World Naval Ships Forums  
CURRENT SPECIAL OFFERS ON OUR HUGE SELECTION OF ART PRINTS!

Go Back   World Naval Ships Forums > Everything Else > Everything Else
Reload this Page Swordfish in the Fly Past
Register FAQ Members List Calendar Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Everything Else Serious non naval and non maritime subjects - 'Shore Leave' is for chat.

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 28-05-2012, 16:49
scouse scouse is offline
Commander
  
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 460
scouse is on a distinguished road
Default Swordfish in the Fly Past
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...e-pageant.html
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 28-05-2012, 18:46
eskimosailor's Avatar
eskimosailor eskimosailor is online now
Commodore
  
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Gosport, Hants
Posts: 800
eskimosailor has a spectacular aura abouteskimosailor has a spectacular aura about
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
Quote:
Originally Posted by scouse View Post
Great to see her still flying. I attach a picture I have posted elsewhere of her at Brawdy many years ago. I believe she cannot now take off without the torpedo due to balance problems, and anyway the torpedo forms her toolbox.
Sorry about the crud on the picture. It's a very old slide.
Steve
Attached Images
File Type: jpg Brawdy, Swordfish, front.JPG (1.64 MB, 28 views)
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 29-05-2012, 10:55
Ednamay Ednamay is offline
Vice-Admiral
  
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: On the outskirts of Sandown, Isle of Wight
Posts: 1,511
Ednamay will become famous soon enoughEdnamay will become famous soon enough
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
Quote:
Originally Posted by eskimosailor View Post
Great to see her still flying. I attach a picture I have posted elsewhere of her at Brawdy many years ago. I believe she cannot now take off without the torpedo due to balance problems, and anyway the torpedo forms her toolbox.
Sorry about the crud on the picture. It's a very old slide.
Steve
Steve - thanks very much for the picture of the Swordfish, I have printed off to add to the file with the story of my brother's life as an electrical artificer in the FAA

Edna
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 29-05-2012, 13:04
eskimosailor's Avatar
eskimosailor eskimosailor is online now
Commodore
  
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Gosport, Hants
Posts: 800
eskimosailor has a spectacular aura abouteskimosailor has a spectacular aura about
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ednamay View Post
Steve - thanks very much for the picture of the Swordfish, I have printed off to add to the file with the story of my brother's life as an electrical artificer in the FAA

Edna
Glad you liked it Edna.
Here is another picture, taken at the same time. A few minutes later I had the honour of helping to push it. I still dine out on that
Steve
Attached Images
File Type: jpg Brawdy, Swordfish, side.JPG (1.48 MB, 26 views)
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 30-05-2012, 11:03
Ednamay Ednamay is offline
Vice-Admiral
  
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: On the outskirts of Sandown, Isle of Wight
Posts: 1,511
Ednamay will become famous soon enoughEdnamay will become famous soon enough
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
Quote:
Originally Posted by eskimosailor View Post
Glad you liked it Edna.
Here is another picture, taken at the same time. A few minutes later I had the honour of helping to push it. I still dine out on that
Steve
Thanks again, Steve, my file is expanding ! Edna
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 01-06-2012, 11:55
scouse scouse is offline
Commander
  
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 460
scouse is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Old-...ail/story.html
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 02-06-2012, 07:59
scouse scouse is offline
Commander
  
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 460
scouse is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
Here she is at VL in 64 http://bps.britishpathe.com/hls-vod/...79962.mp4.m3u8
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 03-06-2012, 16:49
scouse scouse is offline
Commander
  
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 460
scouse is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
Weather has stopped the flypast
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 03-06-2012, 17:52
Vegaskip's Avatar
Vegaskip Vegaskip is online now
Admiral
  
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Auchtermuchty FIFE SCOTLAND
Posts: 2,011
Vegaskip is a jewel in the roughVegaskip is a jewel in the roughVegaskip is a jewel in the rough
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
More likely H&S, Perfect Sworfish weather!, wind less than 80kts, vis more than 50 yds, temp more than -20

Jim
__________________
Jim
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 03-06-2012, 18:53
harry.gibbon's Avatar
harry.gibbon harry.gibbon is online now
Admiral
  
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Merseyside
Posts: 5,573
harry.gibbon is a jewel in the roughharry.gibbon is a jewel in the roughharry.gibbon is a jewel in the roughharry.gibbon is a jewel in the rough
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
Quote:
Originally Posted by Vegaskip View Post
More likely H&S, Perfect Sworfish weather!, wind less than 80kts, vis more than 50 yds, temp more than -20

Jim
Jim,

Don't like to throw spanner in the works mate, but at least one police helo was up and did a magnificent solo flypast over tower bridge and past the Royal Barge, at the very end of the water pageant. However I suspect it is more likely to have been the CAA or some such that put a stop to any other flying.

Little h
__________________

GFXU - HMS Falmouth in Falmouth Bay
Reply With Quote
  #11  
Old 03-06-2012, 19:09
Vegaskip's Avatar
Vegaskip Vegaskip is online now
Admiral
  
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Auchtermuchty FIFE SCOTLAND
Posts: 2,011
Vegaskip is a jewel in the roughVegaskip is a jewel in the roughVegaskip is a jewel in the rough
Default Re: Swordfish in the fly past
Well aware harry, just being 'sarky'. I was amazed that the Swordfish was to be allowed to fly there in the first place, some years ago single piston engined aircraft were barred from flying over the capital, ( apart from the 'Holy Duo' of the B of B flight)or has that been recinded
Jim
__________________
Jim
Reply With Quote
Reply

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »


Ship Search by Name : Advanced Search
Random Timeline Entry : 9th January 1890 : HMS Dragon : In Cretan waters

NAVAL PRINTS

Click above to see our naval art portal - Eight random half price items are displayed to the right.

Some Current Half Price Offers

Type 21 frigate HMS Ambuscade (F172) is shown passing the swing bridge as she enters Taranto Harbour.

HMS Ambuscade by Ivan Berryman (P)
Half Price! - £500.00 		HMS Queen Elizabeth with other Royal Naval Battleships, Revenge and Ramillies. Surrounded by cruisers and destroyers ride at anchor for King George Vs last Jubilee Review of 1935.

Sunset at Spithead by Randall Wilson. (Y)
Half Price! - £62.50 		The French battleship Richelieu with the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Cumberland, shown during Operation Crimson after bombarding Sabang during July 1944. Grumman Avengers from the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Vengeance shown overhead.

Richelieu and HMS Cumberland 1945 by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
Half Price! - £50.00 		Pride of the Royal Navy, the mighty Hood rolls majestically in the north Atlantic swell as HMS Prince of Wales holds station off her starboard bow.

HMS Hood by Ivan Berryman. (Y)
Half Price! - £50.00

The cruiser HMS Frobisher dominates this scene off Houlgate at the Normandy landings of 1944. The monitor HMS Roberts lies beyond Frobisher with a Large Infantry Landing Ship or LSI (L) unshipping its LCAs on the extreme right of the picture. In the foreground, a motor launch attends a group of LCP (L)s as they head for the French beaches. Two Spitfire Mk.IXs conduct sweeps overhead as Operation Neptune gathers momentum.

HMS Frobisher and HMS Roberts at Normandy by Ivan Berryman (P)
Half Price! - £4000.00 		USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) refuels an Adams class Destroyer during a dusk operation off the Vietnam coast as a pair of E8 Crusaders are readied for launch on the forward catapults.

USS Kitty Hawk by Ivan Berryman (P)
Half Price! - £2750.00 		In January 1793 the 1st Battalion of the 29th Foot leaves Windsor for Hilsea to board Royal Navy fighting ships as there is a shortage of marines. Their new roll is to counter enemy musket fire from the upper decks, to lead boarding parties and to maintain discipline of the crew. They are specially equipped with a new working rig but still retain their full dress red coats and powdered hair (curled locks above the ear are removed) for combat. The regiment joins The British Channel Fleet under Admiral Earl Howe, and detachments are allocated to the following ships of the line; H.M.S. Glory, Thunderer, Alfred, Pegasus and Ramilles. 78 soldiers under the command of Cpt. Alexander Saunders are also placed aboard Captain Harveys 74 gun H.M.S. Brunswick. Howes ships are sent to intercept a fleet, of similar size that has put out from Brest to escort a large convoy of food from America, destined for Revolutionary France. The two fleets make contact but fog prevents an engagement until 1 Oarn on the first day of June 1794. Now, in bright sunshine, the order is given to attack! Brunswick is directly astern of Howes flag ship as the French line is broken. She quickly engages Le Vengeur with which she becomes dangerously entangled. Broadsides are exchanged at point blank range! Sails are shot to ribbons, masts and rigging fall. Grenades, carronades and musketry find their targets and casualties mount. Nevertheless, the ships band, joined by a negro regimental drummer on the quarter deck, keep up moral by playing the new and popular air Hearts Of Oak. The two ships drift helplessly as another French man-of-war, Achille, comes in for the kill but the British gunners deliver such a devastating broadside into this new assailant that she is completely demasted and strikes her colours! In the firefight the figure head, an effigy of the Duke of Brunswick, has its carved wooden hat blown clean away. So, Captain Harvey calmly replaces the loss with his own cocked hat! The captain himself receives a blow to the hand and is subsequently mortally wounded with a section of chain-shot. Cpt. Saunders is killed by a snipers bullet and Lt. Harcourt Vernon (wearing short, non regulation boots to facilitate amputation) is soon wounded as well. The decks are cleared of downed masts and rigging, the dead also go over the side. cl At about one oclock the two interlocked ships are separated by a swell and Harveys brothers ship Ramilles cornes to the Brunsivicks assistance. The crippled Vengeur cannot compete with the skill of English gunnery and the ship is raked from end to end by galling fire. Cheers ring out as she surrenders and hoists the Union Jack. The rest of the French fleet breaks off the engagement. Six of their ships are out of action and Le Vengeur is so very badly holed that she eventually sinks (many of her crew refusing to abandon her. Singing the Marseillaise they re-hoist her battle flag as they slip to their watery grave) This British fleet returns in triumph to Spithead. However, the scene on the Brunswicks splintered poop deck is one of utter devastation. The regiment has 13 officers and men killed, another 18 are wounded and nearly quarter of the ships company is lost. This hard won victory is commemorated by the regiment with Naval Crown (awarded to the regiment in 1909, an honour shared only by the Queens Regiment) and by the adoption of the tune played throughout the height of battle, Hearts of Oak.

Hearts of Oak by Mark Churms. (Y)
Half Price! - £50.00 		The heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire is brought up to sink the blazing wreck of the Bismarck with torpedoes at around 10:30 hours on the morning of May 27th 1941. The once proud German ship had been ruthlessly pounded into a twisted and burning wreck by the British battleships Rodney and King George V. HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Maori combed the area of the sinking for survivors, between them picking up a total of 110 out of an original complement of 2,300.

HMS Dorsetshire by Ivan Berryman (AP)
Half Price! - £75.00

SPORT PRINTS

Click above to see our sport art portal - Four random half price items are displayed to the right.

Some Current Half Price Offers

In the final moments of extra time of the game, the England number 10, Jonny Wilkinson slotted a perfect drop goal which clinched victory over Australia, winning 20 points to 17. 

Rugby World Cup Final 2003 by David Pentland.
Half Price! - £50.00 		DB006. Michael Schumacher by Darren Baker.
Michael Schumacher by Darren Baker.
Half Price! - £75.00 		England 53 - South Africa 3, Twickenham, Novermber 23rd 2002. England: Robinson, Cohen, Tindall, Greenwood, Christophers, Wilkinson, Dawson, Vickery, Leonard, Thompson, Johnson, Kay, Moody, Back, Hill. (Subs): Dallaglio, Gomersall, Healey, Morris, Regan, Stimpson. Scores: Try - Cohen, 2 Tries - Greenwood, Try - Back, Try - Hill, Try - Dallaglio, Penalty Try, 2 Penalties - Wilkinson, Conversion - Wilkinson, Conversion - Dawson, 2 Conversions - Gomersall, 2 Conversions - Stimpson. <br><br>South Africa: Greef, Paulse, Fleck, James, Lombard, Pretorius, Conradie, Roux, Dalton, Venter, Lambuschagne, Krige, Wannenburg, Van Niekerk. (Subs): Jacobs, Jordaan, Russell, Uys, Van Biljon, Van der Linde, Wentzel. Score : Penalty - Pretorius.

England v South Africa - Investec 2002 by Doug Harker. (Y)
Half Price! - £100.00 		Whilst flat-racing enthusiasts may argue which horse was the best Derby Winner, artist Peter Deighan was deciding for himself, he made a short list of six. His canvas entitled Derby Winners depicts these six. They include the great Shergar, who ran the fastest Derby in history and won by a record ten lengths. Also included are Golden Fleece, Reference Point, Teenoso, The Minstrel and the fantastic Nashwan. Any of these could be classified as the greatest.

Derby Winners by Peter Deighan.
Half Price! - £120.00

AVIATION PRINTS

Click above to see our aviation art portal - Four random half price items are displayed to the right.

Some Current Half Price Offers

In the Vietnam war Squadron VA-163 was stationed aboard the carrier Oriskany on its second cruise, the squadrons A-4 Skyhawks were led by Commander Wynn Foster, one of the navys most aggressive strike leaders, and under Air Wing Commander James Stockdale, the A-4 pilots racked up a formidable record as a top fighting unit.

Alfa-Strike by Nicolas Trudgian. (Y)
Half Price! - £75.00 		A sad, but magnificent sight on 24th October 2003 as the last three British Airways Concordes bring commercial supersonic travel to a close, as they taxi together to their final dispersal at Heathrow.

Concorde Farewell by Ivan Berryman.
Half Price! - £15.00 		Byron Duckenfield and his 501 Squadron wingman struggle to get airborne in their Hurricanes as the spectacle of the scrambling squadron draws a group of passing motorists out of their vehicle to witness the thunderous noise of the aircraft.

501 Sqn Scramble by Ivan Berryman. (P)
Half Price! - £275.00 		An ignominious end for an Albatros C.III demands an act of compassion by a British medical team who are first on the scene of a crash in the early years of World War 1.

Not All Landings Are Good Landings by Ivan Berryman. (P)
Half Price! - £750.00

MILITARY PRINTS

Click above to see our military art portal - Four random half price items are displayed to the right.

Some Current Half Price Offers

Having made contact the previous evening with troops of 4th Infantry Division pushing inland from Utah Beach, paratroopers of the 101st Airborne division The Screaming Eagles help mop up the pockets of German resistance in their general advance towards Carentan.

Screaming Eagles in Normandy, 7th June 1944 by David Pentland. (P)
Half Price! - £1800.00 		From their position in a knocked out Soviet T28 tank, the Finnish troops keep up the pressure on the encircled enemy units.

Frozen Hell, Suomussalmi, Finland 1940 by David Pentland.
Half Price! - £50.00 		M3 Lee tanks and troops from General Slims 14th Army clear Japanese resistance form the village of Ywathitgyi in their drive to Mandalay.

Road to Mandalay, Burma, February 1945 by David Pentland. (P)
Half Price! - £1900.00 		Wherever the GIs went they took their Jeeps with them, and before the war was run the little quarter-ton, 4-wheel drive, utility vehicle was as well known around the world as the Model T Ford. Nicolas Trudgian has painted a compelling image, set back in time when the little Jeep was omnipresent on and around the roads and battlefields of a war-torn world. It is Christmas 1944 and, as a gaggle of 339th FG P-51 Mustangs disturb the peace of this ancient English village, a little Jeep waits patiently outside the pub while her occupants sample the local ale. A wonderfully nostalgic painting that will bring back pleasant memories to many.
Welcome Respite by Nicolas Trudgian.
Half Price! - £70.00
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools
Display Modes
Linear Mode Linear Mode

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Diver Past and Present dpoidy Canadian Ships and Crews 13 08-03-2011 16:48
Swordfish on Floats Linton Other Naval Topics 17 25-02-2011 14:20
Galatea fly-past tim lewin Other Naval Topics 6 09-12-2010 00:15
Service Record: James Cox HMS Swordfish banjoman Service Records / Naval Relatives and Friends 1 20-08-2007 18:37


All times are GMT. The time now is 22:16.

World Naval Ships - Archive - Top

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2013, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.