Open invitation to all bootnecks and tars

1812USMarine · Post by **1812USMarine** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 12:44 am

If any of y'all are planning to come around and visit your lost province of Massachusetts-Bay this summer or fall, please let me know. I'll try and arrange for myself or a fellow 1812 Marine to meet ya and give you a special tour of the finest frigate man and nature have ever built. Hell, I'll even throw in a trip to the site of the only battle y'all won on New England soil, Bunker Hill.

Independantly yours,
JD

Sticky Blue · Post by **Sticky Blue** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 12:58 am

Thanks for the invite... I only wish I was there to take you up on it!

1812USMarine · Post by **1812USMarine** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:06 am

Not to worry, mate - she'll be around another 205 years; myself, about half that. We'll wait for ya!

JD

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:30 am

205 years ago?....... was that when your history started? I thought it was much later than that....... OOps sorry, Just Little old me being rude again.
In Portsmouth, Hampshire UK. There is a wooden First Rate Ship of the Line laid down in 1759, HMS Victory.
In 1805 she saw the battle of Trafalgar out, with Nelson, that would be Admiral Lord Nelson on board, and I know its hard to believe, She is still in Commission today, being the oldest Flag Ship in the world.....check out this URL http://www.hms-victory.com/
Now that, is History.

Further to this little bit of information, although not quite as old as the ship herself, there are, on this forum, a number of us who have had the privilege to have served on her
Aye

Artist · Post by **Artist** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:36 am

1812 USmarine

MIke had two's up after Hardy!

Aye Artist

barryc · Post by **barryc** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 8:45 am

Does that make Mike a necrophiliac or methodist or what? Oh what a gay day.

Barry

El Prez · Post by **El Prez** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 9:35 am

That's a very kind offer 1812, thanks. Please send your credit card details and Nurse and I will be over ASAP.

Contractor · Post by **Contractor** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 10:52 am

What about the pongo's? (promise to bathe first - honest)

barryc · Post by **barryc** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 12:26 pm

Now now Contractor don't make promises you know you won't keep

Barry

Contractor · Post by **Contractor** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:02 pm

Would plan the visit around my normal Wednesday bathing schedule, so cleanliness guaranteed.

Artist · Post by **Artist** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:11 pm

Contracter

Better than once a month then.

Aye Artist

Contractor · Post by **Contractor** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:29 pm

Grrrrrrrrrr!

I have a feeling this thread is going to be all incoming

1812USMarine · Post by **1812USMarine** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:52 pm

Forgive an ignorant colonial, but what the hell is a "pongo"?? Is that one of them rare zebra-striped African asses they just discovered? Or is that a bongo?? Whatever, help me out here.

1812USMarine · Post by **1812USMarine** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 2:02 pm

Mike: Aye, Victory is older, but mine can still make 3.5 kts. under sail!!!

Anyway, cheers to all who served on HMS Victory, the oldest commissioned warship in the world. (Our sailors and Marines do note this fact to the public on every tour.)

Sorry, mate, my DisneyWorld credit card won't get you and Nursie very far.

JD

Contractor · Post by **Contractor** » Fri 20 Jun, 2003 2:31 pm

Is that one of them rare zebra-striped African asses they just discovered

Close friend, close, but no banana.

'Pongo' is what those uncouth ruffians of Her Majesty's Royal Marines call us wonderful Army chaps.

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