Difference between revisions of "Solitaire"
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== Support Vessels == | == Support Vessels == | ||
− | * [[HMS Sharktypus]] ( | + | * [[HMS Sharktypus]] (principal research dinghy) |
* [[HMS Dolphonauticrab]] (autonomous research submersible) | * [[HMS Dolphonauticrab]] (autonomous research submersible) | ||
* [[HMS Manateelican]] (power generation vehicle) | * [[HMS Manateelican]] (power generation vehicle) | ||
+ | * [[AV Squolluskito]] (principal research aircraft and [[ham radio]] kite antenna) | ||
* RS (Remote Station) [[Kookabearnacle]] (neritic sounding probe) | * RS (Remote Station) [[Kookabearnacle]] (neritic sounding probe) | ||
Revision as of 07:17, 29 June 2011
HMS Solitaire is the ketch-rigged sailboat which serves as the principle research vessel of the Bacliff Exploration Society and flagship of the Bacliff Expeditionary Fleet. Approximately 60 ft from bow to stern, it is made entirely of Burmese teak and Louisiana cyprus. It was constructed by the Dutch in 1805 using the wreckage of ships from the Battle of Trafalgar. In 1836, it participated in the Battle of Matagorda Bay, the largest naval battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere. It is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art squidcams and ham radio decoder rings.
Captains
- Grissom Turduckensworth (1805-1816)
- Horatio Macshearwater (1816-1861)
- Sophocles "Sooty" Macshearwater (1861-1865)
- Lord Cletus Shinypants (May 1865 - June 1865)
- Mitchell Horatio Campbell (1865-1898)
- Horatio Mitchell "Mitch" Campbell (1898-1902)
- Thomas Cuthbert Campbell III (1902-1911)
- Gulden Meriwether Draak (1911-?) [lost at sea in a stitch-and-glue dinghy]
- Knut Heyerdahl Shackleton (1912-1918)
Support Vessels
- HMS Sharktypus (principal research dinghy)
- HMS Dolphonauticrab (autonomous research submersible)
- HMS Manateelican (power generation vehicle)
- AV Squolluskito (principal research aircraft and ham radio kite antenna)
- RS (Remote Station) Kookabearnacle (neritic sounding probe)
Sister ships
Voyages of Exploration
- Heart of Dimness (November, 2007)