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J.Blonde

Sat Apr 30 2011, 12:49pm

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Location: Scarborough
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if you are ever in North Yorkshire...

Eden Camp a former POW camp not far from where I live...

http://www.edencamp.co.uk/index.html

Richard Antony Timmons (RAT)

Sat May 07 2011, 10:25pm

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Location: Sunny Bristol
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Chattam dockyard- Will put up some pics soon in the briny yahoo page in my pics folder

Went on

Uk spy sub -
HMS Ocelot (S17) was an Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine laid down by HM Dockyard at Chatham in Kent on 17 November 1960, launched on 5 May 1962 and commissioned on 31 January 1964. She joined the 3rd Flotilla based at HMNB Clyde, in Faslane. HMS Ocelot was the last submarine built for the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard.

The last WW2 destroyer in the UK
HMS Cavalier (D73) is a retired C-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at East Cowes on 28 March 1943, launched on 7 April 1944, and commissioned on 22 November 1944.[1] She served in World War II and in various commissions in the Far East until she was decommissioned in 1972. After decommissioning she was preserved as a museum ship and currently resides at Chatham Historic Dockyard.

HMS Gannet (1878)From Wikipedia
HMS Gannet in her dock in Chatham, 2005
Career (United Kingdom)
Name: HMS Gannet
Builder: Sheerness Royal Dockyard
Cost: Hull Â£39,581, machinery Â£12,889[1]
Laid down: 1877
Launched: 31 August 1878
Commissioned: 17 April 1879
Fate: Training ship in 1903
Renamed President
Loaned To C B Fry as a training ship in 1913
Preserved at Chatham in 1987
General characteristics
Class and type: Doterel-class screw composite sloop[1]
Displacement: 1,130 tons[2]
Length: 170 ft (52 m)[2]
Beam: 36 ft (11 m)[2]
Draught: 15 ft 9 in (4.80 m)[1]
Installed power: 1,107 indicated horsepower
Propulsion: Two-cylinder horizontal compound-expansion steam engine
Three cylindrical boilers
Single 13 ft (4.0 m) screw

Sail plan: Barque Rigged
Speed: 11.5 kn (21.3 km/h)[1]
Range: 1,480 nmi (2,740 km) at 10 kn (19 km/h)[1]
Complement: 140
Armament: Two 7-inch (90cwt) muzzle-loading rifled guns
Four 64-pound guns
Four machine guns
One light gun

HMS Gannet was a Royal Navy Doterel-class screw sloop launched on 31 August 1878. She became a training ship in the Thames in 1903, and was then lent as a training ship for boys in the Hamble from 1913. She was preserved in 1987 and is now part of the Core Collection of the UK's National Historic Fleet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gannet_(1878)