Malcolm 0-6-0 Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 All this misery and gloom reminds of the White Star liner SS Horrific. Now how about a few rousing choruses of "'Twas on the good ship Venus, by God you ......" to cheer us all up. 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 5 minutes ago, Hroth said: "roll on wet grass", Wasn't that how the Protect and Survive campaign said you should avoid Fall Out if caught in the open? Either that or something equally effective and reassuring. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 4 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: The gloomiest one I saw in this genre is When The Wind Blows (1986) an animated film - based on a 1982 comic. I don’t know how it resonates in Oz, but that is particularly tough as a read in the UK because the settings are so familiar, and especially because the artist’s best known work is a very cosy story about a boy and a snowman on a Christmas adventure. The fact that the graphic style is identical between the two books makes it really painful to look at. 1 7 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 21 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: the artist’s best known work is a very cosy story about a boy and a snowman on a Christmas adventure. Not a patch on Fungus the Bogeyman in my view. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 22 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: the artist’s best known work is a very cosy story about a boy and a snowman on a Christmas adventure. Fortunately, I have the antidote for that ... 2 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 Mention of the Flower corvettes should really lead on to the Town destroyers, as an example of top class usefulness. Yet amazingly, most got through five years of WW2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town-class_destroyer 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 19, 2020 My Lerts are letting me down this morning - thoroughly confused. There was a moment when sense emerged from the fog, booming out single blasts on the foghorn at intervals: someone mentioned White Star names: Bruce Ismay was a director of both companies - ensuring that the Cunard line got squeezed out of the naming policy. 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
drmditch Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, TheQ said: Based on a trawler hull design I believe and renown for being unstable wobbling around causing much sea sickness. PS is anyone else finding it difficult to get into this thread? It seems to take several attempts but this doesn't happen on other threads.. Not a trawler, but a whale-catcher. From Smith's Dock in Middlesborough. So - from the nightmare horrors of whaling, as we now see them, to the nightmare heroics of the North Atlantic, which is now difficult for most people to relate to. Have not the WWII Flowers been discussed on this thread before? There were WWI Flower Class Sloops as well. Edited May 19, 2020 by drmditch 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 57 minutes ago, drmditch said: There were WWI Flower Class Sloops as well. Some of which were initially used on convoy duty in WW2, and were found to be completely unsuited, and sent back for coastal patrol duties once the Corvettes came on stream. 1 hour ago, drmditch said: Have not the WWII Flowers been discussed on this thread before? Its always possible, though I think that the major "ports" in the Achingverse are a little too small... The main mentions of WWII Flowers in RMweb have been in toboldlygos building blog. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanchester Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 Just popping back to Terrier pipework and the 'valve'. If the pipe is exhausting into the tank, could it possibly be a non-return valve to protect the gubbins from water surge caused by over-enthusiastic tank filling? Alternatively, it could be a very small air raid warning siren as featured a few pages back? 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2020 19 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: After 9/11 when government terrorism awareness campaigns and slogans were all the rage ours came up with "Be Alert Not Alarmed" and sent us a fridge magnet. Be Alert, Not Alarmed, Neither Anxious! That one's for the fruit bowl, but would be proof that all governments are bananas... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buhar Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 17 hours ago, Edwardian said: I believe the Sardonites were two City States north from the Athenians, turn left at the Cryptics. Alan 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 Do you not think, though, that Bishop's Lynn docks will now have to feature a SS Sardonic? Maybe that's a better fit for Blackstone, but, then, a small tramp steamer carrying passengers would add bathos. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Donw Posted May 19, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 19, 2020 Even if you didn't have room for the ship a poster announcing the ships sailing date coud be done. On that subject I had a thought that a full or perhaps half sized poster advertising the delights of Castle Aching ( excursions via WNR) might be nice to put on the train room wall. Don 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 11 minutes ago, Donw said: Even if you didn't have room for the ship a poster announcing the ships sailing date coud be done. What a splendid idea 11 minutes ago, Donw said: On that subject I had a thought that a full or perhaps half sized poster advertising the delights of Castle Aching ( excursions via WNR) might be nice to put on the train room wall. Don I shall have to produce one! Now, you need me to think about point controls, don't you? 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcredfer Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 11 hours ago, Edwardian said: Breaking news ..... Sobriety Tags!!!! Good to know we can at least test, track and trace our drunks I'm going on the run ... How did he manage to get that off?? Julian 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnylinny Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 11 hours ago, Hroth said: They'll haul you off to Miniluv to have a chat with you in Room 101. In your case it'll probably be an Oxford Rail Dean Goods.... Don't tell anyone, but the postie brought a parcel today... 5 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 22 minutes ago, Skinnylinny said: Don't tell anyone, but the postie brought a parcel today... I'm tempted to ask if you are going to convert it to a Dean Goods, but I suspect that you might do what I plan to do with one of mine! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Edwardian said: Maybe that's a better fit for Blackstone, but, then, a small tramp steamer carrying passengers would add bathos. One of those vessels that turns into a swimming pool mid voyage? You could also have a booze-cruise ship, the SS Sangria, which due to a navigational error ends up on the rocks.... Edited May 19, 2020 by Hroth 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 (edited) This ship-naming thing has endless possibilities. Potential travellers are asked to choose between taking passage (careful now) on the RMS Neurotic, or the SS Erotic. Which still leaves open for use: Arthritic, Bathetic, Calesthenic, Dyspeptic, Despotic, Frantic, Gigantic (I think that might be a real one), Hedonistic, Hubristic, Ironic, Manic, Panic, Pathetic, Peripatetic, Rustic, Seasic, and others (hopefully beginning with J, K, L, and Q) that will come to mind later, and all of which the LNWR will already have used for engines. (There's a similar game involving names for Western class diesel locos.) PS: blow me, there is a specialist search-engine for this rubbish! https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-ic#w15 But, that would be cheating. Edited May 19, 2020 by Nearholmer 5 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 10 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: Potential travellers are asked to choose between taking passage (careful now) on the RMS Neurotic, or the SS Erotic. They were full, had to make do with a passage on the colonic. 1 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 13 hours ago, Hroth said: Would any sailor be willing to admit they were on HMS Petunia? Or Buttercup? Or ...? ...HMS Pansy (changed to HMS Heartsease before commissioning once they'd thought about it bit more) or HMS Cockchafer (1915) or HMS Spanker (1943) .... 2 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brack Posted May 19, 2020 Share Posted May 19, 2020 HMS Pansy of course becoming the USS Courageous. The subject of silly ship names came up some years ago with a friend of mine (think it was after seeing HMS Pickle at Hartlepool), I believe in the 17th century there was a HMS Happy Entrance... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 4 minutes ago, brack said: HMS Pansy of course becoming the USS Courageous. The subject of silly ship names came up some years ago with a friend of mine (think it was after seeing HMS Pickle at Hartlepool), I believe in the 17th century there was a HMS Happy Entrance... Didn't Hornblower have a happy return? 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted May 19, 2020 Author Share Posted May 19, 2020 49 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: This ship-naming thing has endless possibilities. Potential travellers are asked to choose between taking passage (careful now) on the RMS Neurotic, or the SS Erotic. Which still leaves open for use: Arthritic, Bathetic, Calesthenic, Dyspeptic, Despotic, Frantic, Gigantic (I think that might be a real one), Hedonistic, Hubristic, Ironic, Manic, Panic, Pathetic, Peripatetic, Rustic, Seasic, and others (hopefully beginning with J, K, L, and Q) that will come to mind later, These days my choice would be the SS Choleric 49 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: and all of which the LNWR will already have used for engines. Classic! And so true! 49 minutes ago, Nearholmer said: (There's a similar game involving names for Western class diesel locos.) PS: blow me, there is a specialist search-engine for this rubbish! https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-ic#w15 But, that would be cheating. Too much time on your hands during lock-down! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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