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How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
No cabaret either.
Ship porn
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Ah, but you should see the naked roll mat fighting...
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Had to pass up the offer of a trip in this:
T & P
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They're probably all Tories in there so I wouldn't worry too much.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
nuffsaid
But this goes up to 11
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I've been on that boat. Ex BT Challenge yacht iircThis is currently squeezed in between two supply boats at Trinity/Regent Quay:
KNOB HEAD
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
KNOB HEAD
I know. Sardinia to Monaco too.
mojo pixy
interesting times
This picture's too dark (it's meant to be a picture of the rigging, not the ship)
Anyway the ship in it is called Kaskelot, and it mainly lives in Bristol. It's a beauty.
It'll be here for the Harbour Festival in July, along with a couple of others, both smaller and not as pretty but still fully-rigged ocean-goers.
Anyway the ship in it is called Kaskelot, and it mainly lives in Bristol. It's a beauty.
It'll be here for the Harbour Festival in July, along with a couple of others, both smaller and not as pretty but still fully-rigged ocean-goers.
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Lancman
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HMS Vanguard I think. I remember exercising with her in 1953.
Sorry, wrong.
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Lancman
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I was fooled into thinking "HMS" by the title "Admiralty" and the Vanguard was the most American-looking of the British fast battleships. I'll make one further link though, I saw and heard the USS New Jersey firing her main armament when I was working in Beirut in the mid '80s. Considering that she was well out to sea it was the loudest noise that I've ever heard.
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existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I live about 5 miles from the Castlemartin Training Range (yep, I know, peashooters compared to naval artillery), and it took me a fair while to get used to the loudness of the bangs of tank main guns firing. They sound like enormous slabs of metal being dropped from a great height.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
its a lovely sound is isn't it?
i love how you get so many different parts of the sound if you're some distance away - you get the bang of the propellant, the clanging of the breech mechanism, the ripping sound of the projectile... utterly entrancing.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I think I'm a bit far away for breech clanging, and I suspect most of the bangs are practice rounds. Every now and again they manage to spray a few intrepid beachgoers with small arms fire, though. That puts the bangs in perspective - you'll hear the whisper of what I suspect are tank-mounted machine guns firing, followed by a big WHUMP from the main armament, but it certainly doesn't sound how you'd imagine a very large gun to sound. It does get tedious after about the third day in a row, and don't even get me started on finding yourself stuck behind 30 tank transporters doing 40 all the way from Carmarthen
All of which has nothing to do with ships
HMS QE on the move today
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
I live about an hour away. Which makes us practically next door neighbours in Welsh terms.
I know a guy who lives right next to the range, on it in fact, called Dave Francis. Getting this (almost) back on topic, he sailed across the Atlantic solo. His quite interesting, because of the coincidence involved, tale is worth a quick peruse here.
Saundersfoot single-handers cross the Atlantic
What that fails to mention is he sailed all the way across without incident (despite the Tenby paper trying to make it sound more dangerous than it was) then crashed his yacht into the quay as he tried to land in Saundersfoot.
(And he lives in Castlemartin, not Saundersfoot as the article says).
sleaterkinney
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Speaking of tugs:
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