Hope no one is in the tornado path

[Sumpter250]

"Sumpter250" wrote: Of all the possible "bad choices", I would rather ride out a "hurricane sandy" at sea, than be smacked by any tornado, anywhere! :o

I don't think the ships did much better. One of the notable losses was the big sailing ships that played one of the British battleships in "Pirates of the Caribbean". I think it was first built in the 60s for Mutiny on the Bounty. Even though it did have its own engines (wasn't using its sails), it somehow got flooded out by the storm and sank. They thought they could go around the storm and head south to Florida before things got too bad where it was in Connecticut.

The last time I saw ( and walked the decks of ) that particular ship, she was HMAV ( Her Majesty's Armed Vessel ) Bounty, at Tall Ships Chicago.
Sad to see her gone, she had fairly recently been re-conditioned, and fitted with new timbers in her frames and hull planking.
Now I'm considering the possibility of building the Plastic kit of "Bounty" as Bounty, rather than the Collier "Bethia", that was renamed Bounty, when the Admiralty acquired her, and armed her for military service.