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hidetheelephants said:
Voldemort said:
Some sort of bun fight/tea and medals after the Falklands? I'd be surprised if there's anywhere with deep enough water upriver of the barrier for it these days, so we're unlikely to see a repeat with HMS Queen Elizabeth.Some quick googling suggests June 1987.
MBBlat said:
hidetheelephants said:
Voldemort said:
Some sort of bun fight/tea and medals after the Falklands? I'd be surprised if there's anywhere with deep enough water upriver of the barrier for it these days, so we're unlikely to see a repeat with HMS Queen Elizabeth.Some quick googling suggests June 1987.
I wandered into an internet wormhole and found that she moored just upstream of the naval college at Greenwich and that the same moorings were used by HMS Ocean during the olympics. The derelict waterfront, Convoys Wharf, next to the moorings is still derelict 37 years later, because of greedy developers and probably council doing council st.
CooperD said:
A hydrofoil on Lake Como. Only been on a hydrofoil once in my life when I went from Naples to Ischia many years ago. If I recall it was quite noisy and more akin to being on an aeroplane than a ship.
https://youtu.be/1VeLinx126k?si=JFxpSrH8oIfejH3k
I think you've hit the wrong thread Tony. Probably wanted https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Voldemort said:
I think you've hit the wrong thread Tony. Probably wanted https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Oops! Thank you. DJFish said:
CooperD said:
A hydrofoil on Lake Como. Only been on a hydrofoil once in my life when I went from Naples to Ischia many years ago. If I recall it was quite noisy and more akin to being on an aeroplane than a ship.
https://youtu.be/1VeLinx126k?si=JFxpSrH8oIfejH3k
On a ferry trip from Piraeus to Aegina back in the early 2000s I was surprised just how many hydrofoils the Greeks used. I got the impression most were Russian-built.
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