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You have the factor that RN Captains and commanders often displayed 'Honey Badger' degrees of near-suicidal aggression. Yes, RN famously court-martialled then hung a senior commander who'd failed at an utterly impossible task, as the French guy wryly observed, 'To Encourage The Others', but knowing...

TEN TO ONE: THE ROYAL NAVY’S SYSTEM OF VICTORY Sea power, operational performance, captured French warships, and the material test of rival naval systems, 1793–1815 Between 1793 and 1815 Britain fought a maritime war of unprecedented scale. This study asks how the Royal Navy performed against the ot...

Now Villeneuve’s flagship in the Combined Fleet, the 80 gun Bucentaure: Bucentaure, 1805 * Long-gun firepower: 44.55 * Short-gun firepower: 4.66 * Structural density: 14.17 * Sustainable crew: 25.80 * Combat-core subtotal: 89.18 * Two-deck adjustment: ×1.25 * Adjusted combat core: 111.47 * Sailing p...

Let’s start with the biggest of them all, the First Rate 140, the Spanish Santissima Trinidad. Santísima Trinidad, 1805 * Long-gun firepower: 50.64 * Short-gun firepower: 8.12 * Structural density: 13.82 * Sustainable crew: 32.13 * Combat-core subtotal: 104.71 * Three-deck adjustment: ×1.50 * Adjust...

You may remember that Stuart started this off on the old new board. I have attempted to recreate it. The scoring factors are: Combat power * Long-gun broadside weight, converted into British pounds. * Short-gun broadside weight from carronades, obusiers and similar weapons. * Structural density: est...

I haven’t had this question pop up here yet.

I saw this earlier… https://youtu.be/FFjm6z2PouI?si=1AwbkpsXt432Ni0w And had to come and check. Still no TLS update… Craig, Point taken. ;) And an aside - Marvel's Star Trek went in a different direction than Paramount - Kirk gets away but runs into....Mirror Enterprise , here to do recon before a ...

I saw this earlier…

https://youtu.be/FFjm6z2PouI?si=1AwbkpsXt432Ni0w

And had to come and check. Still no TLS update…

Tuesday saw 32.3 Celsius and then yesterday hit 33.8. Today has been considerably hotter. I've seen utterly nutty figures from a weather station near Kettering of over 39 Celsius! Given the surrounding weather station values I'm skeptical of that figure. Nevertheless I think over 36 Celsius is cert...

Royal Mail Ltd is all about parcel delivery these days. They just don’t care about letter post!

The problem isn’t that 34- 35 C is hot. Plenty (many, most) Brits going on their summer holidays tend to go to hot & sunny places. The problem is that 34- 35 C in the UK is also usually really humid and wind-less for days on end, and that tends to be endured in houses designed to maximise heat c...

Huh? How vulnerable to weather is your power infrastructure? Given that the UK routinely gets lots of nasty winter weather, your infrastructure should be pretty robust against storms bringing down power lines. Thunderstorms generally don’t cause massive blackouts from lightning strikes if you’re pr...

Chapter 6: Genesis Shadow The bridge of the Enterprise no longer resembled the crippled command center that had staggered out of the Mutara Nebula. Most of the primary lighting had been restored, replacing the harsh red emergency illumination that had dominated the ship for days, and several major a...

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2026 10:09 am I think a couple of those guys were still working at the Wurtsmith dental clinic when I got there.


Mike

At least one of those was still working in Norfolk ten years ago when my wife needed urgent work going!

Chapter 4: Observer The path through the field remained available only so long as the shuttle conformed to it with a precision none of them could define in advance. Kirk kept the vessel moving at minimal forward velocity, not out of caution alone but because motion itself had become conditional. The...

Has anything useful been released?

This should really be the next series. If we had a time machine and could take this back to 1989 as Star Trek V.bis, then I concur completely. Unfortunately we don’t, and so all of the roles would have to be recast. That gets tricky because you have to find actors who look like Shatner, Nimoy, Kell...

This should really be the next series.

The mystery ship.