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Post by nikonbob on Jun 17, 2010 8:07:38 GMT -5
This is what is left of the HMCS Bras d'Dor and she is as faded inside as her paint work is outside. A sad end to one fine ship. On her sea trials she exceeded 117 kph/72 mph 40 years ago but was scraped shortly after. Wiki has more info if anyone is interested. She is a one and only so I hope the museum finds the funds to restore her. Bob  |
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Post by photax on Jun 17, 2010 11:13:13 GMT -5
Hi Bob ! What an unusual ship ! Just did some Wikipedia research and now i know a new English word: Hydrofoil. As a child i saw smaller models for passenger transport here in Austria on the river Danube. Hope they get it restored. Imagine that ship at full speed  MIK |
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Post by daveh on Jun 17, 2010 13:59:02 GMT -5
English is full of new words - for English speakers too.
I know there is a Tribal Class destroyer preserved somewhere - maybe they could take the Bras D'Or on. I'll have to look up again where it is. My interest was sparked by the HMCS Athabaskan which went down off the French coast near Roscoff, Brittany, in, I think March 1944. There are three war graves in the cemetery on the Isle de Batz, just a mile off Roscoff.
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Post by nikonbob on Jun 17, 2010 14:20:29 GMT -5
Yea, she must have been a sight to see at speed on foils and there are some photos on the net that show her going fast. I just saw her hull borne leaving Halifax. The preserved Tribal Class destroyer that I know of is at Hamilton Ontario and is the HMCS Haida. There is also a current HMCS Athabaskan serving today in the Canadian Navy. She is a 280 Class. Both the Haida and Bras d'Or are in private museums. The Canadian government does not seem too interested in preserving our naval history.
Bob
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Post by John Parry on Jun 17, 2010 15:10:45 GMT -5
Toured HMCS Haida when I was in Hamilton Bob. (My best friend sailed as CPO on HMS Gurkha!). I'll post a couple of pictures when I get home. I thought that was an 'official' museum. If it's a private enterprise, I'm glad I bought my souvenir mug!
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Post by daveh on Jun 17, 2010 16:04:13 GMT -5
Just a word in praise of Canadians, but little to do with the thread so far:
My grandfather was shot in the summer of 1916 at Dikkebus, close to Ypres. He was treated at the Canadian field hospital in Etaples, France. Without them I might not be here today.
It was a Canadian Army Doctor, John McCrae, who wrote the poem "In Flanders Fields.
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Post by nikonbob on Jun 17, 2010 19:05:17 GMT -5
John
For my money the Tribals were what a destroyer should look like. Would your friend happen to have been the CERA?
Bob
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Post by olroy2044 on Jun 18, 2010 21:20:26 GMT -5
Amen to that, Bob! What lovely lines she has! She looks as if she would have been fast even without the 'foils!
Roy
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Post by pompiere on Jun 19, 2010 4:21:50 GMT -5
The US Navy used to have a similar craft. I think there were three of them. I built a plastic model kit when I was a kid, but I got to see the real thing on the foils once. We were playing war games in the Pacific, and they tried to catch us, but we were far enough away to out last them. Sort of a tortise and hare thing.
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Post by daveh on Jun 19, 2010 12:28:16 GMT -5
pompiere, you mean you plastic model was able to keep ahead of them. WOW! ;D  |
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