HMS Polyphemus

since today is sunday i decided to warship. here is the HMS Polyphemus an armoured torpedo ram. she was launched in 1881 and sold out of the Royal Navy for scrapping in 1903. Polyphemus was designed to go at high speed into enemy harbours and ram or torpedo enemy warships. she was 240ft. long and displaced 2640tons and had a top speed of 17.8kts. armed with five 14" torpedo tubes and six 1" Nordenfeldt rapid fire guns plus a 3"armoured deck Polyphemus appeared a successful design at first. however, rapid advances in naval gunnery made her obsolete by the time she was launched. she made a good patrol craft however. the first picture is of Polyphemus's officers. the second picture is a diagram of the entire ship. the third is Polyphemus in drydock showing her ram. note the forward tube is in the ram itself which has a cap over the tube. the cap was capable of swiveling upward and out of the way so a torpedo could be fired. the last picture is Polyphemus afloat in harbour. she was the only ship of this design ever to be built for the Royal Navy.

Gyro Cam

Gyro-cam has been mounted on Velentino Rossi's bike at Moto GP. Normal on-board camera mounted on motorcycles leans with bike thus the horizon in the monitor gets banked. Some people ends up tilting their heads to see the image. The Gyro-cam keeps horizon horizontal in the monitor. Pretty nice and easy on your neck.

However one of them already has been stolen by mindless selfish dumb ass fan at Misano circuit.



The sad looking tail section of Rossi's bike after the dick-breath ripped the Gyro-cam.

I....Am..Awesome...

C.G. Bonehill-Martini .22

this is a rifle just like the one i have. it is an English Enfield Martini rebarreled in .22 by C.G. Bonehill for the English Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs. the action on mine was made in 1884 by Enfield. after being a military rifle it was converted by Bonehill to .22. it is a beautiful little rifle, rather longer than a modern .22 but all the better for it. it is a single shot rifle, with a type of lever action that opens the action and cocks it all at the same time. after firing the lever opens the action again and extracts the shell. a very accurate rifle, probably my favorite gun.

.22lr{long rifle}

the .22lr cartridge was developed by the J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. in 1887. it may be the most popular cartridge ever as people all over the world use it. it comes in jacketed hollow point, hollow point, solid point, jacketed solid point and a small shot shell. the bullets weigh from 20 to 60 grains. the cartridges themselves also come as subsonic, standard velocity, high velocity and hypervelocity...a very versatile cartridge indeed. people tend to think of the .22lr as not so dangerous due to it's small size.
not so! these things are extremely dangerous. people can be shot with these and seem ok for a couple of days only to die suddenly a day or so later. never point a loaded gun at anyone unless they are trying to harm you. .22lr's are my favorite cartridge for sure since i shoot targets and they can be very accurate up to even 200yards. they are also good to teach someone to shoot with as they make little noise and don't kick much either. from the top we have a jacketed hollow point, a solid point, and a jacketed solid point known as fmj or full metal jacket. if you don't shoot it is never too late to start. if you already do you know how much fun it is. i'll finish off by saying buy more ammo, some targets and have fun!

Darry Daring

In 1975, a toy maker, Ideal made up a character for girls called, Derry Daring. Kind of cashing in the popularity of Evel Knievel, they thought that girls needed cool stunt gal figures to play. They made the 7 inches action figure with hair on its head unlike molded head of Evel Knievel action figure. She came with a dune buggy, or the stunt cycle including those launcher.

Historically Derry Daring is notable as she was one of the first action-type figures that was made for girls, placing her up their with the Mego Wonder Woman (and other female heroes in the same line), the Charlie’s Angels dolls, Police Woman and of course the Bionic Woman.