Correct.

https://www.merseyferries.co.uk/about/u-boat-story/

Where In the world?

"Nimitz"

https://im-a-puzzle.com/share/f48a65438625ea2.jpeg

#642 - Kiel, again.

Correct....again.

:)

Identify the ship.....

If I dont win one soon Im picking up my marbles and go elsewhere to play, Sparkie, how much of a BACKHANDER do you need to slip me a couple of answers.

Stick with John, it keeps the brain active..
It took me a bit of looking, mainly in the wrong place, to find this…

#646 - SS Norway, boiler explosion in Miami 25th May 2003.

Yes it does Mal, thats why the crooked side of my brain is asking about the BACKHANDER.

Correct Malcolm.
Quite a useful ship.

:)

Sorry John.
Only Democrats in Sparkies Government.

:)

A ship with a famous name.
Which is?

HMY Victoria and Albert

Not so.

:)

Another view....

That looks like the 'Hood entrance' to Portland harbour.
So that would make it HMS Hood (The one before the famous one)

HMS Hood.

Correct.

Identify the ship.......

Maybe HMS Ivanhoe.


Ton

A major seaport to identify......

Maybe HMS Ivanhoe.

.....maybe not.

:)

#660 - I see a Russian flag or two, I see Brutalski architecture.

So I will kick off with the obvious Saint Petersburg.

Saint Petersburg"

Incorrect

#660
Odessa???????

Second bear trap in two days ,John.

Not so.

Apologies if the yellow and blue street sign confused.

Totally unintended.

:)

Another view of the same city.....

#660 - #665 - That's the Light House memorial in Murmansk. With a Kursk connection?

This connection?

Murmansk.

Correct.

:)

#660......

https://balticlivecam.com/cameras/ru...orners-square/

Same location.

Where in North America?

With you interest in subs, it had to be there somewhere. :thumb:

Few lads who grew up in Barrow who didn't have an interest in submarines.......:)

#658 answer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Isis_(D87)

What was the significance of her aft funnel markings in #658???

Overnight tough puzzle......

"Harder Cardboard"

https://im-a-puzzle.com/share/6a4713692903e72.jpeg

On that ship they are 'Flotilla bands' to denote number of flotilla.
They used a code of colours, or none, but JFS does not tell me what 3 black bands were.

Bands on fwd funnel would be used to show Flotilla Leaders and Divisional Commanders.
JFS does tell me that Home Fleet were white; Med Fleet, red or black; China, black.

HMS Isis is wearing three black bands on her after funnel, indicating that she's a member of the Third Destroyer Flotilla.

Well, it looks like Vancouver

Further to my #673 I have now consulted Wiki which gives the following:

The flotillas wore combinations of bands on their after funnel to identify them. From 1925 the following bands were worn;

• 1st Destroyer Flotilla — one black band
• 2nd Destroyer Flotilla — two black bands (one red from 1935)
• 3rd Destroyer Flotilla — three black bands
• 4th Destroyer Flotilla — no bands
• 5th Destroyer Flotilla — one white band
• 6th Destroyer Flotilla — two white bands
• 8th Destroyer Flotilla (from 1935) — one black and one white band

"Vancouver"

Really?

:)

Thanks for the "Parade of the Bands" .... Malcolm.

We'll go along with that.

:)

#669 - Close Nick - It is Seattle.
Rgds.
Dave

"No parking"

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