Daily submarine picture

[Peter W]

You gotta remember, "If you can Tag it with a camera, You can Tag it with a Tommahawk.

Now now be nice, I would tell them to shut the missile doors though the fireworks might get wet.Mark thought you might like them.Peter.

[Peter W]

More Chinese SSBN pics

[Peter W]

MarK

Us Brits had the opportunity to make the Ambush better looking than the Astute and we didn't take it. Butt ugly.

Peter.

[Peter W]

Canadian sub HMCS Windsor.

[greenman407]

Very Good Peter, keep em coming. The internet at my terminal is going to be down for a couple of weeks. Cant get those guys to quit digging up my fiber optic cable. As soon as its back up I will start posting pictures again.

[Peter W]

Happy Thanksgiving chaps, More of the Canadian Sub.





Peter.

[trout]

Happy Thanksgiving to you Peter and all the great people on sub-driver, you guys are a real blessing.

[Peter W]

Tom,

As I am, what is known as, a filthy brit I have to be honest and say that I am a little ignorant of the thanksgiving feast and it's origins. It was just that I saw on my calender that it was so and knew that it was a big day for you all. I am a little bit jealous we have to wait another month for turkey.

All the best,

Peter.

[trout]

LOL - Peter, since you offered a Happy Thanksgiving wish, I made an assumption. It is a celebration of a gathering of the first Pilgrim colony and tribe of indians who brought food for the struggling group in 1621. The indians taught the Pilgrims how to survive in this new land. Filthy Brit? I do not know what you are talking about, all the brits I know especially in this hobby are creative, generous, good hearted men.

[Peter W]

Tom we are certainly creative but in the same way as a Bond villain is creative.

Peter.

[Von Hilde]

Abraham Lincolin started the Thanksgiving Day holiday. Because the country was in such termoil over the civil war, and needed some direction to recovery. He decided to make a holiday to give thanks for all the things we have, to get the peoples mind on something else. The story of the Pilgrims big harvest dinner with the Native Americans, after the first year of the setelment, was a misconstrued tale of the actual event. In other words with the advent of films in the early 20s, the story was glorified on the silver screen, with a bunch of happy people smokin peace pipes and eating turkey. Thanksgiving got real commercialised after WWI and the Depression, with the "Norman Rockwell picture" version of the holliday with the family all sitting around a big stuffed turkey ready to dig in. Turkeys were about the cheapest meat to buy during the 30s and 40s, and it was a boost to the struggling economy. In the late 30s the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade, was the kick off of the holiday season. It was basiclly a move to get as many people out of the house on a cold November Thursday, and make them go downtown to watch the parade. They figgured once the parade was over, in the late morning, it would give some of those people a chance to duck into a warm store and pick up a little gift for someones Christmas. Now its turned out , "To hell with the food, lets watch the footballgame, and then go down to the mall and get shopping" The Black Friday thing is so outahand, they open the stores all night on thursday and then run it all weekend. Now the dead Christmas trees are sitting outside the door at the box stores, in the Florida sunshine. By Christmas morning, they should look pritty good, with just the oriments hanging on the sticks and stems, with a big pile of needles on the floor. Now I see why Uncle Scrooge, was such a crankey old koot. Everybody had family to eat turkey with, and he had to eat the prime rib by himself. What does "Humbug" mean anyway? heres an old submarine picture

[Peter W]

Scrooge would have been a good member here.Peter. We are all cranky.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Scrooge is my personal savior!

[Peter W]

HMS Astute. It may not be a new picture as such but I have seen some information that may explain the hump. Apparently the class uses the same PWR as the Vanguard class therefore the requirement for a bigger reactor compartment. I have also heard that they have used the same steam turbine as used in the Trafalgar class, it seems the 2 don't mix particularly well and reports are that they can't get the Astute even close to it's required top speed which is not so good in an ASW situation. More when I get it.


Peter.

[Von Hilde]

Scrooge shouldnt have drank that egg nog before going to bed that night. The brandy curddled the milk and he got bad dreams. I like Unk Scrooge Mc Duck better. He has more class