Posted in War Memorials at 12:00 on 22 November 2018
By the River Mersey, Liverpool, lies this memorial to Merchant Navy personnel who died serving in the Royal Navy and have no known grave. The names are engraved on the brass panels:-
Central pedestal:-
Inscription. “These officers and men of the merchant navy died while serving with the Royal Navy and have no grave but the sea. 1939-1945”:-
Reverse view:-
Posted in Fife, Seaside Scenes, Shipping at 12:00 on 6 August 2018
HMS Queen Elizabeth is the Royal Navy’s latest aircraft carrier. (That’s the one there’s not enough money to fit out with any aircraft.)
She sailed out from her fitting out at Rosyth in the Firth of Forth for her sea trials in June 2017. We happened to be in Cellardyke, Fife that day and caught a glimpse of her near the Isle of May.
HMS Queen Elizabeth (yacht in front) and the Isle of May from Cellardyke Harbour:-
HMS Queen Elizabeth and Isle of May closer view:-
HMS Queen Elizabeth closer view:-
Isle of May:-
HMS Queen Elizabeth and another ship:-
Posted in Trips, War Memorials at 20:20 on 7 November 2017
HMS Jervis Bay was a merchant ship requisitioned by the Admiralty on the outbreak of the Second World War and converted to an armed merchant cruiser. She was sunk by the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer on 5/11/1940 while trying to draw fire onto itself to protect the convoy it was escorting.
This memorial plaque is on a wall in Wick town centre.
Nearby is a memorial to HMAV Isleford, a Royal Navy Auxiliary vessel wrecked with all hands in a blizzard in Wick Bay on 25/1/1942, in sight of the shore.
Posted in Cruise, Trips at 20:53 on 22 January 2017
Below is a photograph of the new Royal Navy aircraft carrier as viewed from Rosyth. This is the one that apparently won’t have any aircraft once it’s fitted out as we can’t afford them. Trident yes, it seems; warplanes no.
On Friday I realised that T Ronald Dump’s hair reminded me of this:-
The reason we were at Rosyth was to go on a cruise. On the Fred.Olsen Lines ship SS Black Watch. This was the ship’s (mascot?) Not figurehead. It was facing to the rear.
Sunset over the Forth:
Posted in War Memorials at 19:38 on 15 December 2015
Erected in memory of the crews of Royal Navy submarines K4 and K7 lost off Anstruther, Fife, on 31/1/1918.
The plaque:-
Posted in Bridges, Fife, Shipping at 19:50 on 24 August 2014
We were along the Fife coast a fortnight or so ago; at Limekilns where there is a good view of Rosyth Dockyard and the Forth Bridges.
Currently fitting out at the dockyard is the new Royal Navy aircraft carrier – the one there won’t be any planes for once it is completed. Both bridges are in the background.
