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The concept was to reliant on ideal weather & sea conditions to work. I think the Soviet ekranoplan direction would have been more effective for further development.
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Definitely a great photo of a turret. The turret itself looks French & not British to me. Plus super-dreadnoughts denotes the increases from 12in to 13.5in & 14in main guns. Post cards of the time were quite unreliable in their information.
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With the size of the Royal Navy, their ships have some weird names.
Ramillies is a personal favorite because she was the only battleship to use the colorful dazzle camo in WW1.
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I knew about APD8, but with the character limit I did not include that info. Some info was posted with the Facebook & Instagram post.
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With the Twins, water egress was a definite problem. The blast bags helped with that problem. They also kept smoke, gases, and blast pressure from other guns from entering the turret. Those things could injure crew and damage components inside the turret.
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Thank you for the info and good questions.
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I believe it is SMS Posen with the crosses on her guns. Westfalen did havre 2 rings on turrets in photos. The crosses in the photo are different than described in the article. The 4 photos I bought have different pilot names. My guess is the ✝️ is training aid for spotting. The ✝️ are new to me.
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Correct it was 1910. The photographer was Carl Tietz. He was a German/Norwegian photographer.
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One of my favorites!
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Nice, France
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Village of Oia on the Island Thira in Santorini, Greece.