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365 Days - day three
for mini challenge: jumping on a bed
i miss being five. i would have been able to do flips and what have you, if i was that age.
3865. The MkXIII 6-inch [152mm] guns of HMAS ADELAIDE and the 5.9in [15cm] of the KORMORAN were of similar size and vintage, both dating from the early years of the 20th Century.
KORMORAN'S guns were Circa 1905 pre-Dreadnought secondary weapons designed to protect capital ships against the new threat posed by Torpedo Boat Destroyers. Graeme Andrews reports that these guns fired at 7 rounds a minute, compared to ADELAIDE'S 4-5 rounds a minute - but ADELAIDE mounted five gun broadside from eight single weapons, while KORMORAN mounted only a four gun broadside from six.
ADELAIDE'S guns were also more widely spaced and better protected than KORMORAN's. This is entirely speculative, but firing at SYDNEY, KORMORAN's four broadside main weapons initially had four twin SYDNEY turrets clustered in two locations fore and aft to knock out, while ADELAIDE would have had five 6-inch mounts to neutralize, and they were not clustered, but spread out singly along perhaps 400ft of the 460ft-long ship.
On both Australian ships, with surprise and at close-range, KORMORAN's AA weapons and the 3.7cm German Army anti-tank gun that Captain Detmers had scrounged when fitting out his ship, would have decimated the unshielded 4-inch guns, the bridge and the command spaces. But as previously stated, ADELAIDE'S main gunnery systems were more amenable to locally directed fire, and even more critically, the mounts were hand-trained, rather than SYDNEY'S electrically turned turrets. Thus, ADELAIDE guns remained effective with a loss of power power.
The one-inch armour shield would also have protected their crews.
The critical question, of course, was whether Captain Showers would have taken ADELAIDE in so close as did Captain Burnett, and this has to be regarded as highly unlikely. KORMORAN's old guns had a flat trajectory, devastating at close range, and as the range increased ADELAIDE'S chances of success against the raider would have increased with every 1000 yards. The range of ADELAIDE's guns was 18,000 yards to KORMORAN'S 14, 700 yards, so ultimately ADELAIDE could have stood off out of range to blast the German ship if necessary.
So, of course, could Captain Burnett, whose guns had a range of 25,000 yards. What induced Burnett to throw away every advantage to a ship not answering his signals or call sign challenges will never really be understood. Prime Minister John Curtin, talking to the Melbourne Herald's Joe Alexander soon after the loss became known, put it down to 'a sense of invincibility.'
By comparison, the former crew of HMAS ADELAIDE have some justification in thinking that in the same encounter their old dear cruiser, not so complacent and not so proud, may have very well survived.
Photo: Clem McManus, ex-cook, HMAS ADELAIDE, Graeme Keith Andrews Collection [GKAC] , from a private disc, with permission.
Wakering Photography Group Signs Challenge
The Great Wakering village boundary sign with Shoeburyness.
Good spot for this weeks funny sign challenge though, even if nothing did happen!
Kind of reminds me of this song by Del Amitri, which always makes me smile as I remember listening to it when a lot was happening in my life and still is...
Nick Jonas is seen at the gas station in Los Angeles. He seems to have just woken up and gives the peace sign after he's gased up.
Pictured: Nick Jonas
Ref: SPL250065 210211
I think the sign speaks for its self you wouldn't believe idiots would dump live out of date flares at the gates?
Station signs challenge travelers to match the strength, speed, and stamina of local wildlife at the Animal Olympics trail in Sequim, WA.
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Station signs challenge travelers to match the strength, speed, and stamina of local wildlife at the Animal Olympics trail in Sequim, WA.
Station signs challenge travelers to match the strength, speed, and stamina of local wildlife at the Animal Olympics trail in Sequim, WA.
A card here for Moxie Fab World's peace sign challenge. I used the sign as the focal point and the tie-dye feel of that groovy period :)
Card Supplies: Stampendous background definition stamp, web peace images, SU! White card stock, PTI Cream card stock, Tim Holtz (Tumbled Glass, Wild Honey, Spun Sugar, Vintage Photo) Distress inks, AC foam tabs.
Station signs challenge travelers to match the strength, speed, and stamina of local wildlife at the Animal Olympics trail in Sequim, WA.
Station signs challenge travelers to match the strength, speed, and stamina of local wildlife at the Animal Olympics trail in Sequim, WA.
LUZON Flag
Survivor Cagayan Signed Challenge Flag.
Signed by each original member of the LUZON Tribe: (Brains Tribe)
David Sampson
Garrett Adelstein
J'Tia Taylor
Tasha Fox
Spencer Bledsoe
Kass McQuillen
This week is again down to the wire for my 52 Frames submission. The challenge is "Signs". There are, of course many different types of signs every where one looks. Now if the weather would cooperate...
Station signs challenge travelers to match the strength, speed, and stamina of local wildlife at the Animal Olympics trail in Sequim, WA.
Hearts and Other Signs Challenge: Each evening, the Northern Cardinals come to my garden for their last meal of the day, just as dusk is beginning to overtake daylight. On this evening, there were 14 in my Crepe Myrtle tree. Can you find them? Some people say that the Cardinal is a sweet sign of a deceased loved one's visit. In that case, I'm not sure if seeing 14 of them is comforting or not!
Station signs challenge travelers to match the strength, speed, and stamina of local wildlife at the Animal Olympics trail in Sequim, WA.
LUZON Flag
Survivor Cagayan Signed Challenge Flag.
Signed by each original member of the LUZON Tribe: (Brains Tribe)
David Sampson
Garrett Adelstein
J'Tia Taylor
Tasha Fox
Spencer Bledsoe
Kass McQuillen
Station signs challenge travelers to match the strength, speed, and stamina of local wildlife at the Animal Olympics trail in Sequim, WA.
LUZON Flag
Survivor Cagayan Signed Challenge Flag.
Signed by each original member of the LUZON Tribe: (Brains Tribe)
David Sampson
Garrett Adelstein
J'Tia Taylor
Tasha Fox
Spencer Bledsoe
Kass McQuillen
LUZON Flag
Survivor Cagayan Signed Challenge Flag.
Signed by each original member of the LUZON Tribe: (Brains Tribe)
David Sampson
Garrett Adelstein
J'Tia Taylor
Tasha Fox
Spencer Bledsoe
Kass McQuillen
LUZON Flag
Survivor Cagayan Signed Challenge Flag.
Signed by each original member of the LUZON Tribe: (Brains Tribe)
David Sampson
Garrett Adelstein
J'Tia Taylor
Tasha Fox
Spencer Bledsoe
Kass McQuillen
LUZON Flag
Survivor Cagayan Signed Challenge Flag.
Signed by each original member of the LUZON Tribe: (Brains Tribe)
David Sampson
Garrett Adelstein
J'Tia Taylor
Tasha Fox
Spencer Bledsoe
Kass McQuillen