History Challenge & Journal

[dtaai-maai]

1984, but not Orson Wells.

[Big Boy]

While we're waiting for someone to get the above, can anyone tell me the name and fate of this UK Royal Navy vessel?

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HMS Amethyst - escape from the Yangtze River?

[Jimbob]

Cold War? I believe it was Eric Blair or his better half G. Orwell. A beautiful maker of prose and quotes such as People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Napolean had a cold war once

[dtaai-maai]

Cold War? I believe it was Eric Blair or his better half G. Orwell.

Correct.

[dtaai-maai]

HMS Amethyst - escape from the Yangtze River?

Commissioned about the same time, but no. Coincidentally, the ship in question has a geographical connection with you, BB - I'd be surprised if you hadn't gone fishing in it at some point...

[Big Boy]

Commissioned about the same time, but no. Coincidentally, the ship in question has a geographical connection with you, BB - I'd be surprised if you hadn't gone fishing in it at some point...

I'm usually good with RN Ships, but I'm struggling. I think your 'clue' hasn't helped - I've thought of the obvious like HMS Tamar, but of course, that was a stone frigate, now with the Chinese.

Am I right thinking it is a corvette, and not flower class?

[dtaai-maai]

It was a frigate, and you're thinking along the right lines with the Tamar.

[Big Boy]

Hmmm...... Interesting, I've always taken a ship's ID number starting with a K to be a corvette. OK, I had to Google it, so am I allowed to give the answer?

[dtaai-maai]

yup, this was always going to be a google question.

[Big Boy]

OK, HMS Plym, destroyed as part of Operation Hurricane whilst being used as the detonation platform for the UK's first nuclear weapon in Operation Hurricane.

Although data acquisition would have been simplified by detonating the bomb from a tower above the ground or sea surface, it was conducted aboard the Plym in order to simulate the effects of a nuclear weapon being smuggled into a British harbour aboard a ship, which was considered a real possibility at the time.

Source: Wikipedia

[dtaai-maai]

Born of Nobility and Hope,
I've been the subject of a play and an award-winning film.
Science fiction owes a lot to me.
A lover, a fighter and a writer.

Who am I?


You may, of course, use Google.

[richard]

Arthur C Clarke

[dtaai-maai]

Nope

[pdm3547]

Born of Nobility and Hope,
I've been the subject of a play and an award-winning film.
Science fiction owes a lot to me.
A lover, a fighter and a writer.

Who am I?


You may, of course, use Google.

Philip K Dick?

[pdm3547]

Or Carl Sagan?