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Post subject: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 5:25 pm
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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 10:39 pm
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Good god!!! These two vessels were so obscure, I thought nobody had heard of them.
Read once that they were named after lord Mountbatten daughters?

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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 10:43 pm
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Where`s the Union Jack? Surely one of the kings ship must fly the ensign.
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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 11:16 pm
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Were these the boats that were built in Burma by the Royal Engineers?

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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 11:25 pm
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Updated!

Not too obscure - they're in Jane's!
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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 11:26 pm
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Now all we need is Lord Nelson on the weather deck commanding the Royal Navy to ever lasting victory.
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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 11:29 pm
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Commissioning pennant added (before it was removed by a show-off Dakota pilot) plus a mistake with the "funnels" fixed!
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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 11:42 pm
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I rather like that. 8-)
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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 11:46 pm
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Novice wrote:
Good god!!! These two vessels were so obscure, I thought nobody had heard of them.
Read once that they were named after lord Mountbatten daughters?
Pamela was named for Lord Mountbatten's daughter. Una was named for General Slim's!
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Post subject: Re: For Royal Navy fans!Posted: February 27th, 2012, 11:46 pm
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If these are the boats built in Burma, they are mentioned quite a few times in The Unforgettable Army (by Michael Hickey), an account of Slim's XIVth Army in Burma during the war. Excellent reading.

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