r/HistoryMemes • u/Sim1334 Then I arrived • 4h ago

How fast time flies

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u/the_quark 2h ago

For anyone wondering, I'm pretty sure that the top ship is Old Ironsides, the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned vessel still afloat.

The bottom is the USS Texas, the only surviving dreadnought.

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u/ALT_F4_X2 2h ago

Oh, the same one who intentionally floods one of his own compartments to gain a few degrees of elevation for the main gun to fire.

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u/MikeAlpha2nd 2h ago

<<I WILL FLOOD THE BACK OF THE SHIP TO GIVE THE GUN THE ELEVATION IT NEEDS, SALVATION!>>

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u/trainboi777 Then I arrived 1h ago

1 MILLION LIVES

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u/PandaStyle 50m ago

<<TEN MILLION LIVES WILL BE SAVED AT THE COST OF A MERE MILLION LIVES>>

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u/SeventhAlkali 1h ago

Thank goodness I wasn't the only one that thought this

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u/dumbdude545 2h ago

Military grade gangster lean.

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u/Legitimate_Command82 2h ago

Private.. you see the horizon, I don't like it. Affirmative sir, Turning Sky side now

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u/the_quark 2h ago

Well, "seaman." This is the Navy, after all.

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u/Legitimate_Command82 2h ago

Ramirez, Point us towards the moon it's really pretty tonight.

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u/rigatony222 Still on Sulla's Proscribed List 1h ago

RAMIREZ, lean a bit more west, I need service for my order to Burgertown!

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u/BBQQA 47m ago

A nautical Carolina squat.

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u/b0bba_Fett 1h ago

*Her own

All ships are female.

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u/KG354 Kilroy was here 1h ago

Except for the Bismarck, but its a shitty submarine now

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u/127-0-0-0 1h ago

All ships have the capability to become submarines at least once. The ships that were raised and rebuilt after Pearl Harbor have the most badass revenge arc in history.

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u/KG354 Kilroy was here 27m ago

The USS Nevada was fitted with the guns from the USS Arizona. Thats a level of find out that I dont think Japan was ready for.

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u/crashburn274 1h ago

Isn’t there an anime about that?

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u/adalric_brandl 54m ago

Azur Lane?

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u/trainboi777 Then I arrived 22m ago

Actually I think there's a few

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u/Gizz103 Senātus Populusque Rōmānus 1h ago

Technically the Bismark was male

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u/Rex_Mundi 30m ago

Two ships signaling to each other:

HMS Battleaxe: "WHAT THE DEVIL IS A REUBEN JAMES?"

USS Reuben James: "AT LEAST WE DON'T NAME SHIPS FOR OUR MOTHER-IN-LAW."

Tom Clancy - Red Storm Rising

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u/Oxytropidoceras 1h ago

This is incorrect, not all languages/cultures/navies use feminine terms for ships. It's universal in English but rather famously ships are masculine in Russian, and also were in the Soviet Union.

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u/Sername111 1h ago

It's universal in English 

And this thread is discussing ships of the United States Navy.

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u/StreetofChimes 1h ago

Why are all ships female? Who made that rule? 

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u/i8laura 1h ago

The British navy, I’m guessing.

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u/ChaoQueen 38m ago

Because they were full of seamen and they were homophobic. /s

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u/Kinslayer_89 2h ago

“Captain, they’re out of range!”

“Flood the ship.”