Ships gallery

[Oddsocks]

SS United States on front cover, taken by a LRMS member in Philadelphia.

Usual good read by Editor Pat Moran

[brian daley]

Hi Oddsocks,
I am on the mailing list for the Red Duster and I agree with you that it is a good little magazine. I used to subscribe to Sea Breezes up until the mid 70's and it seemed to change and so I stopped taking it. For less than £10 a year it represents great value,
BrianD

[captain kong]

HI SS I put the Barque Jeanie thingy on Picaso 3 and lightened it

[scouse smurf]

Nothing wrong with the photo. Scouse. You've caught the moment in an afternoon setting (please don't say morning) and they certainly aren't boring.

Took it in the evening, probably after 7

HI SS I put the Barque Jeanie thingy on Picaso 3 and lightened it

Thanks

I'd already used window live's photo thingy to remove shadows, lightened it a bit and added back some blue. It's the best I could do

[Ken Berry]

Hi Captain Kong.
Salutaions,Thank You I got the picture of the "Frascati" Evacuating Anzac's off the Beach during the evacuation.,Took a while Googling. Very Interesting saw some marvellous photos of various ships. Quite unusual at the Anzac Dawn Parade yesterday. I was
at attention and just as we started to March to our RSA, I could feel Pa Berry's presence and how we had been such good mates and I knew what he had been doing 95 years ago. Almost at the same time Marching for him,my wifes Dad Bomber crash WW2 in Scotland and his brother a Spitfire pilot who came through it all and joined the RAF and was killed a couple of years after the War.A Big thank You and All the guys Best Regards Ken berry

[captain kong]

Hi Ken, Glad the photo was OK for you. I believe a helicopter crashed killing three men on their way to the ANZAC parade. very sad.
Cheers
Brian.

[kevin]

Hi Ken, Glad the photo was OK for you. I believe a helicopter crashed killing three men on their way to the ANZAC parade. very sad.
Cheers
Brian.

Hey Brian,
I know when I'll be in Bolton but don't have my diary to hand - but it's a Monday night in June and I'm staying at the Holiday Inn.
Care to find us a nearby hostelry with good ale?

Apologies to others for going off thread.

[captain kong]

Hi Kev,
welcome to Bolton. I know the Holiday Inn on Higher Bridge Street, It used to be another name then two guests were killed by a member of the staff, so it was given a new name.
Now I am going in Hospital for an operation on Wednesday 26 May, so depending on the outcome and ability to walk I will be there, let you know later. I have been waiting eight months for the op.
The government say, should only have to wait 18 weeks, I will be 32 weeks in the waiting.

Let you know after the op
Cheers
All the best
Brian.

[kevin]

Hi Brian,
Hope the op goes well. I think I'm up about the third week in June so hopefully you'll have recovered.I'll email you the date when I find my diary - think it's in work.
Thanks for telling me about the hotel!
Kevin

Hi Kev,
welcome to Bolton. I know the Holiday Inn on Higher Bridge Street, It used to be another name then two guests were killed by a member of the staff, so it was given a new name.
Now I am going in Hospital for an operation on Wednesday 26 May, so depending on the outcome and ability to walk I will be there, let you know later. I have been waiting eight months for the op.
The government say, should only have to wait 18 weeks, I will be 32 weeks in the waiting.

Let you know after the op
Cheers
All the best
Brian.

[captain kong]

Hi Kev 3rd week in June is my birthday 21, Should be OK by then.
Cheers
Brian.

[Samsette]

Twenty-one, eh! Dad's gonna let you have the car keys now.

Hope everything goes fine with the op, Cap'n, and that you'll soon be up on the dance floor tout sweet.

[captain kong]

Thanks for that Malc.
"I`m three quarters way home from the start to the end and I wish I was 18 again."
( George Burns)

[kevin]

Just checked - it's the 21st I am there. Still up for a few sherbets or will your good lady be taking you out?
Kevin

Hi Kev 3rd week in June is my birthday 21, Should be OK by then.
Cheers
Brian.

[captain kong]

I will check it out Kevin, and let you know , but should be OK.
Cheers
Brian

[captain kong]

from the
http://www.ssgreatbritain.org/home.aspx


The ss Great Britain was a world first when she was launched in Bristol in 1843. This uniquely successful ship design brought together new technologies in a way which transformed world travel.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the most daring of the great Victorian engineers, conceived the groundbreaking combination of a screw propeller, an iron hull, and a massive 1000-horsepower steam engine.

She was immediately successful - on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic the ss Great Britain easily broke the previous speed record.

Although effectively a prototype, she continued sailing until 1886, and travelled thirty-two times around the world and nearly one million miles at sea.

She was finally abandoned in the Falkland Islands, in 1937, after more than 40 years use as a floating warehouse.

In 1970 an ambitious salvage effort brought her home to Bristol, where today she is conserved in the dry dock where she was originally built.


This me under the propellors in Bristol Dry Dock