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7 hours ago, MrsM said:

Who else thought this was another newbie who thinks narrowboats are called long-boats? 😂

And trying to get it to London

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Posted
7 hours ago, MrsM said:

Who else thought this was another newbie who thinks narrowboats are called long-boats? 😂

 

 

Carefully worded & you fell for it - the title is long boat, not Longboat, (Royal Navy) or even Longship (Vikings)

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Posted
8 hours ago, MrsM said:

Who else thought this was another newbie who thinks narrowboats are called long-boats? 😂

A visit to Gloucester is called for.....

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Posted
3 hours ago, MtB said:

Its a submarine not a boat, anyway! 

 

My understanding (from an ex-submariner that I used to work with) is that submarines are always referred to as "boats" by those who sail (sink?) in them, irrespective of size.

Posted (edited)

There is a Navy (submariners) saying something to the effect that "Ships sail on the surface, boats are there to stop them"

or was it "there are two types of boats - submarines and targets"

 

 

Found It :

 

 

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Posted
6 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

 

Carefully worded & you fell for it - the title is long boat, not Longboat, (Royal Navy) or even Longship (Vikings)

What about the Seveners?

Posted
1 minute ago, ditchcrawler said:

What about the Seveners?

 

Not quite sure ........................ did they have submarines in 765 AD ?

 

al-Ismāʿīliyya al-khāliṣa / al-Ismāʿīliyya al-wāqifa or Seveners (Arabic: سبعية) was a branch of Ismā'īlī Shīʻa. They broke off from the more numerous Twelvers after the death of Jafar al-Sadiq in 765 AD. They became known as "Seveners" because they believed that Isma'il ibn Ja'far was the seventh and last Imam (hereditary leader of the Muslim community in the direct line of Ali)

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Posted
2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

Not quite sure ........................ did they have submarines in 765 AD ?

 

al-Ismāʿīliyya al-khāliṣa / al-Ismāʿīliyya al-wāqifa or Seveners (Arabic: سبعية) was a branch of Ismā'īlī Shīʻa. They broke off from the more numerous Twelvers after the death of Jafar al-Sadiq in 765 AD. They became known as "Seveners" because they believed that Isma'il ibn Ja'far was the seventh and last Imam (hereditary leader of the Muslim community in the direct line of Ali)

 

 

Amusingly perverse, as you well know he probably meant to type "Severners", (at a guess)!! 

 

 

Posted
56 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

 

Amusingly perverse, as you well know he probably meant to type "Severners", (at a guess)!! 

 

 

You should all know by now I cant spell, you just have to work it out for your selves 

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Posted
On 26/08/2024 at 11:22, MtB said:

Its a submarine not a boat, anyway! 

I thought that submariners were quite insistent on being a boat, not a ship.

Posted
17 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:

I thought that submariners were quite insistent on being a boat, not a ship.

Is that like a Narrowboat not being a barge 

 

Posted
On 27/08/2024 at 20:36, Mike Todd said:

I thought that submariners were quite insistent on being a boat, not a ship.

A ship carries boats but a boat doesn't carry ships, so seeing as there are no life boats on a sub then it is a boat

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