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tonyH

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Where is it now?
« on: June 25, 2019, 07:45:48 pm »

Has anyone seen a real one of these?I could have sworn that I'd seen one of these in the flesh in a museum somewhere. I thought it was in one of the exhibitions at Bamburgh castle in Northumbria but it seems that I was wrong so has anyone seen a real Sutton-Armstrong bomb thrower anywhere?PLEEEEEZE prove I'm not totally senile!
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Re: Where is it now?
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2019, 07:59:19 pm »

Christ almighty that’s one beast of a weapon! :o
The only place that might have one I can think of is Gosport...maybe.
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Re: Where is it now?
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2019, 08:20:26 pm »

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Re: Where is it now?
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2019, 08:33:08 pm »

Yes!
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Re: Where is it now?
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2019, 08:41:16 pm »

Thought I recognised the name! I had a feeling she was a Q-ship.
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Re: Where is it now?
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2019, 09:44:07 pm »

She carried four of them!

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Re: Where is it now?
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2019, 05:14:52 pm »

If you look on my site , in the Portfolio section you will see Hydrabad  a Q ship  carrying these bomb throwers. I restored this ship for the IWM
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Re: Where is it now?
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2019, 06:56:52 pm »

Thanks John,
I'd been thinking of modelling the Hyderabad for r/c but unless I cheated and added depth to the hull the stability would have been very dodgy to say the least! Luckily, there are other vessels, such as Vindictive, that carried either the same weapon or the 7.5" howitzer.
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PS Of course age plays tricks with the memory but.......................!PPS Your model of H is rather nice as usual!!
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