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Discuss Diamond Jubilee: The Queen no longer rules the waves in Current Affairs on Navy Net; From 165 RN warships 60 years ago reduced to one single destroyer HMS Diamond in 2012 the decrease of ships in HM Royal Navy brings tears to the eyes of an old stoker like me. ...
  1. 02-06-12, 07:15 #1
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    Diamond Jubilee: The Queen no longer rules the waves

    From 165 RN warships 60 years ago reduced to one single destroyer HMS Diamond in 2012 the decrease of ships in HM Royal Navy brings tears to the eyes of an old stoker like me.

    For mile upon mile they stretched, their flag-bedecked ranks receding into the haze. The ships of the Royal Navy, 165 of them, drawn up at Spithead on June 26 1897 to mark the diamond jubilee of Victoria, for 60 years Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and her dominions beyond the seas, and, since 1876, Empress of India.


    Diamond Jubilee: The Queen no longer rules the waves - Telegraph

    Diamond Jubilee: A 21-Gun Salute By HMS Diamond Starts Off The Celebrations With A Bang | UK News | Sky News
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    SPITHEAD REVIEW 1953 - British Pathé

    Seaweed wuz there (as a schoolboy).
    Edmund Burke: 'Wars may be deferred .. but they cannot be wholly avoided .. to purchase present quiet, at the price of future security, is .. a cowardice of the most base and degrading nature."

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    1897 is more than 60 years ago.
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    You there Granny? Number four from the right looks like he might be suffering from the night before,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seaweed View Post
    SPITHEAD REVIEW 1953 - British Pathé

    Seaweed wuz there (as a schoolboy).
    Granny wasn't, he was parading on Limassol sea front on Coronation Day 1953.
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    Looks like the 'bug' is back. This is my 5th try.
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    Not wishing to appear pedantic, but wasn’t it the Royal Navy that ruled the waves, not Liz Windsor?
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