Sunken Ships of the Second World War
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Sunken Ships of the Second World War
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#2This is neat. I was curious about the demand for steel that wasn't exposed to atomic explosions, making this a kind of treasure map for scavengers.
However, Wikipedia says that there's much less need because there haven't been anywhere near as many atomic explosions recently.
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#3Excellent visualization!
It would be amazing if the timeline could be filtered - to compare the rate and number of sinkings in each area year over year.
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#4This doesn't work in Chromium
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#5Randomly clicking on the map led me to learn about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident
Would love to be able to filter for events with a Wikipedia page (assuming they were the most significant)!
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#6This is neat. I was curious about the demand for steel that wasn't exposed to atomic explosions, making this a kind of treasure map for scavengers. However, Wikipedia says that there's much less need because there haven't been anywhere near as many atomic explosions recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
They're still being predated
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#7Yuu might be interested to zoom in the Toulon harbor area (FR) and to observe the numbers: 99 ships sunk, representing 290 968 Tons, but only 3 causalities. Here is why [1].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_...
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#8This doesn't work in Chromium
Here that does (version 119)
Re: Sunken Ships of the Second World War
#9Yuu might be interested to zoom in the Toulon harbor area (FR) and to observe the numbers: 99 ships sunk, representing 290 968 Tons, but only 3 causalities. Here is why [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_French_fleet_...
This is a factoid I didn’t learn until recently, and it blew my mind. I’m not sure how serious they were, but the UK apparently also offered to merge France and the UK into one country before they fell.
I learned a ton about WWII from this series on YouTube…here’s the week when the UK sinks the French navy: https://youtu.be/gRR683NJOwc
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#10One of the dots off Dunkirk represents the Lancastria.
And one of the thousands killed when it was sunk was my Grandma's half-brother.
He was twenty two and his name was Arthur.
One dot.