HMS DOLPHIN (and other places) - back in time.

[BillyNoMates]

A well-old picture, just trawled up from the www. Boats all over
the trots.

 

[BreathingOutOnTheWayUp]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

A well-old picture, just trawled up from the www. Boats all over
the trots.

Hi Steve/Billy,

Great Pic and it tells quite a story:

All neatly lined up by Numbers - Shore lines already off - Low tide (springs?) - Casings & Fins all manned ready to slip & proceed; against an incoming tide!
Not a harbour tug in view - I guess FOSM/Squadron Staff would have been watching like hawks....

Potential for many points to be lost or gained that day.

I reckon they would probably have the original Phot at the RN S/M Museum but it would be nice to know when it was taken:

mid twenties - early Thirties anybody?

 

[R12_CV]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Great pic. Love the variation of painted Pennant No's

It was taken before 1922.
The square rigger in the background (left) has got to the Victory. She was sat in Pompey harbour until '22 when she was moved into No2 Dry Dock

 

[trelawney126]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Great pic. Love the variation of painted Pennant No's

It was taken before 1922.
The square rigger in the background (left) has got to the Victory. She was sat in Pompey harbour until '22 when she was moved into No2 Dry Dock

Fantastic. I did enjoy seeing the picture of "WreckerL" on the fin of No.25

 

[NorwayChris]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Thanks for that pic,its brill, 8)

 

[Polycell]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Long time before 1922. Look like late A class

 

[BillyNoMates]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Have a browse through this list. There's a number of
old images of dockyards (Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Malta,
Plymouth-Devonport and Gosport-Dolphin). Loads of
other stuff that may be of interest to some. I'm bored
and have a 14 Hour Night-Shift to fill. Happy Sunday!

Here's another of a bunch of boats in Gibraltar, when there
was a 2nd Submarine Squadron based there I presume. The
depot ship might have been HMS FORTH? Answers please on
a £20 note to BillyNoMates c/o RumRation, The Web, England.

http://www.photoship.co.uk/Gallery Links/PHP.htm

 

[trelawney126]

Many thanks Billy, Some good phots there

 

[Joe_Crow]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Great pic. Love the variation of painted Pennant No's

It was taken before 1922.
The square rigger in the background (left) has got to the Victory. She was sat in Pompey harbour until '22 when she was moved into No2 Dry Dock

Are you sure that it's not TS Foudroyant? I don't know where Victory was parked in Pompey, but that is pretty much where I remember Foudroyant being.

 

[Polycell]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Great pic. Love the variation of painted Pennant No's

It was taken before 1922.
The square rigger in the background (left) has got to the Victory. She was sat in Pompey harbour until '22 when she was moved into No2 Dry Dock

Are you sure that it's not TS Foudroyant? I don't know where Victory was parked in Pompey, but that is pretty much where I remember Foudroyant being.

20/20 vision a Jim!!! Victory is to the left of what you reckon is Foudroyant(which ain't Foudroyant!).
BUFFS!!

 

[Joe_Crow]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Great pic. Love the variation of painted Pennant No's

It was taken before 1922.
The square rigger in the background (left) has got to the Victory. She was sat in Pompey harbour until '22 when she was moved into No2 Dry Dock

Are you sure that it's not TS Foudroyant? I don't know where Victory was parked in Pompey, but that is pretty much where I remember Foudroyant being.

20/20 vision a Jim!!! Victory is to the left of what you reckon is Foudroyant(which ain't Foudroyant!).
BUFFS!!

I think you think I was referring to the COSAS (Combined Steam and Sail) vessel above the fins of 46, 24, 47, 48, & 25 whereas I was referring to the three-master above the fin of 26. Foudroyant AKA Trincomalee was a three-master IIRC. Look before you leap.

 

[janner]

30 - 15

 

[WreckerL]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Great pic. Love the variation of painted Pennant No's

It was taken before 1922.
The square rigger in the background (left) has got to the Victory. She was sat in Pompey harbour until '22 when she was moved into No2 Dry Dock

Fantastic. I did enjoy seeing the picture of "WreckerL" on the fin of No.25

I was looking for you, you [email protected] Gimme me feckin' Steamin' bats back :twisted:

Edited to add ther's a few on here as well

http://www.oldships.org.uk/default.htm

 

[R12_CV]

The COSAS vessel is the Warrior (used for storing etc)
The vessel to its' left, tower's over the other mast's there (inc Trincomalee/Foudroyant if present). IF the Victory were in Dry Dock 2 (post '22) she would be visible close to Semaphore Tower. Not so!

 

[lsadirty]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Have a browse through this list. There's a number of
old images of dockyards (Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Malta,
Plymouth-Devonport and Gosport-Dolphin). Loads of
other stuff that may be of interest to some. I'm bored
and have a 14 Hour Night-Shift to fill. Happy Sunday!

Here's another of a bunch of boats in Gibraltar, when there
was a 2nd Submarine Squadron based there I presume. The
depot ship might have been HMS FORTH? Answers please on
a £20 note to BillyNoMates c/o RumRation, The Web, England.

http://www.photoship.co.uk/Gallery Links/PHP.htm

Think it's MAIDSTONE, FORTH had a bigger well deck. Next ship astern is TYNE, which served as Home Fleet flagship before becoming part of ORION (Reserve Fleet, Guzz).

 

[Polycell]

Re: HMS DOLPHIN - back in time.

Great pic. Love the variation of painted Pennant No's

It was taken before 1922.
The square rigger in the background (left) has got to the Victory. She was sat in Pompey harbour until '22 when she was moved into No2 Dry Dock

Are you sure that it's not TS Foudroyant? I don't know where Victory was parked in Pompey, but that is pretty much where I remember Foudroyant being.

20/20 vision a Jim!!! Victory is to the left of what you reckon is Foudroyant(which ain't Foudroyant!).
BUFFS!!

I think you think I was referring to the COSAS (Combined Steam and Sail) vessel above the fins of 46, 24, 47, 48, & 25 whereas I was referring to the three-master above the fin of 26. Foudroyant AKA Trincomalee was a three-master IIRC. Look before you leap.

As this photo was well before 1922 and Tricomalee aka Foudoyant didn't arrive in Pompey until 1932 it can hardly by Foudroyant and when she did arrive in Pompey she only had one mast.

 

[BreathingOutOnTheWayUp]

A well-old picture, just trawled up from the www. Boats all over
the trots.

There’s More……..

At the left of the of the picture (between/above S/Ms 28 & 29) can be seen the old chain ferry/floating bridge: More pictures and history of Gosport Ferries at:

http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/PortsmouthHFC.html#anchor35379

(incidentally, some of these ancient ferry photos also show the old raised railway running across Portsmouth Hard from the present station to South ‘Railway’ Jetty)

The chain ferry floating bridge service, between Gosport & Old Portsmouth Point, operated between 1840 & 1959, and local legend has it that the old chains snagged HMS VANGUARD whilst she was being towed away to Faslane shipbreakers for scrap in 1960.

Whatever the cause, she swung fully round and across the harbour, with her bows almost ashore at the Still & West pub in Old Portsmouth, and she blocked the whole harbour entrance off until the tugs finally took charge again…..There has got to be a good set of photos somewhere?


Straying a bit off-topic, but HMS VANGUARD was an ‘Old Ships’ of mine; even if it was only for a week’s SCC course before I entered the Andrew in 1960. So, although a SOF/OAP, I am entitled to spin a true dit about ‘my battleship time’ when the grandbrats become old enough to become interested in/bored by our last British Battleship!)

 

[pompeymick]

Can confirm it is HMS Victory, have seen the photo before and caused the same differences of opinion as is happening here also alongside South Railway Jetty is the old Victoria and Albert the old Royal Yacht.

 

[BillyNoMates]

Seeing as we've swerved away from it being purely
"submariner" type-stuff - here's a link to some
historical plans of RN Base Ports:-

http://www.gwpda.org/naval/dkbk0000.htm

Main site appertaining to WW 1 :-

http://www.gwpda.org/

 

[oberon]

Whatever the cause, she swung fully round and across the harbour, with her bows almost ashore at the Still & West pub in Old Portsmouth, and she blocked the whole harbour entrance off until the tugs finally took charge again…..There has got to be a good set of photos somewhere?

There was - still is? - a couple of pictures on the walls of the "Still & West" of Vanguard's bow towering over the pub.