SYH to infil up to Loom Pit.

Stork_III said:
From Wiki:- The ship's wreck was upright on the seabed with only the bridge visible at high tide, but it blocked the channel. Only buckled plating amidships held the two main sections of the wreck together and they were cut by explosives when salvage began shortly after her sinking. The two halves were raised by pontoons, and were subsequently broken up. 750 long tons (760 t) of ferrous scrap and 38 long tons (39 t) of non-ferrous metals were recovered between June 1940 and February 1944.

So your wreck would not have been her.
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Nor my collerier. When we dredged Felixstowe for the new marina we took up tons of coal. Interestingly half a bar of gold came up too and a lad dived into the hold and retrieved it. The dredging company fought him in court and lost. I always wondered what happened to the other half? It was common and sometimes quite alarming when we dredged up a bomb and had to listen to it rumbling along the pipe. Many of the lads had collections of shells.
 
toyboy said:
There were many naval ships using the Orwell in the years after the war and Ipswich was a submarine repair facility. I never remembered any of the naval boats as they were just casual visitors. Britania anchored in the river once and I believe the Queen was aboard and the navy guarded her closely. That didn't stop one of the local smugglers pinching a RiB off it :-)
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Were any of HM ships ever filmed it would be nice to see them on the river. There is a Bob Roberts film that the BBC done
 
sailorman said:
Were any of HM ships ever filmed it would be nice to see them on the river. There is a Bob Roberts film that the BBC done
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I believe some filming was done on the Orwell but I was away at the time. I cannot be certain but I believe it was something like Yangtze Incident.
 
toyboy said:
Whoops, I was rather slow there, Amethyst of course. Thanks for your good day wishes but unfortunately I am working this weekend but the local paper is reporting the Strand is flooded again. So much for the EA.
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I watched it flood ( well is was dark actually ) last time & reported the 2 stranded cars to the plod who actually done something on my 2nd call. The took 2 off the car roof on the Freston side, who went out via the sun roof i am told.
The pick-up truck came in the morning
 
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toyboy said:
Whoops, I was rather slow there, Amethyst of course. Thanks for your good day wishes but unfortunately I am working this weekend but the local paper is reporting the Strand is flooded again. So much for the EA.
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But the Strand floods with every good spring tide, if you are local you just learn to work around it. Check tide times, and if it is going to be a problem, take the long way round. Don't drive into it hoping for the best as a few have done recently.
 
sailorman said:
I watched it flood ( well is was dark actually ) last time & reported the 2 stranded cars to the plod who actually done something on my 2nd call. The took 2 off the car roof on the Freston side, who went out via the sun roof i am told.
The pick-up truck came in the morning
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I watched the posting online as I drove around with my hand held too. I believe from what I heard a driver confused the water on the road and didn't realise she was driving into the river. At that time I was on the other side of the river heading for SYH.
 
Leighb said:
But the Strand floods with every good spring tide, if you are local you just learn to work around it. Check tide times, and if it is going to be a problem, take the long way round. Don't drive into it hoping for the best as a few have done recently.
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I have an old map of the Strand area dated 1805 and it is written along the Strand that it is covered at high water. Didn't matter when we were walking or cycling but as the year moved on the road was raised slightly yet it was only then people started getting stuck there as the smart set started moving out to Holbrook and around there.
 
toyboy said:
I have an old map of the Strand area dated 1805 and it is written along the Strand that it is covered at high water. Didn't matter when we were walking or cycling but as the year moved on the road was raised slightly yet it was only then people started getting stuck there as the smart set started moving out to Holbrook and around there.
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If only everybody could turn back the clock to 1805 and have left the Orwell silting and no new houses anywhere, no new people from outside, no electricity, more disease, no cars nor good jobs for most, then the floods would be seen as a simple inconvenience and nobody other than the "Landed Gentry" would sail boats for pleasure. In fact pleasure for the vast majority would probably be limited to a very few hours on Sunday as they would be working 18 hours days of hard graft for very little reward. So toyboy I think you should be in the front of the queue for this way of life !!
 
Mel said:
If only everybody could turn back the clock to 1805 and have left the Orwell silting and no new houses anywhere, no new people from outside, no electricity, more disease, no cars nor good jobs for most, then the floods would be seen as a simple inconvenience and nobody other than the "Landed Gentry" would sail boats for pleasure. In fact pleasure for the vast majority would probably be limited to a very few hours on Sunday as they would be working 18 hours days of hard graft for very little reward. So toyboy I think you should be in the front of the queue for this way of life !!
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Ha ha. My family captured Ipswich in 1006 and again in 1016 so they were probably the landed gentry :-)
 
Ok, but given the death rate for childbirth in those days the chances are that you would not have made it to now without modern advancements. How would we manage without our modern football and mobile phone technology !! :-)
 
Mel said:
Ok, but given the death rate for childbirth in those days the chances are that you would not have made it to now without modern advancements. How would we manage without our modern football and mobile phone technology !! :-)
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My grandchildren and I amaze each other. They do not understand how I lived without a mobile phone and I don't understand what they do with theirs :-) BT told me I was using more than my permitted bandwidth so I got another package. I asked the engineer who fitted it why my usage had gone up. He said it was because I had bought an Iphone! I haven't got an Iphone but all my grandchildren have. What really amazes me is my forebears didn't just get washed up here which is what I always assumed but actually used to travel back and forth to Sweden quite regularly. I think that is really something in open boats too.
 
toyboy said:
My grandchildren and I amaze each other. They do not understand how I lived without a mobile phone and I don't understand what they do with theirs :-) BT told me I was using more than my permitted bandwidth so I got another package. I asked the engineer who fitted it why my usage had gone up. He said it was because I had bought an Iphone! I haven't got an Iphone but all my grandchildren have. What really amazes me is my forebears didn't just get washed up here which is what I always assumed but actually used to travel back and forth to Sweden quite regularly. I think that is really something in open boats too.
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My ancestors were Vikings and they certainly made sure their native country was not spoilt by insurgent newbies building rich homes across the beautiful countryside. I suspect the mobile phone technology struggles across their cold wilderness areas though.
 
Mel said:
My ancestors were Vikings and they certainly made sure their native country was not spoilt by insurgent newbies building rich homes across the beautiful countryside. I suspect the mobile phone technology struggles across their cold wilderness areas though.
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My lot were knocked out by the Normans I think.
The family leaders Rune Stone still stands in Sweden.
 
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I don't know what you're all getting hot and bothered about. Look we could have saved ourselves all this trouble by draining the whole bally lot back in 1930 ;)
 
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