Hi Angela;
Boy it's hard to find good photos of her. The Aussies may have had a Majestic Class, as well. They were quite good at crushing friendly destroyers! Not a laughing matter really, many lives were lost. Perhaps HMAS Melbourne? The destroyers, an Aussie and an American cut across her bow during training manoeuvres (is that how you spell it?). Both destroyers were sunk. Boy, you can learn a lot looking around the internet. Also, you may be more familiar with HMS Powerful, she became HMCS Bonaventure. Something else I just learned.
I have to throw some kind of meal together, before the wife gets home. Don't want her thinking I've been messing about on computers all day! I'm sort of enjoying this "web surfing". I'll have another look in the morning. Now where's that can of beans I've been saving for a situation like this?
Cheer.....Rick
Hi Rick, my Canadian friend,
The class of ships were known as Light Fleet Carriers, the Colossus Class in fact, and Warrior was one of these along with Glory, Venerable, Vengence (is mine said the Lord...haha), Theseus,Ocean and Triumph.
Magnificent was from the Majestic Class of Light Fleet Carriers that included Terrible, the Maggie of course, Powerful and naturally Majestic as well as Leviathan and Hercules.
So I have plenty to choose from and will have to do a further Internet search tomorrow and see what pops out of the woodwork.
Incidentally of very similar design was the Centaur Class and that included Albion and Bulwark. I remember Bulwark lying just off HMS Raleigh (stone frigate and the induction school of the RN) before she was supposed to be towed off for scrap. What an ignominious end to a wonderful ship.... oh so many memories. I lost track of her but she must have been brought back from the brink because she is listed along with Albion on the navy's site.
I do have a few shots of various ships of the class but they are either far off or not very good quality so I cannot get a good look at how their armement was set up, mainly I suspect in deckside sponsons, I call them pots, haha.
I mentioned a Victory ship in an earlier post, I of course meant Liberty ship and one of these is really a must at some point. I seem to be digging myself into an ever deeper hole with the amount of great ships of that period, where does one stop? Or should one ever stop?
A Cruiser is on the cards as I said, but not yet, I must get the shipyard cleared of a couple at least before another is laid down.
Okay, I will take your advice from the Maggie for a day as I have been working on her quite intensly today and may yet decided to make a new deck section as the present one is not quite right, well to my satisfaction anyway. A fresh section with a bit more thought as to how many individual sections I put within it might help. I have to own up to pinching one of the Arks decks but it isn't working out too well.
My dinner was a bit scrappy, some left over corned beef, mashed potatoes with mixed herbs and cinnamon and a half tin of marrowfat peas. It went down well enough.... Mother would have said it filled a hole up.
Sunday tomorrow, it's supposed to be a day of rest but I would like to finish this narrow boat for itareus if possible. I need to source a sink unit and some cupoards to go inside, the real problem will be getting them there!
Blessings,
Angela
