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12th March 2024, 05:32 PM
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Re: Concrete Ships
Saw this on th3 net whilst checking out some local history sites.
Concrete tugs, just wonder how they stood up to hard working life of a tug.
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12th March 2024, 06:39 PM
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Re: Concrete Ships
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21st March 2024, 09:08 PM
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Re: Concrete Ships
Although it may be stretching a point to call them ships there were also many other Ferro concrete floating items created in connection with the D Day invasion of Europe.
The include 495 concrete petrol barges and lighters, some of which survive. Also The Mulberry Harbour Phoenix Caissons which were floated across the Channel. The were not small, 60 metres long and 7,700 tons. Plenty about these with a google search.
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21st March 2024, 11:44 PM
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Re: Concrete Ships
#23 A ship in our earlier days was a 3 or 4 masted vessel square rigged on at least 3. This was also in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of old. Today no such thing is just a common vessel if look up. A continuation of the bastardation of the English language. Cheers JS
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22nd March 2024, 05:29 AM
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Re: Concrete Ships
But we have modernized our names.
Ships became,
Liners, Container ships, Tankers, Ferries, Cruise ships, Bulk carriers, Specific use ships, Gas tankers, live Export ships (they are an abomination) and Tugs.
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22nd March 2024, 06:59 AM
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Re: Concrete Ships
Yes but ship is the only Noun or descriptive word, and means as originally said. The other titles are doing words , verbs and describes their occupation.
Maybe where that saying came from” a ship is a ship is a ship “. JS
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22nd March 2024, 09:18 AM
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Re: Concrete Ships
I've always used the word "boat", due no doubt to "boat" being the word used by most sailors when I began my seagoing adventures.
"Wot boats ya bin on mate?"
"Let's get back to the boat"
"Poxy boat this is, init"
"Wots the best boat ya bin on?"
"Where's that boat goin then?"
I even heard a skipper say once "Bloody hell! this boats down by the head with queers".
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22nd March 2024, 12:34 PM
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Re: Concrete Ships
#27 If Ivan was still around to see that Johnny , he would immediately say something like “ boats are what ships carry and are what you look for when the ship sinks “. Cheers JS
Or another alternative you can always tell a ship by its boats i.e. the order they are kept in. JS .
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23rd March 2024, 12:49 AM
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Re: Concrete Ships
Hense the saying "Boats Away"
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23rd March 2024, 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted by
Johnny Kieran
I've always used the word "boat", due no doubt to "boat" being the word used by most sailors when I began my seagoing adventures.
"Wot boats ya bin on mate?"
"Let's get back to the boat"
"Poxy boat this is, init"
"Wots the best boat ya bin on?"
"Where's that boat goin then?"
I even heard a skipper say once "Bloody hell! this boats down by the head with queers".
No doubt all of them giving head to some one.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
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