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 https://asianometry.substack.com/p/the-soviet-unions-nuclear-icebreakers
+====== Blockade ======
+== Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades ==
+CIMSEC - 2026-10-25 15:18:30
+[By Dr. Stephen DeCasien]
+Nearly a century ago, Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, U.S.N., wrote in the foreword to Arthur M. Shepard’s seminal work, Sea Power in Ancient History, that “Readers of this work cannot but be impressed by the similarity between the problems of sea power in ancient times and problems of sea power which are engaging the attention of maritime nations today.” Practitioners of naval power have long looked to the past for warnings, lessons, and insights that might inform the challenges of the present and future. This post follows in that tradition by considering what antiquity might offer for understanding one of the most enduring applications of naval power, the blockade.
+The British naval theorist Julian Corbett distinguished between commercial blockade, intended to restrict an enemy’s maritime trade, and naval blockade, directed against an enemy’s fleet. The latter could itself serve different purposes, either keeping an enemy fleet confined to port or watching it closely while encouraging it to put to sea, where it could be brought to battle. Although Corbett developed these categories from the experience of more recent naval warfare, their basic purposes would have been readily recognizable in antiquity. Ancient fleets likewise sought to restrict maritime commerce and supplies, contain hostile naval forces, or compel an adversary’s fleet to come out and fight.
+The relevance of these forms of blockade is hardly confined to the past. At the time of writing, the United States is enforcing a blockade against Iran, restricting maritime traffic to and from Iranian ports as part of the ongoing conflict. At the same time, across the Indo-Pacific, the possibility of a Chinese blockade of Taiwan remains a central concern in discussions of a potential cross-Strait conflict. Chinese military planning considers blockade operations as one means of isolating and coercing Taiwan, alongside the considerably more demanding possibility of an amphibious invasion. Despite enormous differences in political circumstances, technologies, and scale, these situations underscore a common problem. Establishing control of the sea is one thing, but maintaining that control long enough to achieve a political or military objective is another.
+https://maritime-executive.com/editorials/closing-the-sea-lessons-from-ancient-mediterranean-blockades
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 https://gizmodo.com/143-year-old-shipwreck-emerges-on-a-new-jersey-beach-2000715512
+===== HMS Tiger =====
+== A British Warship Split in Half and Sank in 1908. Divers Just Found the Wreck ==
+Miraculously, much of the ship remained intact, allowing experts to track down unknown details of the ship's final moments.
+Gayoung Lee - August 25, 2026, 10:55 am ET
+In 1900, the British Royal Navy purchased the HMS Tiger, a torpedo boat destroyer. But the ship never saw a single battle; eight years later, it sank after an unfortunate collision with an armed cruiser literally split the vessel in half. And the ship remained underwater, lost—until now.
+In a statement, the Royal Navy reported that, 118 years since the accident, historian-divers with ProjectXplore discovered the remains of HMS Tiger. The project, an international initiative to locate, recover, and study known shipwrecks, found Tiger roughly 203 feet (62 meters) underwater off the Isle of Wight in the southernmost coasts of the U.K. According to the project’s report on the discovery, much of both sections of the lost ship remain intact. The investigation also revealed new details about the ship’s final moments, such as its bearings moments before the tragic collision.
+“Prior to this expedition, Tiger remained the last missing 30-knot torpedo boat destroyer sunk in the English Channel,” according to ProjectXplore’s report. “Throughout [its] eight years of service, Tiger endured repeated collisions and mechanical failures, yet each time [it] returned to service… a tiger that refused to be tamed.”
+https://gizmodo.com/a-british-warship-split-in-half-and-sank-in-1908-divers-just-found-the-wreck-2000802810
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 https://gizmodo.com/lost-for-300-years-pirate-plundered-treasure-ship-discovered-off-madagascar-coast-2000623968
+===== Roman =====
+== Free Divers Thought They Found a Weird Rock. It Was a 2,100-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck ==
+“This is one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years.”
+Gayoung Lee - August 10, 2026, 11:40 am ET
+Sometime between the second and first centuries BCE, a Roman ship carrying hundreds of wine-holding vases sank to the bottom of the sea near the coast of modern-day Sicily. And that’s where it lay for the next two thousand years—until two divers ran into the shipwreck by accident.
+In a statement (translated via Google) last Saturday, the Italian Ministry of Culture reported the discovery of a Roman-era shipwreck roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) off the coast of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, Italy. Divers Giacomo De Mola and Bisulli Igor encountered the ship at a depth of 151 feet (46 meters). Further investigations by government authorities found that the ship carried hundreds of amphorae, two-handled pots archaeologists believe were used to carry different liquids and grains.
+https://gizmodo.com/free-divers-thought-they-found-a-pile-of-rocks-it-was-a-2100-year-old-roman-shipwreck-2000796467