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Run Silent, Run Deep

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Wednesday, July 08, 2026 - 04:09 pm: Edit

Which was, if I recall correctly, one of the inspirations for Balance of Terror.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Wednesday, July 08, 2026 - 04:10 pm: Edit

Balance of Terror is a clone of Enemy Below, not much to do with Run Silent, Run Deep.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Wednesday, July 08, 2026 - 10:53 pm: Edit

If you are looking for something a little different, you might try the movie “Battle Circus” Humphrey Bogart, June Allison and Keenan Wyn 1950’s B/W set during the Korean War.

MASH #8666.
(There is a colorized version, but I haven’t seen it yet.)

The love story is dated, but a lot of action scenes, both combat and set up/teardown of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital several times. Also extensive scenes of helicopter activity, personnel transfer, scouting and wounded soldiers evacuations under fire.

Even a few scenes that made it in to the tv sitcom MASH years later.

Worth a look even if it doesn’t rate a top ten list slot.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Wednesday, July 08, 2026 - 11:02 pm: Edit

Noted:

I just checked, Iran does not have the ability to load liquified natural gas on to tankers, it apparently requires refrigeration equipment that Iran couldnt get due to sanctions.

Gasoline and natural gas are exported by pipelines through neighboring countries, Turkey being a significant portion of the exports via pipelines… though I found conflicting numbers of the amounts exported. (Could be a translation issue…)

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Saturday, July 11, 2026 - 08:55 am: Edit

For those people in Massachusetts today, Sail Boston parade of tall ships is happening.

Per google:” The Sail Boston 2026 Parade of Sail is the massive opening event for the tall ships festival. The parade runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Boston Harbor.

It features the famous USS Constitution leading a giant fleet of ships from Broad Sound into the inner harbor.Over 50 international tall ships and military vessels participate in the celebration.

Notable vessels in the lineup include:Amerigo Vespucci (Italy)
ARA Libertad (Argentina)
Sagres (Portugal)
Gorch Fock (Germany)
Dar Młodzieży (Poland)
BAP Unión (Peru)
Esmeralda (Chile)
USCGC Eagle (United States)

You can watch this amazing parade from Castle Island, the Seaport District, East Boston, and Charlestown. Check out the Meet Boston Parade of Sail or the Sail Boston Events page for more details.”

It is claimed by the media that the U.S.S. Constitution (sailing frigate) will lead the parade, but other reports indicate only one sail will be set (due to concerns of over straining the ship’s structure and masts.). The old Ironsides will be towed by a tug into the harbor for the festivities, this being the first time the ship has set a sail since 2012, the other attempt in 1997.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, August 06, 2026 - 02:12 pm: Edit

AUGUST 6: International Naval Wargaming Day

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Friday, August 14, 2026 - 07:31 am: Edit

HMSPresident, (originally named H.M.S. Saxifrage) is one of three WW1 warships still in existence.

A Flower class escort, she has served many roles in a long and at times eventful career.

She was a prototype Q ship during WW1, then during WW2 was assigned as a moored anti aircraft battery protecting St Paul cathedral in London during the blitz.

After the war was used for a variety of civilian purposes, more recently was the subject of a failed restoration project 5hat failed.

Currently, the ship is located at a scrap yard on the fivers on the River Thames.

BBC did a story that has been posted to YouTube.

There is a group trying a last chance effort to save the ship as the center piece of a “Q ship museum”… but there is no guarantee it will be successful.

The ship is in “poor condition.

Pity.

By Steve Stewart (Stevestewart) on Monday, August 17, 2026 - 07:08 am: Edit

I visited HMS President when I was stationed in UK MOD HQ. Shame to see her this way.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Friday, September 04, 2026 - 06:59 am: Edit

The U.S.S. Wisconsin, BB-64, Iowa class, was in the news this week.

She is a museum ship in Norfolk, Virginia,and is being moved for repairs. I haven’t found a complete list of what work is being completed yet, but according to a news clip posted on YouTube, it will include work on the fenders attached to the moorings.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Friday, September 11, 2026 - 09:04 am: Edit

Twenty-five years ago today, at 8:46 a.m. EDT, al-Qaeda terrorists, acting on a fatwa issued by Osama bin Laden, piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.

At 9:03 a.m., they flew United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower.

At 9:37 a.m., they flew American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia.

A fourth aircraft, United Airlines Flight 93, believed to be targeted at either the U.S. Capitol or the White House, was brought down at 10:03 a.m. in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania by a passenger revolt against the hijackers.

Between the four hijacked aircraft and their targets, 2,977 people lost their lives.

Ten years later, just after 1:00 a.m. PKT on 2 May 2011, Osama bin Laden was shot and killed at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan by a joint CIA-Navy operation utilizing SEAL Team Six.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Friday, September 11, 2026 - 06:00 pm: Edit

For an airport in a relatively small town on an island off the Atlantic coast of North America, Gander International Airport, Newfoundland and Labrador, has made an outsized contribution to aviation history.

During the Second World War, Gander served as a key transit hub for Royal Canadian Air Force and U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft and personnel, as they crossed the Atlantic to take part in the European theatre of conflict.

In peacetime, Gander - along with Shannon Airport over in Ireland - became a busy refuelling stop for transatlantic civilian flights, at a time when routine non-stop travel had yet to be fully developed.

Once such non-stop flights became routine, however, air traffic at Gander dropped substantially...

...with one major exception.

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As dramatized in the Broadway musical Come from Away, perhaps its most striking historical moment was in 2001: when it became one of several Canadian airports which were called upon in earnest for Operation Yellow Ribbon: the welcoming of hundreds of flights diverted from U.S. airspace in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

For a town of fewer than 10,000 residents at the time, to find shelter and relief for more than 6,000 passengers and crew in short order was no small feat - certainly when compared to airports in much larger Canadian cities which hosted their own diverted airliners on that fateful day.

A commemorative event took place over in Gander earlier today to mark the occasion.

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Friday, September 11, 2026 - 07:41 pm: Edit

Check out the book "The Day the World Came to Town" it's the story of Gander at that time.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, September 11, 2026 - 08:30 pm: Edit

The play COME FROM AWAY is also about Gander and quite interesting. It is cleverly staged. It made me cry for the baby bonobo.

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Friday, September 11, 2026 - 10:44 pm: Edit

It's also worth remembering the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center site, which in itself served as a grim foreshadow of what was to happen in 2001.

Actually, my understanding - which might be mistaken, so apologies if so - is that the 1993 attack exposed dangerous oversights in the towers' evacuation protocols, which led to a review of procedures that helped make the 2001 evacuations (from the floors "below" the impact sites, that is) somewhat easier to implement.

Indeed, this was not the first time a dangerous event had happened at the site. As far back as 1975, a major fire in the North Tower (itself the result of arson) led to the installation of a fire sprinkler system across the complex. In hindsight, it's hard to imagine that there wasn't one in place already...

While neither set of responses were enough to save the towers themselves, one wonders how many lives the post-1993 protocols ended up saving prior to their respective collapses.

By F Michael Miller (Fmm) on Friday, September 11, 2026 - 11:22 pm: Edit

I am currently playing in the orchestra for a local production of Come From Away. It's my 126th pit orchestra.

Great show!

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 02:37 pm: Edit

In a blast from the past, the U.S.S. Olympia (C-6) Protected Cruiser, a survivor of the Spanish American War (fought in the battle of Manilla Bay), was the ship chosen to transport the remains of the unknown Soldier from Europe in 1921, last dry docked in 1945.

Currently a Museum ship, she is the object of a fund raiser intended to restore the hull to a stable and safe condition.

After some 80 years, her hull has deteriorated to (in part) 0.1 inch, and engineers have installed cofferdams, and epoxy/ resin patches pending full repair.

No date has been set, and will not be set until funds become available.

By A David Merritt (Adm) on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 02:43 pm: Edit

A most worthy ship to restore.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 05:37 pm: Edit

I would agree with that.

One thing I learned in posting the U.S.S. Olympia story, was the fact that the Olympia was originally supposed to be the lead ship of a class totaling 6 ships. Apparently the other five were never built.

I will have to research that, I would expect that there might be an interesting tale that explains how the Olympia was the only ship of the whole class that actually got built.

By A David Merritt (Adm) on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 09:03 pm: Edit

It was intended to be a new class of ship that was larger than other cruisers, similar to how the U.S.S. Constitution was larger than other frigates, big enough to kill anything smaller than it, able to run away from things bigger than it. Then the Spanish-American War happened and it was decided that we need more cruisers to protect our new territories, instead of a few larger ones to counter commerce raiding.

That is a quick overview, skipping a lot nuance, it is a ship worth reading about.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Sunday, November 01, 2026 - 10:38 am: Edit

U.S.S. Silversides, SS-236, returned to her home port, today.

Just completed a refit and overhaul that repaired her damaged hull (decades of deterioration being docked in a fresh water harbor).

You tube video posted today showed a number of civilian boats sailed out to meet the submarine as she made the tow from the shipyard in Wisconsin to the berth in harbor in Michigan.

Freshly painted, restored and it appears to be a fine example of a U.S. fleet boat with an honorable record of service in World War Pacific theater.

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Sunday, November 01, 2026 - 04:53 pm: Edit

They have a new USS Silversides under construction. SSGN-807 Virginia class.