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28-05-2006, 03:06 PM
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 | What our MM's & RN went through Check out these photos of a current Canadian Coast Guard vessel on search and rescue in Arctic waters. Imagine how hard our Merchant Mariners's & RN etc did it during WW2 with none of the home comforts that are available now. http://tv-antenna.com/canadian-ice/ There are also some High Seas photos which would surely make me sick....how about you?
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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28-05-2006, 10:38 PM
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28-05-2006, 10:42 PM
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| Like you say no creature comforts going on a two/three week or longer voyage - no choppers or rescue vessels. No GPS or distress beacons, and the other consideration that you had somebody trying to sink you by torpedo or shell. |
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29-05-2006, 06:35 AM
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| Their thermal all in ones wouldn't be too far away from the comedic quartet.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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29-05-2006, 07:09 AM
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Take out the wind chill factor and you could be in Blackpool.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | ||
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29-05-2006, 06:52 PM
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| You've hit it on the button with the wind factor. Humans can survive in temperatures below zero. Wind chill can lower the temperature by 10's of degrees. Water is a twenty five times more efficient conductor of heat - hence you could stand on the ship - in the polar seas minutes. Both wind chill and cold water drain the body heat. |
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29-05-2006, 08:07 PM
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Those pictures are impressive. I know a lad who was a naval gunner on convoy PQ17. I think he suffered worse than that. | |
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