Xela Posted May 16, 2023 Share Posted May 16, 2023 19 hours ago, sidcow said: Tomorrow today? Where is the USB port knob head? Gramophone in the boot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xann Posted May 21, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted May 21, 2023 Eiffel Tower concept tenders. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colhint Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 75 years ago today Stan Jones released a single. Little did he know that a slight change of words and it would be sung by close to a million people a year. Happy birthday HEITS 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mandy Lifeboats Posted June 7, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 7, 2023 (edited) BATTLE OF TSUSHIMA 1905. Very funny. Someone told me about this battle and I thought they were joking. But I have looked up everything below and it all appears true. It's 1904 and Russia is at war with Japan. Things aren't going well and Russia decides to send the Baltic Fleet to attack Japan. That's only 18,000 miles away. The fleet forms up near St Petersburg. It's a massive fleet of warships and auxiliary support ships. The crews aren't experienced navigating in a large fleet. The flagship runs aground. A destroyer rams a battleship forcing them both to return to port for repairs. The fleet is approaching Denmark when the lead ship reports being attacked by 8 Japanese Ships. Its actually a fishing boat delivering a message. The gunnery is so bad that the fishing boat doesn't realise its under attack and just sails to the flagship and delivers its message. The fleet is now at Dogger Bank. It spots a massive Japanese Fleet and attacks. Its actually the fishing fleet from Hull. The warships fire for 20 minutes before realising their mistake. As the smoke clears 1 fishing boat has been sunk and 2 fishermen killed. But the unarmed fishing fleet gets a score draw. The Russians shelled 2 of their own ships and killed 2 Russians. The British are furious and the Royal Navy is despatched to sink the Russia Fleet. The French Ambassador manages to stop the attack. The French tell the Russians to stay the hell away from any British Ports or face destruction. This causes a slight problem for the Russians because Gibraltar and the Suez Canal were on their route. They decide to go around Africa instead. They have arranged to be resupply with coal by a German Passenger Liner company. But they now need much more coal for the longer journey. They pile coal on deck. That's still not enough so they store coal in every available space below deck. Several crew members die of Black Lung. Cleanliness reduces to zero. Coal dust gets into guns and other vital machinery. Morale is low. The fleet stops off in Madagascar. The crew bring several exotic pets aboard. This includes a Crocodile who injures several crew members and a venomous snake which bites a senior officer. One ship has an infestation of Cameleons. A battleship is hit by shell fire from another battleship who are conducted a salute during a burial at sea. The Admiral orders gunnery practice. Its abandoned after the gunners successfully sink the ship towing the target. The fleet approaches Japan. They decide upon a sneak attack. All ships extinguish lights except the hospital ship. A Japanese Destroyer spots the hospital ship and investigates. The Russians identify it as a Russia ship and send frantic messages telling it to turn its lights off. The Japanese Destroyer spots the fleet, turns off its lights and exits. The Russia Fleet thinks they are still undetected. They are very wrong. The Japanese Fleet intercepts the Russians. Japan Loses > 117 dead, 3 torpedo boats sunk. Russian Loses> 5000 dead, 6000 taken prisoner, 7 battleships and 14 other ships sunk, 4 battleships and 1 Destroyer captured. In a final insult, a Russian Cruiser grounds itself. The crew flee ashore and destroy the ship to stop it falling into Japanese hands. They ran aground in Russia. Edited June 7, 2023 by Mandy Lifeboats Speeling mishsteaks 2 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2023 While we're on naval warfare... HMS Aston Villa was originally a Trawler (built in 1937) but was converted to a Minesweeper, and taken into the Royal Navy in 1939. Sadly, it was destroyed by German Bombers in 1940 off the coast of Norway. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted June 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2023 37 minutes ago, mjmooney said: While we're on naval warfare... HMS Aston Villa was originally a Trawler (built in 1937) but was converted to a Minesweeper, and taken into the Royal Navy in 1939. Sadly, it was destroyed by German Bombers in 1940 off the coast of Norway. Yeah but we got our revenge in 1982. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted June 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 7, 2023 On 15/05/2023 at 12:50, Xela said: Look at those glorious empty roads at the beginning. Love the driving gloves. Where is the "Bell Inn" after the cartoon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tonyh29 Posted June 18, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 18, 2023 My mum was having a clear out of some old papers from my grandad and we’ve found this amongst them , the signature seems to be a correct match but we’ve no idea if it’s a facsimile or the real thing … but its still quite interesting from a historical perspective. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 (edited) @tonyh29 I thought this would be of interest. Quote Montgomery's note to British Forces on the eve of D Day found in charity shop book. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230551/amp/Montgomerys-note-British-forces-eve-D-Day-charity-shop-book.html The letter in the article looks identical to your copy. I guess they were reproduced at some point. The original letter is still held in the archives. Edited June 19, 2023 by Mandy Lifeboats Added sumfink 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted June 19, 2023 Share Posted June 19, 2023 3 hours ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: @tonyh29 I thought this would be of interest. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230551/amp/Montgomerys-note-British-forces-eve-D-Day-charity-shop-book.html The letter in the article looks identical to your copy. I guess they were reproduced at some point. The original letter is still held in the archives. there seems to be a few kicking around , I did wonder at first if it was something purchased from the Imperial War museum gift shop as they were selling a Christmas letter from Monty that was very similar , but another website suggested that they printed hundreds of this letter and Monty then signed them all ! I had a closer look at the on on the story you kindly linked and I thought ours was identical , given credence to the copy theory , but the red ink at the top of ours starts in a slightly different position , so its not quite an "exact" copy of that one .. it was in amongst some of his other army papers so all quite intriguing ... we'll have a bit of fun trying to establish if its real or not , be nice if it is , we can see if a museum would want to display it or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) One for @mjmooney Edited June 24, 2023 by Xela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted June 24, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 24, 2023 31 minutes ago, Xela said: One for @mjmooney Boring, too recent. Got any from 1973? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villa87 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 Probably already discussed, but who listens to the Rest is History podcast? I’ve been listening for a good year now and it really is top draw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted August 2, 2023 Share Posted August 2, 2023 (edited) In 1955 the British government tabled a requirement for an interceptor to counter the new generation of Soviet supersonic bombers. At this point the wartime aircraft manufacturers were still seperate entities. The tendered designs were peak sexy British aviation history. Edited August 2, 2023 by Xann 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted September 6, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2023 Villa Park, 1920. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rds1983 Posted September 6, 2023 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted September 6, 2023 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Villa Park, 1920. Wonderful picture. What type of camera did you use to take it? 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted September 6, 2023 Share Posted September 6, 2023 2 hours ago, Rds1983 said: Wonderful picture. What type of camera did you use to take it? Now thats a silly question.He must have used an old camera,FFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 6, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted September 6, 2023 5 minutes ago, PussEKatt said: Now thats a silly question.He must have used an old camera,FFS It was a woodcut. I was taught by Albecht Durer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted September 6, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted September 6, 2023 Perennial VT favourite Dibnah's introduction to the public consciousness. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyeddie Posted September 7, 2023 Share Posted September 7, 2023 On 06/09/2023 at 09:25, mjmooney said: Villa Park, 1920. Is that Cascarino pulling the cart? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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