A 250lb Bomb was washed up on felixstowe beach (dock part, at landguard), 1200 have been evacuated.
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By: Rocketeer - 29th April 2008 at 21:44
very apt going off at 19:40, my parents heard it and the house contents shook a little! They live up above the pier so quite surprising!
By: Arabella-Cox - 29th April 2008 at 21:10
ZAPPED!
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th April 2008 at 13:05
Trying to inject a little humour over the “lost bomb” is rather different from suggesting there was anything funny about over 150,000 WW2 casualties from enemy bombing. I don’t believe anyone was even REMOTELY suggesting such a thing. Neither, I am sure, would anyone on this forum suggest for even a nano-second that the EOD guys are anything other than highly courageous individuals.
By: Pete Truman - 25th April 2008 at 08:52
On the bbc look east report today, they interviewed the man in charge of the operation, i laughed, he had a unshaped beret and had a little round head like an orange, he looked like zippy or bod. I call him Admiral Zippy
He also had a squeaky voice, looked like ice cream salesman
Don’t be rotten, just think how many times he’s put his life on the line to save others, I think that you have to be bordering on insanity to do that job anyway. I loved his little diagram showing the method of dragging chains between the 2 inflatables, I bet he wasn’t going to be on board any of them.
The Anglia reporter summed it up very well on last nights news, shot of two inflatables, pan back, ‘I wish them well, but as you can see, 2 very small boats in a very big sea’.
I noticed he was wearing para badges, had he been called in from Colchester to teach the Navy a thing or two!!! I’m just waiting for a convoy from Carver Barracks to come hammering along the A120 so they can put their two penneth in as well.
As I started writing this, there was another report from the Anglian Newsdesk, unfortunately, it was treated with great mirth as usual by the newsreader, perhaps they should put the slimey little git in one of the inflatables and see how he copes with the threat of possibly being vapourised at any moment.
Leave em’ alone, theyre trying their best under difficult circumstances, dealing with ordnance can’t be amusing.
By: keithnewsome - 24th April 2008 at 23:59
I don’t even want to think about that ????
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th April 2008 at 23:51
It wasn’t a bomb at all, apparently. Turns out it was one of John Precott’s lost anti-bulimia suppositories which has now disolved.
By: keithnewsome - 24th April 2008 at 22:36
Quote on “Anglia tv news” tonight at 22.32 “it’s not lost, just misplaced” that makes me feel so much more safe ! thank you ! Keith
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th April 2008 at 20:45
I’m not surprised that such a scary object caused such alarm to the digger driver. Sure scared the hell out of me….oh…sorry….you meant the bomb!!:diablo:
By: xtangomike - 24th April 2008 at 19:42
Bomb…. what bomb?
Found this in the ’70’s in a field in Hampshire……….Did cause some concern to the digger driver. He left the scene at a high rate of JCB knots, black smoke streaming from the exhaust.!!!
Today the whole of Hants would be evacuated.
‘Not in our day lads, they were falling everyday. We just got on with the work in hand’
By: REF - 24th April 2008 at 19:21
its like an episope of Dads Army this, you can imagine Jones running around somewhere in felixstowe stouting “Don’t Panic”!!!!!
By: Kiteflyer - 24th April 2008 at 19:14
Found it !!
Look what I found washed up in the garden this afternoon……….
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th April 2008 at 19:07
Wot…not Admiral Zippy’s Famed EOD Ice Creams? Sure I remember him as a purveyor of iced confections on a day out at Felixstowe in the 1960’s. I think I bought a Magnum from him.
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th April 2008 at 17:54
On the bbc look east report today, they interviewed the man in charge of the operation, i laughed, he had a unshaped beret and had a little round head like an orange, he looked like zippy or bod. I call him Admiral Zippy
He also had a squeaky voice, looked like ice cream salesman
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 24th April 2008 at 13:41
Mmmmm….so the Royal Navy have “lost” this bomb but you are shortly getting one for your collection?! C’mon TT, own up. You snuck out there in your flippers and snorkel when they weren’t looking, didn’t you?!
Er..cough, ahem…etc
:D:o
TT
P.s.
I was JOKING Don :rolleyes:
By: Pete Truman - 24th April 2008 at 08:59
According to Anglia News this morning, they still haven’t found it and the search is underway again today, as of 8:00 am.At least the weather forecast is pretty good for the next few days with offshore winds.
I’m waiting to go and get all those herrings for my freezer.
Incidentally, what does the designation ‘SC type’ mean
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th April 2008 at 00:14
Its a German SD500.
No doubt about it.
God willing we should have an example of both in the Ordnance Collection next month (but not this one!)
TT
p.s.
500kg vs 500lb makes a big difference Don – glad you’re not in EOD mate! 😀
Mmmmm….so the Royal Navy have “lost” this bomb but you are shortly getting one for your collection?! C’mon TT, own up. You snuck out there in your flippers and snorkel when they weren’t looking, didn’t you?!
By: 92fis - 23rd April 2008 at 22:44
Don’t know if this has been posted.
SC type according to the Navy.
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd April 2008 at 19:05
According to About Anglia (ITV) the Navy attached a buoy to the 500Kg bomb towed it out to sea, the strong currents detached the buoy from the bomb and they have ‘lost’ it, the Lady spokesperson from The RN said they know where it is it is just a question of locating it.
A plume of water is expected to rise 200-300′ if/when they detonate it
By: Denis - 23rd April 2008 at 18:14
The latest news, is that the Royal Navy disposal team have…err..ahem..mislaid it:o .
By: TEXANTOMCAT - 23rd April 2008 at 15:13
Its a German SD500.
No doubt about it.
God willing we should have an example of both in the Ordnance Collection next month (but not this one!)
TT
p.s.
500kg vs 500lb makes a big difference Don – glad you’re not in EOD mate! 😀
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