Tidnock
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The story of the evacuation of Dunkirk
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BBC2 9:30 tonight Little Ships
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Kawasaki
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******!
Why didn't yer tell me sooner
Missed it now
Anyway
You getting yer butt up the Menai Sunday?
Why didn't yer tell me sooner
Missed it now
Anyway
You getting yer butt up the Menai Sunday?
Tidnock
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yes and the battling sons should be with me (14&15), you will know it is me I will be refereeing their latest scrap
aquapower
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Just watched it, makes you realise what they had to go through, these people are real heros
Kawasaki
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That's great Tid
No probs ref the Battlers
Might be time to hone your MOB skills
Be interesting to try an fish two out the Swellies!!!!
Oh!
Remind me, ref yer vessels name
An keep a listen on 16 as yer do!
No probs ref the Battlers
Might be time to hone your MOB skills
Be interesting to try an fish two out the Swellies!!!!
Oh!
Remind me, ref yer vessels name
An keep a listen on 16 as yer do!
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Tidnock
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my rough plan is, head under the middle of the bridge, head for the house on th'island with the perch fine on the right and then turn left when I see the transit marks, all this whilst separating the testosterone charged siblings, good plan or should i stay east?
AHoy2
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For IOW and Solent based folk this site may be of interest as it provides a first hand account of how some of the local "Little Ships" and their crews became involved.
http://www.iowtodunkirk.com/the-bee-goes-to-war/
My father was one of the crew members, but he never did recount his experiences to me.
AHoy2.
http://www.iowtodunkirk.com/the-bee-goes-to-war/
My father was one of the crew members, but he never did recount his experiences to me.
AHoy2.
PaulGooch
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AndieMac
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Apparently you need to be within the UK to use this version of iplayer. That's a shame it sounded interesting.
scubaman
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You can work around that using a proxy, google is your man.
I watched it and it was very interesting. Those were hard times... I can only imagine the feeling among the soldiers on the beach when they saw those little ships coming in and taking them to safety.
AndieMac
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Cheers for that Scubaman.....
Indeed, a significant historical event. A lot's gone on in that narrow stretch of water over the last thousand years or so.
Kawasaki
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Cheers for that Scubaman.....
Indeed, a significant historical event. A lot's gone on in that narrow stretch of water over the last thousand years or so.
There must be a bit of History about Bass Strait somewhere by you too.
Though I reckon only about 350 years ish, since Dutch fella turned up.
How near are you to
42 30 59 S
147 4 48 E!
Junno, I only found out today that a certain Mr Pontin and a Guy called E Flynn are/ where from that Lat/ Long ish
Dunno why that pile of stuff came up in conversation (not in the Pub either) today!
Oh yeh, I did have a few peeps from Aus aboard.
Told em there ARE Crocks in the Swellies
Well i ad to didl eye
AndieMac
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There must be a bit of History about Bass Strait somewhere by you too.
Though I reckon only about 350 years ish, since Dutch fella turned up.
How near are you to
42 30 59 S
147 4 48 E!
Junno, I only found out today that a certain Mr Pontin and a Guy called E Flynn are/ where from that Lat/ Long ish
Dunno why that pile of stuff came up in conversation (not in the Pub either) today!
Oh yeh, I did have a few peeps from Aus aboard.
Told em there ARE Crocks in the Swellies
Well i ad to didl eye
147 08' E
41 26' S runs straight through my office Kwacka.
The 42 lat. would be Errol Flynns' home town Hobart.
Ricky Pontings from the suburb of Mowbray, which is about 2 kilometres from the Launceston city centre.
The Dutch had a bit of a sniff around the coastline of Western Oz and Tas. 100 years before the English settled.
Strangely enough the French actually had established a whaling station in southern Tas. but weren't quick enough to register the island as a colony.
This was during the Nepoleonic Wars, when strained relationships existed between the two countries.
Are you doing passengers cruises these days Kwacka?