castaway
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Browsing the web last evening and came across this ad.
http://www.yachtsite.co.uk/fairweather
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http://www.yachtsite.co.uk/fairweather
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How about this for a piece of history?
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tcm
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Coo. Are they gonna raise the Graf Spee?
As a youngster i built all the airfix kits for the battelships, - Hood, Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz and Graf Spee - and but ballast innem so they would float properly, a bit. Um, didn't get much further than that boatbuilding-wise and fortunately didn't get much more involved in military matters either...
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As a youngster i built all the airfix kits for the battelships, - Hood, Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz and Graf Spee - and but ballast innem so they would float properly, a bit. Um, didn't get much further than that boatbuilding-wise and fortunately didn't get much more involved in military matters either...
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Badger
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What about the one below."Admiral’s pinnace from Hitler’s Yacht "Grille". Would be perfect for Kurt Von Thadden (Anyone remember him ?)
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tcm
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Re: KvT
ooh yes. I think he was unmasked somewhere too, not sure. Ghastly, but memorable!
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ooh yes. I think he was unmasked somewhere too, not sure. Ghastly, but memorable!
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castaway
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I could'nt help wondering why these 2 boats surfaced at the same time.
Possibly the "German Expats Yacht Club of Argentina" is having a mooring clean out!
Maybe a search under U-boats for sale....
Nick
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Possibly the "German Expats Yacht Club of Argentina" is having a mooring clean out!
Maybe a search under U-boats for sale....
Nick
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tome
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There's a lot of WW2 planes out there also - saw them.
Fascinating project opportunity, wish I had the time.
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Fascinating project opportunity, wish I had the time.
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Badger
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Hitlers Yacht
The Ostwind was one of two yachts built by the Nazi government after a poor German showing in the 1936 Olympic races. Even though it's original purpose was to demonstrate German superiority in Olympic competition, the Ostwind actually spent most of it's life in America, war booty transported here by the US Navy in 1947. But when it first arrived in this country it wasn't known as Hitler's yacht at all. It became Hitler's yacht. The Ostwind’s sister ship - the Nordwind - a boat, mind you, (with an identical pedigree) - built at the same time, by the same people, for the same purpose - has never been known as Hitler's yacht. To this day it sails in Britain under the name White Rose, a charter boat which inspires no controversy, attracts no attention at all.Apparently the Ostwind is for sale in Miami.
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The Ostwind was one of two yachts built by the Nazi government after a poor German showing in the 1936 Olympic races. Even though it's original purpose was to demonstrate German superiority in Olympic competition, the Ostwind actually spent most of it's life in America, war booty transported here by the US Navy in 1947. But when it first arrived in this country it wasn't known as Hitler's yacht at all. It became Hitler's yacht. The Ostwind’s sister ship - the Nordwind - a boat, mind you, (with an identical pedigree) - built at the same time, by the same people, for the same purpose - has never been known as Hitler's yacht. To this day it sails in Britain under the name White Rose, a charter boat which inspires no controversy, attracts no attention at all.Apparently the Ostwind is for sale in Miami.
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WW2 planes ....
Years ago I used to fly Model planes by radio. One time - parking the car at the farm shed along with others .... we were chatting and one noticed a piece of metal sticking out of a pile of loose straw / rubbish. Went to look and found a dismantled Spitfire. No kidding - straight up.
Turned out that it was one of many that basically were landed in fields by Air Transport Girls when German planes came over ..... So I'm told - they had orders that because they were unarmed and on delivery - they should land wherever possible and wiat for the raid to clear. Of course some of these couldn't get back off the ground and some in fact never left where they stopped !!! This was one of 'em.
We spoke with Malcolm the farmer and he told us his father planned to renovate it and that was why it had been dismantled to get it intio the barn etc.
As far as I know the plane was re-assembled - but the engine was missing and I doubt it got further.
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Years ago I used to fly Model planes by radio. One time - parking the car at the farm shed along with others .... we were chatting and one noticed a piece of metal sticking out of a pile of loose straw / rubbish. Went to look and found a dismantled Spitfire. No kidding - straight up.
Turned out that it was one of many that basically were landed in fields by Air Transport Girls when German planes came over ..... So I'm told - they had orders that because they were unarmed and on delivery - they should land wherever possible and wiat for the raid to clear. Of course some of these couldn't get back off the ground and some in fact never left where they stopped !!! This was one of 'em.
We spoke with Malcolm the farmer and he told us his father planned to renovate it and that was why it had been dismantled to get it intio the barn etc.
As far as I know the plane was re-assembled - but the engine was missing and I doubt it got further.
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longjohnsilver
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Did you scuttle them or were they blown out of the water by enemy fire.
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Re: WW2 planes ....
When very young - my father took me over a fully airworthy example of a B17 Flying Fortress ...... at Gatwick ...... The plane was flown by my father and friends from Canada to UK and then back again later after using it for a movie. I cannot remember the name of the Movie - but it starred Steve McQueen as a US Pilot of said B17 ..... it ends with him getting all crew to bail out just before White Cliffs of Dover and he tries to fly alone .... its all aflame and shot-up .... crashes into the White Cliffs ........
My life-long memory will be the interior and even for a small child like me - the difficulty of moving around inside and what it must have been like to fly in war ..... let alone bail out of the thing !!!
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When very young - my father took me over a fully airworthy example of a B17 Flying Fortress ...... at Gatwick ...... The plane was flown by my father and friends from Canada to UK and then back again later after using it for a movie. I cannot remember the name of the Movie - but it starred Steve McQueen as a US Pilot of said B17 ..... it ends with him getting all crew to bail out just before White Cliffs of Dover and he tries to fly alone .... its all aflame and shot-up .... crashes into the White Cliffs ........
My life-long memory will be the interior and even for a small child like me - the difficulty of moving around inside and what it must have been like to fly in war ..... let alone bail out of the thing !!!
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Airfix ....
I think the average British kid must have built 'em all !!! Bismark, Hood, Titanic, planes on string hanging from ceiling ...... blimey - I could do it all again !!!
Oh and "Painting by Numbers" !!!!
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I think the average British kid must have built 'em all !!! Bismark, Hood, Titanic, planes on string hanging from ceiling ...... blimey - I could do it all again !!!
Oh and "Painting by Numbers" !!!!
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Weed-killer and sugar !
That usually did the trick !!
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That usually did the trick !!
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Chris_Robb
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On Hayling Island they are restoring and old 40ft 1900 steam pinace off a german battleship, which they purloined at the end of the 1st world war. Not got the steam engine anymore - but it is in extra oprdinary condition for its age.
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Ric
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Re: WW2 planes ....
There's a whole B17 lying in about 20m of water just off Calvi in Corsica. The crew got shot up by Italian Me109s in a raid over Verona and diverted to Calvi (then in US hands) but couldn't make the runway so ditched. Some survived. It makes a super dive site now.
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There's a whole B17 lying in about 20m of water just off Calvi in Corsica. The crew got shot up by Italian Me109s in a raid over Verona and diverted to Calvi (then in US hands) but couldn't make the runway so ditched. Some survived. It makes a super dive site now.
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