The radius of action was about thirty feet.

The Navy Top Brass re-invents the wheel.

About time that the Navy ate humble pi.

The Captain's gone off at a tangent again!

In Trump's America, no one wanted to be associated with a trans-om or a double-ender.

It seems the PM asked about round numbers, and, well, you don't make it to Chief of Staff if you can't take a hint.

Little did Harland and Wolff know that they had invented the first robot vacuum cleaner.

Roomba Nautical Steampunk version.

Sea Trials

Section 3

Action 4(b): Shut down one engine and monitor performance




. . . what could possibly go wrong?

How’s the new ship design project going ?

Well I started right after you told me to “get round-to-it”

It will be called the “Tory Class” because it doesn’t know which way to go.

Twin 360-degree steam-powered radar-controlled howitzers are well in advance of the ship design...

Kenny manned the guns....

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bb7442c6f.jpeg

Come alongside? But we don’t have a side..

"Where's the Wheel-house?"

Bad news, the Government has announced we are to be retyred.

The Navy was recruiting internally for monitor crews, so they sent out a circular.

Kite string railings, Hoskins? Are you trying to kill people?

But sir, you said they should be a series of chords.

Those are actually the steering device. To turn left ... I mean to port, fire off the starboard one and vice versa





* Nothing new as the Navy has something weird about turning Port is called turning right because you move the wheel that way ... or something

anyway, back to the competition