Stumbled over this while trawling for details of H Class ''twixt" the wars destroyers.
In particular HMS Hotspur H01.
For fellow RN ship fans.😉
Cheers, Doug😎
Dear All.
Continuing on this thread.
I have found two old black and white pictures of HHS Ulysses originally built as a U class destroyer R69.After a distinguished career and being laid up after the war she was converted to a Type 15 anti submarine frigate,new pennant number F17.
She was eventually sent to the cutters torch at Davies and Cann next to Laira Bridge near Plymstock in Plymouth in I think 1968/9 where I lived at the time.
The first picture shows her alongside at Devonport prior to paying off in 1968.
The other photographs (taken by me) show her alongside awaiting the torch.
Sorry for the quality pictures but my camera back then was very basic.
Sad end for another Greyhound of the seas.
I can’t remember the name of the other vessel awaiting scrap.but perhaps somebody may have ideas.
Regards Bill.
Hi Bill,
HMS Bermuda Colony/Fiji class light cruiser C52. Broken up 1965.
Pic 1; Ulysees and Bermuda from the rear end April 1960! Both still in commission.
Ulysses was decommissioned in 1963, in reserve until 1966? And finally scrapped in Plymouth in 1970.
Pic 2; Bermuda in camouflage underway 1942.
Seek and ye shall find!
Cheers, Doug😎
My Last Video I Made During the First UK Lockdown Period - Dunkirk 1940
Having recently posted the other two videos I made to pass the time when the UK was first locked down due to the pandemic I thought I would post the third and final short video I made at the time.
This video covers the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the beaches of Dunkirk in Northern France in 1940 by the armada of ships and little boats that went to their rescue.
The amazing tenacity of the British people in war torn Britain in 1940. Without their rescue the outcome of World War II could have been dramatically different.
This was the last sailing at Spencer's in Burlington in November 2022 My friend was running his TSS Beaverford real ship built 1928 was sunk 1940.was run by Canadian Pacific Steamship line. I liked the steam coming out of stack P/S Pool has now been drain & will soon will be a winter skating rink
Bring on the real MSCO minesweeper for years I wanted to build one. My uncle (Sam really) was my boss on ship. He told me about the Calypso was a rebuild on the Msco frame. So I found the Calypso and used personal pictures as guides. The wheel house was easy and radar room behind it. Adding deck gear and the big wheel that holds the sweep electric plus cable we’re tricky. I added the floats and cable control mechanics on rear deck. Basically the main deck cabin is same along with side rails. The bow needed work but turned out good. It has Rc gear in it but never floated it. I’m getting a display case fir it. My next ship is DE1040 Garcia. 5 ft body fiberglass from scale shiplyard company. I may float that one.
In the 1940s and 50s, many traditional Thames Sailing barges were converted into motor barges. This is a model, based on photos and my memory of the 'Nellie'. The sailing barge 'Nellie' was built by Cremers at Hollowshore, Faversham in 1901,. She traded under sail carrying about 90 tons of cargo around the Thames, Medway and Swale until about 1952 and then had the gear taken out, a Chrysler Crown petrol/paraffin motor installed and carried on trading for some years owned by R.Lapthorne & Co of Hoo on the River Medway.. She was eventually sold out of trade and is now privately owned. She has been rerigged with a reduced sailing barge rig without a topsail. My model is based on a 30" barge hull from Dave Watts Mastman.
NOTE More information from Nerys - read on ........
Hi Phil,
I'll just add a little more information to that. I was Nellie's skipper in the mid 50's for a few years. We were based at Hoo on the Medway and carried cargoes around the Medway, Swale, Thames and Colne. Regular trips were such as ballast from Fingringhoe on the Colne to Hoo, sand from Upnor on the Medway to the Ford works at Dagenham, fertilizers from London to Faversham and Queenborough, wheat from London docks to Whitstable and more or less anything that could be carried between ships in the London docks to anywhere in the Estuary. We were paid by the freight. Half the value of the carriage charges going to the owners and the other half to the crew, shared 2/3 for the skipper, 1/3 for the mate, Then fuel and other expenses were divided up similarly.
Nellie, of all the barges I served on was the one I liked best. She was the smallest, but there was just something about her. However as a footnote, in the 1970's I built a forty three foot schooner rigged barge yacht in the same yard as Nellie was built.
Yes, Nellie visited Buxton. We had been on holiday in the Lake District and on the way home, made a diversion into Buxton. We were made most welcome by the members we met and particularly by Phil and Graham. Enjoyed a nice little sail with Nellie. Made a pleasant interlude in an otherwise long 300 mile drive.
Hello everyone, I hope things are absolutely great in your neck of the woods...A great tug like this one being constructed in the local Toluca Lake shipyards, needs a good radar. I have gone with the @indows 95 look. I am also fully committed to adding some wooden IKEA sliding doors, they will be well-balanced, with a "fingertip touch" when I am through. I am following through with similar swung doors on the captain's cabin.
She is out of Toluca Lake, close to the Pacific Ocean in Southern California. Some of the very best ships came from those yards in Toluca Lake.
My dad made my Mom a great tugboat with this name back in the 1960's. We always had real boats, and the handmade and very detailed model would get pulled out of the dock box to get towed about while the barbeque was burning down. It got lost over the years and I have christened this beautiful ship in tribute to her. The curves on this tugboat are quite handsome and eye-catching from my rather jaundiced point of view. I can't wait to swing the compass, and run the measured mile with her. Peace to all my model boat enthusiast pals!
There's a really great shop in Glendale, I think, called Harbor Models...they have a great website and they are the kind of shop I want to back up a semi tractor trailer up to and buy everything!
Hello again, here’s a picture of an M class destroyer which I built some years ago, she is of again balsa construction from Model Boat Magazine plans, I built over one winter about 9 years ago, she is sealed with dope and tissue which gives a smooth finish, the guns were constructed from plastic card, with brass rods for the barrels!
She was retired a couple of years ago, but recently she was brought out retirement and gifted to family friend was showing an interest in battle ships!
Hi Trev, if your talking about the little gray sub it’s scratch built. If you want to know about the larger sub later in the vid I’ll have to ask Ed where he got the hull.
Cash
Back at Towne Lake for more fun and friendship. Had a good time, we saw 2 subs in the water, a few tugs, launches, working boats and an old MRP deep vee and a Micro Magic. I had a great time as I finally got my Italeri Vosper handling decently even in the windy conditions we had. A little more tweaking and she’ll be spot on, but I’m pleased with her for now.
Cash
Dave, just load up the boats, make a few sandwiches, drink a couple of Red Bulls and come on down!!🤣
Seriously, wish you could come. Hope you get to splash something soon.
Cash
Continuing on this thread.
I have found two old black and white pictures of HHS Ulysses originally built as a U class destroyer R69.After a distinguished career and being laid up after the war she was converted to a Type 15 anti submarine frigate,new pennant number F17.
She was eventually sent to the cutters torch at Davies and Cann next to Laira Bridge near Plymstock in Plymouth in I think 1968/9 where I lived at the time.
The first picture shows her alongside at Devonport prior to paying off in 1968.
The other photographs (taken by me) show her alongside awaiting the torch.
Sorry for the quality pictures but my camera back then was very basic.
Sad end for another Greyhound of the seas.
I can’t remember the name of the other vessel awaiting scrap.but perhaps somebody may have ideas.
Regards Bill.
HMS Bermuda Colony/Fiji class light cruiser C52. Broken up 1965.
Pic 1; Ulysees and Bermuda from the rear end April 1960! Both still in commission.
Ulysses was decommissioned in 1963, in reserve until 1966? And finally scrapped in Plymouth in 1970.
Pic 2; Bermuda in camouflage underway 1942.
Seek and ye shall find!
Cheers, Doug😎