A life afloat
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:29 pm
Anyone else remember this little flotilla which toured our canals in olden times (early 1960s?) recruiting matelots or know if the boats still exist, please?
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Re: A life afloat
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 12:54 pm
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Re: A life afloat
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:40 pm
We may be seeing a return to ships this size...
Re: A life afloat
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:04 am
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Re: A life afloat
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 11:02 am
Radio control model aircraft? 
Re: A life afloat
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:16 pm
And you will know things are bad if we get the return of the K boats.
Re: A life afloat
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:45 pm
In August 1948 we had A4s that if allowed further North than Berwick would have made fairly good K Boat replicas.
Re: A life afloat
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:16 pm
Any chance that any are around now and we can test the theory?
Re: A life afloat
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:03 am
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Re: A life afloat
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:52 am
No Micky the K boats believe it or not were steam powered submarines build in the first world war, with funnels. 21 boats were ordered and were not a success. Several sank, one even at the dockside.
Re: A life afloat
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:59 am
G'Day Gents
Naw ! K boats were steam powered submarines, I think, I would have felt safer on the explosive packed E boat after all the bad press the K boats got.
manna
Naw ! K boats were steam powered submarines, I think, I would have felt safer on the explosive packed E boat after all the bad press the K boats got.
manna
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:00 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:13 am
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Re: A life afloat
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 9:13 pm
ISTR the Battle of May Island was when K boats were on Manouvers with the fleet and a couple got sunk by accident, I will try to look up a bit more, I like these odd topics.
Re: A life afloat
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:29 pm
Details can be found in "K Boats" Steam Powered Submarines in WW1 by Don Everitt.
Airlife publishing
ISBN 1-84037-057-2
The Battle of May Island can be found on pages 76 - 106.
2 boats sunk, 2 crippled after the heavy ships carved through the K boat flotilla.
Quote from Rear Admiral Earnest W Leir
" The only good thing about the K Boats was that they never engaged the enemy."
Airlife publishing
ISBN 1-84037-057-2
The Battle of May Island can be found on pages 76 - 106.
2 boats sunk, 2 crippled after the heavy ships carved through the K boat flotilla.
Quote from Rear Admiral Earnest W Leir
" The only good thing about the K Boats was that they never engaged the enemy."