Unknown = SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN

D 182 = German destroyer SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN

Тhank kgvm

Тhank kgvm and the title has been edited accordingly and the picture moved. (Thumb)

This is the ship that mistakenly put two shells into the Port Auxilliary Service tug "Sea giant" whilst target towing for a practice shoot off Portland in the early seventies 70/71 ish. They were only practice shells but never the less they went through the ER skylight and caused a very serious leg injury to an Engineer and put the S***'s up a Stoker, not sure if he was injured . know them both. I think the cause was a radar locking on fault for the weapons system. Bearing in mind the target wouldv'e been streamed at a 1000 yards for the shoot.

Do we have an Opinion

Well said Old Strawberry

Regards
Gary
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Semper rectus, semper agilis

I was being tongue and cheek and refering to the SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN question of the 19th century of which everyone had an opinion at the time

Sorry I caused offense and the best summary of the question is as follows

Only three people understood the Schleswig-Holstein Question. The first was Albert, the Prince consort and he is dead; the second is a German professor, and he is in an asylum: and the third was myself - and I have forgotten it." - Lord Palmerston.

Ah.... that explains that one. I have to confess that I had totally miseed the connection and forgotten all about "Lord Pumice Stone".
Its' a funny world.... [COLOR="Navy"]Henry John Temple Atoll [/COLOR]would not really sound quite as romantic. (Jester)

NB. With the value of hindsight, I think we may all agree that emoticons do have their use... the printed word can often mislead and even offend; the odd (Jester) or even (EEK) works wonders....

Sorry for jumping to conclusions. I will delete the offending Post.

just out of curiosity her sistership D-181 was scrapped in Portugal

does anyone have any picture of her while being scrapped?