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United States Katılım Kasım 2010
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The Husky
The Husky@Mr_Husky1·
In 1921, the USS R-14 left Pearl Harbor on a straightforward mission: find a missing tugboat somewhere in the vast Pacific Ocean. About 100 miles out, the submarine ran out of fuel. The diesel engines shut down. The batteries began draining. Radio communication went silent. The vessel sat in open ocean with limited food, no mechanical power, and no realistic prospect of anyone knowing exactly where to look for them. Most crews in that situation would have done one thing: wait and hope. The crew of the R-14 decided to try something else. They looked at what they had. Mattress covers. Blankets. Spare canvas from the boat's interior. Poles. The periscope supports mounted on the deck. None of it was designed for what they were about to attempt. None of it needed to be. They were not building something elegant. They were building something that worked. They fashioned makeshift sails from the fabric, mounted them onto poles and rigged them to the periscope supports, and turned a vessel specifically engineered to operate underwater using mechanical propulsion into something that had not existed before and has not existed since: a sailing submarine. The wind caught the sails. The R-14 began to move. It was not fast. It was not graceful. A submarine is not built with hydrodynamics in mind for surface sailing, and the improvised rigging would not have impressed anyone who knew anything about seamanship. But it moved. Slowly, steadily, in the right direction. The crew took turns managing the sails and navigating their course back toward Hawaii. They did this for five days. Five days of coaxing a submarine across the Pacific using nothing but wind, ingenuity, and the stubborn refusal to accept that they were stuck. On the fifth day, the USS R-14 returned to Pearl Harbor under sail power. The mission to find the missing tugboat had not been completed. But every man on board had come home, and they had done it using mattress covers and determination in roughly equal measure. The incident was logged, reported, and largely forgotten outside of naval history circles, which is a shame, because it contains something worth remembering. The R-14 was a machine built for a specific purpose, operating in conditions it was never designed for, crewed by people who looked at what they had available and asked not whether it was adequate but whether it was enough. Mattress covers are not sails. Periscope supports are not masts. A submarine is not a sailboat. But 100 miles from Hawaii, with the engines dead and the radio silent and the ocean stretching out in every direction, close enough turned out to be exactly enough. They sailed home. Five days. One improvised rig. No fuel required. The USS R-14 remains, by any reasonable measure, the only submarine in the history of naval warfare to return to port under sail. It is unlikely to be surpassed.
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The Parliament Magazine
What if even a fraction of Europe’s dormant savings could be mobilised? With trillions held in insurance and pension products, insurers are increasingly seen as key investors in Europe’s future, say @Aema_Groupe. Partner content
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The Last Squatch
The Last Squatch@TheLastSquatch·
This is a disgrace and embarrassing for all of America!
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hk..i@longshipdriver·
@farman4x B.. la vache qui ne riet pas...
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farmanX
farmanX@farman4x·
Which One is Different 👀...❓ Can you spot... 🥽 👁️ 🔡
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Democratic Wins Media
Democratic Wins Media@DemocraticWins·
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Fox News' military expert just admitted that Donald Trump is responsible for giving Iran their most powerful negotiating chip: the Strait of Hormuz. Never prior to Trump's war did Iran leverage this. What an admission.
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Maxou Rona 🎸🇫🇷 💙💛 #TAEM #PFM
Pardoned Jan 6 insurrectionist Theodore Middendorf has now been sentenced to 19 years for s*xually assaulting a 7-year-old.
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Jay in Kyiv
Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv·
Russia's land bridge to Crimea is no more. Videos like this are now coming in every 20 minutes. Berdyansk.
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Jerry_Saiyan
Jerry_Saiyan@JerryWillResist·
Get him the fuck out of here
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Anonymous
Anonymous@YourAnonNews·
He's fucking stupid.
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UFO mania
UFO mania@maniaUFO·
Mystery as huge luminous object appears in the night sky over Patagonia, Argentina...🧐🤔 Photographer Santiago Arévalo said he went down to the beach at midnight that night with four people. The goal was to make astrophotography of the Milky Way. Santiago: "We all sat on the sand looking at the stars and talking for a while, around 1.30 am we see that from behind the mountains, on the other side of the lake, a kind of white glow begins to appear on which he managed to capture the exact moment when a huge luminous object lit up in the night sky". Photos by Photographer Santiago Arévalo
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