Barnacle Bill
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Not the Fusilier !
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Close ! Here is my next offering , not a great photograph but a paddler as you can see
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Alternatively, RV Paukan 1947
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But the Gunges has RV Bengal Ganga
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Congo River has some that look a bit like this but not half as nice
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Dead right , more history than one ship is entitled to ! http://www.angelfire.com/or/petermarsh/Tango1942.htm
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Ok , next Mystery Ship.
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OK, this time it's not a tug Ah but I bet tis still Dutch ! Is it Gelderland ?
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How about "Avenue Pride" ?
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Waingapoe
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Correct at present awaiting restoration. I must get more obscure in future
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Thanks Anja. Here is my offering . Think laterally !
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MUNMORAH - YARD No 207 - Collier - Wallarah Coal Co - Built 1934
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Cool tool lathe Unimat (moved by admin)
Barnacle Bill replied to Sjors's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Blooming Heck , what a blast from the past ! I thought all that stuff had gone up in cyber smoke when we had the big one ! Must get around this site some more and look a bit more. I wrote that some ? years ago and it has brought back memories of the late lamented member "Cut Throat Jake " (Rich) who gave us all so much help at that time in formulating the database (E.T) -
But a merchant ship , not RN ? The flag at her mizzen top is similar to the NZSCo flag and SSA at the mail
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Has the lines of a Blackwall Frigate, One of the "Honerable Companies" ships ?
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So ! all we have to do is go through this list and sort out any ships that were reduced from 4 mast fully rigged (to Barque) ? http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Ships/Fourmast_ships/Catalogue.html
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Implacable (Duguay Trouin) - moved by moderator
Barnacle Bill replied to Matrim's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Leaves her dock in Portsmouth for the last time.
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The replacement was the TS Queen Mary 2 and she was supposed to be towed off to La Rochelle last year but that fell through and is now at Tilbury.
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Correct , built 1935, served during the war as HMS Goatfell. Evidently did not take to being turned into a floating Restaurant on the London Embankment
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OK this one may go quickly.
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USNS Mizar
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I am thinking big and I wonder if any member has had a sight of the Billing Boats HMS warrior kit yet, If so any observations. I can just about get the length on my bench if I let some bits hang over the edge..
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Is it a Dutch Tug ?
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Could be a Boer War Toopship, RMS Hellenic/Britannic of White Star Line ?
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