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Reference Image HMS Victory - Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
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SPROCKET321
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Bloody fools, used explosives to sink her as if she was a iron ship, the explosion smashed her keel, garboard strakes and spirketting timbers sending the iron ballast to the seabed, leaving the wreck floating on the surface. serves them right the history vandals.
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She shouldn’t have been scuttled in the first place! Should have been preserved!!!
SPROCKET321
LE
well, she was a French ship, built in France and made a Prize and brought into RN service, this country was bankrupt after WW2 and they were having trouble raising enough funds for HMS Victory, so when it was discovered that a Nelson era ship had survived that long, the Navy and HM Government thought it best to get rid before they were pressurized by the public to save her, sad but there just wasn't the money around at the time.She shouldn’t have been scuttled in the first place! Should have been preserved!!!
The first picture gives the extent of the tumblehome of the hull.
tutankhamun
GCM
Great work, thank you . The model is on hold until the winter, but these are a great help.
Shame really, we could have flaunted it, like we don’t let them forget about Cresy, Agincourt, Waterloo, the Nile , Pennisular War etc.....and the Eagles don’t forget the Eagles!
Flipper_T_Rox
Old-Salt
HMS Wellesley. Third rate, 74 guns. Commissioned in 1815. Sunk (as TS Cornwall) by the Luftwaffe on the 23rd September 1940. The last British ship of the line to be lost to enemy action.
SPROCKET321
LE
shame she was sunk in shallow water, she'd make a great Dive. She was probably broken up after as she would have been a Navigation Hazzard. Nice post though Flipper, every day a school day on ARRSE.
Flipper_T_Rox
Old-Salt
Sunk in the Thames, she was raised in, I believe, 1948, and beached at Gravesend where she was subsequently broken up. Being made extensively of teak, her timbers were found to be in such good condition that some of them were reused in the rebuilding of the damaged Law Courts in London.
I seem to recall that, this still being a reasonably civilised phase of the war, the Germans claimed her, somewhat tongue in cheek, as a battleship they had destroyed in a propaganda broadcast.
Tedsson
LE
Not sure where to post this but this thread seemed the least inappropriate.
Old bloke has built a matchstick model of every RN ship since 1945. He is79 87 now and is having to give up because he can no longer get wooden matchboxes.
Here is the link:
www.dailymail.co.uk
(Apologies for referencing the Sturmer but I heard about him on the radio and that is all Google threw up)
Old bloke has built a matchstick model of every RN ship since 1945. He is
Here is the link:
Man uses over a million matchsticks to create replicas of Navy ships
Philip, 87, from Dorset has dedicated his entire adult life to crafting the armada and has built every class of ship in the Royal Navy since 1945, using more than a million matchsticks.
(Apologies for referencing the Sturmer but I heard about him on the radio and that is all Google threw up)
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