Posts Tagged "liverpool ships"

CITIZEN SAILORS: HMCS SACKVILLE.

CITIZEN SAILORS: HMCS SACKVILLE.

Surely not another preserved WW2 warship?  We’ve got plenty in the U.K. already (yawn!). Maybe, but from hundreds built as sturdy dependable escort craft, the Sackville is the only Flower-class corvette left in the world. She’s in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Canada’s Naval Memorial, a WW2 combat veteran and latterly a museum ship open to the public. And the top of the gangway has a mural of Disney’s sailor-suited Donald Duck, broom in his…

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GOOGLE IS SPYING ON US ALL………

GOOGLE IS SPYING ON US ALL………

If you’re another old salt you realise there’s nothing unusual about glimpsing the navigation officer taking a noon-day sight.Except that these days checking coordinates is just like pushing a keyboard on your car sat nav. So noon-day sights aren’t such common practice anymore. No waiting for the angle of the sun at midday; the truth is that using a sextant is rarely leisurely and the need…

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