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The elctronic version I canot get hold of - nor the electronic star wars battleship version.
I have searched everywhere and the only place that has them it the USA who wont ship them to the uk.
who would have though it!
My parents said what would I like for xmas - and the only thing I missed whenI was young was the electronic battleships. Had the manual version but cor did I want the electronic one.
I have searched everywhere and the only place that has them it the USA who wont ship them to the uk.
who would have though it!
My parents said what would I like for xmas - and the only thing I missed whenI was young was the electronic battleships. Had the manual version but cor did I want the electronic one.
ahem... amazon, star wars battleship, 149 notes to you squire!
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000067BKZ/scifind0b/202-4256100-7749435?dev-t=D1XJAGVXSC7IEP%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000067BKZ/scifind0b/202-4256100-7749435?dev-t=D1XJAGVXSC7IEP%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2
mrmaggit said:
If you really want to see a battleship, go down to the Thames and board HMS Belfast; what a tremendous piece of engineering and so atmospheric.
It's a cruiser.
Oh really, well there's a turn up for the books!
And all the time I thought it was a ship that fought battles.
Well you live and learn on here.
IOLAIRE said:
IOLAIRE said:
If you really want to see a battleship, go down to the Thames and board HMS Belfast; what a tremendous piece of engineering and so atmospheric.
It's a cruiser.
Oh really, well there's a turn up for the books!
And all the time I thought it was a ship that fought battles.
Well you live and learn on here.
You sure do. Belfast was involved in the Battle of North Cape, which culminated in the Scharnhorst being sunk. Also took part in the bombardment of Caen, shortly after D-Day.
I believe that is my anorak?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1182&item=5943915383&rd=1
Here you ar if you're quick.
I had this one as a kid. Hours of fun with authentic sonar, missile and explosion noises.
Here you ar if you're quick.
I had this one as a kid. Hours of fun with authentic sonar, missile and explosion noises.
mrmaggit said:
You sure do. Belfast was involved in the Battle of North Cape, which culminated in the Scharnhorst being sunk. Also took part in the bombardment of Caen, shortly after D-Day.
I believe my grandfather served on board Belfast as a CPO in the engineroom during WW2, although I think it may actually have been her sister ship the Liverpool now I come to think of it.
Edit: Just checked with my dad - it was HMS Liverpool
>> Edited by JonRB on Wednesday 22 December 17:52
IOLAIRE said:To be fair, you wouldn't call an Aircraft Carrier a battleship, nor would you call a submarine a battleship, so why would you call a Cruiser a battleship? Or a Destroyer for that matter?
Oh really, well there's a turn up for the books!
And all the time I thought it was a ship that fought battles.
Well you live and learn on here.
mrmaggit said:
mrmaggit said:
IOLAIRE said:
If you really want to see a battleship, go down to the Thames and board HMS Belfast; what a tremendous piece of engineering and so atmospheric.
It's a cruiser.
Oh really, well there's a turn up for the books!
And all the time I thought it was a ship that fought battles.
Well you live and learn on here.
You sure do. Belfast was involved in the Battle of North Cape, which culminated in the Scharnhorst being sunk. Also took part in the bombardment of Caen, shortly after D-Day.
I believe that is my anorak?
Oh well, this is my sou'wester.
Belfast was equipped with no less than four Unit Propulsion Systems, i.e. four Parsons Dual Pressure steam turbines each driven by a three drum boiler unit supplying superheated steam at 350 PSI pressure to give 20,000 shaft horse power each. The units were separated by a watertight bulkhead ensuring that in the event of a torpedo hit she would still have at least 50% power.
She had a maximum speed of 32 knots; that means you could water ski off her stern!!
80,000 Horsepower!!!
Eat your heart out Donzi !!
pstruck said:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1182&item=5943915383&rd=1
Here you ar if you're quick.
I had this one as a kid. Hours of fun with authentic sonar, missile and explosion noises.
£46 with the postage. Holy mackrel batman!JonRB said:
She had a maximum speed of 32 knots
That is astonishing! 32 knots is considered a reasonable turn of speed for a speedboat!
Ahh, that's nothing!
Ship No. 534, the SS QUEEN MARY; launched on the 26th of September, 1934 and built by John Brown in Clydebank.
Probably the most beautiful ocean liner ever built.
Weight - 81,237 tons.
Length - 1,019ft 6in.
Power - 160,000 SHP.
Average service speed across the Atlantic - 28.5 knots.
Clocked at 34 knots on the measured mile past Ailsa Craig on the Clyde.
You can go down to the Govan dry docks right now and see the three docks and the giant engine shed where the greatest liners ever built were constructed.
They don't know what to do with them because they were built by stone masons from Aberdeen granite which means that, short of a nuclear explosion, they are virtually indestructible.
Other than broken wiondows in the sheds they are perfect.
The smallest dock would swallow the QE2!
Why the f**k aren't we building ships in them?
Yeah it always seems a bit improbable, but boat top speed doesn't really get influenced by the boat weight. So you could have an aircraft carrier going faster than a family cruiser 
let's not even bring yachts into this
Imagine 60,000 cars .. that's the weight of an aircraft carrier .. now imagine them all welded together and travelling at 30mph .. you gotta worry about that much momentum!
let's not even bring yachts into this Imagine 60,000 cars .. that's the weight of an aircraft carrier .. now imagine them all welded together and travelling at 30mph .. you gotta worry about that much momentum!
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