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Location: VANCOUVER B.C.
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<Reply # 1 on 2/21/2006 10:36 PM >
|  | | | That would be way too damn cool. Got me thinking about the ghostfleet again. Did anyone ever make an attempt on boarding one of that fleet? N?
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Gender: Female
Snipe You.
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<Reply # 2 on 2/21/2006 10:39 PM >
| | | | man...that's amazing.
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elbowgeek
The needle and the damage done...
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<Reply # 3 on 2/21/2006 10:46 PM >
| | | | About the ghost fleet, I saw some of the members take that discussion private. I too wonder if they succeeded or are now languishing for all eternity in Gitmo as "illegal combatants."
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SilentSearch
Location: Cowtown
Gender: Male
My rebellion against the santa cursor! HoHoHo
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<Reply # 4 on 2/22/2006 4:51 AM >
| | | | I love old ship pictures! Unfortunately, we don't have any big ships here in north central Texas! 
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Jules Verne
Location: Manchester, UK
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 5 on 2/22/2006 7:27 AM >
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Seen this one. Lived in Shenzhen last year, shame that it could be relocated.
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Location: Australia
Big drain driving
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<Reply # 6 on 2/22/2006 8:14 AM >
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I love old ship pictures! Unfortunately, we don't have any big ships here in north central Texas!
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Ahh, none that you know of. You should try googling "secret tunnel conspiracy" one day. according to some people there's big tunnels all under Texas. Well under UT. But Texas built the secret tunnels under the moon.
Do you reckon the Minsk will be sold on Ebay?
Live your life like it really makes a difference.
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
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DrainingBiz
Location: Sydney.au
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 7 on 2/25/2006 5:31 AM >
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The Cape Don in Sydney, was home to a Cave Clan party, I believe.
(I'm not a Clan member, but I've read reports on the net, etc)
Check out Siologen's site for more pics, http://www.siologen.net/pbase/thumbnails.php?album=7.
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
Texploration
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<Reply # 8 on 2/27/2006 10:09 PM >
| | | | Posted by SilentSearch
I love old ship pictures! Unfortunately, we don't have any big ships here in north central Texas!
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We don't have any ships or water in the panhandle.
I figured out what's wrong with life:
It's other people. |
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elbowgeek
The needle and the damage done...
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<Reply # 9 on 2/28/2006 2:27 AM >
| | | | Draining, that is a seriously nice location. I live in Bermuda and ships are a passion of mine.
Cheers
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piplnr65656
Location: World Wide
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 10 on 2/28/2006 11:38 PM >
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That would be way too damn cool. Got me thinking about the ghostfleet again. Did anyone ever make an attempt on boarding one of that fleet? N?
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Are you talking about the mothball fleet in suisun bay north east of San francisco? If so yes the ships there (including the battleship Iowa) have all been successful boarded.
It was in September, we saw their silhouettes fade away, outlined on the horizon against the rays of the setting sun. |
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robofuture
Location: Norfolk
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 12 on 3/10/2006 10:17 PM >
| | | | Virginia has at least 2 ghostfleets that I know know of but they keep watch on them pretty well
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
Texploration
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<Reply # 13 on 3/10/2006 10:21 PM >
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AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
I figured out what's wrong with life:
It's other people. |
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elbowgeek
The needle and the damage done...
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<Reply # 14 on 3/11/2006 2:43 AM >
| | | | Posted by piplnr65656
Are you talking about the mothball fleet in suisun bay north east of San francisco? If so yes the ships there (including the battleship Iowa) have all been successful boarded.
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I didn't realise it had been done - I'd love to see photos of the exploration. Are they on any publicly accessible sites? I can fully understand if they are not, but still.
And thanks for the tug boat photos. They are as good as the Boyle photos of that site, and they really fascinate me.
Cheers
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elbowgeek
The needle and the damage done...
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<Reply # 16 on 3/11/2006 3:59 AM >
| | | | Ok folks, I was surfin' round looking for info on a ship in Wales which lies abandoned and came across and thought this page might be of interest to some:
http://www.hhvferry.com/vortscrap.html
Explore the rest of the site for more fun stuff!
Cheers
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zippy
Location: amazingstoke UK
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 17 on 3/11/2006 9:05 AM >
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Isle Of White England
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elbowgeek
The needle and the damage done...
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<Reply # 18 on 3/11/2006 9:33 PM >
| | | | Holy moley, Zippy! That looks incredible, and it appears to be a side-wheel as well, which I had thought was outmoded before the obvious build date of the vessel.
Do you have any info on this, it's name perhaps? Have you explored?
Thanks for that...
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zippy
Location: amazingstoke UK
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 19 on 3/12/2006 10:03 PM >
| | | | Copied from http://www.psryde.co.uk/history/
Commissioned by the Southern Railway in 1936 to replace the elderly Duchess of Norfolk on the company's Portsmouth to Ryde service, the Ryde was built by the renowned Clydeside shipbuilder William Denny & Bros of Dumbarton at a cost of £46,000.
Like her elder sister, Sandown, she would be powered by triple expansion engines and her design would present a modern yet graceful profile, drawing on decades' experience of Solent paddlers. Launched on St George's Day 1937, Ryde was soon undergoing her sea trials in the Firth of Clyde, achieving 14½ knots over the Skelmorlie measured mile.
With the trials behind her, she now made the long voyage south, through the Irish Sea and around Land's End to her new home on the Solent. But after barely two years in service and with Europe again menaced by war, the new ship was requisitioned by the Royal Navy along with Sandown and converted into a minesweeper.
As HMS Ryde she would serve in the Dover Straights and the North Sea. During the sisters' time as minesweepers, German propaganda broadcasts frequently made menacing references to them. On more than one occasion the Germans even claimed credit for sinking the vessels.
After two years as a minesweeper, Ryde was refitted as an anti-aircraft ship, carrying a variety of quick firing weapons. Joining the Thames Local Defence Flotilla in 1942, her first duty saw her anchored out in the muddy wastes of the estuary as a guard ship. But she was soon transferred to Harwich, her base until May 1944 when she sailed to Portsmouth to join the great invasion fleet gathering for the liberation of Europe.
Safely arrived off the Normandy coast, Ryde took up position on the western side of the Mulberry harbour at Omaha beach. Having weathered a severe storm that gravely damaged the temporary harbour, she received the signal: "If you have enough coal, return to Portsmouth, if you do not have enough coal, run the ship onto the beach!". Fortunately, such extreme measures proved unnecessary; Ryde made it back to Portsmouth, although her crew were sweeping out her bunkers.
Following a short spell anchored off Bembridge, she was finally returned to the Southern Railway in August 1945, after nearly six years at war. At last she could at last exchange her guns for the holiday crowds that she had been built to carry.
During 1941, the Southern Railway steamers Portsdown and Southsea had been lost to enemy mines. Now, new motor vessels were ordered to replace them. By the time MV Southsea and MV Brading entered service on 1 November 1948, the Southern Railway had been absorbed into the nationalised British Railways.
In 1951, with the success of these large yet economical vessels, they were joined by a third sister, Shanklin. Now that three motor ships were in service, the remaining three paddlers, Whippingham, Sandown and Ryde became relief and summer only vessels.
With her size and accommodation, the Ryde was also a favourite choice for excursions and charters around the Solent. She saw the homecoming of Sir Alec Rose after his single-handed circumnavigation of the world, and finally, in 1968, went to the Thames in 1968 to become an Edwardian Gin Palace for Gilbeys Gin, complete with Pearly Kings and Queens and jellied eels!
Since Sandown's withdrawal in 1965, the writing had been on the wall for the Solent's last paddle steamer, and on 14 August 1969 the Ryde made her final sailing to the Isle of Wight. At this point, it seemed her next destination would be the breakers' yard.
However, local entrepreneurs AH and CB Riddett stepped in at the eleventh hour, and in September 1970 took her to Island Harbour where she became one of the Isle of Wight's most popular nightclubs. But public tastes can be fickle; although she survived a serious fire in 1977 and was repaired, the nightclub's popularity waned and closure followed. By the mid 1990s, the Ryde lay derelict, ravaged by thieves and the elements.
http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1431&highlight=paddle+steamer
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