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  1. To all the family.Lynne Hartshorne my siater has just contacted me to say that our Dad Cyril Howarth is quite unwell at the moment in Canada. Please keep him in your thoughts no matter what your bielefs. Yours Steven Howarth.

  2. Richard Williams and U-8047 TRUST wishes to inform you that Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have an internet stalker, Miss Rachael Jennings, a vindictive woman who has a personal grudge against us. This woman has never visited the Museum, yet has set about a campaign to intimidate and libel us by unfounded lies and malicious falsehoods. We must warn you, for your own peace of mind and security, that if she contacts you, do not give her any of your contact information or you may su...

  3. Whilst standing at the bus stop this morning, a femail IC4 holding a baby IC4 walked past. Sudenly she triped and fell over hurting her knees. The wee Pickaneene went up in the air about six feet and landed in the road, screaming as it hit the deck.Well you know how it is these days? I thought PMSL, I just didn't want to get involved, so walked on across the road to the toilets to wash my leg's and change my underpants

  4. Ner song for BGT pensioners.New song for BGT #Where's mi but plug, Where's mi butplug,..........Where's mi butplug, Where's mi wor-king-frame, Where's mi but plug, Where's mi butplug,..........Where's mi butplug, Where's mi wor-king-frame, Where's mi but plug, Where's mi butplug,..........Where's mi butplug, Where's mi wor-king-frame and mi glasses, mi tarton quilt, my bed pan, mi teeth, mi sanity, mi sanity, mi sanity, wheres that rip in the carpettttttttttttttt errrrrrrr arrrrrrrrrr THU...

  5. April-May, 1990: Unusual transit - Oberon Class submarine HMAS OXLEY in the Corinth Canal - RAN. 3040. This photograph is captioned on some RAN websites as HMAS OXLEY in the Suez Canal. We're pretty sure that is the Corinth Canal which separates the Peloponnese from mainland Greece. In which case this transit would have taken place when OXLEY made an unusual voyage into the Mediterranean in 1990, indeed via Suez, along with LCH HMAS TOBRUK [iI] and the frigate HMAS SYDNEY [iV] , to attend the 75th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings in Turkey. From Anzac Cove the RAN ships passed through the Dardenelles and held a memorial services in the Sea of Marmora over the last known position of the submarine AE2. Turning west, HMAS OXLEY then proceeded to the Italian naval port of Taranto, which she reached on May 3, and we believe she has passed through the Corinth Canal on this voyage. Even more impressively, on May 5, OXLEY's CO, LCDR Peter Earlam and the entire boat's company were granted an audience with Pope John Paul II, at which he urged them to work for world peace. From there they proceeded to memorial ceremonies for the Battle of Crete, and on to Alexandria, the WWII base for the British Mediterranean Fleet with which many RAN ships served. [THE CORINTH CANAL, a dream from ancient times for the narrow Isthmus, it was finally realized and completed on October 28, 1893. Although too narrow for large modern ships, it is still in use. It is 6343m [3.94 miles] long, 24.6m in width, and 8m in depth]. Photo: RAN Official, it appears on the official Royal Australian Navy Flickr photostream, and on the Seapower Centre Australia web page for HMAS OXLEY. SORRY they are not british Canals....
  6. The September 2011 issue of Armchair General® presented the Combat Decision Game “Zeebrugge Raid, 1918.” This CDG placed readers in the role of British Royal Navy Vice Admiral Roger Keyes, commander of the Dover Patrol during World War I. Keyes’ mission in April 1918 was to devise a plan to raid the German-held port of Zeebrugge, located in Belgium on the North Sea coast near the English Channel. The goal of the raid was to block the entrance to the Bruges-Zeebrugge Canal and thus reduce the German U-boat threat to Britain’s vital Atlantic convoys. About one-third (40-50) of Germany’s deadly “Grey Wolves” were based at Bruges and transited the canal en route to their Atlantic Ocean “hunting grounds. Keyes was convinced that to give the blocking cruisers the best chance to reach the canal entrance, he had to find a way to divert the German defenders’ attention away from the raid’s main objective. Thus he chose to land an assault force of armed sailors and Royal Marines on Zeebrugge’s mole (Course of Action Two: Diversion). Although two blockships were successfully scuttled at the mouth of the canal, the Germans cleared a path for U-boat passage within a few days. (Petho Cartography) HISTORICAL OUTCOME Keyes decided that the raid’s main objective, blocking the canal entrance, would have the best chance to succeed if the German defenders’ attention was drawn elsewhere (Course of Action Two: Diversion). Therefore, he included in his raiding force a diversionary attack force of 200 armed sailors and 400 Royal Marines supported by the cruiser HMS Vindictive to assault the German positions on the mole while the three blocking cruisers – Intrepid, Iphigenia and Thetis – entered the harbor and raced for the mouth of the canal. Two coastal submarines, C1 and C3, would be blown up under the viaduct to prevent enemy reinforcements from counterattacking onto the mole. At 10 p.m., April 22, 1918, Keyes’ 75-ship armada (the raiding force ships plus the protecting warships and support vessels) reached a location 16 miles off Zeebrugge, the raiders’ launching point. At 11:56 p.m., HMS Vindictive burst out of a thick smoke screen laid by the armada’s support vessels and steamed toward the Zeebrugge mole only 300 yards away. Surprised and stunned, the German gunners had no time to react before Vindictive’s portside batteries opened up and blasted the mole from a distance of barely 50 yards. The ferryboats pushed Vindictive close to the mole, and the armed sailors and Royal Marines disembarked and then struggled through barbed wire to attack the German positions. (See Zeebrugge Raid map.) As Vindictive’s gunners engaged enemy artillery and the guns of German torpedo boats anchored on the far side of the mole, the landing party continued to fight its way along the mole against heavy fire. While the diversionary attack diverted the Germans’ attention, submarine C3 was blown up under the viaduct, creating an impassable 60-foot gap (C1 parted its towrope crossing the channel and did not take part in the raid). Meanwhile, the three blocking cruisers left the safety of the smoke screen and entered Zeebrugge harbor with HMS Thetis leading the way. Unfortunately, Thetis fouled its propellers and drifted back into the main channel – making a perfect, nearly stationary target for German guns – where it was scuttled by its crew. Yet Thetis and the diversionary attack helped Intrepid and Iphigenia make it across the harbor to the canal entrance, where they were successfully scuttled in blocking position. Royal Navy motor launches and small boats rescued most of the crewmen from the submarine and blockships, but casualties were heavy among the armed sailors and Royal Marines who landed at the mole. The Royal Marines of 4th Battalion were especially hard hit, losing 118 killed and 202 wounded. Royal Navy causalities were 101 killed, 154 wounded and three captured. Although the Zeebrugge raid blocked the canal entrance, German engineers reacted quickly and cleared a path so that U-boat traffic was able to resume within a few days. Nonetheless, the raid’s success boosted Britain’s homefront morale, as it was a rare and desperately needed victory at a time when Germany’s Kaiserschlacht Spring Offensives (March-July 1918) on the Western Front threatened to collapse the Allied line. A similar Royal Navy raid on April 23-24 at Ostend, Belgium – another port transited by Bruges’ U-boats – was a total failure, and a second Ostend raid on May 10 achieved only limited success. Williams U-8047 TRUST http://www.armchairgeneral.com/cdg46-zeebrugge-raid-1918.htm
  7. Nearly got washed out of dock and in to the Royal Armouries at 3am this morning. Water levels were higher the we have ever seen before.

  8. How many Sundays in a month?

  9. Gosh we can all dig some dirt, I dont know how you all have the time. The origional discusion was about warning you all that BW was concidering bringing a trip boat in to Clarence Dock, which would take up your limmeted mooring space. I was genuinly trying to help you all by informing you of it. Unfortunatly. The Trust, along with myself has suffered systermatic abuse and insult from a number of you, who dont seem to care that you will have no where to moor your boats if this go's ahead. I tried to end the discusion befor it got out of hand, which eventualy it did. Sadly this new one is heading in the same direction, so this will be my last post on the matter. My new recomendation to BW will be to bring the trip boat, moor it behind us, taking aproxematly 60-70 feet of your mooring space, leaving just about enough space for a small narrow or cruser. Which should stop me having to endure your verbel defamation in person. Happy mooring by the riverside.
  10. Unfortunatly for your gosip, I was not due at court, I was on bail to attend the police station, as no charges had been brought against me. Sadly for you, I got a phone call from my solicitor and did'nt have to attend, as the HMRC still have no evidence with which to charge me of anything. So once again they have bailed me for yet another two months, to try and dig somthing up.
  11. Richard Williams is playing With HimselfCreate a home on the moon, rase a donkey, and hit the tailin this new free game from Zyangocouch, makers of Fartville & Ainalville!

  12. I'm going to Lenningrad for 15 months.

  13. It's COLD, I''m HUNGRY, where's my PILLS?

  14. Just got back from a none exsistant car boot sale at Harrogate. I have now got hat trick carioky bar and keep singing New York New York, 3 times over and over. Yesterday I had Psyborg Cleptermania and kept pinching robot's bottoms, life's so ficking complicated when your an absolute fruit cake.

  15. I thought my nose was bleading but it'snot!

  16. Anthony worrell thompson is holding af cheese and wine party. All welcome, cell 5, landing 3, L wing, wormwood scrubs.

  17. WARNING E-MAIL VIRUS PLEASE RESEND THIS WARNING TO YOUR FRIENDSIt will say Woooo or somthing like then have "Click here to see the attached video" in big blue letters. If you open it, it will send it on to everyone in your contacts list. If you have recieved it from me sorry.

  18. Chineese for tea, there not quite as chewy as an Italien, less mess than a Kentucky and better on the bowel than an Indian.

  19. Yet another Dark and Stormy night at Clarence Dock on the boat. Still very rough this morning, with the wind so bad were stuck on the boat. Somebody, Anybody, please call International Rescue to bring us some Breakfast

  20. I recently got her, and gioft wraped, Two new brushes, 3 mop's 2 buckets, bleach, floor cleaner and a ficking squeegy, and she still wasent happy over Christmas. PS I Love You

  21. Could one of the Administrators please help me to tidy this post up? LOL their should be just one post and I think 3 comments. PS
  22. I thought my nose was running but it'snot!

  23. Had enough trying to watch bond film I've seen 100 times, no one to chat to, no one to play wiv, that's it the rattles thrown out of the pram and the dummys bin spit out, good night, and may your god be with you, Richard XX

  24. Thankx Brian you can see more at the U-8047 TRUST website U-8047
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