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Operation Pluto (Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean) was a Second World War operation by British engineers, oil companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France in support of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
A few metres behind those windows can be found the full size TGB lifeboat on permanent display in the Scottish Maritime Museum.
The steering wheel is made from my Air Force apprentice Wheelbadge which is nearly 60 years old (I throw Nothing away) The ugly vertical brass rod drives the radar scanner and is invisible from a few yards away. Compass is real (pirated from a pocket knife). Note snow on ground behind model{ B____ cold here in Beith}.. (The things I do for you Colin)
Riva Aquarama wooden speedboat model
26.8inch long,can be convert RC(remote control),for more details please go to :http://stores.ebay.com/woodenmodelkits
During the inter-war period the Underground Group, that also owned the General Buses , and the successor organisation after 1933, London Transport, issued a series of leaflets in which were collected series of newspaper adverts. These were often commissioned, as were panel and full size posters, from various artists and designers. This series of seven, showing activities and destinations on a typical London Sunday are by artist Arthur Watts. It is worth recalling that for many decades British Sunday's were markedly quieter days than today; most shops and businesses were closed and the day was intended for religious observance, family events or cultural activities such as museums and art galleries.
The seven adverts feature; Petticoat Lane Market via Aldgate East station, Speakers Corner via Marble Arch station, Regents Park via the station of that name, model boats on the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens via High Street Kensington station, the Victoria & Albert Museum via South Kensington, Hyde Park via Hyde Park Corner station and the Natural History Museum, again via South Kensington. The artist depicts these busy scenes, and with vignettes, and it must be rememebered that the illustrations could contain depictions that conform to the contemporary social attitudes and not those we would expect today. This copy of the leaflet was acquired some years ago via a dealer having been surplus from the LT publicity files. It was likely printed by the Curwen Press in Plaistow, London.
Arthur George Watts DSO (1883 - 1935) was a noted illustrator and artist who was widely commissioned for periodicals and advertising. Watts, who had won the DSO for bravery during wartime service in the Royal Naval Reserve, was killed in a crash of a KLM flight in the Italian Alps on 20 July 1935.
On the SMM outdoor pond. (The model is now 25yrs old and still performs faultlessly on her regular outings). This pond certainly allows us to REFLECT on our hobby!
Hew Locke's large-scale installation consists of around 100 model ships - warships, trawlers, steamers, liners, brigs, rafts, junks - collected from around the world as well as made in his studio out of cardboard. Referring to sea trade and migration, the eclectic fleet is suspended from the nave of St Mary and St Eanswythe's Church, the oldest building in Folkestone.
The 2011 Folkestone Triennial opened on Saturday 25th June and runs until Sunday 25th September. Featuring a variety of artworks at numerous locations around the town, this is the second such event, of which further information can be found at: www.folkestonetriennial.org.uk/
Model VIC32 performing alongside the "Mothership" in the canal basin at Ardrishaig. Look closely and you will see the stern and part of the wheelhouse of VIC27 "Auld Reekie" behind the fullsize VIC32.
Riva Aquarama wooden speedboat model
26.8inch long,can be convert RC(remote control),for more details please go to :http://stores.ebay.com/woodenmodelkits
Full-rigged ship. 1875. This is a model of a typical full-rigged ship. The term full-rigged applies to three-masted ships with square sails on all masts, and often with triangular staysails before the masts and a gaffsail on the mizzen mast. This was made by the chinese crew of a lightship near Shanghai in the 1870s.
Close up of the motor compartment. The original model kit included parts to motorize it and let it sail in the water.
My wife's family came to visit us from out of state. On Saturday we all visited the North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport. One of the model ships on display at the maritime museum.
Item:Riva Aquarama wood speedboat model in Beige Interior - Can use for display or convert to RC(Remote Control).For more details please go to : stores.ebay.com/woodenmodelkits
Perfect 3/16 inch to 1 foot reproduction of destroyer HMS Kerry commanded by Lord Mountbatten measuring 5 feet 7-inches (1.7 metres) from stem to stern. Hull made of individual metal plates. Driven by electric motors. Awarded Sliver Medal for power driven vessels at 1968 Model Engineering Exhibition in London and Bern C. Ritchie award.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Kelly_(F01)
www.naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-10DD-38K-Kelly.htm
HMS Kelly (pennant number F01) was a K-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, and flotilla leader of her class. She served through the early years of the Second World War; in Home Waters, off Norway and in the Mediterranean. Throughout her service, Kelly was commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten. She was lost in action in 1941 during the Battle of Crete. In addition, Mountbatten served as commander (Captain (D)) of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla.
I spotted these whilst spending some time in Shefield`s Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet the other day. Although they appear to be little more than some old junk piled in a corner they are a significant part of Sheffield`s proud steel making tradition.
These clay containers were used to turn around 30 pounds of iron into fine steel. They were heated for around 3 to 4 hours at 1700 degrees C whilst carbon was added.
The process was invented by a Sheffield watchmaker, Benjamin Huntsman, in 1740. At that time the city produced around 200 tons of steel a year. A century later some 80,000 tons were manufactured each year by this process and exported around the world. Ironically, although the steel was ideal for Huntsman`s watch-making activities, the cutlers of the city were reluctant to use it as its hardness created difficulties in grinding new cutlery.
For those who know Sheffield, Hunstman`s grave is in a tiny cemetery across the road from The Sheffield Arena, the now demolished Don Valley Stadium, and my old workplace Attercliffe Police Station.
Built as S-27 in 1939 by Lurssen and entered into German navy service the same year. After the German civil war it served President Otto Kahn until decommissioned and stored at Lurssen in 1941. The boat was purchased privately and refitted in 1943 with the new Tesla & Benz motor and updated civilian equipment and comforts. In this configuration the Victoria made the one famous mission from Spain to Antarctica in 1943-44 under the command of Anthony Powell with a civilian crew. After The Fall it was brought back to Germany and stored. In 1975 she was restored and placed in the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum. I’ve seen the movie a hundred times, read Powell’s book as often and was able to visit the museum in person with my school.
The model is scratch-built from cardboard, paper and paper clips mainly (I enjoy a stupid challenge: the turret is the container from a gum ball machine prize) the figures are two-part epoxy and I think I’m getting a bit better at figure sculpting.
Just had to post another shot of my puffer model as she carried out another three rescues today, pushing disabled boats to the side of the pond, (actually two to the side and one grounded yacht into deeper water) She truly is a trusty old girl 22 yrs old and as reliable as ever. If I had a pound for every rescue she has successfully achieved over the years I would be a rich man!.
The SS Allenwood: From Timber Drogher to Minesweeper.
Construction and Design
The SS Allenwood was built in 1920 by Ernest Wright at the John Wright & Co. shipyards in Tuncurry, New South Wales.
Named the Allenby at launch, the vessel was commissioned by Allen Taylor & Co.and soon was renamed the Allenwood.
Launch Date: Friday, December 17, 1920.
Original Name:
She was christened the SS Allenby, named in honor of Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, a famous British military commander during World War I.
The Launch Ceremony:
The honor of christening the ship was given to Wilga Wright, the daughter of the ship's builder, Ernest Wright. She performed the traditional ceremony of swinging the bottle to officially give the vessel her name as she slipped down the ways into the water.
The Allenwood was designed specifically for the rugged coastal timber trade.
Specifications
The SS Allenwood was a 398-ton, 147-foot twin-screw wooden steamer, easily recognizable by her two funnels.
Materials
Built to survive the punishing coastal river bars, her keel and keelson were forged from heavy ironbark, her hull was planked with blue gum, and her decking and spars utilized Oregon pine. She spent her early decades operating as a "timber drogher," hauling freshly milled hardwood from the mid-north coast down to Sydney.
HMAS ALLENWOOD - World War II Naval Service
On the 29th July 1941 the vessel was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy as an auxiliary minesweeper. She was refitted as the auxiliary minesweeper HMAS Allenwood and armed with a 12-pounder gun, a 20mm Oerlikon cannon, and a .303 Vickers machine gun. She swept for mines out of Sydney throughout the war before being decommissioned and returned to Allen Taylor's commercial fleet in 1946.
Wrecked at Birdie Beach September 14, 1951
Under the command of Captain Boutrup, the Allenwood was navigating through heavy fog when she ran hard aground on a sandbar at Birdie Beach, just north of Norah Head (in what is now the Munmorah State Conservation Area).
Despite extensive efforts, the heavy ship was wedged fast and could not be refloated.
The Fate of the Timber
The story of the Allenwood's timber—referring to the massive hardwood structure of the ship itself—was split into two phases after she ran aground.
Dismantled for Salvage:
Because the ship was hopelessly stranded, the wreck was sold off for just £601. The buyer was a retired Marine Engineer - JP Scott of Warners Bay, NSW. His plan was to build a house from the timbers in Warners Bay.**
Salvage crews systematically dismantled the ship in situ right there on the beach. They stripped away the machinery, the upper superstructure, and the easily accessible timbers, carting off whatever wood and metal could be repurposed or sold.
Claimed by the Sand:
The massive, heavy lower hull timbers—including that formidable ironbark keel and the lower blue gum ribs—were too difficult to extract and were quickly swallowed by the shifting coastal sands.
Today, the skeletal timber remains of the lower hull still lie buried beneath the intertidal zone of Birdie Beach.***
The Allenwood has become something of a local "ghost ship"; after severe storms, large swells, or king tides scour the sand away, the dark timber ribs temporarily re-emerge for beach goers to see before the sand inevitably buries them once again.
A Quirky Detail from Launch Day
Because she was built in Tuncurry but needed to be towed down to Sydney to have her steam engines fitted, the newly launched hull of the Allenby was temporarily fitted with a Metters windmill to pump the bilges during the tow. Observers at the time noted it was quite a novel sight to see the empty timber hull being towed out of the bay with a spinning farm windmill strapped to its deck!
** Interestingly in early March 2026 by chance I was visiting friends in Tuncurry and met another couple. The lady told me that she had grown up in the house at Warners Bay built from the timbers of the Allenwood. JP Scott was her grandfather.
*** Funny Story - Some years ago, around 2015, my wife and I were returning from Sydney where we'd attended a wedding. We had diverted to briefly see friends in Terrigal so afterwards we drove by Birdie Beach on our journey to Newcastle. We were of course dressed in wedding clobber but with Birdie Beach so close we nevertheless, despite our attire, decided to make the trek from the carpark over the dunes and down to the other end of Birdie Beach. The plan was to photograph the exposed parts of the wreck however as we approached the site we discovered there was a bit more exposed than the wreck.
The site was full of nudists who didn't bat an eyelid as we approached and engaged us in conversation about the history of the wreck.
Needless to say photos of the wreck were not achievable.
portstephenshistory.com/2025/08/07/history-of-the-steamsh...
seapower.navy.gov.au/history/units/hmas-allenwood
www.wikiwand.com/en/HMAS_Allenwood
Photo Credit - Graham Nicholson - Nicholson Family Collection