SS Gairsoppa

[don1reed]

Who knew? One man's pig iron is another man's silver.

http://www.uboat.net/allies/merchants/765.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/18/ss-gairsoppa-shipwreck-38-million-silver_n_1683505.html#slide=1243165

[Sailor Steve]

Cool. I've read lots of interesting stories during the course of my Ship Names research, and this is a good one. Nice haul for the salvage company, and that's just a part of it.

Sad story about the "survivors", though.

[Tribesman]

Who knew? One man's pig iron is another man's silver.

But where is my grans cup of tea?

[don1reed]

I'm a retired mariner, I feel your pain. A cuppa would be perfect just about now.
cheers

[Jimbuna]

A small snippet of local history....she was built 5 miles from where I live and in a shipyard my late father worked in after the war.

[RickC Sniper]

Nice find, Don.

Good to see you around you old salt you. :ping:

[don1reed]

@jimbuna: It's amazing how that war is still touching our lives.

@Rick C: I surface now and again, as do you it seems, to gulp down some fresh air and to blow the stink off. lol.
We're leviathans, dotted with barnacles and scarred by the beaks of giant calamari; and worst of all, rusty around the scuppers.

How are the aches and pains? Like the young ladies of yesteryear, keepin' you up at night?

[Jimbuna]

@jimbuna: It's amazing how that war is still touching our lives.



True that but I fear we are the last generation to fully understand...if my two offspring are anything to go by.

[RickC Sniper]

How are the aches and pains? Like the young ladies of yesteryear, keepin' you up at night?

Indeed, every year I think I grow four years older.



True that but I fear we are the last generation to fully understand...if my two offspring are anything to go by.

Ditto that by my two, now in their late 30's.

[don1reed]

I hear that 70 is the new 50. Hogwash, I say, but I wouldn't mind having a shot of whatever it is they're drinking.

My lads are bumpin' up against 50 from the south side, none of their WWII vet relatives are with us any longer. Those vets and their wives were a great bunch. Their wisdom is sorely missed.

The news today out of Colorado was foul and rotten, I don't recognize this country anymore. Dumbfounded and bewildered, I remain a doddering old fool.

cheers

[u crank]

I hear that 70 is the new 50.

Best news I've heard in years. :haha:

The news today out of Colorado was foul and rotten, I don't recognize this country anymore.

Yeah, so hard to understand.

Dumbfounded and bewildered, I remain a doddering old fool.

You are not alone Sir.:salute:

[RickC Sniper]

I remain a doddering old fool.

cheers

I don't think so. I feel like the world has changed and perhaps I just don't fit in anymore.

My dad had 5 brothers and all but one served in WWII. There is only one of them still with us but his health is fading. I miss all of them, but I am grateful that I knew them.

[don1reed]

u crank;You are not alone Sir.:salute:

Howdy, u crank.

I donno, Rick, maybe it's time for our pod of cetaceans to blow ballast, to surface, and not be the silent generation any longer.

Maybe it's time to rise to the challenge rather than rise to the bait.

The scary part is living long enough to witness history beginning to repeat itself. It's like going to the 10 cent matinee movies on Saturday as a kid, long before all the megaplexes, where the movie is shown on an all day loop. The movie has already started when you enter the exhibition hall and you leave when one of your friends says, "This is where we came in."

I'm too lazy to look up the quote; perhaps it was Edmund Burke. Words to the effect:

"Evil exists because good men do nothing."

:salute: