SS United States on front cover, taken by a LRMS member in Philadelphia.
Usual good read by Editor Pat Moran
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SS United States on front cover, taken by a LRMS member in Philadelphia.
Usual good read by Editor Pat Moran
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
HI SS I put the Barque Jeanie thingy on Picaso 3 and lightened it
Took it in the evening, probably after 7Quote:
Originally Posted by Oddsocks
ThanksQuote:
Originally Posted by captain kong
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 :)
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
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,Quote:
Originally Posted by captain kong
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.
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.
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
Quote:
Originally Posted by captain kong
Hi Kev 3rd week in June is my birthday 21, Should be OK by then.
Cheers
Brian.
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.
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)
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
Quote:
Originally Posted by captain kong
I will check it out Kevin, and let you know , but should be OK.
Cheers
Brian
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
Thanks... a neat picture of early propellor design.
The Royal Mail liner Alcantara,shown here off the coast of Brazil, was one of a series of liners built for the South American trade. She was designed to carry passengers as well as refrigerated and general cargo. I knew of her from a very early age,my great uncle Joe was a quartermaster on her in the thirties and his photo ,in full fore and aft rig, was stuck on my Nins sideboard in her living room. The ships name was shown clearly on his hat band,
BrianD
Good piece Brian.Quote:
Originally Posted by captain kong
Walking through Anfield Cemetery one day I come across this modest gravestone with the interesting inscription. Because the stone is dirty through age, the inscription on the plinth is a little difficult to decipher: So to save your peepers I've taken the labour out of you struggling to read it, by transcribing it.
Oddsocks
William Becket-Hill Born 1841 - Died 1908
He helped to change paddle tugs to screw,
To initiate high pressure and twin screws for Ocean going steamers,
To introduce steam line conferences with the rebate system,
And to start the Shipping Federation, the London Shipping Exchange,
And the British Empire League.
Hi All You Guys who helped me with My G/D Alfred Edward Berry.I received all the Papers, Documents,Parts of Naval Books, etc from the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, Truly they were fascinating and clear as a bell to read. But I made a real "faux pas" which you know what I mean in Navy terms. A Cardinal sin of not checking date of Birth,So it wasn't my G/Dad after all.Same name but younger by 14 years,I'm sorry for giving you the wrong info but I hope it will do some good.I have been in Touch with the Hull Trawlers site and the guy is going to try to find thr relations of Chief then Chief Skipper Alfred Edward Berry For Me and I will send them all the Documents. I still know he was minesweeping somewhere so the guy at the museum is going to have a good go for me..The Anzc Parade I still felt close A.E.B. and Rita's Dad and Brother.You were right abou the Helicopter crash.King Kong. 3 Iriquois's were on their way down from the Air Base at Ohakea to the Wellington Cenotaph for the Dawn Parade.The weather was grotty and very gusty they come down the coast and ther inquiry will find out what exactly happened.Some mist separated them and one must have lost any land fall and had lost a bit of height and smashed into a gulley on a farm. 3 were killed and one seriously injured,but is stable and expected to recover. My apologies once again and Thank You .Hopefully maybe some one will find them as a suprise.Best Regards Ken B
That's a bit of sad news that Ken. Expectation high as the clouds but euphoria short lived. Oh well mate let's hope you get the information soon.
Best o' luck,
Oddsocks
The P&O Liner Viceroy of India ,built for the Bombay service. She set new standards of luxury and speed. This gracious liner was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1942. Just sit and enjoy the picture,
BrianD
The film Mutiny on the Bounty was on TV the other day, the one with Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard.
I took these photos from the TV.
In the photo with the Wahines in the sea fishing in the background there is a peak in front of the big mountain, we climbed up there, along a foot path. It is in Moorea in `Bounty` Bay.
The ship they used for the film was built larger than the original to accommodate all the filming equipment. She was in Seattle in August 1990, I went on board for $5 but they would not let be leap aloft.
The later Biounty filmed with Mel Gibson was built in New Zealand and is nearly always in Sydney, I went on board that one and it is the original size and very small inside. I have a photo of her entering Moorea somewhere, My old Tahitian mate, Stanley , his father, was in the film as one of the Tahitians.
The Marlon Brando era replica is still around... and many more of us saw it as Captain Jack Sparrow's ship in Pirates of the Caribbean – Dead Man's Chest....:)Quote:
Originally Posted by captain kong
http://www.tallshipbounty.org/
Nice one guys.
My son sailed on this one during the filming of Russel Crowes film Master and Commander: Far Side of the World.....
It's HMS Rose - but HMS Surprise in the movie....
http://www.tallshiprose.org/photos/m...serialNumber=2
He, and the other sailors were somewhat p***d off that the movie extras go paid more than they did, when they were doing all of the actual work. It was filmed off the Baja, Mexico and he got a few weeks paid vacation down there. The extras did most of their shots in a large tank built for the Titanic movie, and the actual sailing crew did the shots out in the open ocean.
A picture he had of his girl friend was funny - dressed in baggy pants, her long blond hair tucked under a scarf, and a mustache painted on - but that's Hollywood when the cameras don't do a close-up...:)
He says he knows where they are in the movie from some of the helicopter shots, since they were both high in the rigging at the time.
This is a picture of the "tank" ship - apparently the rest of the sails were added digitally after filming - as always, nothing real in Hollywood...
http://www.tallshiprose.org/photos/m...serialNumber=2
Nice one AG. We had the same thing in war zones...
This is the last BOUNTY about to enter `Bounty` Bay in Moorea, built in New Zealand for the Mel Gibson film, She is quite often berthed in Darling Harbour in Sydney. Sometimes she does short trips out to the Heads and back with a lunch or dinner thrown in for about $50.
She is an exact replica of the original
I went on board the Rose in San Diego, California, in 2005 she was on the next berth to the Star of India, another British ship preserved by the US.
very interesting day out there. Got the photos some where, Going to Fleetwood for a few days, will find them then.
Was there a ship called the "Bromley" :slywink:
Hi George,
I had a look around for a ship called the Bromley and this coasting tanker was the only one I could come up with, I hope it is the one,
BrianD
Nice one Brian.
Thanks for that Brian any info on it? or a link to its demise? :PDT11
Ahoy there,
Two important programmes of interest to all those of you who like ships and Liverpool. BBC4 at 9.00p.m. tonight, Sunday 9th of May, has "The Box that changed Britain", a programme about how containerisation changed life on the docks. This is followed by "A Passport to Liverpool",a historical look at its Maritime history and multicultural populace. Set your recorders or watch it live!!
BrianD
Ermm! a bit hard to read in that type Brian!? Good post though!Quote:
Originally Posted by brian daley
I had to go out for dinner but I saw the last two progs. about Liverpool and then the Cod War off Iceland.
A tropical night in the interwar years. the sea is almost like a mill pond and there is just enough of a breeze to keep the old square rigger under way. In the background we can see the lovely old German liner ,the Cap Arcona heading north through that calm south Alantic sea, if you could listen you would hear the strains of a palm court orchestra wafting across the ocean. Oh for the age of gracious living,
BrianD
Nice one Brian.
Two Ladies of a certain age, both admired and beautifully turned out but radically different in presentation.
First we have the celebrated,and very much alive , Queen Mary, she looks robust and as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. Then we have the Normandie, very French and very chic,but ,sadly ,no longer with us. Both are very easy on the eye, they recall a golden age of shipping,
BrianD
Didn't the "Normandie" hold some speed records,etc,till her demise?
Hi Steve, Yes, the Normandie did hold the Blue Riband for making the fastest crossing of the Atlantic.
She was also the largest shp to be fitted turbo-electric engines ,a record that has not yet been surpassed.
Her greatest rival in the Trans Atlantic race was the Queen Mary. The war brought about her demise, the U.S. government commandeered her and she was going to be used as a troopship.While she was undergoing her refit she suffered a major fire( it was suspected to be sabotage) and was beyond repairing. She was sent to the scrapyard in 1946,a very sad end for such beautiful ship,
BrianD