I thought it was Vasa...

Russia Russia Russia, same souce as DW...

Pass the Port around the table if there's any Left...

I say I say I say, my wife has hust bought a Grecian urn....
"What's a Grecian urn?" Sez I.
Oh, about 5 bob a week...

I say I say I say, my wife has gone to the West Indies. Jamaica? No, she went of her own accord.... I'll get me coat on the way out....

Commodore, I went to the doctors last week, I said "Doctor, I keep thinking I am a pair of curtains". He looked at me over the top of his glasses and replied "pull yorself together man!".

Roy, how does "confirmed paranoia" sound? And, just because you are paranoid it doesn't mean they're out to get you...

Are the holes included or are they "extras"?

Ed, you need a lake to sail a boat?

Wcmbc. A Gansie is a traditional Cornish fisherman's jumper...

Donner und blitzen! My run at 100%haz also ended. Gown to 96%. How can 1 wrong answer loose you 4 points, yet you need to answer about 10 correctly before you get the points back?🤔🤔🤔

WCMBC, I have a Ganzie if that counts...😆😆

The wrong answers point to the correct one!

"To boiler tubes basiclly means connected to boiler pressure, the pressure acts upon the attenuater valve to regulate the gas burner. Here is the instruction leaflet for a UK manufactured example...

For those not from the UK...

https://youtu.be/XS9BhM6FeWo?si=w8rXEJUEJP4PS1rR

Troglodytes! Pithecanthropuses! Vegetarians! Bath tub Admirals! Dry dock sailors! Etc etc..

I seem to recall we had that question a while ago. I got it wrong first time around but not this time...😎😎

We had that one a while back...

I took a guess. I thought Blackbeard was excecuted in London and his corpse hung in a gibbet cage on the banks of the Thames...

C could also be correct. They prevent sonor detecting the submarine, so camoflaging it from the hunters...

Here is the tale in full, for those who are unfamiliar with the works of Edward Lear
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’
They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

II

They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a riband by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And every one said, who saw them go,
‘O won’t they be soon upset, you know!
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,
And happen what may, it’s extremely wrong
In a Sieve to sail so fast!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

III

The water it soon came in, it did,
The water it soon came in;
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
And each of them said, ‘How wise we are!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round in our Sieve we spin!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

IV

And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
‘O Timballo! How happy we are,
When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar,
And all night long in the moonlight pale,
We sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

V

They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
To a land all covered with trees,
And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,
And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

VI

And in twenty years they all came back,
In twenty years or more,
And every one said, ‘How tall they’ve grown!’
For they’ve been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore;
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast
Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast;
And everyone said, ‘If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,—
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

I'm trying to sell unbuilt kits with one hand and spending a kings ransome on model aircraft kits and very expensive engines with the other. Yes, I have decided to dabble in The Occult! A step over to the dark side. We are our own worst enemies!

"Jolly Donald"? That's pushing the envelope a bit!

Hi folks. I have just aquired what looks like a Tid tug, the hull id definately Tid shaped, not so sure about the superstructure. It is a free runner (not for long) around 48 inches long. It has a single cylinder engine and one of those odd two barrel boilers, meths fired. It will go on to my future to do pile to await restoration...

What side of the ship is the green nav light on?

I see no ships....

I got that one! I read a John Steinbeck book once called The Log from the Sea of Cortez....

Bismark?

A submarine's 'crew' are refered to as the ships company, at least in the UK they are. Ship's company HO!

I may have some like this, I will look tomorrow...