HMS Pembroke

[capnsensible]

Well 18 months in a refit in Chatham and two years setting to work a building vessel at Barrow In Furness gives me an advantage over you.

Sounds like your name dropped pal is the buller, not me.

 

[Biggles Wader]

Oh, I don’t know. You seem to do quite well at it. Perhaps you come from the part of the Navy that ascribed a mis-aligned tailshaft to contact with a lobster pot, on broadcast television, thereby adding much to the gaiety of nations other than this one.

I am reminded of Sir John Parker’s account of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors asking Harland and Wolff, which he was then running, to quote for HMS Fort Victoria. There was a blank space on the drawings. He asked «*What’s that?*»
«*We can’t tell you; it’s secret!*»
«*How am I meant to quote for it, then?*»
«*You just guess!*»

Would that be the same Fort Victoria that the IRA blew up while still being built at H&W?

 

[Kukri]

Would that be the same Fort Victoria that the IRA blew up while still being built at H&W?

That’s the one.

 

[Kukri]

Well 18 months in a refit in Chatham and two years setting to work a building vessel at Barrow In Furness gives me an advantage over you.

Sounds like your name dropped pal is the buller, not me.

You have stood by a ship in refit and a submarine in build and you call Dr Parker a b..... on shipbuilding,

You are a buffoon.

There is no point talking to such an idiot.

 

[capnsensible]

You have stood by a ship in refit and a submarine in build and you call Dr Parker a b..... on shipbuilding,

You are a buffoon.

There is no point talking to such an idiot.

You have lost your temper and any respect I had for you. And all over something that you clearly don't know what you are talking about. Shame.

 

[Kukri]

You have lost your temper and any respect I had for you. And all over something that you clearly don't know what you are talking about. Shame.

Grammar, dear boy. It helps. You seem to be over excited.

Had you chosen to confine yourself to things that you know about, like the RN, or indeed submarines, you might have done better, but you chose to try to defend the MOD’s system of procurement for warships, which is an international laughing stock, and then to defame Britain’s pre-eminent shipbuilder. In a phrase much used by a friend who recently retired from a career in submarine design at Barrow in Furness, I’d advise you to pass up the shovel.

 

[capnsensible]

Grammar, dear boy. It helps. You seem to be over excited.

Had you chosen to confine yourself to things that you know about, like the RN, or indeed submarines, you might have done better, but you chose to try to defend the MOD’s system of procurement for warships, which is an international laughing stock, and then to defame Britain’s per-eminent shipbuilder. In a phrase much used by a friend who recently retired from a career in submarine design at Barrow in Furness, I’d advise you to pass up the shovel.

A per eminent shipbuilder? Spelling, dear boy.

Again you totally miss any point being made. I simply don't believe your anecdote. Your attempt to spin out of that is.....lets just settle for poor.

We are clearly never in a billion years going to agree to anything here. Specifically refits for mine hunters. So that's it for me.

Oh, one last thing, does the Lord I taught to sail and the Lord I managed a small motor yacht for out do your Sir? Not that I mind.

 

[Kukri]

Not if you knew what you were talking about. But since you don’t, feel free to carry on. In the unlikely event that anyone reads this thread, they will be able to draw their own conclusions.

 

[Stemar]

Children, please. Be nice

 

[Kukri]

I don’t take kindly to being called a liar by Lieutenant-Commander Blimp, here.

Sir John, then Dr., Parker told his anecdote in the boardroom of Harland and Wolff whilst we were negotiating the contract for the building of this truck. I was the buyers’ Director for bulk ships.

 

[capnsensible]

 

[Blue Sunray]

I don’t take kindly to being called a liar by Lieutenant-Commander Blimp, here.

Sir John, then Dr., Parker told his anecdote in the boardroom of Harland and Wolff whilst we were negotiating the contract for the building of this truck. I was the buyers’ Director for bulk ships.

There there, have a tissue love.

 

[Kukri]

No manners or decency can be expected from an ignorant posturing blowhard such as you.

 

[Kukri]

There there, have a tissue love.

I don’t need one, thanks.

 

[newtothis]

No manners or decency can be expected from an ignorant posturing blowhard such as you.

Guys, the rest of can't see the line on the wall you're trying to piss over, so can we call it a draw?

 

[dom]

A draw; one can call what happened here a lot of things, but not that!!

 

[capnsensible]

No manners or decency can be expected from an ignorant posturing blowhard such as you.

I found this video on YouTube. You really are rather good.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xHldg50zPo0

 

[Blue Sunray]

I don’t need one, thanks.

Really? I'd suggest a that blood pressure meter might be a useful precaution though.

http://www.bloodpressureuk.org/BloodPressureandyou/Homemonitoring/Choosingyourmonitor

 

[Thistle]

Anyone opening a book on who'll be first for a spot of shore leave? (Perhaps in a refitting yard )

 

[capnsensible]

Anyone opening a book on who'll be first for a spot of shore leave? (Perhaps in a refitting yard )

. Well it won't be me because I don't do personal insults and I'm saying bye bye to this thread. :encouragement: