And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
The bow of the drydocked cruiser HMS Fearless after colliding with the submarine K17, 31 January 1918.
I imaging K17 did not make it into port?
ReplyDeleteand on further researches, alas no. the sailors made it into the water but...shit happens in war.
DeleteRamming one ship into another ship usually ends badly.
ReplyDeleteEspecially when it's one of your own.
DeleteThe aftermath of the Battle of May Island.
ReplyDeleteThe British K-class subs were steam-powered, if you can imagine that! Oil-fired boilers.
ReplyDeleteNuclear submarines are steam powered.
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