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Open invitation to all bootnecks and tars
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 12:44 am
by 1812USMarine
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
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 12:58 am
by Sticky Blue
Thanks for the invite... I only wish I was there to take you up on it!
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:06 am
by 1812USMarine
Not to worry, mate - she'll be around another 205 years; myself, about half that. We'll wait for ya!
JD
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:30 am
by Mike
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
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:36 am
by Artist
1812 USmarine
MIke had two's up after Hardy!
Aye Artist
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 8:45 am
by barryc
Does that make Mike a necrophiliac or methodist or what? Oh what a gay day.
Barry
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 9:35 am
by El Prez
That's a very kind offer 1812, thanks. Please send your credit card details and Nurse and I will be over ASAP.
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 10:52 am
by Contractor
What about the pongo's? (promise to bathe first - honest)
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 12:26 pm
by barryc
Now now Contractor don't make promises you know you won't keep
Barry
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:02 pm
by Contractor
Would plan the visit around my normal Wednesday bathing schedule, so cleanliness guaranteed.
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:11 pm
by Artist
Contracter
Better than once a month then.
Aye Artist
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:29 pm
by Contractor
Grrrrrrrrrr!
I have a feeling this thread is going to be all incoming
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 1:52 pm
by 1812USMarine
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.
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 2:02 pm
by 1812USMarine
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
Posted: Fri 20 Jun, 2003 2:31 pm
by Contractor
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.
