What a tragedy. It's amazing the two lads got out. I done a helicopter course once with an inflated life jacket on. Had to get helped by the divers, cos I floated to the roof. I think that's why they tell you not to inflate your life jacket before you leave a sinking plane.
I,ve been neglecting this site lately,so here's a couple of pics to stir some interest. During the First World War,the War Office took radical steps in in camouflaging it's vessels, unlike the drab grey of WW2 ,auxilliary ships were given dazzle camouflage and I have posted two examples of this . The lone ship is the PSNC liner the Panama shown in her dazzle as an auxilliary;she later became a hospital ship and stayed in that role up until after WW2 . The second picture shows the Britannic in her Hospital ship colours ,she was sunk wearing them in 1916, and the sister of the Titanic,the Olympic,in her wartime dazzle. It would have been a hell of a job painting her,
BrianD
I have taken this picture from the cover of the Red Duster magazine.
It is a study of dazzle ships in drydock in Liverpool. A most striking work of art. I bet the workmen had to have a jar or two after working on them.
Nice one Brian. They reckon the dazzle camouflage was very effective as submarines found it difficult to distiguish two ships together and their speed and direction. When we werein the desert we had our Land rovers and Unimogs painted pink. They reckoned it blended in better. We drew the line at high heels.Originally Posted by brian daley
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Seen this in New York. Dunno it's name , but I think it's a Canandian Destroyer. There was a big naval thing for Independence Day
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Here's her id. i reckon she's a destroyer. Anyone know her name.
Warships
Pablo,
The vessel is a Halifax class Frigate of thr Canadian Navy.
Her name is St,John's.
Great stuff, thanks Harbourm. She was in New York for Independence Day. I think.
Hi Brian,
is there any evidence that dazzle camouflage was effective? It always seems associated with ww1 ships,but by ww2,it was discontinued,I think!?
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This is the Police Launch escorting her in.
Here are pictures of two early casualties of WW11, the cargo boat is Cunards Bosnia ,which was stoppped off the coast of Portugal on September the 7th. The crew were allowed to take to their life boats and the German U-boat put two torpedoes into her. The crew were then put on board a Norwegian steamer which landed them in Lisbon.
The aircraft carrier HMS Courageous was sank 0n Sunday September the 17th. As with most wartime news reports there is no list of those missing nor does the report indicate where the vessel when she was torpedoed.
Both pictures were taken from the September 1939 edition of War Illustrated,
BrianD
I was contacted by e.mail re the above. A lady gave me the site address of HMS Courageous. I googled it and learned that the Courageous was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland and over 500 crew perished. The internet is a wonderful thing for gathering information. A massive disaster.
BD
QUEST TV(Channel 38 Freeview) and SKY TV Channel 167
Mighty Ships: Episode 8 Follow the cutting-edge Danish warship HDMS Absalon as it patrols the volatile sea around the Horn of Africa hunting down pirates.
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/absalon/
Tues 24th Nov @ 2100
Weds.25th Nov @ 1400 and 2200
I'll try and have a mozey at that. Thanks Brian.
I can tell them exactly where they are. I spent some time there.
Just seen it and very interesting, but they didnt kill the Pirates.
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