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Nothing much under 100 years old in general, apart from the obvious like the Migatronic etc..
Smells great as well
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Nothing much under 100 years old in general, apart from the obvious like the Migatronic etc..
Smells great as well
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Struggling with the computer here guys, being, like Paddington, 'a bear of very little brain', bur hopehully the system will let me show a few more!
The mine is real, and I asked one of the old timers if it still contained the 400 kilos of TNT (trinitrotoluene) and he sprang back, and shouted Yes of course it does, dont even think about touching it
The mine is real, and I asked one of the old timers if it still contained the 400 kilos of TNT (trinitrotoluene) and he sprang back, and shouted Yes of course it does, dont even think about touching it
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Apologies for 3 shots of someones' tool box, the technology is fighting me today..
Norway is amazing, astonishing and incredible, when they get to trust you.
Hopefully i can get some piccies of a very old blacksmiths's shop, I have worked up a bit of friendship with his old dad.
Ive seen it, massive steam hammers and all the trimmings.. but didnt have my camera. Fingers crossed.
Norway is amazing, astonishing and incredible, when they get to trust you.
Hopefully i can get some piccies of a very old blacksmiths's shop, I have worked up a bit of friendship with his old dad.
Ive seen it, massive steam hammers and all the trimmings.. but didnt have my camera. Fingers crossed.
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I have family in Denmark, they have a similar Viking boatyard / meuseum nearby at Roskilde, well worth a look if you're nearby. They also hold a HUGE classic car meeting there (moybe once a month in the Summer)
https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/visit-the-museum/living-museum/
https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/visit-the-museum/living-museum/
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Yes it's left over from WW2 and everybody says it still contains 100's of kilos of TNT ( or the German equivalent at the time), I stood by it for several minutes, daring myself to give one of the horns a good kick, to prove them wrong.. but I bottled it and left well alone, not worth the risk that it really is still live
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Wow that looks amazing! It is one of my ambitions to blag a sail on a Viking longship, there are a few kicking about, replicas but very true to the originals, and one even made it to the US.
The berths tend to be allocated to local guys though, usually youngish and on the extremely large side of mahoosive, as oars are still used..
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There are a lot of mines, both British and German, around the coast of Norway. All of which are still lethal.
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Yes I bet there are Carl. Lots of perfectly sited German bunkers, and gun emplacements remain as well, all the harbour approaches were well covered. I have sometimes been lucky enough to chat to local old guys, and they have very bitter memories about the war. I was working on a yacht in Trondheim last December, and the yacht repair yard was in an old U-boat pen!
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I was in Hammerfest a few years ago. There are very bitter memories of the war there. There is a memorial. the Germans killed most of the town as a reprisal for Norwegian partisan actions, which were supported and assisted by British SOE operatives.
I work with ROV's and once discovered a mine off the coast of Norway. It was a British anti submarine mine. At the time we didn't know what it was. It was recovered to the back deck of another ship by another ROV. The Royal Norwegian Navy expert took one look at it and told them to push it back over the side. It was later blown up by the Royal Norwegian Navy.
I work with ROV's and once discovered a mine off the coast of Norway. It was a British anti submarine mine. At the time we didn't know what it was. It was recovered to the back deck of another ship by another ROV. The Royal Norwegian Navy expert took one look at it and told them to push it back over the side. It was later blown up by the Royal Norwegian Navy.
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Blimey, I've just remembered there's some rust that urgently needs chipping, it's right up the bows..
Joking aside, the aged gents have explained that back in those days, Norway was a poor and tough country; fishing, hunting, plus rock and timber export was literally all that was going down. A bit of farming, but a real scrabble just to keep a cow alive through a harsh winter.
The German occupation was actually seen as a blessing by half-starved, cash-strapped locals in some cases, which caused great division in society.
I didnt know that about Hammerfest, dreadful.
I've slightly fallen in love with the place..
Are you sure its German....we mined most of the Norwegian coast to try to stop the Germans occupying Norway.
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Plus a lot of smaller British mines were there to catch German submarines coming out of Fjords. The ones that didn't hit the mines were done for by Mosquitos from RAF stations in Moray.
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Good point.. by eerie coincidence I'm just listening to " The Gathering Storm" on Audible, and Winnie makes you right
I'll have a butchers later, I just assumed it was German. In fact I would be chuffed if it was one of ours!
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An interesting place, having been over there sailing a few times in the fjords, its quite understandable how they used to hide ships in them. You can pass almost touching the rocks the sides are so steep, absolutley fantasitc scenery.
They are fiercy proud people and very proud of their marine heritage, many actually commute to work by boat.
They are fiercy proud people and very proud of their marine heritage, many actually commute to work by boat.
