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There are some things and places out there which are just too good or strange not to discuss.

This one has me absolutely baffled. Portsmouth dockyard, and obviously (I think) naval, but what on earth is is? It's the ugliest shape I've seen afloat, and that's saying a lot.

http://maps.google.com/maps?&geocode=0, ... 4&t=h&z=19

I don't know but now I have Yellow Submarine stuck in my head for some reason.

It's the coming or going ship. Designed by Dr. Doolittle. This way the enemy doesnt know which way it is headed.

Here, I shifted a little around the dockyard and found these three next to each other. It's part of the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

The one on the right is the Victory, Nelson's flagship at the battle of Trafalgar in 1815, still afloat and still on the British Navy's active service list.

The one in the middle in dry-dock was at Gallipoli in 1916 and now it's being refurbished. It's a riverboat Monitor, M33. Given all the concrete they've built along the end of the drydock I don't think it's going anywhere.

The one on the left is HMS Invincible and it was somewhere around the Falkland Islands in 1982. It's slightly mothballed but still usable. We have two others like it somewhere.

http://maps.google.com/maps?geocode=0,5 ... &z=18&om=1

what was the question?? :yh_silly

sunny104;705086 wrote: what was the question?? :yh_sillyThat one was just me walking round the dockyard with Google and saying gosh, isn't that an interesting combination. I like coastlines, they're interesting. I'll ask a question about a really strange place in Canada later this evening, I haven't a clue about it.

Here though, I found a genuine battleship, the Texas, just for you. It was in both World Wars and it's even close by, it's at the "San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site" near Houston. Do you go out looking at things like that?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&g ... &z=19&om=1

spot;705105 wrote: Do you go out looking at things like that?




yes, I'm always up for anything!

Hey Spot, all those links are to that thing in your first post.

As I can't see any form of external weaponry, I would suspect that it's a fleet auxiliary.

Chookie;705243 wrote: Hey Spot, all those links are to that thing in your first post.


Hah! So they are! I moved around, copied the URL bar and didn't realize it was still showing the original values. I'll go back and put revised hyperlinks and then you can see where I meant to point to!

Worra idiot!

spot;704927 wrote: There are some things and places out there which are just too good or strange not to discuss.

This one has me absolutely baffled. Portsmouth dockyard, and obviously (I think) naval, but what on earth is is? It's the ugliest shape I've seen afloat, and that's saying a lot.

http://maps.google.com/maps?&geocode=0, ... 4&t=h&z=19


It's Triton Spot. I saw quite a lot of it when I lived in Plymouth, during it's sea trials.

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/trimaran/