Tuesday 16 November 2010

Ship Spotting


This could really ruin your day.



What is it?

4 comments:

Chuck Hill said...

HMS Marlborough, torpedoed, but not sunk 1916, returned to port under her own power

Chuck Hill said...

Correction, HMS Audacious sunk by a mine 26 Oct, 1914.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HMS_Audacious_crew_take_to_lifeboats.jpg

GrandLogistics said...

Hello Chuck Hill,

right second time,Audacious she is.


GrandLogistics.

Chuck Hill said...

...at 08:05, Audacious ran upon a mine laid by the German auxiliary minelayer Berlin.

...In the meantime, at 13:08 a message had arrived from the coastguard station at Mulroy that the steamer Manchester Commerce had been mined in the same area the day before. At 16:60, Malin Head reported that the sailing vessel Cardiff had also been mined the previous night.

Good job "Berlin," Not such a good job getting out the word of a known mined area.