Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: warspite on August 27, 2006, 01:46:17 pm
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Years ago, when observing the news of the landing of troops in Kuait for the 'gulf war par deux (it might have been the first one actually in Saudi), anyway i noticed them offloading challengers of an RFA paint ship, the difference was it looked like the embarkation ramp was on the stern and the vessel had it's stern up against the Quay, is my memory completely gone?
and if not any ideas what it may have been called, over at the liverpool museum they had a static model of the replacement for the atlantic conveyor which was sank in the Falklands, this had a ramp at the rear on the right at 45 degrees to allow for disembarking from the rear when the ship was along side a quay.
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The "Sir Belvedere" class do have a stern ramp and also a bow ramp. The ACL ships seen in Liverpool can only be loaded with wheeled cargo over the stern ramp; which is the reason they always berth starboard side to in Seaforth.
Regards,
Scouse.
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see slava class thread for picture of a USNS, exhaustive search on the BBC and ITV sites turned up nothing as yet, there was a reporter standing close by as they unloaded, and i will have to check them again for the last iraqi visit
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After looking at the RN photo gallery i saw the rear of sir gallahad, this appeared to be the boat i remembered, it looks easy enough to reproduce