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Can a Chinook lift another Chinook?!

HMS Spey (P234) commissioned https://twitter.com/HMS_Spey/status/1347197027671801861 https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1306555661333954561/8nafd9g4_400x400.jpg https://amazon.clikpic.com/rosswatton/images/spey.jpg (Ross Watton Ship Paintings) https://www.rosswatton.com/photo_16682244.html

Crowsnest included?

HMS Trent https://twitter.com/PortsmouthProud/status/1344636232333201410 HMS Tyne https://twitter.com/PortsmouthProud/status/1344650279669673988 HMS Tamar https://twitter.com/PortsmouthProud/status/1344673383389257728 HMS Mersey https://twitter.com/PortsmouthProud/status/1344711243320459264

HMS Anson (S123) named https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWCI3AABRSg https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/-/media/royal-navy-responsive/images/badges/submarines/anson.png?h=292&la=en-GB&w=229&hash=795A87DD7BE8E46B529EF7756A657E90 (Navy Lookout) 11 December 2020 Fifth Astute-class boat HMS Anson f...

https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1340012699682541569 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpifZwZXEAQpRWq?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 QE has a set of three WHITE Phalanx CIWS, while PoW has three GREY. :thumbup: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpigJ9CXMAY-xol?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 https://pbs.twi...

(MoD)

HMS Tamar commissioned into Royal Navy (17th December 2020) https://twitter.com/HMNBPortsmouth/status/1339612110435790848 https://twitter.com/hms_tamar/status/1339630988649967625 https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1247186557066412040/0nlTsj3o_400x400.jpg https://twitter.com/hms_tamar/status/13036...

Anyone know of an RAF base that wants a £100m gate guardian?!

We don't really "have" 21 for frontline duty, we've got 18. BK-01 (XM135), BK-02 (XM136) and BK-04 (XM138) are still at Eglin AFB in Florida, and they're test aircraft. Maybe they'll get converted like BK-03 (XM137) was and flown over to Marham to join the others. But probably not.

https://twitter.com/PortsmouthProud/status/1338912554253508611 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpTF2_7XYAIVDIS?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpTF2_-WMAIcJkj?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpTF2_-W4AIw0Ky?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media...

Going, going....

90inFIRST wrote:Have your own T26 before the navy does

Thats only the hull. You have to scratch build everything else yourself.

Guess: White or grey? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAOUBwuXYAIIz9o?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAOUBwxW4AE_vxc?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAOZzaHXkAAZvf3?format=jpg&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EovB-kmU0AEz__r?format=jpg&name=smal...

Ron5 wrote:Don't think that crane is up to the job of lowering the middle bit into the dock. Well not gently anyway

Rosyth's Goliath crane has a lift capacity of 1,000 metric tonnes (980 long/Imperial tons; 1,100 short/US tons).

Or watch the video, recorded 8th December 2020.
https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e ... 5ceedb633c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hKyeA7FdIY (PortsHistDockyard) 7th October 2011 Found a 2011 timelapse video of HMS Victory (in her old mustard yellow paint scheme) having her mast tops and rigging taken down for restoration. Nine years later in 2020, they're still not back, although she looks nice...

Portsmouth's 200m long, 60m wide ship hall/'shed', under its previous Vosper Thornycroft (VT) ownership, produced all six bow sections for the six T45 destroyers. They were then barged up to Scotland for assembly. In retrospect, and with the necessary team and skills, an entire T45 could and would (...

Some media even describing as Warboats !?!? :mrgreen: WARNING: Cringe headlines!: :mrgreen: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8325/production/_116037533_mail1212-nc.png https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5FFD/production/_116037542_express1212-nc.png https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/...

The place did build the carriers after all. No. BAE Portsmouth, BAE Govan, A&P Tyne, Appledore and Cammel Laird built the ACA QEC blocks. Babcock Rosyth assembled them into one, along with sponsons and ramps built by Babcock Rosyth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-EZFOHJn_s (ACA/QEClassCarrie...

Its a smaller shed than the bigger and ready-existing 200m x 60m shed in Portsmouth, which had its T26 and T31 work stolen to appease the Scots in their 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum.