Hi Guys.
This has always been for me an utterly fascinating topic, especially as I've grown older (... now where did I leave them prosthetic teeth ...).
While in the UK a few years ago I was shown an old (mmm - can there be any other type) wheel mill, privately owned, near the village of Wansford.
Some timbers in the roof A-frame all had the same strange bend. My friend said they had all come from the hulls of dismantled sailing boats, as had much of the timber in the mill. (Funnily enough the mill is not far from Hull).
Mill was built circa 1530, so how old were the ship's timbers, and what had they 'seen' in their lifetime?
I felt somehow connected to all those long gone people - fathers, mothers, families - all going through the day-to-day stuff that people do to raise families and find a lillte contentment and happiness. Only their day-to-day couldn't be imagined by most of us here.
I stumbled across this site: English Russia.
http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/04/14/worlds-biggest-submarine/Well worth exploring galleries of all the now derelict stuff of the old Soviet Era Russia.
Even the Typhoon class subs are next to derelict. No wonder the Kursk disaster happened as it did.
/Franken.
