New super secret Naval base .....Shhhhhhh

[skirk]

Cunningly situated on a quiet arm of dead end canal in the middle of east Yorkshire......but keep it to yourself......its a secret.....Shhhhh






Good to see the British eccentric is alive and wibble.............

[Dogwatch]

I'm sure there must be lots of uses for it on a 6ft deep canal.





But I can't think of any!

[Jezzerh]

Brilliant! Where is it?

[Flying Phil]

Jezzerh said:

Brilliant! Where is it?

Agreed!!

[skirk]

If i tell you , the Russians will train a big nasty nuke on Beverley............................................OOooooooo bo@@ocks...........I am still trying to imagine the look on the lockeepers face when that turned the corner...............

Edited by skirk on Monday 7th November 21:30

[spitfire-ian]

The one down a canal in Amsterdam is a little more obvious

[phil-sti]

Dogwatch said:

I'm sure there must be lots of uses for it on a 6ft deep canal.





But I can't think of any!

something tells me it may not be a real submarine

[Huff]

T'Boot.

Jurgen Prochnow leads a bunch of Beverly schoolkid^^^ milchgesicht on a raiding party, while Hessle lightship. Eee.

[SpamCan]

I know the chap that lives on it. It rarely moves from its mooring though.

It is built from an old propane tank, sadly it is not submersible, it would have cost far too much to engineer that - as you might imagine, it does have portholes below the water line though. It is also sea going if he wanted to take it anywhere.

That water is a tad deeper than 6ff too.

Edited by SpamCan on Tuesday 8th November 10:26

[SpamCan]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

SpamCan said:

It is also sea going if he wanted to take it anywhere.

I have just messaged him rather than wait until I see him next. Yes it is sea going!

Edited after clarification.

Edited by SpamCan on Tuesday 8th November 11:29

[2fast748]

There is also this one:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176938/Ho...

I seem to remember the Captain Birdseye lookalike got jailed for tax evasion recently as well.

[yellowjack]

skirk said:

Cunningly situated on a quiet arm of dead end canal in the middle of east Yorkshire......but keep it to yourself......its a secret.....Shhhhh

'ow do ee get that under't canal bridges an' that? 'appen.

It certainly wouldn't work on my local canal - our LAs built lots of really quite low bridges over it while it was in a disused state, so low that you can't walk the towpath under some of them without hunching over or stooping down. You can't get anything much taller than a traditional narrowboat under them.

[spitfire-ian]

yellowjack said:

'ow do ee get that under't canal bridges an' that? 'appen.

It certainly wouldn't work on my local canal - our LAs built lots of really quite low bridges over it while it was in a disused state, so low that you can't walk the towpath under some of them without hunching over or stooping down. You can't get anything much taller than a traditional narrowboat under them.

Not knowing exactly what canal it is on to be certain but some up Yorkshire way are mainly swing or lift bridges.

[skirk]

Its only one lock from the tidal river HULL ...about 300 yards from where they used to build Ton class minesweepers at Beverley....

[SpamCan]

skirk said:

Its only one lock from the tidal river HULL ...about 300 yards from where they used to build Ton class minesweepers at Beverley....

Yup its a beck rather than a canal.

[Huff]

skirk said:

Its only one lock from the tidal river HULL ...about 300 yards from where they used to build Ton class minesweepers at Beverley....

In that case I'd be tempted to go to periscope depth, ease out then upstream on the Humber under cover of night - and do the world a favour, and torpedo Goole.

[SpamCan]

Huff said:

In that case I'd be tempted to go to periscope depth, ease out then upstream on the Humber under cover of night - and do the world a favour, and torpedo Goole.