Jack Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 This was in the days of the Schnellboots. keith and I had the pleasure of standing on its deck back in October - we can't release the pictures JUST yet :coffee: but it is safe to say we were speechless and ironically, it has some sort magistic presence to it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Peter Scottss' Battle of the Narrow seas, illustrated by him, has some beautiful pictures of E boats in action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 .....there was/is(?) the sad remains of an E Boat in a small creek near to me .....the boatyard fella had I believe, had made various efforts to sell it but nothing every came through.. ......I'm pretty sure I heard that eventually it'd become so deteriorated and was also semi-submerged that I think..(not entirely sure of this so????) she was broken up 'in situ' ........ As I say ....I'm not entirely sure she was scrapped so??? ....if anyone is really keen :-D and fancies a go at her maybe??...... .... the little shipyard in question is Fred Larkham's operation at Ruddle just outside of Newnham on Severn on the A48 out of Gloucester. He has another yard a little further down the 'coast' at Bullo Pill and I'm not sure in which yard the E Boat was or possibly still is ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morris C8 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Here is an original drawing i have of an E boat up the creek being fitted out into a house boat in 1948. Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rog8811 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 (edited) Slightly off country but...20 odd years ago I was a regular visitor to Littlehampton, in a silted up creek was a british MTB that had been converted to a house boat, last time I saw it it was looking pretty sad....then it was gone, I like to think it was rescued, does anyone know? *EDIT* Have answered my own question a search of google images and google earth shows that it never left ...... it sank. Edited February 18, 2012 by rog8811 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redherring Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Sheer poetry... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowfat Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 Any update on this...? Mr wheatcroft seems to have stepped away from publicity the web site is closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowfat Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-27312953 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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