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RTTL in Ramsgate harbour in the 50s.

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    Posted: 19 July 2016 at 11:45am
I'm new here. I'm a pilot and I normally hang out at PPRuNe.

Last weekend, my sister sent me a link to a nostalgic film, promoting Ramsgate as a holiday destination, which had a sequence about joy rides from Ramsgate Airport, which is where I had my first flight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgGofmmTe4M

However, what caught my eye was a vessel in the inner harbour that I had been on, when I was nine, during a sea trial.

I've tried to load a screen grab but could not, so please have a look at the grey vessel at 1:58 in the video. I remember being told at the time that she was an MTB, but I see now, after some research, that she was an RTTL.

My father, although an accountant by profession, was also a woodworker and he had some working connection with a boat building firm that were working on this vessel. I think she was called Penguin  - quite appropriate for an RAF craft!.

Does anyone know anything about her and her subsequent history?



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OK. I've figured it out.

 
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Apparently not!

And I can't see how to edit or delete a post.
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Hi there,

Many thanks for this post, seems to play the link, have no sound here where I am, but looks fascinating...., all the best.

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