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Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory 'is collapsing under its own weight like a squashed footb Options
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#1 Posted : 11 May 2016 15:41:23

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interesting news in today

http://www.dailymail.co....gent-work-standing.html



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#2 Posted : 11 May 2016 15:51:00

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Similar was reported back in 2011
http://forum.model-space...aspx?g=posts&t=1863
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#3 Posted : 11 May 2016 16:16:43

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It was always going to be a challenge keeping a wooden ship in a dry dock. No water to support the weight.
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#4 Posted : 11 May 2016 18:32:04

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The Portsmouth Dockyard Drawing Office were using new fangled technology - a stereoscopic camera - to measure movement of the ship back in the 1970's. No lasers then!
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