Queen Elizabeth II made a state visit to the United States in 1976 in honor of the country’s Bicentennial. She visited several historic sites in and around Boston, including the USS Constitution and Old North Church, and was also welcomed to the White House by President Gerald R. Ford.
The Miami Seahawks competed in the All-America Football Conference (which did not have a team in Boston) for the 1946 season. Although successful neither on the field (3-11 record) nor at the gate (average attendance for the last three home games was under 9000), the Seahawks did host several Monday night contests, and are thus credited with helping to inspire a practice which would eventually help catapult the NFL to unprecedented popularity a quarter-century later.
The Sea Hawk (1940), starring Errol Flynn as a 16th century privateer, featured a closing speech by Queen Elizabeth I that was clearly aimed at the Axis dictatorships.
The Hawker Sea Hawk was a single seat jet fighter introduced in the 1950s.
David Lean’s movie Breaking the Sound Barrier (1952) showed the British breaking it rather than the Americans. The procedure they used (reversing the controls in a dive) was, according to Gen Chuck Yeager, USAF, completely erroneous.
Jonathan Mostow’s movie U-571 (1952) showed the Americans rather than the British capturing the Enigma code machines from a German u-boat. In response to a question in the Commons, Prime Minister Blair agreed that the movie was an affront to British sailors who served during World War II.
The first among many submarine films to feature a trapped-underwater sub shooting a dead body out of the torpedo tubes, along with various debris, to fool an attacking surface force was the wartime British release We Dive at Dawn, starring John Mills and Eric Portman.
Prior to the 1930s, when a submarine sunk it usually meant certain death for the crew, even if the sinking was in shallow waters and its crew continued to breathe the remaining air and signal to rescue divers by hammering on the hull until the oxygen ran out.
The idea for a submarine rescue chamber was devised in 1926 by Swede Momsen (Charles B. “Swede” Momsen) after the loss of the S-51 on 25-Sep-1925. The US Navy was skeptical of Momsen’s concept and failed to fund its research until the sinking of the S-4 on 17-Dec-1927 with all men aboard remaining alive and communicating with rescue divers until its oxygen ran out.
This sinking spurred the Navy to work with Swede Momsen. Momsen’s rescue chamber was first put to the test when the USS Squalus sunk off the coast of New Hampshire on 23-May-1939 and came to rest 243 feet below the surface. All 33 surviving sailors were rescued from the sunken submarine.
Contrast this to the sinking of the HMS Thetis only one week later on 01-Jun-1939 in 150 feet of water, with its bow on the bottom while its stern still remained afloat on the surface. Only four men escaped, and 99 died.
1952??? :eek: 
Try 2000 instead! Not only was the movie an affront to British sailors, it was an absolute piece of crap. Like most films today, it had great special effects and a shitty screenplay.
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USN ballistic missile submarines are named after states. Their mission is to patrol undetected for 90 days or until POTUS orders a nuclear strike.
The USS John Warner, SSN-785, will be the first of the Virginia class submarines to be named for a person.
John Warner, once the Secretary of the Navy, was the 6th of Elizabeth Taylor’s 7 husbands. She was married 8 times in total, twice to Richard Burton.
John Warner joined the Marine Corps in October 1950, after the outbreak of the Korean War, and served in Korea as a ground officer with the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. He continued in the Marine Corps Reserves after the war, eventually reaching the rank of captain.
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Captain James T. Kirk was the third captain to command the USS Enterprise NCC-1701.
Kirk’s middle name is Tiberius.
Tiberius, was Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD.
Tiberius was preceded by Augustus and followed by Caligula.
Caligula, the 1979 film, starred Malcolm McDowell as the mad Roman emperor.
He also shared screen writing credits after Gore Vidal disowned the entire project.
Caligula also starred a young Helen Mirren. Well, young is a relative term - she was 34 years old in 1979.
Caligula is Latin for “Little Boot.” The young Gaius was the mascot of his father’s troops in Germany and had a complete uniform of his own to wear.
Matthias Buchinger was born in 1674, without arms or legs. Despite this, he became a famed graphic artist and performer. During his lifetime, he gave rise to the term “Buchinger’s Boot,” a euphemism for “vagina,” since it was what covered the only intact limb he had available.