Nomadic, Titanic & other historic vessels

[DamienB]

I cannot believe that anyone calling themselves a "Director of Conservation" would authorise something so daft.

It's mind boggling isn't it. If they have so much money to spare...

[Mike Bull]

They're basically exposing part of the hull (which is by all accounts very fragile in places) to an mildly acidic substance for no reason whatsoever.

Ridiculous as the idea is, the jelly at least won't be touching the actual ship- there's a big seal around the hull, as seen here in a pic of mine from a few years back-

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[Renegadenemo]

Now d'you see why I used to rant on about museologists? The Hapless Lottery Failure was infested with them too. At one point they wanted to fit K7 with a Perspex nose and another time they proposed a fibreglass shell to float her in so the actual hull never got wet. Even they didn't suggest we float her on a million tons of snot.

[Stuart Baker]

I'm sure this is just a simple misreading of Edward Lear's Owl and the Pussy Cat - it was the boat that was supposed to be pea green.

[Dangermouse]

I haven't been in to see SS GB for years now - I think they'd just finished the replica engines last time I went. I visit Bristol pretty often as I like wandering around the old docks with a camera in hand, but the entry prices were a bit eyewatering last time I looked (I doubt there's much more to see than last time!)

The SS America wreck is well-known in shipping circles, I don't think there's much (if anything?) still above water. If the sea were a bit less violent she'd probably make a decent dive site.

As for museologists, those at the NRM particularly annoy me. By most accounts they could have built a replica A3 for the same money that they've pushed into the Flying Scotsman rebuild, or even better given it a rest and overhauled the re-streamlined Duchess of Hamilton instead. Luckily there seems to be slightly more sense with their diesel and electric fleet now, with locos being loaned to groups who'll get them running. The surviving prototype HST power car should be back in action before too long (and thoroughly baffling non-enthusiast visitors to whatever preserved railway it ends up running on!)

[Dominic Owen]

They're basically exposing part of the hull (which is by all accounts very fragile in places) to an mildly acidic substance for no reason whatsoever.

Ridiculous as the idea is, the jelly at least won't be touching the actual ship- there's a big seal around the hull, as seen here in a pic of mine from a few years back-

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Rain comes down and splashes go up but the seal doesn't.

[Mike Bull]

Jelly doesn't splash, it wobbles!

[Dominic Owen]

Jelly doesn't splash, it wobbles!

"It must be jelly, coz jam don't wobble like that"

[Renegadenemo]

Considering all the crazy rules for disposing of this and that - how d'you get rid of 50,000 litres of unwanted green gunk? I bet it attracted every fruit fly and wasp for a hundred miles around too...

[Stuart Baker]

Considering all the crazy rules for disposing of this and that - how d'you get rid of 50,000 litres of unwanted green gunk? I bet it attracted every fruit fly and wasp for a hundred miles around too...

Call it Olympic slime and put it on eBay?

Probably the wrong place for me to rant about it but I don't understand how LOCOG thought it would be ok to sell torches for half what they cost and allow people to sell them on for phenomenal sums and pocket the difference. I know the first seller is giving the money to a charity, but we, the tax paying British public, own those torches. Rant over.