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Launch of the tanker 'British Venture'

from North East Museums

  • optimal chicken said:
    I'd love to know what was going through the workers minds when they saw this.

Mauretania Starting Platform

from North East Museums

  • FrigateRN said:
    The ingenuity that goes into the creating of a ship, both then and now, is something to behold.
  • benicektoo said:
    Who would have stood at this post?
  • Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums said:
    Hard to say exactly, but an inexperienced man wouldn't have been allowed to operate the controls when moving the ship around in port. So more than likely one of the 2nd engineers, while the Chief Engineer coordinated the work of all the Engine Room Staff.
  • Dave said:
    They certainly don't make them like that anymore.
  • Doug D said:
    I have done some instrument tubing in gas plants, and the tubing here is very well done considering they likely didn't have the benders that we use today.

HMS Ark Royal - 7th July 1980

from North East Museums

  • Historical Pail said:
    Fabulous view ...Alan
  • Jón Önfjörð said:
    It is great to get to see old foto like this....
  • FrigateRN said:
    Thanks TWAM, another interesting picture.