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Charlie

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Historic Dutch Lifeboats on YouTube
« on: October 15, 2015, 11:03:48 pm »

If you like old Lifeboats, you will like this video :-))


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75EpOdZKlbY

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Re: Historic Dutch Lifeboats on YouTube
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2015, 10:02:25 am »

Hi video was great thanks for posting  Bill.....
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Re: Historic Dutch Lifeboats on YouTube
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2015, 10:45:08 am »

Thanks Charlie........some of the old ones....Brandaris, Den Helder & Dorus Rijkers have beautiful slow & lumpy engine idle sounds  :-))........unlike any medium speed diesel of current vintage .......Derek
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Re: Historic Dutch Lifeboats on YouTube
« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2015, 04:56:41 pm »

Thanks for posting  :-)) 
Derek they do sound nice like an old 2 pot petter.
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Re: Historic Dutch Lifeboats on YouTube
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2015, 03:56:15 pm »

Some still shots of some of the historic Dutch lifeboats based at Den Helder Museum, well worth a visit to this ex-Dutch Naval Base. Lots to see besides the lifeboat museum including a submarine and many other boats afloat.
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Re: Historic Dutch Lifeboats on YouTube
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2015, 04:15:41 pm »

Hi Arrow,
I have always wanted to visit the musem, but have never got around to it. And i was in Holland on holiday in the summer:(
They do have a website, which contains some interesting photos:
http://www.mrbjavazee.nl/informatie-over-de-boot
I love the hull shape of the old Javzee, it's a real 3d work of art...

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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2015, 04:40:11 pm »

Charlie, you have to back.  The double-decker train makes it easy to get to from Amsterdam, nice little town Den Helder too.  Highlight of museum is the steam engine with a push button to get it going (electric), silent engineering from the past.  A walk through the submarine is good too, nice guys to explain everything.  Nice tearoom with English-speaking lady.
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Re: Historic Dutch Lifeboats on YouTube
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2015, 08:20:41 pm »

A few years ago, a group of us from the lifeboat museum at Chatham went over and stayed a few days in Den Helder, visiting the KNRM museum (which was in the town then, rather than with the Naval museum as it is at the moment, I believe), then they took us out into the Waddenzee, in, I think, the Prins Hendrik, and one of the big jet boats. You can see why they strap in, when you do a crash stop from about 35 kts...


We also had a tour of the main KNRM headquarters in Ijmuiden and one of the stations running a Valentjn class (the same as they have at Caister now).


It was a really good trip.


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