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Post by ss on Dec 9, 2006 20:10:48 GMT
Looks like a sailing ship, so maybe Plymouth, or wherever they dock the one they use in the races... Looks somewhat like the "Bounty" and they dock a lot of the "Tall Ships" in Belfast... But it is probably the Merseyside Museum....as Cleg said...
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 9, 2006 22:14:12 GMT
Very good observation, Cleg - and though there are more places in the world where traffic is reversed I'd be misleading you if I didn't concede that it is indeed within the UK.
No, not Liverpool - you'd really have to work it from the ship.
Same goes for SS - a big ship, yes - very big for its time actually, though it still is 'in service'. No, not Belfast,and it's not one to race either.
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Post by Alrik on Dec 9, 2006 23:10:07 GMT
I'd instantly say it's the "Gorch Fock" ?
Or the rebuild of one of the ships which sailed to what we call now "america" ?
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Post by cleglaw on Dec 10, 2006 1:44:38 GMT
There is a dry dock on the left with a steel gray ship. So we want a UK shipyard with a dry dock that might have military vessels. Could be Portsmouth, Barrow-in-Furness, possibly London--though I'm not sure if London is just a port or also builds ships. I have no idea as to the identity of the ship. It's not a submarine. It seems to have a number of longboats/lifeboats and a crane. The crane could be part of the building process though.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 10, 2006 10:13:16 GMT
Alrik is all wrong.
Sherlock Cleglaw has deduced the answer by exemplary attention to detail - it is indeed Portsmouth. You're looking at the (location of) the oldest still existing dry dock.
Now, as contrary to my expectation, nobody identified the sailing ship, I'll expand the question:
What ship is it? Its keel was laid in this very dock it is moored now.
You all know it, I'm sure - though maybe not what it is today. One of its characteristic design features is discernible
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Post by janggut on Dec 11, 2006 6:19:53 GMT
it does look like some kind of galley, Glance. reminds me of that movie, Master & Commander: The Far Side of The World. sorry i can't identify the ship. Ave Maria? @ Cleg -> i was just joking! i didn't know it was Kim Jong Il's!
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Dec 11, 2006 13:00:18 GMT
That wouldn't be the cutty sark in Greenwich London, England would it?
Please ignore this post, as I hadn't seen the next page.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 11, 2006 13:04:31 GMT
'Master & Commander' places it in about the right age. (And you mean 'Santa Maria' (?), a replica of which is moored in Barcelona).
But it seems indeed that I'm expecting too much - and none of the 'Limeys' here even tried - disappointing, you should all go down to Portsmouth and visit:
- the flagship of the Commander in Chief of the Naval Home Command, (CinCNavHome) who serves as Her Majesty's Second Sea Lord; - the only ship of the line still in existence; - the oldest warship still in commission (the oldest one afloat being USS Constitution, the 'Old Ironsides', which is some 30 years younger),
HMS Victory (Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar.) {The characteristic design feature is the beige stripes interrupted by the black gun ports, which form the 'Nelson chequer', a design which later became a standard in commemoration of Nelson}
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 11, 2006 14:25:33 GMT
What palace is this? (Tip: think Cleglaw )
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Post by cleglaw on Dec 11, 2006 16:15:16 GMT
Versailles?
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 11, 2006 16:28:05 GMT
Now why would I say your name as hint?
Versailles? NO! ;D
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Post by Ubereil on Dec 11, 2006 16:40:08 GMT
The Tower of London? Übereil
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Post by cleglaw on Dec 11, 2006 16:51:48 GMT
Now why would I say your name as hint? Versailles? NO! ;D Clegville Palace The palace of the Duke of Cleglaw Walgelc Palace Cleggan Palace Cleglaw's Tooth Cleglaw's Pincers Cleglaw's Brace Cleglaw's Claw
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 11, 2006 17:00:20 GMT
;D - the relation is not as direct to your name as you may think. Just your name would have been too simple And No, it's not the Tower of London either.
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Post by cleglaw on Dec 11, 2006 17:31:25 GMT
The Grand Palace
The Old Palace
The Best Palace in the Whole World
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Post by Galadriel on Dec 11, 2006 17:33:36 GMT
Buckingham Palace? That explains the Clegglaw hint ;D
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 11, 2006 18:54:10 GMT
@ Cleg: No, No and No
@ Kylia: No (How so?)
(Maybe I shouldn't have said 'think Cleglaw' but 'look Cleglaw')
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Post by cleglaw on Dec 11, 2006 19:31:38 GMT
It is alongside a river and has a European feel to it. The lawns are well manicured. On the left there appears to be an configuration of plantings which suggest rays of the sun emanating from the palace. Louis XIV was known as the Sun King; so perhaps it is his palace though I do not know the name of it.
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Post by Ubereil on Dec 11, 2006 19:53:02 GMT
Is it the Louvre?
Übereil
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Dec 11, 2006 23:15:31 GMT
Bingo! Cleg's avatar is the Mona Lisa, and the original painting is displayed in - the Louvre in Paris! Grats Übereil! The Gardens to the left are the Tuileries - Louis XIV did indeed reside in the Louvre at the beginning of his reign, as did his predecessors, but THE castle of Louis XIV is Versailles.
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