Comments on: Spinnaker Tower

By: Gas Boy

Gas Boy — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:38:13 +0000

The RN actually have three aircraft carriers currently.

By: James

James — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:35:37 +0000

Yup, I was thinking of Trafalgar! Thanks for the correction, I’ve updated the original post.

By: Keith Perriman

Keith Perriman — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:17:00 +0000

I really hope that Nelson’s flagship Victory was not at the battle of Waterloo! Unless Wellington took a trip across the channel in it, and this piece of history was forgotton. Think you will find that it’s Trafalgar you were thinking of.

By: WRA

WRA — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:28:48 +0000

The “half ship” is actually a trimaran. Check out this link:
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/trimaran/

By: kjfitz

kjfitz — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:36:27 +0000

That ship is the HM Monitor H33. It is one of two surviving WWI river ‘monitors’ or gunboats. She’s now owned by the Royal Navy Museum and is probably not going anywhere. I imagine they plan to leave her right where she is after her current rennovation.

More pictures

By: salguod

salguod — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:11:44 +0000

OK, so how does that ship Placemark: to the left of the HMS Victory / Google Earth get out of its drydock?

By: cookie monster

cookie monster — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:52:09 +0000

I think the odd shaped ship is a the new stealthy frigate and is shaped like that it avoid radar.

http://www.baesystems.com/index.htm

Rocky - i think you’ll find 99% of posts are NOT in England/ UK. Also you will see that when a post is a site in the USA the amount of comments/ replies is much more than when elsewhere - only reinforcing the idea that yanks only like to talk about themselves and have no interest in the rest of the world! (bit of British ironic sarcasm there - did you like it?)

By: kjfitz

kjfitz — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:57:21 +0000

The “half-boat” is the Research Vessel Triton.

It is a frigate converted to an experinemtal trimaran.

Here are some Pictures.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:40:27 +0000

There are so many sights from the UK because people like me, who know of interesting things to see in this country, submit them! I’d love to see more posts of places in other countries. So if you want to see places in countries other than England, why not submit them?

By: James

James — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:15:33 +0000

Rocky,

Sorry if you don’t like the English sites, the most recent imagery update to Google Local added lots of previously low-res areas of the United Kingdom (mostly England) so there’s a few “big sights” that we’ve covered in the last few days. Stick around and you’ll see we do cover lots of less well known sights from around the globe. (Or, visit the Locality page to see all our sights around the world.).

Luke, Thanks but two thirds of the authors are Scottish, not English (and we are all presently located in Scotland). Scotland and England are distinct countries which are both part of the United Kingdom.

Anyone, what on earth is up with that half-boat that Papapenguin spotted? I’d like to see some ground level photos!