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Mike at SBS
Dec 23, 20218 min read
Pook's Turtles
The American Civil War produced some of the strangest ship designs I've ever seen. Among the most odd were the river gunboats known...
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Mike at SBS
Dec 19, 20215 min read
The Timberclads
When the American Civil War began in 1861, the US Navy was charged with executing the famous Anaconda Plan, which aimed to strangle the...
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Mike at SBS
Jun 20, 20211 min read
Juneteenth 2021
This 19 June 2021 marks the long overdue first officially recognized Juneteenth. This holiday marks the end of slavery in the United...
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Mike at SBS
Aug 1, 20203 min read
Ellet Rams
Admittedly, when I started working on Ironclads all I thought about were the coastal ironclads like USS Monitor and CSS Virginia....
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Mike at SBS
Dec 8, 20192 min read
Scharnhorst
Exactly 105 years ago, on 8 December 1914, Graf von Spee's German East Asian Squadron sailed to the Falkland Islands...
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Mike at SBS
Oct 18, 20191 min read
Raid on Zeebrugge
I found this fantastic 1923 recreation of the famous 1918 raid on Zeebrugge.
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Mike at SBS
Oct 4, 20194 min read
Bremen-class cruisers
By the time of the Great War, the seven Bremen light cruisers were already a decade old. However, they saw action across the globe...
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