Somewhere on this forum I might have proclaimed that the only movie showing a ship making a turn with an anchor was the movie Battleship. [Battleship | The Final Battle in 4K HDR] Just recently I stumbled onto a second one. A Pirates of the Caribbean movie. [Pirates of the …

Having not long ago watched the video of the turret crawl in USS Iowa, and learnt you can’t simply walk into a gun turret from below desks without going deep down and then up from near the magazines, I’m impressed that a few guys could lug a projectile from somewhere else to load and fire it … oh an…

I was also impressed by how simple it was to release that anchor cable. That must raise the question of whether the inboard end should be strongly attached to a deck clench of tested to 120% of the cable breaking strain or just tied with a bit of old rope as seems to be a common practice. There ar…

Good review from The Atlantic; of a not that bad movie. ‘Battleship’: Not as Bad as It Should Have Been If you’re the kind of person who asks such questions, this is probably not the movie for you. How many people would watch that movie and think “I noticed a few errors in that movie that I’d l…

Movie scenes with an anchor assisted turn

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Hogsnort April 16, 2024, 9:16pm 2

The gun crew on the battleship had a rate of fire comparable with a 40mm canon. It must of been great fun making those movies.

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Movie scenes with an anchor assisted turn

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