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Sharron | Report | 27 Jul 2017 18:04 |
There is an american aircraft carrier anchored in the Solent because she id too big to get into the dockyard. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Jul 2017 18:14 |
:-D :-D :-D |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 27 Jul 2017 18:16 |
Who is ferrying them ashore ? |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 27 Jul 2017 18:19 |
When I worked in Southsea, as a student, USS Wasp came into harbour |
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Caroline | Report | 27 Jul 2017 19:10 |
Sharon :-D :-D |
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RockyMountainShy | Report | 27 Jul 2017 19:45 |
Watch it! They might be invading! :-D That is how it starts, you know just a small bunch to get you unawares. ;-) |
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greyghost | Report | 27 Jul 2017 20:34 |
The USS George H W Bush (CVN-77) comes to the Solent as part of her European and Middle East deployment. USS George H W Bush is the tenth and final Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy. She is named for the 41st President of the United States and former Director of Central Intelligence. Commissioned in January 2009, her home port is NS Norfolk, Virginia. Her length is 333 metres and carries 90 fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 27 Jul 2017 20:46 |
When I worked in the dockyard in the 50s the whole place was always full of sailors, usually British but also sometimes French and all in uniform, quite a paradise for a teenage girl. |
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Sharron | Report | 27 Jul 2017 21:24 |
When I was in market research we once did a hall test (where you come in off the street to try a product or answer a questionnaire) in one particular Pompey pub that ostensibly offered bed and breakfast. |
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Caroline | Report | 27 Jul 2017 21:48 |
In Pompey...never!! :-D :-D |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Jul 2017 22:00 |
In the 1970's, when American ships came in, there were some 'interesting' parties in Warehouses around Southampton Docks :-S :-D |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Jul 2017 22:11 |
Actually, when the USS Enterprise came to Portsmouth, there were organised trips to the ship. |
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Sharron | Report | 27 Jul 2017 22:15 |
Not called 'maties' for nothing. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 27 Jul 2017 22:29 |
Lovely until you were driving around the city and happened to be near the dockyard gates when it was start of lunch break, couldn't see for cyclists!! |
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Caroline | Report | 27 Jul 2017 22:31 |
:-D :-D |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 27 Jul 2017 22:44 |
Ah, Ann I was one of them - at home time :-D |
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AnninGlos | Report | 28 Jul 2017 09:06 |
Probably after I had left (1961) though Maggie. OH failed his first driving test which was just around lunch time in Portsmouth, for not giving way to cyclists. I think I only cycled through the area once or twice but not amongst the dockyard exit. I actually only worked in the yard twice a week, the other three days I was at Cambridge Barracks opposite the NAAFI. But was always in the area of the yard as I caught the ferry from/to gosport twice a day. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 28 Jul 2017 09:52 |
1974 ish, I think, Ann. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 28 Jul 2017 10:06 |
Mmmm there were, think some of them may still be there. I was so young and innocent, and had my own sailor boy that I never went in them. Used to go in the NAAFI though, that was fun. |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 28 Jul 2017 10:55 |
There are only a handful of real pubs left in Portsmouth. There are at least two which don't even serve draft bitter. Thank God the Tricorn has gone. |
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