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The little yellow bit on the sand is actually a butterfly that kept hanging around us. Maybe it meant something, maybe it didn't.
SS Shieldhall, the largest remaining steam powered general cargo-passenger ship in the world, available for hire from the Solent Steam Packet Company.
Presidential Scholar Danny Zeng ’15. Zeng has also conducted research on the Gettysburg campus, primarily in chemistry Prof. Don Jameson’s lab.
Stars based on BAA VSS chart www.britastro.org/vss/ chart SS Cyg 1d 005 03R and the AAVSO VSP chart
On this SS Cyg looks to be about magnitude 11.9 (equal to comparison star N). Can easily see the 13.4 magnitude star.
Where the officers got to party and where the starving prisoners (mostly conscientious objectors) got to serve them.
At Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and Museum, in Oranienburg, Germany.
The SS Wyola was a steam tug built in 1912. It was dismantled at Robb Jetty in 1970 and part of its hull remains on the beach.
SS Mary & Michael, Mistley, Essex
To me the exterior is Victorian church building at its worst and very nearly made me write it off as a no hoper but when I ventured inside I was won over by the sheer exuberant vulgarity - as I've said before I'm worried that Victoriana bad taste is luring me to the dark side.
The font is hideous, the glass execrable, the pomp and circumstance laughable, the pulpit ludicrous, the rood screen tacky, the organ quite impressive but as a whole it's all really rather nice in a sort of spine juddering way.
Furnishings wise it's somewhat dull but does have very well maintained conjoined CWGC headstones to Walter and Stanley Sargent, who died in 1916 & 1920 respectively (I assume they're brothers) which I found incredibly moving, a memorial from the old church, erected in 1748, for Thomas Osmond who was a protestant martyr burnt at the stake under Mary in June 1555 and a modern day CWGC headstone which always makes you stop and think.