Raf shirt blunder?

Thread drift I know so please forgive, but try going into Google homepage, type in “French Military Victories” and press the “I Feel Lucky” button. See what comes up !!

No malice intended to our cousins across the Channel…..just a bit of fun !! :diablo:

If they believed Napoleon Waterloo would be on the list.

Just as an aside…..although there has never been a submarine named HMS SPITFIRE, the British submarine fleet over the years’ has included boats with familiar aircraft names such as OTTER, STURGEON, TEMPEST, THUNDERBOLT, TRIDENT, TUDOR, VALIANT, VAMPIRE, VANGUARD, VEANGEANCE and VIKING, as well as the previously mentioned WALRUS.

Ther may be more, but life’s too short!

Regards…..Paul

The nearest you’ll get is HMS Spiteful – a WWII ‘S’ Class submarine.

According to Wiki, there have been a number of HMS Spitfire’s – but none of them submarines !

Ken

Just as an aside…..although there has never been a submarine named HMS SPITFIRE, the British submarine fleet over the years’ has included boats with familiar aircraft names such as OTTER, STURGEON, TEMPEST, THUNDERBOLT, TRIDENT, TUDOR, VALIANT, VAMPIRE, VANGUARD, VEANGEANCE and VIKING, as well as the previously mentioned WALRUS.

Ther may be more, but life’s too short!

Regards…..Paul

Submarine Spitfire

I bought a shirt from the RAF Collection stand at Farnborough in July, and I only noticed today that the shirt i purchased from them says “Submarine” Spitfire on it, blunder? or am I missing something?

No PBY your ok with this one as it was a special order for PO Bond to go with his Lagonda with Gatling gun.
There were several made but the design dept had not worked out how to make them surface again.

20 years down the road it will be a massive collectors item.

Google did better. If you googled our previous defence minister a few years ago, the first link was a dictionary entry for “conard” (coward in French):D

Thread drift I know so please forgive, but try going into Google homepage, type in “French Military Victories” and press the “I Feel Lucky” button. See what comes up !!

No malice intended to our cousins across the Channel…..just a bit of fun !! :diablo:

Dunno, but I just found a website that listed a book about the ‘Submarine Walrus’.

I thought, ‘Here we go again – maybe there were underwater versions of these aircraft’.

It turns out that it IS a book about a Submarine – named the ‘Walrus’

Ken

Was there a submarine named HMS Spitfire???

Roger Smith

You are in luck – there are matching cufflinks for sale:

Submarine Spitfire Cufflinks

Google did better. If you googled our previous defence minister a few years ago, the first link was a dictionary entry for “conard” (coward in French):D

This is the second time I have read about a ‘Submarine Spitfire’ – so I’m beginning to think there may be something to it….. :rolleyes:

The first occasion was a full-page ad in the modelling press for Revell’s new ‘Battle of Britain Icons’ model set.

There, along with the He-111, Ju-87 and Hurricane, it lists a ‘Submarine Spitfire Mk. 1’!! 😮

I wonder if they know something we don’t ???:confused:

As for spell checking, back in the 80’s if you typed ‘Margaret Thatcher’ into the spell-check program on most PC’s, it came back with ‘No alternative found’ :diablo:

Ken

😀 on the other hand it may be worth a fortune if you got a rare one that escaped the quality control 😀

The perils of ‘Spell check’ somewhere in the chain.

YES

p e r plus an unwanted b !!!

Pobjoy

Mind you i could have been worse if you had bought a Hawkshead Hurricane hat.

this could be one of those communication **** ups , you know like ” send three and fourpence , were going to a dance !!”

probably a telephone order made through an exchange involving a ditsy opperator

definately not unkown most people in factories at that time had heard the word , submarine , but probably unfamilliar with supermarine !!

so at an educated guess i’d put a misspelling at a garment factory

quite a few probably went through before altering the mistake !!

or was it a deliberate plot as the germans did most of the sea rescues in the early bob was it to confuse them ???

If it is drip-dry that probably means it is a special issue ‘ditching’ shirt

Moggy

Blunder

YES

p e r plus an unwanted b !!!

Pobjoy

Mind you i could have been worse if you had bought a Hawkshead Hurricane hat.