Adventures of the Blackgang

furtho:

Traffic and the scuttled Normandy, West Side Highway, New York, 1942 (via here)

Ship fire

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historicaltimes:

Battery Park and Governor’s Island, New York City, New York. Photographed from the Whitehall Building. Photo by Irving Underhill, 1911. Library of Congress.

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historicaltimes:

Operation Crossroads. Aerial view of mushroom cloud from atomic bomb Able, Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. 11° 35′ 00″ N, 165° 23′ 00″ E, 1 July 1946.

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historicaltimes:

HMS HERMES about to berth at Portsmouth Harbour on her return from the Falkland Islands, 21 July 1982. Credit: Unknow Royal Navy official photographer

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historicaltimes:

Donald Manson, ice master and whaling captain, photographed on the sloop Phoenix off the coast of Greenland, 1854

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historicaltimes:

Theodore Roosevelt visiting the Panama Canal construction site, 1904

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historicaltimes:

Sailor being treated for burns received during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 1941. Photo by J.R. Eyerman for Life magazine.

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historicaltimes:

Admiralty M-class destroyer HMS Opal, is prepared for launch at the East Yard of William Doxford & Sons Ltd, Sunderland, September 1915.

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A Newly Discovered Diary Tells the Harrowing Story of the Deadly Halifax Explosion

On the eve of the disaster’s centennial, a sailor’s 1917 journal details a rare eyewitness account of the massive harbor blast

historicaltimes:

Crewmen of USS Pueblo leave a U.S. Army bus at the United Nations Advance Camp, following their release by the North Korean government at the Korean Demilitarized Zone on 23 December 1968.

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bmashina:

The black sea fleet destroyers of the “Novik” and the R-1 plane, ~1930 Perhaps just a good montage

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steamer torpedoed by a German submarine

Picturing the First World War

nemfrog:

Annular eclipse. Astronomy for beginners in thirty-two lessons. 1885. Internet Archive.

xoverit:

The USS Lexington providing electricity to the city of Tacoma, which was left without power during the winter of 1929-30 due to a severe drought. (1929)

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