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Lexington CV2

from SDASM Archives

  • TVL1970 said:
    This is a photo of the USS Lexington's (CV-2) "plank owner" commander, Captain (later, Read Admiral) Albert Ware Marshall, next to a "World Records" plaque affixed to the ship commemorating the ship's speed record described below in an Associated Press report in the Tuesday, June 12, 1928 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune: NAVY AIRCRAFT CARRIER SETS WORLD RECORD
    Washington, D.C., June 11. - (AP) - By steaming over the waters of the Pacific Ocean at an average speed of 29.2 knots an hour for 24 hours, the giant aircraft carrier Lexington established a world record day's run of 700 nautical miles. When the commander of the 33,000 ton vessel advised the Navy Department of the achievement today, the Lexington was traveling 30.4 knots an hour and indications were that she may surpass the record the first 24 hours on her 2,228 nautical mile trip from San Pedro, Cal., to Honolulu, where she is due to arrive tomorrow at 1 p.m. Captain A.W. Marshall, skipper of the powerful craft, reported that the vessel weighed anchor at San Pedro at noon Saturday.
    See also: www.findagrave.com/memorial/58390545/albert-ware-marshall

Fire fighters on aircraft carrier HMS Theseus, 1947

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Mow Kraux said:
    Are these suits an asbestos and merino wool blend.
    Great picture!

The Rock

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 22 older comments, and then…
  • Nick / said:
    This looks like Gardeners Battery, a similar image here - www.meisterdrucke.com/kunstdrucke/British-Photographer/33...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    maps.app.goo.gl/pGb1KAJgZFf3DUgd7
  • Suck Diesel said:
    "Gardiner's Battery was part of a second set of retired batteries which were proposed by General Sir John Jones. These "retired" batteries were set away from the shoreline in order that they could get greater range by taking advantage of the increased altitude of the Rock of Gibraltar. In addition the batteries were more difficult for the enemy to spot. Jones also built similar batteries at Raglan's Battery and Jones' Battery.[2] This high battery fired out west over the top of Victoria Battery which was also a retired battery and both batteries fired out over the top of Saluting Battery that was on the coast.[3]

    In 1859 the battery had ten guns.[3] At the end of the nineteenth century this battery was using the last generation of muzzle loading guns[4] before breech-loaders became the standard.

    The battery was named after the governor Sir Robert Gardiner,[1] who was known for his disregard of the local population.

    These must have been a success as the urge for increased height eventually led to guns being sited on the very top of the rock.'
    Wiki
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Photographic views of Gibraltar, collected and arranged by Captain S Buckle RE. UK National Archives, CO 1069/709
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Not digitised

    discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11443955