Though by name she had nothing to fear
Not for long was this ship without peer
And the race to build more
Howled what was in store
On a path from which no one could veer

Event: Launch of the HMS Dreadnought
Year: 1906
Learn more: Dreadnought

. . . and that’s it, folks! One history-themed limerick for every day of the year! Hard to believe I’ve been doing this for 7 years now. It’s been a lot of fun, but it’s also gotten harder to keep up with one every week as time has gone by and I’ve gotten busier with other things, and I’ve known for a while now that #366 would be a stopping point. Hopefully at some point in the future I’ll come back to the project, maybe revisit some earlier entries whose poems have questionable meter, or whose events have questionable actually-happened-on-that-dayness. But for now, we’re giving it a rest.