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Maritime History => Miscellaneous Maritime and Naval History => Topic started by: Longpockets on April 07, 2020, 10:15:03 AM

Title: The Historic Dockyard Museum from Home
Post by: Longpockets on April 07, 2020, 10:15:03 AM

Title: Re: The Historic Dockyard Museum from Home
Post by: Longpockets on April 08, 2020, 07:05:07 PM

Thanks for your likes, very useful pages under the present circumstances. There is probably more detail available here than if you visited site.

Title: Re: The Historic Dockyard Museum from Home
Post by: Colin walsh on July 12, 2020, 08:52:52 PM

Not certain if this fits the dock yard or forts and castles,non nuclear explosives for the Christmas Island nuclear bomb tests were stored at Upnor RNAD and shipped out from Chatham via RFA ships .
These were components used to trigger the enriched uranium reaction,it worked by the "gun "method
Two sub critical masses were forced together by conventional explosives,these then went critical releasing the familiar mushroom cloud . Just adding a bit more knowledge to our ever growing fourum.