Thanks Doug.
Even next doors cat took note on my embarkation. Good job Mr Fleet A.😃🇬🇧

So sad Peter🤔
So Specially for you, and at VAST 🤑🤑 expense I hired Wembley Stadium and Emerson, Lake and Palmer to play for you-

"Fanfare for the Common Man".

Enjoy😁😎

Michel Bonjour, guten Tag,à good afternoon
Do you want a brush to speed up your English?😂😂 I must see I always love your humorous remarks

Hello Hermank!
And to all the other admirals, captains and sailors!

There are so many terms in every language that you can't find in any translation. I am brushing up on my English, but it slows down after a certain age 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I prefer to enjoy my retired life . .
just one thing at a time . .
"Like in Paris" 😜😜😜
Salü, Michel-Cl.
Pipe aboard = Pfeife an Bord (German) 🙈🙈🙈 is clarifier . . .

Correct name for the pipe is a Bosun's Call, the act of piping someone aboard is called 'piping the side'. The most common pipes are The Still, Piping the Side, the Carry On, the Hail and the General Call. The Still is commonly used prior to Colours, the act of raising the White Ensign at sunrise and lowering at sunset. The Carry On is sounded after Colours has occured. There are many others, some no longer used, the call was originally used in the days of sail to communicate with topmen, wheras shouts could be carried away by wind, the high pitched shrill of the bosun's call carries much better. I have included a link which contains various examples of RN pipes...http://www.militarywives.com/index.php/what-do-the-boatswain-pipe-call-sound-like

'Pfeifen' is very similar Michel😉👍

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Something wrong with my boat then. I never get any fan fair when I board just barking and moaning.😬

Monsieur Suisse, Cher Michel
Il faut apprendre l’ anglais
Du sollst English kernen😂😂😂😂😂

Puuhhhh, I have to pass here. I don't know your expressions.
😡😡😡😡

I hooted; I screeched; I honked; Finally we had a pipe and boarded.
Rick `

Much better today😁

I did I once got caught with 1 more than the amount allowed cost me 250.00

Well you live and learn, didn't know that one

Missed that one….

Thanks Roy for the info, I'll bear that in mind,
Cheers,
Chris

Hi Doogle the Royal Barge was a very early Model Maker plan. MM356 and Sarik have it in their plans list.
Regards
Roy

Loving the look of the tender 😀

Likewise, visited Britannia a few years ago. What a beautiful boat (ship ?) and kept in wonderful condition. I can understand why the Queen was so upset when it was retired and not replaced. 😉

We went on Royal Yacht Britannia a few years back. Beautiful boat but the crews quarters were extremely cramped. 😊 Some pictures inside, the Rolls and the tender.

Is it the racing boat or the liner? I'm pretty sure it's the former.

Philbow
You lucky man you are!!

Went on the Britannia recently. Really brought home the privilege afforded to the “upper classes”! Lovely ship though. They spent our money well!

Cooking with gas here too!

On a roll, all answered correctly recently 😊

I chose…….wisely😁

Pas de Calais
Ärmelkanal
Englischer Kanal
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ciao, Michel-Cl.

I believe our French members may dispute this question😮
Parce que c'est La Manche!😉
😎

Well I'm glad I answered that correctly, otherwise it's back to school and 500 lines, 🤣

DG.
Ahhh,all received…over.
Many thanks,and appreciated,
Regards
Bill 👍

I didn't edit your post.. I cut and pasted your question to my post and then answered...

Apologies.. I removed your question.


DG

Dear All.
I note that somehow an extra comment has been added to my posting commencing PLEASE PLEASE in relation to the Brass and Iron Age.
The extra paragraph was not added by me.

DGoss999,not sure how you managed to edit my post but could I politely ask if you could remove the paragraph as I am unable to do so.
Many thanks.
Bill.

" Removed "

I think copper tin and Bronze came before Iron... You need high temp (1500+ deg C) to melt Iron Ore.. Wood/charcoal wont do it...

Its actually stainless steel.
invented by prehistoric men in Sheffield,
in days of old when knights were bold and women wer'nt invented, they drilled a hole in a telegraph pole and stood there quite contented.
Whoops i think ive doubled up on the meds again.

Hi, I thought it was just Yorkshiremen that talked about Brassss.
Roy

Well Bill, I am still in the stone age here in rural Herefordshire.
Cheers Colin.

PLEASE….PLEASE do not now let there be a debate as to which came first BRASS or the IRON AGE or vice versa.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yours pleadingly.
Bill

I think the real question is who or when was the line put down? Being brass it may well have been there before the Iron Age!

Who discovered it and how did they trace its' length. Sounds like there was a civilisation there before us.

Perhaps the Hitch Hikers guide could help here? Perhaps someone or perhaps a consortium bought the world but had to have a techie set it all up?

I know my recent replacement of a laptop shows how difficult setting up can be.

The answer is out there!
Roy

This was probably black originally but footfall has worn the paint off to bare metal!.

Are you sure that is the correct line. My map shows it as a black line.😬

The first true system was set up by Jacques Cousteau, around about the end of the war. SCUBA was coined by Christian J. Lambertsen in a patent submitted in 1952, and is the trad name of a diving equipment company in the USA I had to look up the part about Lambertsen, in my old dive manual from when I took my advance dive exame.

This could be one of those things that the sea-farers keep to themselves. So many of them look with scorn on us landlubbers, I expect there are other secrets too.

Like where actually is the tropic of cancer? I have flown over it and never seen it, was Dr. Livingstone secretly looking for it?

And as well, nobody actually found the North Pole, do'nt know why they bothered about looking for the South one, which I always thought was the other end anyway.

I suppose all above our pay grade now especially us pensioners.

regards
Roy

Being a land lubber and never been to sea I would imagine the line is made of cork!!
Also I don’t think the Titanic never went to Cleethorpes, did it? Although it seems to crop up everywhere else.

Nice to see they matched the brickwork with the line.
Is there anything supporting the line underneath?
I can see there would be on land but what holds it up at sea? I suppose the boats just go over it.
Never heard of any shipwrecks because of it. Maybe it was part of the Titanic sinking?

Roy

Been there,I’ve seen it, it’s at Cleethorpes, one question I knew the answer to without guessing.

Scratchbuilder
I am in Peacehaven

Fred.
Great post re the answer.
I wonder how many others (like me)looked at your details to see where you live on the line.
Regards
Bill 👍

Goood question today I did have a little think about the date line then remembered it is far from straight and not 0 degrees either.

Roy

Mouldbuilder - you need to go to the old observatory in Greenwich, and there you can stand with one foot either side of the meridian line.

I went to Greenwich some years ago. I looked for that line all over the place but never found it.😬

Fiddle fingers this morning, hit the wrong answer, must drink more tea 🍵 and steady fingers. Better still, enlarge the screen 😂