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Offline Simba

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Re: battleships
« Reply #30 on: February 15, 2010, 12:11:18 PM »
"the HMS Hood"

Groan, another one who doesn't know how to properly name a ship of the Royal Navy. It's Hood, the Hood or H.M.S. Hood, NOT 'the H.M.S. Hood'.

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Re: battleships
« Reply #31 on: February 15, 2010, 12:15:11 PM »
Quote from: Simba on February 15, 2010, 12:11:18 PM
"the HMS Hood"

Groan, another one who doesn't know how to properly name a ship of the Royal Navy. It's Hood, the Hood or H.M.S. Hood, NOT 'the H.M.S. Hood'.

Write His Majesty's Ship does not sound correct with 'the' added before it one hundred times, then you'll get it right - I hope.

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That's clearly a good point. His error is about as bad as Donald studmuffinan's reference to "The El Supremo" in Show Business Kids. Clearly, that's saying, "the the supreme one"...

But lost in that trivia is the fact that HMS Hood was dangerously underarmored against plunging fire. That people were surprised that it split open like a boiled hotdog merely shows that the public at large don't do engineering.
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Re: battleships
« Reply #32 on: February 15, 2010, 12:46:00 PM »
Hoho, there's plenty of it about, for sure. Here in Bristol, we have the 'River Avon' clearly marked on the map. As avon or afon is an old word for river . . . doh!

Too right, H.M.S. Hood carried dangerously inadequate deck armour. H.M.A.M.C. Rawalpindi carried none at all, other than the splinter shields on the 6" guns she was hurriedly fitted with at the outbreak of war. Both ships were sent into harm's way because there was nothing better available when the call came, and both were lost to enemy gunfire. My grandfather lost a cousin aboard the Hood and his brother aboard the 'Admiralty-Made Coffin' Rawalpindi, when Captain Kennedy took on the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Denmark Strait. Doubtless in the future the Royal Navy will have to fight once again with no more than what it can scrape together; and, with no doubt at all, they'll do their magnificent best.

Splice the mainbrace!

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Re: battleships
« Reply #33 on: February 15, 2010, 01:05:22 PM »
Quote from: Simba on February 15, 2010, 12:46:00 PM
Hoho, there's plenty of it about, for sure. Here in Bristol, we have the 'River Avon' clearly marked on the map. As avon or afon is an old word for river . . . doh!

Too right, H.M.S. Hood carried dangerously inadequate deck armour. H.M.A.M.C. Rawalpindi carried none at all, other than the splinter shields on the 6" guns she was hurriedly fitted with at the outbreak of war. Both ships were sent into harm's way because there was nothing better available when the call came, and both were lost to enemy gunfire. My grandfather lost a cousin aboard the Hood and his brother aboard the 'Admiralty-Made Coffin' Rawalpindi, when Captain Kennedy took on the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the Denmark Strait. Doubtless in the future the Royal Navy will have to fight once again with no more than what it can scrape together; and, with no doubt at all, they'll do their magnificent best.

Splice the mainbrace!

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Perhaps you should say a word about the Union FLAG, as opposed to jack... I was informed of some distinction regarding this item by a Manchester native - when he wasn't talking smack about "bluudy soothunahs" (Londoners) that is...
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Re: battleships
« Reply #34 on: February 15, 2010, 01:19:25 PM »
The Union Flag is the national flag of the United Kingdom and incorporates the crosses of Saint George for England, Saint Andrew for Scotland and Saint Patrick for (Northern, since 1922) Ireland; when hoisted on the jack-staff at the bow of a Royal Navy ship in commission, it becomes a Union Jack. Over the many years when Britannia ruled the oceans, the two became synonymous to those who didn't know better.

Howzat?

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Re: battleships
« Reply #35 on: February 15, 2010, 02:32:30 PM »
Quote from: Simba on February 15, 2010, 01:19:25 PM
The Union Flag is the national flag of the United Kingdom and incorporates the crosses of Saint George for England, Saint Andrew for Scotland and Saint Patrick for (Northern, since 1922) Ireland; when hoisted on the jack-staff at the bow of a Royal Navy ship in commission, it becomes a Union Jack. Over the many years when Britannia ruled the oceans, the two became synonymous to those who didn't know better.

Howzat?

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Re: battleships
« Reply #36 on: February 15, 2010, 02:47:50 PM »
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« Reply #37 on: February 16, 2010, 11:07:25 PM »
Quote from: Simba on February 15, 2010, 12:11:18 PM
"the HMS Hood"

Groan, another one who doesn't know how to properly name a ship of the Royal Navy. It's Hood, the Hood or H.M.S. Hood, NOT 'the H.M.S. Hood'.

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Do people really care about that?  :D
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« Reply #38 on: February 17, 2010, 10:50:53 AM »
I don't really......  But.... I'm a dirty American.    AT the same time, I do follow the reference.  It's like saying HIV Virus.

Quote from: W7LPNRICK on February 16, 2010, 11:07:25 PM
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Re: battleships
« Reply #39 on: February 17, 2010, 03:08:49 PM »
Quote from: phatzo on February 15, 2010, 02:47:50 PM
Middle stump

It doesn't take much inagination or knowledge of cricket to understand you here. What a charming Australian expression...

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« Reply #40 on: February 18, 2010, 12:23:13 AM »
Have a British ex-girlfriend once who always corrected my grammar.... but she was the only one & it was a long time ago. Pretentious is the word that comes to mind. Also, who cares?!  :rolleyes:
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« Reply #41 on: February 18, 2010, 06:51:35 AM »
Well, the response was, I believe, not so much to do with grammar as it was our UK friend's story about the Union flag - and most likely his ref to the Empire for which the sun never set and the Navy that enforced that Empire.

That's probably why, I, for one, "care". You have to be careful with language (including math - itself a language, imj) or you miss the point entirely and start thinking that the conversation is about grammar when it is, at most, tangential to that topic.
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Re: battleships
« Reply #42 on: February 18, 2010, 09:25:57 PM »
Quote from: PJ_Godzilla on February 18, 2010, 06:51:35 AM
Well, the response was, I believe, not so much to do with grammar as it was our UK friend's story about the Union flag - and most likely his ref to the Empire for which the sun never set and the Navy that enforced that Empire.

That's probably why, I, for one, "care". You have to be careful with language (including math - itself a language, imj) or you miss the point entirely and start thinking that the conversation is about grammar when it is, at most, tangential to that topic.
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Re: battleships
« Reply #43 on: March 21, 2010, 12:47:13 PM »
all the classes are good but the USS N.C. was one of the more "modern" battleships of the war. It be nice to have it and other battleship classes too.
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« Reply #44 on: March 21, 2010, 03:22:57 PM »
The NC class would be great! I live about 2hrs away from the Showboat and it is sweet! Would love to fire the 16inchers at an airfield or another cv group. She also made it on the TOP 10 Naval Ships at like #4 or something. Also, during her first engagement alongside the Enterprise, the Enterprise's captain was worried she was on fire because of all the smoke she was puttin out due to her tremendous firepower!  :devil

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