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I love the fact that those puppies share their engines with Vulcan bombers and Intercity 125s.
Kinda brings all these lovely threads together
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Never get sick of the sight of The HMS Victory
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Most of the ships are running concorde engines now
a massive pool of them in circulation with rolls royce
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Ark Royal *sob*. Went on board Her and loads of others in Oz for the Bicentenary celebrations in Fremantle. All were great, but Ark Royal and her battle group put on a real show with Harriers flying past at low level as she sailed in to port. Proper proud to be British moment.
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None of those are blue!
This is a navy ship
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I suppose as I've spent a few days on board (in dock upgrading kit) it has to be this one:
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The most appropriately named warship.
HMS Daring with USS Enterprise.
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As I'm an honorary crew member I suppose it has to be HMS Beaver (no sniggering at the back silly boys)
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When it comes to putting your point across in a forthright and indisputable manner, this is a pretty good example:
USS Iowa...and New Jersey. Fingers in yer ears, folks!
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Are those ships actually moving in the opposite direction to the firing of the guns (more than minisculy) or is that just some optical illusion/reflection in the water...?
Also, a ship from my childhood:
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Nah, sadly that's caused by the blasts rucking up the water rather than moving the ship, the recoil's too small. Check it out...
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of course the ship will move - but not much...
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I think it's the Earth moving very slightly; you can't compress water...
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HMS Invincible. Got drafted there and thought i would hate it (having spent all my previous sea time on small ships flights on R.F.A's), in the end i was sad to leave the old girl!
R 05 not nine to five
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Attention Ark Fans.
I have a very, and I mean very, vague recollection of this TV programme:
Re-released on Amazon on Mar 11. My father-in-law flew Gannets of of that particular Ark so I think I'll be getting him a copy for us to watch.
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From the 70's, when we had proper Carrier aviation.
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I'm with the carrier fans, I worked on Ark Royal for a couple of years.
Even now the thought of 100,000 shaft horsepower from the 4 Olympus TM3B engines driving into the 2 David Brown double helical, triple reduction, reversing gearboxes leads to a stirring in places that don't need stirring...
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Sonor - Member
From the 70's, when we had proper Carrier aviation.
That was birlliant. Thanks.
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Aw man. That video made me jealous i never got to work with those aircraft. Sea Harriers and Invincible class carriers were ace. But that IS naval avaiation right there.
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Some of the British WW2 designs were very elegant.
Personal favourites would be the T Class subs and war emergency classes destroyers. My father worked on post war modernisations of both these classes
HMS Teazer - T Class War Emergency Destroyer
T Class submarine before streamliningOf the more recent Navy, I remember these two coming home from the Falklands...
HMS Argonaut
and HMS Arrow
We wondered what the hell all the noise was at school - but the Red Arrows had decided to stage a flypast for their Navy namesake
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love the fact that those puppies share their engines with Vulcan bombers and Intercity 125s
Ha - no...
The carrier, and Type 21 and 22 frigates, plus type 42 destroyers used RR Olympus engines similar to Vulcan / Concorde, but sadly the train used a diesel engine derived from Navy minesweepers and patrol boats - the Paxman Valenta.
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Certainly a lot more elegant than HMS Daring above, that's one ugly warship!
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When it comes to putting your point across in a forthright and indisputable manner, this is a pretty good example:
Unless the person you're trying to put the point across to has one of these...
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The carrier, and Type 21 and 22 frigates, plus type 42 destroyers used RR Olympus engines similar to Vulcan / Concorde, but sadly the train used a diesel engine derived from Navy minesweepers and patrol boats - the Paxman Valenta.
The carriers did have 8 Paxman Valenta engines fitted and bolted to a 450v generator so they were only there for electrical generation purposes. These engines were V16 twin turbo engines capable of producing 2.1MW each but the system was entirely separate from the propulsion line.
Certainly a lot more elegant than HMS Daring above, that's one ugly warship!
Easy tiger, i'm on the 5th of this type and she'll get upset if she hears talk like that
Their appearance certainly divides opinion though!
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One of the guys I cycle with was on Argonaut when it came back from the Falklands ... oh the stories he could tell
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I notice the sceptics have sent a USN Ponce to offshore Libya
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HMS Hood. My great uncle is still on it.Posted 1 year ago # -
Grandfather was on the HMS Hood, was moved to another ship at its final port call before it was sunk by the Bismark. Lucky bastard.... Died of cancer 27 years ago.
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I love the Russian Typhoon class subermarine.
They have a swimming pool; how cool is that?
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Disappointed that on a forum that can be as anally retentive as STW, that nobody's pointed out that subs aren't ships!
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Interesting to see the references to Warspite and Hood.
My great uncle was on destroyers during WW2, including at Narvik with the Warspite.
His boat (HMS Echo) was also part of the escort for Hood during the engagement with Bismark and Prinz Eugen.
I always remember him recounting how the destroyers got left behind by the battelcruiser as they could not keep up in the heavy weather. He reckoned they were leaping out of the waves back to the bridge / funnel and one damaged / corrugated her hull, so they had to slow down.
After Hood was sunk they were sent in to rescue survivors. Echo didn't pick up any. Sister ship Electra picked up 3... out of 1400.
Anyway, HMS Echo, one of the hard working little ships...
ElectraAfter the war he transferred to RFA ocean going tugs...
...they lost the tow on Warspite (didn't really want her going to scrap after having the joint highest Battle Honours of any RN boat in WW2...
HMS Warspite at Prussia Cove, Cornwall...ooops...
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nimitz
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uk's new aircraft carrier?
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Monitors
A weapons system for our financially constrained time???
Big gun - small ship
PS, dont tell Daviv Cameron
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