Ivor's an Engine Major a Clanger. Remember - don't dive Without closing your hangar! - ThreadSky

avhistoryogre.bsky.social•8 days ago

Roses are red
Baseballs are round
Make sure while you’re steaming
You don’t run aground

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shadowmanos.bsky.social•9 days ago

I don't understand. Second image, the scan, shows a submarine underwater, where it's supposed to be. Skipper did well.

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dreadships.bsky.social•9 days ago

After several decades people on the dockside are starting to think they've been stood up...

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stockfttp.bsky.social•8 days ago

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niftylinks.bsky.social•8 days ago

I 400 this.

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electricfox5.bsky.social•9 days ago

"Roses are red
Violets are blue
Please use the correct valves
When flushing the loo."

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jesseroberts.bsky.social•8 days ago

😆 True poets can be recognized by the level of romanticism in their words! Hillarious!

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axe99.bsky.social•8 days ago

These rhyming posts,
Were just what I need,
They're just the things,
To bump to the feed 😁

#NavalHistory

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chrisaurora.bsky.social•9 days ago

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a2koc.bsky.social•8 days ago

Beggin your pardon, but, how does one operate a toilet *wrong*?

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dreadships.bsky.social•8 days ago

If your submarine had to be abandoned as a result, you've definitely failed toilet 101.

(More excitingly, the Nazi SuperKhazi was supposed to be used only by trained technicians, and the captain wondered how hard it could be. Surprisingly so.)

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fernmonkey.bsky.social•8 days ago

Pretty please, can we have the story?

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dreadships.bsky.social•8 days ago

I'll move the thread across from Twitter next week for you!

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fernmonkey.bsky.social•8 days ago

Thank you! In return, what's your favourite charity?

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electricfox5.bsky.social•8 days ago

Our old friend WW2 German over-engineering strikes again. Since the toilet was designed to use pressure to flush the waste directly out into the sea, overcoming the pressure of the water at depth, it needed to have the right valves turned in the right sequence. Do it wrong and...

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dreadships.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's sort of an overengineering thing, but also partly a result of allied anti-submarine ops making life increasingly difficult and dangerous, with a corresponding need to discover innovative new problems.

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electricfox5.bsky.social•9 days ago

"Roses are red
Bullies are mean
Who the hell puts a steam engine
Inside a submarine?"