> On 19 Jun 2014, at 12:17, "Phil Pugliese (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 6/18/14, Postmark <xxxxxx@btinternet.com> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: Crews Quarters; was Re: [TML] Deck plans
> To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
> Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 11:43 PM
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> On 19 Jun 2014, at 01:07, Bruce
> Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU>
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>> On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml
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>>> So all that stuff about how most of the sterncastle
> was fitted out as a 'home-away-from-home' for the Capt. was
> bunk?
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>> Not so much bunk as it was also the officer’s dining
> room, map room and general office for the ship.
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> It is a nice "hammock" but still hanging between a pair of
> cannon.
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> http://www.hms-victory.com/things-to-see/great-cabin
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> Phil Kitching-----
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> Now that's more like it!
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> Thanks for the info, I'd never seen a 'swinging' cot before...
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Sorry, I should have thought of looking it up.  Victory is about 200
yards off the route I take to work each day and I don't know how many
times I've taken the tour as it used to be the standard thing we'd
show visitors to the area.

In fact on one occasion I nearly caused a bomb scare as a Swedish
friend I went to visit and he'd put the soda stream (gas) bottle I'd
just got refilled in his camera bag.  Foreign accent + gas cylinder +
what's still a commissioned warship got some people very excited.
(Not in a good way...)

But make an interesting Traveller incident...

It was also interesting to me that the tour changed over time as new
knowledge about history was discovered.  For example, when I was a kid
we were told the lower deck (below the waterline and thus no guns) was
painted red because it was used as a hospital in battle and the red
colour made the blood look like water.  Later research could find no
evidence that that was true so they stopped telling us it.

Sadly, I believe they've just stopped doing formal tours and you now
get a printed sheet that guides you round.  Although by now I could
probably do the tour myself.

The ob Trav is obvious, with a 'heritage' warship in system, or in
orbit, or on the ground that tourists can visit.  Locals joke it's
been renovated, refurbished and repaired so many times across three
centuries that none of the original ship remains.  Others tease
visitors about it being , technically, still an active warship which
could get recalled to duty in a crisis.  Meanwhile it's full of
interesting bits of history: very low deckheads (ceilings), an early
TLx plasma cannon, an old holotable (formally used for battle
planning) but which was also known to be punishment spot, a plaque on
the deck where the last, very famous, Captain 'fell'. (Cue lots of
jokes from tourists about anyone would fall over a plaque like
that...)

tc

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