 | German Kaiserliche Battleships| World War I Discuss German Kaiserliche Battleships in the Other Eras forums; Originally Posted by Nonskimmer
Very clever, those Kippers.
I've been meaning to ask, how did the RCN come up ... |
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02-26-2005, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Nonskimmer Very clever, those Kippers.  | I've been meaning to ask, how did the RCN come up with the name 'Kippers'? It's a cool nickname! | 
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02-26-2005, 09:30 PM
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#17 | | He who does not skim
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Country:  |  For many years the RCN was little more than a smaller copy of the RN, with many of the same traditions. One of those traditions was having kippers for breakfast aboard ship. 
I guess it's just our way of "thanking" the British for that. | |
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02-26-2005, 09:48 PM
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You still have 'Trafalgar Day' though? | |
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02-26-2005, 09:59 PM
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#19 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | No, I can't say that we do. Thankfully, kippers are now only served by individual request. They don't get many. (requests, that is.)  | |
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02-27-2005, 02:33 AM
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Country:  | Its boot leather streaky bacon with waffles and syrup now then Skim .
At least when I went too Vancouver thats what they all had ,too close too Seattle do you reckon or was it the Canadians who started the trend?
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02-27-2005, 06:51 AM
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Hi,
I found a few more pictures in my file:
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Originally Posted by trackend Its boot leather streaky bacon with waffles and syrup now then Skim .
At least when I went too Vancouver thats what they all had ,too close too Seattle do you reckon or was it the Canadians who started the trend? | Probably us. Those west coasters do some weird things.
Great pics, Douglas!  | |
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02-27-2005, 09:07 AM
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| These nets have been removed after Jutland (they proved to have no or little effect and they increased weight and reduced speed). They have not been added because of the subs but because of the torpedoboats, which have been fielded by both, Royal Navy and High Sea Fleet in large numbers...
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Hello!
does anybody know where to get in the net good (really good) photos of the german WW-1 warships? here in Russia we have few really good sites with lots of pics related to misc navies - anything similar?
thanks to all!
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Originally Posted by KraziKanuK  I did now know that the RN set off the scuttling chargers. Learn something new everyday. | WRONG!!! the german sailors sunk their ships in 1918 as they could not live with the dishonor of being captured.
the just left the doors open as they had no explosives | |
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