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A large grey boat

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:51 am
by Cheesy
Morning all,

A large grey boat in the form of HMS Illustrious will be parked IVO Anglesey from Monday for about 10 days.

Regards,

Cheesy

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:36 pm
by steve149c
Thanks!

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:45 pm
by mhm
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Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 7:47 am
by Cheesy
Thanks Mike, I was going to post a link to the action the boat saw in Op Corporate but didn't think it was relevant.

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:13 am
by Reptile 1
Ties in with this NOTAM

Start date/time: 13/02/2013 06:00 UTC
End date/time: 28/02/2013 23:59 UTC
Activity period: 13 18-28 0600-2359
Lower height limit: 000
Upper height limit: 020

ACTIVATION OF EG D201B (ABERPORTH RANGE). MULTIPLE ROTARY ACFT
CONDUCTING LIVE FIRING PRACTICE AND MAY OPR IN FORMATION AND WITH
RESTRICTED LIGHTING. CTC HOMER ON 362.575MHZ OR 341.500MHZ. OPS CTC
07867 534756. 13-02-0197/AS3

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 6:39 pm
by mhm
I went to visit this beast last time. Well worth a visit.

Glad to help

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 10:53 am
by deerhunter
Heres a couple of Lusty arriving at Liverpool

Under tow in the Mersey
Image

Alongside at the Cruise Terminal
Image

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 5:14 pm
by SimonC
well looks like she's on her way just looked on fleetmon.com and she's well out of port now.... have to go on a coastal hunt for her tomorrow :clap:

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:30 pm
by vaughan
Has anybody seen her this week off Anglesey ?

Richard

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 4:40 pm
by Cheesy
Yep,

saw her yesterday,

Cheesy

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 9:22 pm
by vaughan
Are you able to tell us her location ?

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:07 pm
by Cheesy
I saw her in D201B yesterday

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:29 pm
by vaughan
Thanks for the quick reply and info. No chance of me seeing her from the coast then!

Vaughan

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:47 pm
by november whisky 1
vaughan wrote:Thanks for the quick reply and info. No chance of me seeing her from the coast then!

Vaughan

Seen her Thu 16.30 just off Raf Valley heading North.

Re: A large grey boat

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:40 am
by vaughan
According to AIS she was up in Scotland on saturday evening- outer clyde

Vaughan