| HMS Fearless |
[Dec. 19th, 2007|05:49 pm] |
HMS Fearless, a Falklands veteran, was towed away for scrapping in Belgium yesterday. |
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| HMS Liverpool |
[Oct. 2nd, 2007|11:04 pm] |
I suppose I am cheating a little here as none of this was taken on the Solent, or indeed anywhere near the Solent.
I was in Cardiff on Friday and alongside in Cardiff bay was HMS Liverpool with some of her crew rehearsing something.
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| Waverley |
[Sep. 14th, 2007|06:41 pm] |
I went for a cruise on the Waverley yesterday from 10am until 8pm.
We went from Portsmouth to Yarmouth, Bournemouth and Lulworth cove...and then back again :)
First time I had been on the Waverley since I was 4 back in 1985!!
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| Waverley |
[Sep. 11th, 2007|10:14 am] |
Here we see the Waverley departing the south end of Portsmouth harbour station after a day of cruising.
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| Refurbishment of St. Helen 2007 |
[Sep. 9th, 2007|01:09 pm] |
No, there has not been a burglary onboard.
This is actually the much delayed refurbishment of St. Helen.
As you can see, all the furniture, carpets etc have been ripped up in preparation for new carpets and newly upholstered seating.
This is still a work in progress and I don't expect the ship to be back in service for a good few days.
I should be able to get some shots of the completed work soon after she is back on the run.
This should be the same style of carpting and furnishings as the rest of the St Class have recently been done up with.
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| Isle of Wight Scooter Rally 2007 |
[Aug. 26th, 2007|10:38 pm] |
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It's the annual scooter rally on the island this weekend and, for days now, we have been shipping thousands of them over. |
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| Virtual Solent now available |
[Aug. 26th, 2007|01:12 am] |
You can now keep an eye on the virtual goings on in The Solent thanks to this computer game named "Ship simulator 2008" which gives you, amongst many other things, Red Funnels fleet members Red Eagle & Red Jet 4 to play with.
This is a clip someone posted on Youtube showing a less than successful mission with the Red Eagle. Shows you just how good this game is though...
(Just to point out, I don't think English was the first language of whoever made this clip) |
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[Aug. 16th, 2007|11:09 pm] |
St Clare's rescue boat in action...
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[Aug. 16th, 2007|10:19 pm] |
Took some footage this afternoon of the tanker "WHITMARINER" fuelling us on St. Clare.
St. Clares chief engineer put it best...
"Well today we took on 21000 litres of Heavy Fuel, IFO180, that's Inter Fuel Oil, Black stuff! and 10000 Litres of Diesel, For next Tuesday I've ordered 26000 litres of heavy, and then on the following Thursday another 20000 litres of heavy and another 10000 litres of Diesel again."
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