Alex

🍁Archivist. Interest in warships, CDN war trophies, military records and artifacts, Northwest Passage stuff. #OSINT but pretty bad at it. Tweets are our own.

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#OTD 35 years ago during OP Desert Storm, HMCS Athabaskan raced to the aid of USS Princeton in the Persian Gulf. I threw together a post to mark this Coalition anniversary: https://t.co/0UFPReZVDx

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@CaptFitzjamesRN And importantly, signed by the carpenters, who would have the encyclopedic knowledge of all timbers, frames, spars on each vessel.

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@CaptFitzjamesRN More than seven years out…it’s INCONCEIVABLE that anything could be awry!

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@sgracelessheart Yes but where is Fury now?! She is waiting for us somewhere off the point or down Brentford Bay ways.

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@CaptFitzjamesRN Belcher may be the most heinous Haligonian in History!

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@CaptFitzjamesRN So maybe Sherard was the one to best organize his crew to counter the danger, cutting in with ice saws/parbuckling/blowing ice up!

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@CaptFitzjamesRN Great plan! It’s a nice illustration of the relative size of the ships, and shows the two steamers longer and narrower hulls (with the stacks depicted). Pioneer is cut in to a proper ice dock, to protect them from the land ice grinding into the pack on the floe edge.

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@UltimaThule0000 All the above has been deleted. I described him as an “Arctic Phenom” in my photo archival survey 1854 Beechey: https://t.co/l08fv7E8zi

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@cheapsellotape @RCT @dundalkmuseum @LoganZachary @_polarbearpunk @DIB_RIA Relevant to the Arctic phenom that was Sir FL McClintock, just posted this yesterday, reuniting the collection: https://t.co/l08fv7EGoQ

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@Arctonauts To add to the amazingness of Sir F.L. McClintock, i just posted this: https://t.co/l08fv7E8zi

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@DIB_RIA @RIAdawson @cheapsellotape @RMGreenwich @LoganZachary @PlymPrivateer @dundalkmuseum @NMMIreland @Coast_Monkey @NicolaPierce3 @DublinDeadZoo He also created the first photographic record of the Canadian Arctic. I just posted this yesterday: https://t.co/l08fv7E8zi

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Digitally reassembling as a collection the first (located) images of the Canadian Arctic taken by explorer Sir F. Leopold McClintock in 1854. Let’s all go ashore to Beechey Island 17 decades ago! #FranklinExpedition https://t.co/l08fv7E8zi

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@LtJWFairholme Rattlesnake was a sister to Herald, Talbot, and North Star…all involved in the FE searches.

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Parks Canada Archaeology report! #HMS_Erebus

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@CaptFitzjamesRN Don’t hit me with these negative vibes! There are daily daguerreotypes and logs galore in there. Also the Shroud of Turin.

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@Drachinifel So sad they cancelled the improved-Thunderchilds, with the lead ship to have been named HMS Terrorbus.

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HMS Terror’s 1845 screw propeller, on the wreck, and now represented on my model of the wreck site. Explore the history of this incredible artifact: https://t.co/3JOSHGCIxd

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@kejamieson_ Not Balchen’s Victory then? HMS Terror? Nelson’s Agamemnon off Maldonado Bay?

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@kejamieson_ It’s a good time for reduced scale modelling (for your mental health). In my World, little me gives tours of my model shipwrecks, and we’re all happy!

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#HMS_Terror 2024/25 model archaeology season update: massive miniature progress on the Sir John Franklin Historic Barks of Canada wreck. @BarksCanada