Compass Rose.

[Rhino]

I was aboard USS/CGC Mohawk, when she was home ported at Key West, before her demise. It took stout hearts to sail in steel ships on the North Atlantic convoy routes. Such men had to soaking wet and frozen to the bone a great deal of the time.

 

[moon puppy]

Its a British joke Bob, We have a small selection of zealots here who police the country in the name of "health and safety"... we could never of fought a war with them picking holes in everything and everyone Never mind the guy winching 300LB of TNT in a drum.......look out for that trip hazard

When I was at our office in London I saw a problem with a wireless device in the ceiling. Told them, give me a damn latter and I'll fix it right now.
"No mate, you haven't had ladder safety training".
I thought he was serious at the time now I wonder.
He probably didn't want to see my fat ass up there moving ceiling tiles around in our corp hq.

 

[paddy]

No we were warned about using ladders by the factory inspector years ago, you are supposed to use a hydraulic platform with wheel locks in the workplace now. On one of our sheet metal presses which was an old cast iron war time thing they insisted we fit so many guards to it that it became so difficult to access we had to get rid of it. Its 99% driven by insurance companies and employer liability because in theory to use a ladder we had to get the boss who owned the company to get stuff down from high up for us as he wasn't covered by employee liability .

 

[paddy]

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I was aboard USS/CGC Mohawk, when she was home ported at Key West, before her demise. It took stout hearts to sail in steel ships on the North Atlantic convoy routes. Such men had to soaking wet and frozen to the bone a great deal of the time.

My step father was on the north Atlantic run. He didnt really talk about it but he was on a flat top and one day he mentioned that clearing the ice off the decks was a continuous 24hr a day job and once said they used to test the catapult by firing damaged aircraft off the deck. The thing he didn't mention to me was peeling potatoes It was a standing joke on a Sunday that George would have to get up really early to get the potatoes peeled by lunch time and there was only 4 of us. He would surgically peel these things and they were perfect and the wastage/peel was almost nil
I guess life during wartime and on a ship taught him the value of even basics like a potato.

 

[paddy]

HMS Snowberry arrived today and the PE set is on its way........................from South Korea no less..... I looked in the box ? what have i done, there are over 500 parts mostly to small to pick up or er even see.. Now i know why i build in 1/9 scale these days and why i live in admiration of Chris and his tiny models ships
The RN is currently retiring its Hunt class mine hunters , they are named after local villages here that have famous hunting packs, horse and hounds and HMS chiddingfold has just got the chop. Chiddingfold is a village near me and was very patriotic to its ship. They are being replaced by remote operated crew-less vessels. The reason i mention it is Chiddingfold was almost identical in size and layout to the flower class corvettes