is only exciting for me and maybe three people who follow me but caladan oceanic (the company who found the samuel b roberts, the current deepest ever located) just released part one of their full search for the uss johnston!!!!

before the sammy b was found, the uss johnston was the deepest shipwreck ever found and prior to this, theyve only released ~10 second clips from that dive and ahhh my autism is feral with excitement right now

#kai rambles #caladan oceanic #uss johnston #samuel b roberts #uss samuel b roberts #shipposting #ship posting #i forgot which tag i used but i do not care #theres nearly three hours of footage available and this is only part one!!!! #victor vescovo #i know what im watching tomorrow when my brains less foggy and i can focus more

[mutatedangels-a]

corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture

@carp3diems

#out of cheetos #carp3diems #ship. jody x soleil x valentina x lilith ( she had me hook line and sinker ) #ship posting #I HAD TO OKAY #they look like knuckleheads

[mapo-leon]

I am doing ship photo dump.

I went by a train like two big cities over and so many pretty ships here!!

#how do I even tag this #ship posting #ship photos #tug ship #i hope this ends up with all the posts about shipping characters

[yaboybats]

(ANON hands to YABOYBATS a coupon with the label "For one post about warship design, 1863-1910")

Good news, this is a buy one get [UNKNOWN] free!

Imma start with ironclads and keep going until I run out of things to say.

So! It's the 1860s. The Industrial Revolution (and its consequences) have already happened, the Bessemer process has made steel and high quality refined iron easier to create than ever, and steam engines are powering all sorts of things.

Warships however... still look an awful lot like your classic age of sail multi-decked monstrosity. Because they are! Outside of the introduction of rifled cannons and explosive shells, things really haven't changed much. In fact, quite a few admirals were against the use of explosive shells since they made outright destroying a vessel from range instead of conducting honorable boarding actions much more possible. (it is very difficult to sink something less dense than water by poking holes in it) The main method of steam propulsion is paddle wheels, which are great for river boats, not so much for warships. Restricts firing arcs and is positioned in such a way that it's very vulnerable to getting cannonballed into scrap quite fast.

So that leaves us with wooden warships with sails and broadsides. Broadsides were a good way of putting as much fire in one direction as possible, but only worked sideways. (Sides of ships are broad.) Sails restrict how you can, well, sail. The wind is a fickle mistress.

So where do you go from here? Well, not too long ago, the british had the idea of sticking iron on the side of barges they were using for shore bombardment. As it turns out, iron is a lot less explodey than wood. The french had the idea of doing this to a proper warship (called the Gloire) and the british, always one to one up the french, made their own. These were still generic sailing ships, just with iron armor on the sides. Iron cladding, you could say. Ironclads!

These ships, to be frank, weren’t that great. They were still wooden sailing ships with broadsides and had quite a lot less firepower than their contemporaries owing to their increased weight.

The americans, busy with their civil war, had some ideas. I will broadly classify these as casemate and monitor designs.

The confederacy, desperate to break the union blockade, had to get weird. Using captured and homemade hulls, they slapped on railway iron hulls. The most famous of these designs was the C.S.S. Virginia. This casemate design solved several of the above problems. It had a propellor, broadsides with swivel guns (guns with variable mounting. In this case multiple firing ports offset at angles on the bow and stern), and casemate armor. This is sloped armor with firing ports. It also had a ram, which didn’t do much, though that didn’t stop it from becoming popular.

It proved devastatingly effective, causing the greatest loss of life in the US navy until pearl harbor at its first and only showing, the battle of hampton roads. Only the smokestack wound up suffering significant damage after combat with an entire fleet of wooden sailing vessels.

Casemate vessels were used by both sides. The union obviously had more, and mostly used them for shore bombardment, much like the original british vessels.

The monitor design is much more interesting. So named for the first such vessel, the U.S.S. Monitor. The Monitor featured the first gun turret put to sea. It was a low and flat ship, other than retractable smokestacks, an armored “pilothouse” where the ship was steered and captained, and the turret itself. The goal was that the turret could fire in any direction while the ship can have any heading. They ended up unable to fire over the pilothouse because it deafened the captain and didn’t fire over the smokestacks.

The union made a great many monitors (some super-monitors had multiple turrets for some ungodly reason). They weren’t very seaworthy, but they were far more advanced than… anything else in the world.

After all this, everyone realized that propellor driven ironclads with a turret was a great idea. Except some dude in england who did a hybrid sail ironclad with the turret in the middle deck. It sank and he died. He deserved it. Fucking moron.

From here until the pre-dreadnought era in the 90s, everyone is trying everything all at once. Shit gets wild. People love rams. People don’t love torpedoes even though they SHOULD. Guns get bigger and quicker firing. Ships gets dramatically weirder until steam engines stop sucking as much. The united states really like monitors for some reason.

Part two will cover important things like weapon development around this time because that feeds into a lot of the other stuff needed for pre-dreadnoughts and dreadnoughts.

#ship posting