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Thank you, I'd appreciate any information you could share! Cheers

Thanks for all the info guys, I didn't know about the LSV variants. What was the British Army's overall oppinion of them?

I've been reading up on a dune buggy guru from California named Bob Chenowth and his connection to the US Army's M1040 and M1041 Fast Attack Vehicles (and the later SEAL Desert Patrol Vehicles) and came across a reference to the British Army having purchased a small number of these for the BAOR around 1988 or so. I've only found two photos though, both of FAVs with the Royal Green Jackets. Can anyone shed some more light on the British Army's use & view of these odd vehicles? Thanks in advance!

I just see that as a shame. It's one thing to read about a ship, look at photos, or even models. It's a whole diferent thing to be able to walk the deck. And it's a great thing that you guys preserved Victory, that would have been a national disgrace to break up. As an aside, any chance Prince of Wales will get a name change to Ark Royal before completion?

As a former naval architecture/marine engineering major as well as a former docent on the USS New Jersey, that thought just makes me cringe...

Hi All, I don't mean this to sound in any way disrespectful, it's a genuine question I have... OK, the UK is an island, a maritime nation if ever there was one, and you guys don't have a single preserved battleship or aircraft carrier??? Here in the States we've got 8 battleships (7 open as museums, 1 in MARAD Cat. B Reserve) and at least 5 carriers I can think of open as museums with talk about either Kennedy or Enterprise becoming ones in the not so distant future. I just don't understand... Cheers!

I would suspect part of the problem the RAN ran into with Manoora and Kanimbla was a result of poor mothballing. From the 1940s through the late '60s/early '70s the USN had dedicated shipyard personnel to decommission and mothball ships who, incidentally, were the same guys who were responsible for taking care of them once they were mothballed. When the USN started outsourcing & privatizing these services they also started using the final cruise crew to decommission & mothball ships. Most of these guys (and now gals) had absolutely NO training in how to do this and the result was ships that were poorly prepared for long-term storage.

What you want to find are the LCT Mk III Docking Plans, these will give the loading points for the hull and what they're stressed for. The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich should have these.

Hi everyone, I'm hoping someone here can help me out, I'm trying to find a copy of specification S.A. 563 pertaining to painting and staining of the No 15 small arms transit chest. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

Nick, Not too many of the L4s ended up Stateside. I know, I'd sell my wife to get one! From what I can gather, a fair few L4s that were cut up into parts kits were shipped here in the early/mid 1980s, but that was pretty much it. I'm only aware of one L4 in private hands over here, and another that was rebuilt from a parts kit. Cheers, Atherton

Hi All, My name's Atherton, I live in New Jersey, I belong to a living history group that protrays 10 Para (TA) circa 1985, and I'm a Series LR fanatic. Cheers!