...took the opportunity yesterday to visit the National Maritime Museum in Darling Harbour. They had a museumy bit which wasn't that great... although they had the fastest boat in the world which has the record of over 300mph. The video of it looked crazy, it didn't look like it was gonna stay on the water and it looked very unstable.
The good bit was that they had 2 naval boats, HMAS Vampire (a daring class destroyer) and HMAS Onslow (an oberon class submarine), which you could go on and have a look round.
The destroyers gun turrets are not secured to the ship and if it lists to one side over so many degrees they fall off! Apparently it's to ensure that the ship can right itself.
The submarine was impressive, it was tiny inside, amazing that 69 people would be on board at once.
One thing is for certain, me and Dan would not make good seamen (*cough*), i'm too wide and he's too tall.
Well it was interesting and gave us something to do to pass the time until the important stuff of the day... dinner... at Doyles!
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