Al Murray
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They've got to go where they've got to go.
You know, the aircraft carriers look like they've absolutely have the snot knocked out of them when they're when they're pulling into Sydney Harbour.
That sort of that sort of stuff is really, really interesting, isn't it?
You know, and that the ships, you know, because one of the things they say on Belfast is, of course, are one of their problems is they don't have 900 ratings aboard who can repaint it when there's nothing to do.
And that, because that's how they would, that's how they keep life, you know, that's how they keep the thing together, keep the ship together.
That's how they'd fight the corrosion.
It's the crew, it was one of the jobs the crew had to do, was permanently painting it in that, you know, in whatever pattern they were in this month.
And they don't have that on Belfast anymore.
So they've got to get ready at sea.
So they repaint the entire ship at sea.
It's crazy, isn't it?
Absolutely crazy.
But yes, I mean, you're right.
I mean, Belfast is... People ought to visit it.
And you get a tiny inkling of how enormous the big ships must have been.
You know, a KG-5...
it's about a hundred feet longer, but it's the beam.
It's wider in the beam is the thing, you know, like, which is the across the middle for, because I, by the way, everyone, I've been getting Jim to say folks all instead of forecastle because every now and again, every now and again, every now and again, I get it wrong.
Now, we have... JR, very kindly, has furnished us with a... Let's just rattle through this.
On this day, April the 14th, this is going out.