HMS Belfast brow collapsed

[Timleech]

I must be missing out then never knew everthing I need to know in my life is on Google and wikiwatsitname.

You can learn more from talking and listening to old farts than any "search engine".

 

Bollox to the popcorn I shall stick to the whiskey.

 

Google is very useful but also very energy intensive & therefore not terribly friendly to the environment. I don't think it's a good idea to encourage a general attitude that looking on Google first is the way to go.

 

Tim

[alan_fincher]

Slightly less sensational BBC news link than the Daily Fail one posted elsewhere......

 

HMS Belfast - Two Injured At Gangway Collapses

 

However I think you can play things down a bit too far....

 

Mr Reed said work had been carried out on the walkway for the past seven weeks and it passed a safety test.

 

"It was quite safe for people to walk across," he said.

 

Oh really ?!?

[Barry]

Slightly less sensational BBC news link than the Daily Fail one posted elsewhere......

 

HMS Belfast - Two Injured At Gangway Collapses

 

However I think you can play things down a bit too far....

 

 

"It was quite safe for people to walk across,"

 

Oh really ?!?

 

Well it was.....

[alan_fincher]

Well it was.....

By that line of argument, Buncefield was entirely safe right up to the point of the "big bang" then!

[Barry]

It was a tongue in cheek comment Alan

 

At the time of the safety inspection it was safe

 

But maybe it wasn't windy then

[alan_fincher]

It was a tongue in cheek comment Alan

Sorry, yes!, I know that.....

 

maybe need tongue-in-cheek smiley myself too!.....

[mrsmelly]

It was a tongue in cheek comment Alan

 

At the time of the safety inspection it was safe

 

But maybe it wasn't windy then

 

A bit like the mot certificate on a car.........

[alan_fincher]

A bit like the mot certificate on a car.........

Or a BSS inspection

[mrsmelly]

Or a BSS inspection

 

You are definately right on that one........Im getting the same bloke back to do this one as did it before I bought it, he must have a white stick and a labrador.......

[carlt]

Apparently the contract to raise the brow has been awarded to Roger Moore...

[Sir Nibble]

Coat!

[Richard T]

Just for information planning consent has been granted recently for the rebuilding of the entrance pavilion to HMS Belfast. See link planningI understand work was being done to the access walkway as part of the enabling works. It was schedued to have the new pavilion completed prior to the olympics - this may now be in doubt. HMS Belfast is part of the Imperial War Museums who are funding the improvement works

[Josher]

A giant floating crane came to the Upper Pool of London on Friday to salvage the twisted remains of the brow leading from the shore to HMS Belfast which collapsed last month. See London SE1 16.12.11 for more photos:

 

[Jason Wilson and Family]

I was taught to call it the brow as well. Interestingly enough though I just had a class on construction and stability and apparently the technical definitions are:

 

The gangway: Is the opening in the side of the ship by which people embark and disembark

 

The brow: Is a flat section at the base of the gangway where people can step

 

The gangplank: Is the bit that goes between the ship and shore.

 

For those that were curious.

[soldthehouse]

Or a BSS inspection

Or a marriage certificate