That’s getting a little bit personal, Linc-y!

Were there many other ‘coming togethers’ of training aircraft and enemy aircraft over British skies?

I vaguely recall an Anson(?) bringing down a bomber by crashing into it with inevitable results, and wasn’t there a target tug (Henley?) that chased a bomber with his landing light around Wales? Then there was the Roc and the He59 (I think) that battled it out over the Channel to little apparent effect, but that’s my memory scoured.

Others anyone?

In fact…

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Is this the same woman? Some social media users in Ukraine seem to think so.

The woman has appeared in interviews in cities across Ukraine under different names, spreading an anti-protest and pro-Russian message. It’s led to a deluge of videos and pictures being shared on social media platforms as people try to spot the woman.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-26491349

SS Shieldhall?
She was built in 1954-55 as a replacement for a vessel sunk in WWII, and was a ‘sludge’ carrier, taking sewage from Glasgow to be dumped at sea. It looked evocative – a design that appear positively 1930’s. And she is in fully working condition, despite the modest income cruising the Solent generates. There is very little to compare with it, on this side of the Atlantic anyway.

We don’t have a great reputation preserving larger vessels – look at HMS Plymouth or SS Shieldhall and the difficulties they have with maintaining themselves. Even when it is relatively unique we do silly things like cutting a salvaged U-Boat (U-534) into five pieces to help ‘preserve’ it.
There have been a large batch of vessels preserved in the UK in the last 20-30 years, and most of them will end up as that flakey red rusty stuff unless they are sold for scrap first. There is only so much that be preserved – the public doesn’t have so much interest in stuff so if they see one ship they believe they’ve seen them all; is there really that much demand?
HMS Victory is a replica, to all intents and purposes; HMS M33, HMS Trincomalee, HMS Gannet and HMS Warrior have all been extensively renovated since they were hulks, HMS Unicorn is a hulk and will never be anything else (staying preserved in ‘ordinary’, or so they say…). HMS Caroline (last survivor of the Battle of Jutland) is a hulk but there are proposals to renovate her. HMS Cavalier has been in and out of trouble ever since she was ‘preserved’ in 1977 (my brother spent several years chipping away at the rust in Southampton and Brighton: there is a reason a vessel gets to the end of its service life), HMY Britannia and HMS Bronington have both had their problems in preservation due to not being able to throw money at them like the navy did.
Others are in ‘official’ museum collections (ie HMS Belfast, HMS Alliance, HM submarine Torpedo Boat No 1 – or Holland 1, etc), which makes it a little easier to preserve them.