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[jenevers]

On 19/03/2020 at 20:11, Nightwatch said:

It’s a boat, a big boat. But a boat.

I think, in the Navy, that’s a ship. Only submarines are BOATS. I may be wrong though?.

[Keeping Up]

35 minutes ago, jenevers said:

I think, in the Navy, that’s a ship. Only submarines are BOATS. I may be wrong though?.

Yes Navy submarines are called BOATS, everything else is called a TARGET.

[WotEver]

1 minute ago, Keeping Up said:

Yes Navy submarines are called BOATS, everything else is called a TARGET.

See post #41...

[Keeping Up]

Just now, WotEver said:

See post #41...

That was too far back for me.

 

Incidentally I steered one of those Frigates up the English Channel once, at 25 knots. I made the mistake of forgetting that a Gyro compass display moves in the opposite direction to that of a magnetic compass so turned the wheel the wrong way. When I reached 3° off course the captain suddenly had a lot to say to me about my abilities, my mental state, my gender, and my ancestry. I never made that mistake again!

[DandV]

50 minutes ago, jenevers said:

I think, in the Navy, that’s a ship. Only submarines are BOATS. I may be wrong though?.

That would be a wet boat in any sort of sea. Especially if it was in a hurry 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018 Coventry Canal Br88

[Nightwatch]

1 hour ago, jenevers said:

I think, in the Navy, that’s a ship. Only submarines are BOATS. I may be wrong though?.

I know. I really know. As it happens I’m just reading a book by an ex submariner called, (the book not the submariner) Under Pressure. A good read.

I think the OP was asking for pictures of boats. So I drifted off the naval definitions a little.

 

Do you know why submarines are called boats? In t’olden days, submarines, being very small, were carried, like boats, to an area of operation and launched from the mother ship. Hence the referral to boats.

edited to add, The ‘ship’ in my picture is HMS Exmouth. She was a type 14 anti submarine frigate converted to gas turbine as a test bed for future major ship propulsion. She was in fact governed down to 25 knots. It was like a big speed boat, lots of excellent action and stopping abilities. Had a controllable pitch propeller so she could stop from full speed to stop very little space and time. We had fun off Iceland in mid seventies with Icelandic gun boats.

Edited April 8, 2020 by Nightwatch

[Dav and Pen]

Sailed on this in 1960 first merchant gas turbine ship. Shell tanker Auris 12000 tons. Broke down most days.

Edited April 8, 2020 by Dav and Pen
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[jenevers]

50 minutes ago, Nightwatch said:

 

Do you know why submarines are called boats? In t’olden days, submarines, being very small, were carried, like boats, to an area of operation and launched from the mother ship. Hence the referral to boats.

 

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

[Rob-M]

1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2018 Coventry Canal Br88

That house has changed quite a bit in the last few years.

[Nightwatch]

3 minutes ago, Rob-M said:

That house has changed quite a bit in the last few years.

It has. Remember it being up for sale, perhaps four years ago!

[Detling]

Ok count the narrow boats in this lock.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006, Castleford Junction, Aire&Calder (MainLine and Wakefield Branch)

Edited April 8, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006, there was unloading at Whitwood Wharf (next to Faries Hill Junction) Aire&Calder Wakefield Branch

and by happenstance we were on a different boat on the same calendar day in 2010, following the same route, there was another unloading operation at Whitwood.

This aggregate trade ceased in 2013, and the Yorkshire Post here reports prospect of revival.

[matty40s]

4 hours ago, Rob-M said:

That house has changed quite a bit in the last few years.

The bridge hole is still the same though....plough your way through...

[Rob-M]

34 minutes ago, matty40s said:

The bridge hole is still the same though....plough your way through...

Yes one of the few bridges that I nearly always grind to a halt in when trying to glide through.

[mark99]

3 hours ago, Detling said:

Ok count the narrow boats in this lock.

Teddington main lock. 6 gates iirc. The tide brought 'em in.

Edited April 8, 2020 by mark99

[Tonka]

2 minutes ago, mark99 said:

Teddington main lock. 6 gates iirc.

Which year was this. I remember it being like that in 1980 after the Lea Valley festival

[mark99]

2 minutes ago, Tonka said:

Which year was this. I remember it being like that in 1980 after the Lea Valley festival

The cars look modern and bland.... so not that old.

[DandV]

4 hours ago, Detling said:

Ok count the narrow boats in this lock.

A very nice blue narrowboat third back on the left. 

St Pancras Cruising club trip May 2017. Wonderful trip, but the 28? narrowboats in an unbroken  line through the centre of London sure pissed the trip boat operators off

Our last year cruising, the left the boat with a broker and flew directly home.

[David Mack]

6 hours ago, Detling said:

Ok count the narrow boats in this lock.

 

Or this one:

 

The big boat is HMS St Albans.

15 January 2007, returning from the London Boat Show Royal Docks cruise with St Pancras Cruising Club.

More pics from this trip at http://grandunioncanalcarrying.co.uk/january07/index.html

 

Edited April 8, 2020 by David Mack

[Tim Lewis]

7 hours ago, Detling said:

Ok count the narrow boats in this lock.

Oooh I think we can beat that ?

 

 

[TheBiscuits]

7 minutes ago, Tim Lewis said:

Oooh I think we can beat that

That's a picture across a marina!

[tehmarks]

Yesterday morning's misty sunrise on the Trent & Mersey. The sunrise was truly exceptional, but it's sadly a rubbish photo because I was trying and failing to sleep at the time.

[DandV]

1 hour ago, Tim Lewis said:

Oooh I think we can beat that ?

 

 

That's a young looking Brian Barnes, the stalwart of the Aylesbury Canal Society for many many years, sitting on the fore deck of Kalamaki