Biker, Happy Joan of Arc Day!
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Biker, Happy Resolution Day!
On this day in 1966 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution is launched.
HMS Resolution (S22) was the first of the Royal Navy's Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines.
Ordered in May 1963, she was built by Vickers Armstrong at a cost of £40.2m. The keel was laid down on 26 February 1964 by the Director General Ships, Sir Alfred Sims, and the launch was on 15 September 1966, attended by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The submarine was commissioned on 2 October 1967, and following extensive trials, including the firing of her first Polaris missile on 15 February 1968, commenced her first patrol on 15 June 1968.
Her Polaris system was updated in 1984 with the Chevaline IFE (Improved Front End) that included two new warheads and re-entry bodies and penaids, super-hardened to resist ABM attack, replacing the original three ET.317 warheads. Resolution conducted the longest Polaris patrol of 108 days in 1991.
Following the completion of the first Trident-carrying Vanguard-class submarine in 1992, the Resolution class were gradually removed from service. Resolution was de-commissioned on 22 October 1994, after 69 patrols, and laid up at the Rosyth Dockyard. She remains in the main basin at Rosyth, intact but with her reactor defueled; the MOD has yet to finalise plans for removal of the radioactive reactor parts and the scrapping of the boat.
On this day in 1966 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution is launched.
HMS Resolution (S22) was the first of the Royal Navy's Resolution-class ballistic missile submarines.
Ordered in May 1963, she was built by Vickers Armstrong at a cost of £40.2m. The keel was laid down on 26 February 1964 by the Director General Ships, Sir Alfred Sims, and the launch was on 15 September 1966, attended by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. The submarine was commissioned on 2 October 1967, and following extensive trials, including the firing of her first Polaris missile on 15 February 1968, commenced her first patrol on 15 June 1968.
Her Polaris system was updated in 1984 with the Chevaline IFE (Improved Front End) that included two new warheads and re-entry bodies and penaids, super-hardened to resist ABM attack, replacing the original three ET.317 warheads. Resolution conducted the longest Polaris patrol of 108 days in 1991.
Following the completion of the first Trident-carrying Vanguard-class submarine in 1992, the Resolution class were gradually removed from service. Resolution was de-commissioned on 22 October 1994, after 69 patrols, and laid up at the Rosyth Dockyard. She remains in the main basin at Rosyth, intact but with her reactor defueled; the MOD has yet to finalise plans for removal of the radioactive reactor parts and the scrapping of the boat.
| Class & type: | Resolution-class ballistic missile submarine |
| Displacement: | surfaced 7,500 tons; submerged 8,400 tons. |
| Length: | 425 ft. (130 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft. (10 m) |
| Draught: | 30 ft. 1 in (9.17 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × Vickers/Rolls-Royce PWR.1 pressurised-water nuclear reactor, 27,500 shp (20,500 kW); Propeller. |
| Speed: | surface - 20 kn (37 km/h); submerged - 25 kn (46 km/h) |
| Range: | Unlimited except by food supplies |
| Complement: | 143 (two crews) |
Oh almost forgot todays film quote: -
"I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"
"I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"
Eee bah gum, well I'll go to the foot of our stairs, and impersonate a book shelf.
That's brightened my day.Well to keep MODS like Shewie happy since we've had Lancashire we'd better have Yorkshire. He doe's like his tuppence worth that chap.
[video=youtube;SuP1eycaA6c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuP1eycaA6c[/video]
There's no national stereotyping going on here officer... honest. Though wouldn't mind half an hour beating Bill Oddie round the head with a black puddin'.
[video=youtube;SuP1eycaA6c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuP1eycaA6c[/video]
There's no national stereotyping going on here officer... honest. Though wouldn't mind half an hour beating Bill Oddie round the head with a black puddin'.
Ey it's only a tuppence worth cause those Yorkshire guys are even tighter than us Scot's
Bob
Bob
Well to keep MODS like Shewie happy since we've had Lancashire we'd better have Yorkshire. He doe's like his tuppence worth that chap.
[video=youtube;SuP1eycaA6c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuP1eycaA6c[/video]
There's no national stereotyping going on here officer... honest. Though wouldn't mind half an hour beating Bill Oddie round the head with a black puddin'.
Well to keep MODS like Shewie happy since we've had Lancashire we'd better have Yorkshire. He doe's like his tuppence worth that chap.
[video=youtube;SuP1eycaA6c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuP1eycaA6c[/video]
There's no national stereotyping going on here officer... honest. Though wouldn't mind half an hour beating Bill Oddie round the head with a black puddin'.
'S all ok I guess but personally I'd go for http://www.llapgoch.org.uk.
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Ey it's only a tuppence worth cause those Yorkshire guys are even tighter than us Scot's
Bob
Aye they say a Yorkshireman's the same as a Scotsman but with all the kindness and generosity removed.
Well that's me signed up for a Llap-goch course - Bring it on Pa, I'll be invincible!
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
That link had me laughing out loud, thanks son.
Once a master of this skill I think I shall now be able to take on John Fenna and survive to tell the story. Roll on next year's Moot!That link had me laughing out loud, thanks son.
Hang on Pa I fear for your safety... Mr Fenna is built like a weeble and doesn't fall down (unless imbibing crazy juice).
Biker
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
He is and does! You should have seen him in his dress staggering back to our patch at the Moot arm in arm with Mesquite who was also just a pished. I shall treasure that memory for many a year to come.
Oh and thanks for that Flashing Blade overdub, I did laugh at that, by eck I did!
He is and does! You should have seen him in his dress staggering back to our patch at the Moot arm in arm with Mesquite who was also just a pished. I shall treasure that memory for many a year to come.
Oh and thanks for that Flashing Blade overdub, I did laugh at that, by eck I did!
A weeble in a dress. I see you still go to the same sort of parties dad.
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I remember it just as well... it was a classic walk back to Dingly Dell armed with our spears
Now that you mention it I do remember Paula's penchant for pink....
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Ah the Slaughtered Lamb in Jonestown, I never liked the lemonade in there it tasted funny. Pity we had to leave but they couldn't have liked us very much as the letters stopped coming sometime in 1978 though your probably too young to remember Uncle Jim.