scotty g
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 08:47 PM |
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famous ship or boat. school project.
My youngest daughter has a school project coming up, she has to tell her class all about a famous ship/boat and she wants me to help her.
I don't want to do the obvious ones like Titanic or Cutty Sark so thinking of doing one her classmates won't already know about.
maybe one of these.
Kontiki
Ra
Endurance
Cyclops
Mary Celeste
Gypsy Moth
Exide Challenge
Anyone got any other good suggestions?
Cheers.
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Volvorsport
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 08:54 PM |
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ss great britain
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getting dirty under a bus
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 08:54 PM |
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Wasn't the Gypsy Moth a plane?
The only other one I could think of is the one Ellen McArthur used to sail round the world solo (it was something like that she did)
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Surrey Dave
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 08:58 PM |
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SS Great Britain
Wasn't that the first steel ship? , by Brunel?, ran aground and was on an Irish beach for a couple of years then re-floated..............
Is it in dry dock at Bristol?
Am I correct ?
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T66
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:00 PM |
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How about the less famous RMS Olympic - sister ship to the Titanic.
Some of the interior fittings are now in a hotel near to me....
http://www.classiclodges.co.uk/The_White_Swan_Hotel_Alnwick/Titanic_Connection/
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sky12042
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:03 PM |
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What about Mary Rose its remains are in portsmouth and there is lots of video, pictures etc.
Andy.
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big-vee-twin
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:04 PM |
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HMS Belfast, see her on the Thames
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gavin174
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:06 PM |
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not sure anyone would of heard of this one..
bit obscure i know.....
Noah's Arc
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scotty g
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:08 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Wasn't the Gypsy Moth a plane?
The only other one I could think of is the one Ellen McArthur used to sail round the world solo (it was something like that she did)
Gypsy Moth IV was a 54 foot yawl rigged yacht commisioned by sir Francis Chichester to sail singlehanded round then world, he did loads of crazy daft
sailing adventures and his books were amazing to read.
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Volvorsport
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:09 PM |
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yes surrey dave you are ......
one of the first with a propeller too.
the last one he built never really got used either........
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getting dirty under a bus
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MK9R
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:11 PM |
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HMS warrior, first steel hulled warship. Still on the water in Portsmouth. You still get the fun of sails and cannons, with the added bonus of an
easier hull shape to replicate and some steam funnels from the engine 
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blakep82
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:15 PM |
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HMS Invincible 
as a seperate issue, do we still have any working air craft carriers? one went out on the Clyde today, couldn't tell what one it was, but a bit
surprised to see it
or if her school is a bit 'PC' avoid battleships, and how about something like the PS Waverley?
[Edited on 13/2/12 by blakep82]
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Hellfire
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:16 PM |
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HMS Victory - Lord Nelsons flagship
Bismarck Battleship
Phil
[Edited on 13-2-12 by Hellfire]
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owelly
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:22 PM |
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SS Rohilla. Built at H&W in Belfast then commissioned as a hospital ship, saved lives etc, clattered up the beach in a storm. Loads of lives saved
by various lifeboats that came from miles away to help out. One poor woman had managed to survive the Titanic two years earlier so had to do it all
again!
Tons of good stories to make a school project interesting to everyone.
And I bet not many folks have heard of it............. I have, I own the wreck.
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mcerd1
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scotty g
Endurance
did you have Shackleton's one in mind or HMS Endurance (the artic patrol ship that was in tha falklands)
on the artic / antartic theme there is also RRS Discovery and Fram (Amundsen's ship)
[Edited on 13/2/2012 by mcerd1]
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britishtrident
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Wasn't the Gypsy Moth a plane?
The only other one I could think of is the one Ellen McArthur used to sail round the world solo (it was something like that she did)
The boat was named after the DH60G Gypsy Moth aircraft, Chichester had flown the UK to Australia in the 19930s .
The DH60G Moth was called the Gypsy Moth because it was the first the first De Haviland Moth to use the DH Gypsy engine
[Edited on 13/2/12 by britishtrident]
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scotty g
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:34 PM |
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You own the wreck?
thats cool!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:36 PM |
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On the Shackleton theme What about the James Caird http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Caird_%28boat%29
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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T66
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:37 PM |
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Heres another good one, the first steam turbine ship. Good story about how it attracted attention to itself...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinia
Parsons' ship turned up unannounced[2] at the Navy Review for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee at Spithead, on 26 June 1897, in front of
the Prince of Wales, Lords of the Admiralty and foreign dignitaries. As an audacious publicity stunt, the Turbinia, which was much faster than all
other ships of the time, raced between the two lines of large ships and steamed up and down in front of the crowd and princes with impunity, while
easily evading a Navy picket boat that tried to stop her, indeed, almost swamping it with her wake.[3]
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Dave Ashurst
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:38 PM |
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Do you need a bit of girl power too?
Not sure if these fit, but Grace Darling had a boat and was a heroine. Her true story here...
Otherwise perhaps, Ellen MacArthur sailed her boat Kingfisher round the world in 2001 - youngest person and fastest woman to do it at the time.
[Edit to add - As in Ninehigh's post above !! ]
After all, most ships are famous because of their human story, aren't they?
[Edited on 13/2/12 by Dave Ashurst]
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:38 PM |
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Concordia?
Too soon?
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adithorp
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:42 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Wasn't the Gypsy Moth a plane?
The only other one I could think of is the one Ellen McArthur used to sail round the world solo (it was something like that she did)
The Gypsy Moth in question was the boat of Sir Francis Chichester but there is a connection
there to the plane... and Ellen McArthur. About the last of the old school adventurers.
Failing that how about Endurance.
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chrisxr2
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 09:46 PM |
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Ahat about thwe royal yacht brittania?
Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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snakebelly
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 10:03 PM |
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SS Uganda? a grand old lady who delivered me to the falklands, very interesting hostory and loads of info and photos available on google. Added
advantage of having served as a schools ship therfore being relevant?
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StevieB
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| posted on 13/2/12 at 10:34 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MK9R
HMS warrior, first steel hulled warship. Still on the water in Portsmouth. You still get the fun of sails and cannons, with the added bonus of an
easier hull shape to replicate and some steam funnels from the engine
I'll second that - restored in my home town and something that I visited many times as a child throughout it's restoration.
In fact, I have one of the oak deck plugs that was used in it's restoration that I was given as a souvenir by one of the fitters.
Could also maybe go a bit more modern and do something about HMS Illustrious - been plenty of places and seen plenty of action over the years.
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