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2025-10-03 Science & Technology

Boarding Actions - Why, How and When did they stop?

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Posted by badanov 2025-10-03 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1785 views ] Top

1 ....ANYTHING by Drach is worth watching.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-10-03 06:29|| 2025-10-03 06:29|| Front Page Top

2 And then there is the Uboat 505.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-10-03 07:32|| 2025-10-03 07:32|| Front Page Top

3 ^ Been through there a number of times.
Scary.

She was captured by the United States Navy on 4 June 1944 and survives as a museum ship in Chicago.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-10-03 10:48|| 2025-10-03 10:48|| Front Page Top

4 Mostly, boardings stopped with the coming of steel hulls and watertight doors.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-10-03 14:38|| 2025-10-03 14:38|| Front Page Top

5 ^#4. Rather the end of the Age of Sail. The new machine filled hulls were too hard to repair and replace a foreign country's equipment. So just sink it. The new explosive shell ammunition also tended to wreck things beyond easy repair.

Posted by magpie 2025-10-03 19:13|| 2025-10-03 19:13|| Front Page Top

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