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Polarbear
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PostPosted: 12:38 - 28 Mar 2022    Post subject: Ships named after people.... Reply with quote
This has been something that has happened for generations, but I came across one that was obviously named in future recognition of an illustrious American president and friend of the uk (NOT Laughing )

I give you HMS Trump.

https://i.postimg.cc/YCfb144w/HMSTrump.jpg

There must be a forum that I can really wind up over this. Thinking
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PostPosted: 12:57 - 28 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
My favourite ship name is

Titan Uranus.

(Technically still people's names. So not a bit off topic. Cool )
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PostPosted: 14:50 - 28 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
I found this song on you tube a few years ago.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/32c13c63d617f766dcf0f47ec8200d9b7c042d7d/c=0-103-2000-1233&r=x1683&c=3200x1680/local/-/media/2015/11/06/DetroitNews/DetroitNews/635823760777913510-GLSHS-Fitzgerald-StMarys-copy.jpg
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Polarbear
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PostPosted: 14:58 - 28 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
MCN wrote:
My favourite ship name is

Titan Uranus.

(Technically still people's names. So not a bit off topic. Cool )


I can imagine the embarressment on the bridge when they get a radio message from the customs.........

'Titan Uranus, we wish to inspect you.'
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PostPosted: 15:44 - 28 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
B1N wrote:
Gordon Lightfoot



One of my faves.
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PostPosted: 13:31 - 29 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
blurredman wrote:
B1N wrote:
Gordon Lightfoot



One of my faves.


A great singer, and a great songwriter too. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 14:33 - 29 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
B1N wrote:


A great singer, and a great songwriter too. Thumbs Up



It's one of my ideas to try and see him live with my father who is a big fan, some day before he dies-because he's quite aged now at 83 (Gordon, not my father)... But... I've read reviews of his live performances and they're not good due to his voice apparently being badly broken and faltering (who's wouldn't at 83) and I fear it will be a huge disapointment. Crying or Very sad
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PostPosted: 20:25 - 29 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
B1N wrote:
I found this song on you tube a few years ago.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.

Ooooo, not heard that for YONKS.
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PostPosted: 21:50 - 29 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
blurredman wrote:
B1N wrote:


A great singer, and a great songwriter too. Thumbs Up



It's one of my ideas to try and see him live with my father who is a big fan, some day before he dies-because he's quite aged now at 83 (Gordon, not my father)... But... I've read reviews of his live performances and they're not good due to his voice apparently being badly broken and faltering (who's wouldn't at 83) and I fear it will be a huge disapointment. Crying or Very sad


You can go and see any band or performer and see a bad show because they might be having an off night.

Just take your dad and go and see him mate, what have you got to lose? You might see a great show and have some great memories, if you don't go you will never know.

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PostPosted: 21:54 - 29 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
hellkat wrote:
B1N wrote:
I found this song on you tube a few years ago.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot.

Ooooo, not heard that for YONKS.
Fab Wub


When my wife first mentioned the song to me, I misheard the tile as the wreck of the Ella Fitzgerald Smile
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PostPosted: 13:52 - 30 Mar 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
B1N wrote:


Just take your dad and go and see him mate, what have you got to lose? You might see a great show and have some great memories, if you don't go you will never know.



Mainly because he only seems to perform in Canada or the States. Laughing Laughing


Your initial comment I agree with though.
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PostPosted: 04:33 - 09 Apr 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
One of ours is getting splashed today.

Cheap bastards, gave us all invite's (down south), then nowt else.
Hell a bus and we could get hammered on the way there would be reet. No bus, nowt.
Drive down,
Watch it fall in,
Drive back.

Sod that, with these fuel prices.

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The company bought itself a nice private island lst year with profit, but refused us pay rise!!!
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PostPosted: 04:01 - 20 Apr 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
We have a ship naming next month.

They offered us tickets to the 'garden party' basically travel 100+mile and do naff all. Because no one was going they now offering free bus and hotel.

Hopefully we can hold out and get a decent bar tab.
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I had a road named after me when my Dad was in planning, Craig Wood Way,

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4129097,-2.8615039,367m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

He named the roads on the estate that I live on now too.
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PostPosted: 08:50 - 20 Apr 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
I had a road named after me when my Dad was in planning, Craig Wood Way,


Not a practice that happens nowadays around our way thankfully, no offence. In part due to the number of highways named 'Savile' in the District. They were named after a local bigwig named Lord Savile rather than Sir James the Necrophiliac, but the awkwardness still exists....
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PostPosted: 09:49 - 20 Apr 2022    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
I had a road named after me when my Dad was in planning, Craig Wood Way,

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4129097,-2.8615039,367m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

He named the roads on the estate that I live on now too.


He wasn’t responsible for the street that South York’s Police are on, was he?

Letsby Ave
https://goo.gl/maps/i9bVs3Ndoy5GJRSLA
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