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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Haddock on December 20, 2020, 04:27:12 PM

Title: ALL SHIPSHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION.
Post by: Haddock on December 20, 2020, 04:27:12 PM

If you've ever wondered how the Navy kept their ships so smart looking,
this is how it's done. Not an airbrush in sight!!
Haddock.

Title: Re: ALL SHIPSHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION.
Post by: MSea on December 20, 2020, 07:03:45 PM

Reminds me of one of my first ships as an apprentice - my job was to go over the side on a bosuns chair ( same as in the photos) and to clean and then thistle bond rivet heads to stop them leaking oil from the tanks into the sea.
We passed through the Panama Canal and they said we would be charged a lot of money because we dropped oil into the water - we said it was not us but the Greek ship in front and we just made the oil come to the surface with our propellers - we would have got away with it but they made us anchor off the end of the canal and we found ourselves  in an ever widening pool of oil - hohohoho

Title: Re: ALL SHIPSHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION.
Post by: zak on December 21, 2020, 10:54:15 AM

Interesting photos.

Title: Re: ALL SHIPSHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION.
Post by: chriswil42 on December 21, 2020, 02:04:29 PM

Yes very interesting photos.

Title: Re: ALL SHIPSHAPE AND BRISTOL FASHION.
Post by: councilman on December 21, 2020, 05:48:25 PM

Quote from: Haddock on December 20, 2020, 04:27:12 PM

If you've ever wondered how the Navy kept their ships so smart looking,
this is how it's done. Not an airbrush in sight!!
Haddock.

Can I have a Dulux paint pod please...