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You said that with a straight face Degsy, I think I'll stick to logarithms, infinitesimal calculus, slide rules, and mental interstellar navigation stuff in future, this simple maths eludes me, :cool:

 

 

You completely lost me there,:confused: until you got to the simple bit.......simple I understand:-D

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Ah Bach!! this assumes good Welsh Steam Coal look you boyo!:cool2:

 

Tell me about it, there is a huge variation in the way that different coals burn. We once tried an alternative coal in a Sentinel and all it did was form a firebed so hot it all but melted the firebars but gave very little heat through the firetubes.

 

I seem to remember the GWR locos had smaller grates than usual as they had easy access to the best Welsh steam coal.

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I believe that you will find that the ram bow was designed to sink ships by ramming, which was given an exaggerated importance in the seond half of the Nineteenth Century following the events of the Battle of Lissa.

 

Yes your right.

The shape is designed so it will do the most damage below the waterline.

:coffee:

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Having had a dead 'puter for a couple of weeks I'm way behind everybody & just catching up .

 

What a strange coincidence that this picture should come up : A few weeks ago we were trying to track down some family paperwork & came across two sets of medals for unknown - to us - family members . One set belonged to H. King who was a stoker , from what we could find , on HMS Fame during the Boxer Rebellion and on HMS Terrible during the relief of Ladysmith . Even stranger snce my sister-in-laws father was also H.King (obviously not the same one ! ) . Am I right in thinking that there was more than one HMS Terrible ?

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Yes your right.

The shape is designed so it will do the most damage below the waterline.

:coffee:

 

I think that I am correct in saying that other than a few submarine rammings (e.g. by HMS Dreadnaught) where the shape of the bow was pretty immaterial really. The only example of a ram bow ‘doing its job’ in the RN was the famous ‘own goal’ sinking of HMS Victoria by HMS Camperdown. If one follows this link: (http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?id=2273&sc=1023&ac=d&an=2273:Victoria's+Secret...) one can see that ram bows had a secondary effect after sinking!

 

Of course the ram function become more stylised over time and ended up as little more than a bulbous bow on dreadnaughts.

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Enthusiasm for the ram had got to the police in Denver by 1921, this 90 hp armored car was intended to chase bandits!

 

Any one ever heard of a real one? I like the little seat on the running board, just the place to be when the ram hit home!

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