To: BykrBayb
'HMS Tireless'. Did previous British subs have tires?
2 posted on
04/20/2004 11:42:31 AM PDT by
Lee Heggy
(When truth and logic fail high explosives are applicable.)
To: Lee Heggy
Yes, the most famous one was HMS Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
3 posted on
04/20/2004 11:45:17 AM PDT by
BykrBayb
(5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 a.m. EDT, until she's safe.)
To: Lee Heggy
Tires? Dunno - but they now use that special aluminIum alloy - supposedly the extra "i" makes the hull stronger! ;-)
4 posted on
04/20/2004 11:54:56 AM PDT by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Lee Heggy
'HMS Tireless'. Did previous British subs have tires?
Small problem, over here we spell properly, and tire is a verb. Tyres are the rubber things one puts on one's car wheels.
The Royal Navy tends to give the ships of each class names beginning with the same letter (though not universally, we are British, and therefore complete uniformity does not go down well); and usually a suitably 'uplifting' name, so some Naval chap had to think up an array of suitable names beginning with 'T' and thought of Tireless.
5 posted on
04/20/2004 12:14:27 PM PDT by
tjwmason
(A voice from Merry England.)
To: Lee Heggy
The Brits spell it, tyres. :)
9 posted on
04/20/2004 12:20:03 PM PDT by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: Lee Heggy
The UK sold a couple of used subs to Canada two or three years ago. Buyer's remorse. The big selling feature were the leaks that created a hockey rink.
I guess the Canadians thought they could try to compete with Russia's Kursk, which had a sauna and swimming pool.
Anyway, the leaks were more than they bargained for, and all the hockey sticks were put to use as levers on valves, or
otherwise employed in stopping leaks.
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