That's a great picture, as Rob said "the end of an era" but I'm always amazed how they manoeuvred the big sailing ships in ports, harbours and docks...
Cheers Dobbs glad you like, made me look again and I notice some rigging missung from the Mars, so will fix.
As my namesake was Captain of said ship...
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Biography:
In naval terms there is not much to say about me really. My father was in the RNVR during WW2 and eventually got the command of an Algerine Class Fleet minesweeper, called "HMS Spanker"!!! Spent the last 12 months or so of the war, wandering around the Adriatic blowing things up. As for myself, the closest I have come to anything naval is reading about it and playing a few SoG games. But I'm working on that latter side of things :) I was born by the sea, in Dover Kent, if that counts and I did cross the equator twice, by ship, before I was five. To Australia and back. Being in the Sydney area obviously didn't work out too well for my parents, otherwise I would have ended up as an Australian instead of a British son of a sailor.
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