Here's a set of links for Portsmouth harbor. I'd hoped this would have a ballistic sub in it, but it's all about the carriers apparently. There's one ship that I have no clue about and some smaller ones I didn't take the time to identify.

Note that the world's oldest commissioned warship, the HMS Victory, is marked.

Keep the new tiles comin', folks! I'd rather have ones with a bit of haze and clouds than nothin' at all.

EDIT: Whoops. I forgot to mention that two of the British Invincible class carriers are in the port. One is in a dry dock.


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Sorry Munden - your marker for HMS Victory is in fact HMS Warrior. Here is the Victory


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I pondered looking for a map of the immediate area, but decided not to because I couldn't imagine their having two large masted ships there.

Silly me.

Thanks for the correction. I've updated my markers and the one people can download on the first note. The haze really makes it hard to see the HMS Victory even if you know where to look!

Are you sure that's an Albion class LPD? She looks more like the older class of LPD, the Centaur class.

I'm not sure which you're referring to. Not knowing as much about the history of the Royal Navy I did some research and the Centaur class were old aircraft carriers.

Did you mean the LPD Fearless class?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_class_landing_platform_dock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_class_aircraft_carrier

I'm very confident the carriers are Invincible class. As for the Albion assault ships, well .. one is so hidden by clouds that's difficult to tell by visual. I did some more measuring and both of the ones I have labeled as Albion class are very likely the HMS Intrepid and HMS Fearless. They should measure out around 157 meters where the Albion class measure at 176 meters. The superstructure does also start a bit farther back as with the Fearless class. I'm going to relabel them and replace the marker file.

Following my earlier post Here
Seaton came up with Invincible in dry dock (N on afterdeck) and Ark Royal (R on afterdeck)

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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. Leonardo da Vinci

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Mystery vessel 2 is the RV Triton, a trimaran demonstrator ship that was proposed initially as the basis of future warship designs.

I don't believe in placing worthless "What's this?" placemarks, either.

Here is the solution. When you post a "What's this" placemark, make sure that once someone tells you what it is you either (a) delete the placemark from your original post if it isn't worth knowing, or (b) update the original placemark to describe what it is (including the title).

Then the efforts of everyone to identify the object aren't wasted and can be shared in the next layer update.

I try and do this with my placemarks, and I encourage everyone else to do the same. Well, actually , I encourage everyone to do the research first and identify it themselves, but if it really is a mystery, feel free to post it.