Hi Peter,
Welcome back in the Top Three👍
(I disregard the 100%ers with only one answer!)
Cheers, Doug😎

Hi Cash, Go for it👍
Musta bin a bit 'breezy' in the driving seats, Takes ya breath away😮
But why is it here in the 'QoTD' thread and not in the general Forum?🤔
Cheers, Doug😎

@Cash. Now that is taking the wow factor off the charts. So Italian of them to build that monstrocity 😀

Totally Cash! It’s a monster! A search for plans may be difficult. But, gotta love the internet. 😉

Wow H! That’s an incredible build and obviously a labor of love. Tremendous workmanship!

Y’all want something unique? Italian racing airboat from the late 30s. I really, really want to build this scary looking thing….😀

I served aboard USN Lorikeet MSCO-49 in early 60’s. My uncle served too aboard and was my boss as navigator. I was helmsman. It was parked next to the Colgate clock sign in NJ side of Hudson River in NYC. I wanted to build a model but my uncle told me Calypso was made from a MSCO. I got that kit for a few hundred on eBay. I started with the hull. Had to redo the bow. Did the deck. I redid with wood n plastic card the wheelhouse and engine room. After that just did detailing. I also did kit bash of a smaller model years back but the calypso really went well just went backwards in time. Hope this could help I still have pics of the real one but there is a lot online. The mine sweeping gear I know n used to set up. I knew every inch of that ship.

I'm inclined to agree Rudy👍
Cheers, Doug😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYMS-class_minesweeper

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:BYMS_class_minesweeper

@Doug
The minesweeper has much more appeal than the Calypso. It tells its own story and as a history nut I do like these stories more😀

There was also Jacques's tv predecessors, Hans and Lotte Haas..

Actually Rudy she was an ex USN WW2 minesweeper.
Built in Seattle and loaned to the RN for the duration, BYMS-26.
Somewhat hacked about by Jacques🤔
Cheers, Doug😎

@Roycv. Yes I was glued to the tv screen when that show came on. Back then it was more about the discoveries. It was only until recently that I paid attention to the Calypso itself. Not a boat I want in my fleet. Looks like a well kept Taiwanese trawler with extra Chile sauce. Or as we call it in SA. Steak. Switches Tricks and other crappies

My take on these popular models like Titanic and the Calypso etc is that its like piles. Every ass had one at some stage🤣 Rather show me something Wow and unique. Im not really into sheeple chasing

Amen Roy!

Hi Boat... Sunday afternoons are not what they used to be. Sunday school, singing hymns trying to do good deeds, I was a failure there as well!
Life marches on and on and on.....

Were there any good old days? Most things were worse and just happened less often on a Sunday.
Roy

I remember watching a program on the television about him way back when I was a kid. It was on a Sunday afternoon, that's how I knew this answer to todays question. No Prob's. 👍👍

Yesir Cash, and as result the updated version is pretty pricey. Hang in there Doogle, it's good to know it's there! 😉

Cashrc, Calypso was also on my bucket list until recently. Now I have acquired it, although it's an earlier billings version. Just not enough time at the moment 😪

I think Billings updated the Calypso a few years ago. Yep, I’d like to build that myself.

Revell made a nice kit of it. But, the big Billings rc kit is definitely on my bucket list. 😉

You know, I think one can overdo it with Titanic and Andrea Doria🙄
AI seems to have a very narrow view of world history.

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"a gun carrying Elephant with pink toenails" 😂🤣😆
Now that's the kind of conspiracy theory I like Peter👍
Great shame that George (Washington) hadn't chopped down the cherry tree!

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The Olympia is a museum ship in the Delaware River in Philadelphia.

Oh 0h wait, no, That's the U.S.S. Olympia

Darn those rivets!

And President Kennedy was shot by a gun carrying Elephant with pink toenails hiding in a Cherry Tree.

Now that is a conspiracy theory after my own heart! The Titanic never sank at all! But did she go onto New York? Any ideas anyone?
Roy

It was actually the RMS Olympia that sank. The rivets used in the Titanic was taken from the stock of the Olympia which was later found to have been substandard quality causing the ship to shear open.

Gee whiz two correct in a row. I have stumbled mightily of late. 😉

Well my score is slowly on the rise after the disastrous last few weeks ,but must stress the slowly bit 😂
Phil uk👍

Hi all, just in case some have looked up 'spoggled'. This a word used in front of young children when a profanity would be a much preferred option!
Roy

I feel totally spoggled! I thought it was a trick question! Oh wow!
Just glad I am sitting down.
Regards all,
Roy

Gadies and Lentlemen,
AND NOW (13.04.24) for your delight and edification,
by Special Request from our esteemed member Roy-
A QoTD featuring his all time favourite vessel!😀
Enjoy Roy!
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Another one of those strange questions and answers. The first type of steam ship which was given credit for circumnavigation of the globe was HMS Driver a royal navy paddle driven "sloop" . There seems to be a blurred line between sloops and frigates and sometimes only the number of gun decks was the difference. However according to all the references I could find one of the options in the answers should have been sloop.

On the issue of history written by the victor, I have this pet belief that the truth or facts are merely the best bull dust story acceptable by the majority of the population. By mutual and often tacit consent, it then becomes the unmistakable truth. In short if you tell the same lie long enough, it becomes the truth.

Well Well, another school day 🙄

Hä? Irons???
So what the heck!
Bonne journée!
Michel-C.

Crashing and burning at the moment. Sheesh! 😉

I have been in irons when mis-judging a tack, the noise can be horrendous! Good question though.
Roy

Google seems to loose every question on my behalf.

I am old, I remember that battle.

I think the Titanic was involved

Roycv; pleased you are well enough to get back to the important stuff, stay well 😋

Really pleased to hear that you are so much better and fit to travel. Have a good flight back to the UK. Looking forward to hearing from you one day when you have started on the Bruma. I know that you have it on a back burner but I'll be interested to follow how you manage the conversion to allow it to also be a sailing craft. I hope the way I've tried to tackle it with some of your advice has been of interest to you? I've finished the first layer of planking and have now applied filler. I will sand it back outside when the weather improves - to save too much dust inside! Been suffering horizontal rain all day today! Best wishes Duncan

Congratulations on your recovery Roycv. Good luck on your new project.

(You probably got the question of the day right also) I thought it was Titanic

Nice post Boatshed!
On a lighter note a previous post shows how essential Titanic is to the answers and options posed for us. I have been in the 90's but accept now I shall only be a mid 80's person, my fate, my destiny!

Thank you all who commiserated concerning my time in hospital recently. Almost human again now, looked at the 4 holes of entry into abdomen and apart from belly button not a scar in sight.. They did a great job on me down-under, helped I know, having senior hospital medical staff in the family.

It was a good excuse to extend my visit and now return 3rd week in April. At this moment I am sitting watching the sun rise over the water with a cup of tea and you guys for company. No more 'me' now but back to what really matters model boats and yachts!

Working through my head on the construction of a Wild Duck yacht, I have the Sarik basic wood pack, bought early on but now nearly double the price. Should be a nice one to go with my other Maurice Griffith model yacht Gooseander.
Regards to all
Roy

Nuestra Señora de Atocha had been delayed in Veracruz before she could rendezvous in Havana with the vessels of the Tierra Firme (Mainland) Fleet. The treasure, which arrived by mule in Panama City, was so immense that it took two months to record and load it onto the Atocha. After still more delays in Havana, what was ultimately a 28-ship convoy did not manage to depart for Spain until 4 September 1622, six weeks late. Each ship in the convoy carried crew, soldiers, passengers, provisions, and treasures from all over South America.The Atocha alone carried cargo whose estimates range between $250 and $500 million, including silver from Bolivia, Peru and Mexico, gold and emeralds from Colombia, and pearls from Venezuela, as well as more common goods including worked silverware, tobacco, and bronze cannons.


In the second day of its voyage from Havana, the convoy was overtaken by a hurricane in the Florida Straits. By the morning of 6 September, eight of the ships had sunk and their remains lay scattered from Marquesas Key to the Dry Tortugas.The Nuestra Señora de Atocha had lost all of her 265 crew and passengers except for three sailors and two slaves

Well off all the possible ships found with that much gold in that year the one I picked wasnt on the list.

I knew it wasn't the Titanic I saw it at the cinema go down in 1997 with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, and wasn't HMS Victory because in history lessons at school they never said anything about gold on it and so I had a choice Vasa didn't sound like a ship to me so plumbed for the SS Central America and got it right.

AI got it wrong.

Anyone who said Nuestra Senora de Atocha got it right

At least no one said Titanic

It was the Atocha?

It must all be in the wording, I was looking for The Nuestra Senora de Atocha but that had only $40m in gold and silver, but was the World's most valuable wreck, as it was carrying Columbian emeralds among others.