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[chilistrucker]

doogz said:

Wouldn't be much use. We have no planes to fly off it.

and on that topic, beings as i'm clueless on this subject.
if the argies did do the whole invade the falklands thing, have we actually got anything to get over there and defend it with?

[norfolkscooby]

doogz said:

Some T45's, some T23's, a Helicopter carrier, and various RFA ships full of landing craft and that sort of thing. There's an airfield there, if we could get some aircraft to it before the Argies take it I suppose.

We already have 6 (I think) typhoons over there.

Given that anything the argies have is pretty much shoot when you can see the enemy, the typhoons would have knocked them out way before then!

Then we have a sub, frigates etc.

[FourWheelDrift]

chilistrucker said:

and on that topic, beings as i'm clueless on this subject.
if the argies did do the whole invade the falklands thing, have we actually got anything to get over there and defend it with?

It won't happen as the Argentinians have nothing to invade with. Their Navy is tiny these days, basically 4x 30yr old Destroyers and 1x 40yr old RN Type 42 Destroyer. Some corvettes, supply ships and old patrol ships. Nothing new, nothing that couldn't be seen by satellite approaching and nothing that wouldn't get sunk by the sub stationed off the coast or the Typhoons on the Falklands.

[chilistrucker]

thanks all
Interesting stuff, I had no idea the argentines were that limited.
Hmm, 6 typhoons and a sub, obviously just there on exercises

Edited by chilistrucker on Tuesday 15th January 18:42

[shirt]

Rouleur said:

amazing!

[Munka01]

Saw this in the harbour the other day

[s p a c e m a n]

A couple of random rusty things that I have seen recently. RMS Queen Mary has shrunk in the wash

[hidetheelephants]

s p a c e m a n said:

A couple of random rusty things that I have seen recently. RMS Queen Mary has shrunk in the wash

Wandering around Tilbury? When did you take this? That's the original Queen Mary which belonged to Williamson-Buchanan and was an excursion steamer on the Clyde; Cunard had to ask nicely to get W-B to agree to a name change to QM2! Once RMS QM was interred at Longbeach she got her old name back.

Edited by hidetheelephants on Saturday 23 March 22:46

[Chainguy]

Ordinary_Chap said:

daveparry said:

British Type 42 Destoyers had several cracks and breaks and were at some point re-enforced with railway sleepers.

The newer warships are designed to twist, on a type 23 you can clearly see the effect in rough seas thanks to one long straight passageway from forid to aft.




Not railway sleepers but train track!!!

Did you see them on Glasgow?

'Plymouth' was exactly the same (type 12)

Lovely old girl but good Lord she had some issues near end of life. In harry roughers there was more than a few of the lads used to rack out with a right angled and lifejacket stashed close.

[Taffer]

shirt said:

Rouleur said:

amazing!

Alexander Von Humboldt 2 - nice ship, but nowhere near as distinctive as her predecessor:

[s p a c e m a n]

hidetheelephants said:

Wandering around Tilbury? When did you take this? That's the original Queen Mary which belonged to Williamson-Buchanan and was an excursion steamer on the Clyde; Cunard had to ask nicely to get W-B to agree to a name change to QM2! Once RMS QM was interred at Longbeach she got her old name back.

Took those last week, they're both at the same berth. RR has been sitting there for as long as I can remember and I think that QM was being used as a floating restaurant near Charing Cross pier, it's been sitting in the docks for quite a while.

[Hooli]

Those tall ships look so damn right

[hidetheelephants]

s p a c e m a n said:

hidetheelephants said:

Wandering around Tilbury? When did you take this? That's the original Queen Mary which belonged to Williamson-Buchanan and was an excursion steamer on the Clyde; Cunard had to ask nicely to get W-B to agree to a name change to QM2! Once RMS QM was interred at Longbeach she got her old name back.

Took those last week, they're both at the same berth. RR has been sitting there for as long as I can remember and I think that QM was being used as a floating restaurant near Charing Cross pier, it's been sitting in the docks for quite a while.

It was a restaurant until 2009, then she was auctioned and sold to a frenchman who wanted her to be a restaurant/hotel thing in La Rochelle but that collapsed before she got further than Tilbury, she was sold again and she's been there ever since. I've read the new owner wants her to become a heritagey thing, but it's stalled for want of money.

[s p a c e m a n]

There are quite a few ships holed up in there, a couple of cruise liners and a catamaran ferry thing that I think was P&O.

[MartG]

I think this design is a bit tongue in cheek

[MartG]

Worlds largest solar powered boat http://interestingengineering.com/index.php/worlds...

[skirk]

"It won't happen as the Argentinians have nothing to invade with. Their Navy is tiny these days, basically 4x 30yr old Destroyers and 1x 40yr old RN Type 42 Destroyer. Some corvettes, supply ships and old patrol ships. Nothing new, nothing that couldn't be seen by satellite approaching and nothing that wouldn't get sunk by the sub stationed off the coast or the Typhoons on the Falklands."

I don't think the Argie T42 will be going anywhere soon................................................ someone must have left a tap running

[Hooli]

MartG said:

I think this design is a bit tongue in cheek

[Benjaminpalma]

[Benjaminpalma]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

perfect set.....

She's ace!

As it happens, a mate of mine's cousin is in charge of the sails on that very boat. I'll pass on the compliment!