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Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2017 10:15 pm
by Black Knight
Interesting to read he'd like to survey HMS Barham, my fathers uncle was taken off that just before she blew apart, can't imagine much to see.
Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:57 pm
by Jordangbr
Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:29 pm
by Renegadenemo
Saw that - the do-gooders plan to save the planet with hopeless electric cars by smashing up hydrothermal vents. Shame shrimps and jellyfish aren't as cute as Snow Leopards.
Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:41 am
by Renegadenemo
Well done those guys - used to love discovering new shipwrecks. Must get back to some of that once we get this little blue on back together. Liked the bit about
Lexington not being retrieved because it's a war grave. Wouldn't have anything to do with it being an aircraft carrier in 2 miles of water then...
Typical BBC
Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:12 pm
by Jimbo
it would be exciting, Bill, if you could find a wreck with fabulous riches aboard, as had HMS EDINBURGH, salvaged, as you know, by the late Keith Jessop. The excitement in doing a job like that must be off the scale.
Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 1:01 am
by Andrew453
Another volunteer-led project success story that will see an historic paddler, laid up since 1981, returned to service. And I'm old enough to remember school trips on the Maid back in her 1960s heyday.
http://www.dumbartonreporter.co.uk/news ... ent_grant/
Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 11:14 pm
by XL391
I visited the birthplace of the Olympic class liners in Belfast a few weeks ago, I was even lucky enough to get the Thompson Graving Dock to myself! The dock is an engineering wonder in itself, never mind the ships they held...
Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 9:02 pm
by midlife
Ohh heck, you don’t look best pleased there Mike [.]
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Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 10:39 pm
by sbt
Re: Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 8:47 am
by Jordangbr
I wonder if she will be in the same condition as the Terror and Erebus?
Antarctic expedition hopes for Ernest Shackleton bonus
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43703723