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13th February 2018, 11:18 AM
#51
Re: Instrument enquiry
Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
Do you mean like a toggle Des or something like a watch for direction. . Someone somewhere is either sitting there knowing what it is, or waiting to see if someone is willing to buy the correct answer. Cheers JS.
hi j sabourn
under fifty metres one all round white light, over fifty metres two all round white lights one aft one higher from mast etc
tom
Last edited by Doc Vernon; 13th February 2018 at 06:52 PM.
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13th February 2018, 11:25 AM
#52
Re: Instrument enquiry
Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
Could be a sky hook, to hang your Norwegian balls and fenders on. Or maybe an 80 knot gunsight for shooting tiger moths down. Or a personal device for a bomb aimer on the old Dakotas. Whoever gets the nearest answer gets 2 licks of the lollipop, 3 licks if hit the target. With or without the toilet light on. JWS.
hi j sabourn
now Norwegian frozen balls No definitely no , they would melt in your hands,
tom
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13th February 2018, 11:01 PM
#53
Re: Instrument enquiry
Originally Posted by
Jim Brady
Peter it looks like you have drawn a blank do you fancy contacting the Maritime Museum,if so try this
e.mail.RMGenquiries@rmg.co.uk
Regards.
Jim.B.
Thanks Jim, I will try this. Wasn’t sure the best way to contact.
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14th February 2018, 05:26 AM
#54
Re: Instrument enquiry
Originally Posted by
thomas michael
hi j sabourn
now Norwegian frozen balls No definitely no , they would melt in your hands,
tom
Frozen balls, go to Lulea Sweden in the middle of December then you will know all about frozen ones.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
World Traveller
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14th February 2018, 02:49 PM
#55
Re: Instrument enquiry
Originally Posted by
Jim Brady
Jimbo, That,s a nut cracker mate you conceal it in the galley if you fall out with the cook, He bends down to light the stove kneels on the top and the two little spikes crack his nuts..........................
{terry scouse}
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15th February 2018, 01:51 AM
#56
Re: Instrument enquiry
#51... Assume your talking about the navigation lights, after my time was 150 feet in my time not some queer measurement whats 50 metres in feet and inches ...Cheers JWS
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15th February 2018, 02:03 AM
#57
Re: Instrument enquiry
#54... Been there John done that in Lulea and in Oxelosund. Had Xmas also in Oxelosund. With a German and a Swedish married couple., The Germans father was ex SS, probably living the life of Reilly in South America at the time. Am sure if he had any frozen balls he would have hung them on the Xmas tree he was drunk enough. One wonders sometimes on all the characters one meets in a lifetime how they fared throughout their life spans. You don't have to be a celebrity to have a past life, in fact those who do and write about think most of them are very humdrum. JWS
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