Originally Posted by britmog
Originally Posted by +8Rich
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These wooden MOW are such fabulous builds - I shall never forget our trip over The Victory in Pompey and having read all C S Forrester's Hornblower books it really all gelled together, the ex RN guide was brilliant in his delivery thumbs.

John was onboard when they had to take Britannia up to Noss to turn her around he said it went pretty quiet on the bridge at the time..
It made a nice change for him after his tour on Broadsword as No2 in the Falklands though, he had some great experiences we were lucky to share with him including personal photos of Etendard's coming through below mast height..


Here is a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB3cdsQC1Hc of the firing sequence for the Cannon on HMS Victory and about halfway through the video a rolling broadside. During the Battle of Trafalgar when Victory broke the line and engaged her first target she fired a Port and a Starboard broadside and then rolling broadsides as targets came to bear in the space of 30 minutes, imagine the intensity of that at close quarters. The third Britannia (not the one in the picture) was sixth in Nelson's line at Trafalgar suffering light damage and casualties. When the Migs made the "run of death" down San Carlos sound and dropped their bombs they fired their cannons blindly at us on the beachhead to lessen their weight to try and out run the Rapier Batteries as they rose over the headland.

Thanks for that - what a sound and brute power it must have been an incredible noise and frightening sight to be on the wrong end of, I'll bet they were all hard of hearing after one of those volleys.

That was a nice parting shot from them, dangerous old times John said their pilots would drop the bombs and come round again, so much for the jingoistic propaganda we got fed with back here.

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