HMS Queen Elizabeth

[SantaBarbara]

What Naval situation are they exercising for with that sort of formation I wonder?

[mikal83]

SantaBarbara said:

What Naval situation are they exercising for with that sort of formation I wonder?

Photex

[SantaBarbara]

I will show you mine, if you will show me yours

[hidetheelephants]

ou sont les biscuits said:

What could possibly go wrong?

To be fair manoeuvring a common-or-garden battleship with tugs alone is much harder than doing it with vessel power and steering + tug assist.

[ou sont les biscuits]

hidetheelephants said:

To be fair manoeuvring a common-or-garden battleship with tugs alone is much harder than doing it with vessel power and steering + tug assist.

I'll be in the Still and West watching with interest

[ninja-lewis]

hidetheelephants said:

To be fair manoeuvring a common-or-garden battleship with tugs alone is much harder than doing it with vessel power and steering + tug assist.

Especially one doing its best imitation of this:

[davebem]

ou sont les biscuits said:

What could possibly go wrong?

That picture makes me sad, none of the rn battleships survive.

[Cold]

Not forgetting, of course, the dredging didn't cover the entire width of the harbour mouth, just a channel in the middle.

[Yipper]

A large number of beautiful photos from QE, Trenchant and Bush today.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4771692/HM...

[aeropilot]

davebem said:

ou sont les biscuits said:

What could possibly go wrong?

That picture makes me sad, none of the rn battleships survive.

Indeed......criminal that one wasn't kept as a museum ship.

That should have been KGV...........which was mothballed in reserve between 1950 and 1957 after which it was sent for scrap, along with the other remaining 3 ships of the class.

[PugwasHDJ80]

mikal83 said:

SantaBarbara said:

What Naval situation are they exercising for with that sort of formation I wonder?

Photex

genuine lol

[V8 Fettler]

aeropilot said:

Indeed......criminal that one wasn't kept as a museum ship.

That should have been KGV...........which was mothballed in reserve between 1950 and 1957 after which it was sent for scrap, along with the other remaining 3 ships of the class.

Warspite should have been spared the gas axe, even in her battered state.

[davebem]

V8 Fettler said:

Warspite should have been spared the gas axe, even in her battered state.

Agreed, (although my personal favorite was hms nelson), Warspite literally had every single weapon type fired at her from ww1 to ww2 and even put up a fight when they tried to scrap her!

[aeropilot]

V8 Fettler said:

aeropilot said:

Indeed......criminal that one wasn't kept as a museum ship.

That should have been KGV...........which was mothballed in reserve between 1950 and 1957 after which it was sent for scrap, along with the other remaining 3 ships of the class.

Warspite should have been spared the gas axe, even in her battered state.

I believe there was a proposal to allocate her as a museum ship, given her service and earned nick-name but the Admiralty approved her scrapping in 1946.

It's a miracle HMS Belfast and HMS Cavalier survived long enough to become museum ships given the Admiralty passion for scrapping everything in sight with the exception of HMS Victory.

[Dannyboy85]

Even the Victory was only just about saved. Spent half a century being a prison hulk and coal barge if I remember correctly.

[hidetheelephants]

aeropilot said:

It's a miracle HMS Belfast and HMS Cavalier survived long enough to become museum ships given the Admiralty passion for scrapping everything in sight with the exception of HMS Victory.

The UK hasn't done too badly with preserved war canoes, even if the preservation has occurred more by accident rather than design; as well as the three already mentioned there's;

HMS Alliance
HMS Caroline
HMS Ocelot
HMS Courageous
HMS President
HMS Gannet
HMS Holland
HMS Minerva
HMS Medusa
HMS Stickleback
HMS Trincomalee
HMS Unicorn
HMS Warrior
HM CMB4

and sundry other more mundane auxiliary craft have been preserved.

[ecsrobin]

hidetheelephants said:

he UK hasn't done too badly with preserved war canoes, even if the preservation has occurred more by accident rather than design; as well as the three already mentioned there's;

HMS Alliance
HMS Caroline
HMS Ocelot
HMS Courageous
HMS President
HMS Gannet
HMS Holland
HMS Minerva
HMS Medusa
HMS Stickleback
HMS Trincomalee
HMS Unicorn
HMS Warrior
HM CMB4

and sundry other more mundane auxiliary craft have been preserved.

HMS Minerva is better known a HMS M33.

Well worth a visit in Portsmouth.

[Ayahuasca]

On the topic of our past ships, a historian friend of mine reckons he knows where the remains of Sir Francis Drake's 'Golden Hind', first English ship to sail around the world, are. A creek in Deptford, since developed into a car park or something.

[CrutyRammers]

Dannyboy85 said:

Even the Victory was only just about saved. Spent half a century being a prison hulk and coal barge if I remember correctly.

You're probably thinking of HMS Warrior? 50 years as an oil jetty named Oil Fuel Hulk C77.

[FourWheelDrift]

HMS Victory as seen by the French

Pyrotechnics, but still impressive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_FpYLnNhVw