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    A mysterious pic of enfields in the wrap

    I bumped into this on the bing images for enfield, the link is

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    Could they be the 1937 made Lithgowicon Smelles ???.

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    Thats probably the Thistlegorm, a WW2 Britishicon supply ship sunk in the Red Sea. It contains a large amount of British Army material - from ammo to trucks - including thousands(?) of No1s in crates.

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    can we raise her please?

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    That shape by the divers hand looks like a leading edge of an upside down aerofoil, perhaps a plane wreck?

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    You ought to put up 'SS THISTLEGORM' on the web. There are still lines of Bedford trucks in the holds, locomotive on the deck and lines of new BSA motorcycles in the backs of some of the trucks.................. Probably a but rusty now but they'd clean up. My old Triumph Stag must have been delivered on that very ship from the amount of rust that it had

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Laidlericon View Post
    you ought to put up 'ss thistlegorm' on the web. There are still lines of bedford trucks in the holds, locomotive on the deck and lines of new bsa motorcycles in the backs of some of the trucks.................. Probably a but rusty now but they'd clean up. My old triumph stag must have been delivered on that very ship from the amount of rust that it had
    rofl ....

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    Looks like it's be a very interesting dive...


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