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Joined: 26/09/2020
Location: AustraliaPosts: 602
| Posted: 10:38pm 29 Sep 2021 |
Hi Davo, I worked for the navy for 2 years way back in the late 1970s. I was amazed at the condition of the ships we had. They were forever chipping rust off them and painting over the divets. When cyclone Yasi hit Queensland we could not send our supply ship up to help because it had so much rust chipped of it that it was only 2mm thick in some places on the hull.
The inside of the ships looked very haphazard too. Some of the ships were US designs, they were made to have the superstructure and decks removed and replaced at regular intervals. Of course ours never had that done, just more paint.
As far as Nuclear powerstations go, there is a wonderful monument to that failure at Jervis Bay on the NSW south coast.
An 8 million dollar road was built to Murrays beach and a big flat spot carved out for a nuclear power station in the 1970s.
It is a great carpark now and the road has been called the road to nowhere since.
There was a plan to build a nuclear power station on the southern side of Jervis bay, a Steel works and turn the whole area into an industrial hub.
In the way back, the whole surrounds of Jervis Bay were carved up into building blocks and industrial blocks. It was to be called Pindimar City.
I bought a 7.5 acre block there in the late 70s and it came with 23 titles, there were streets mapped out, one each side of my land. I had to consolidate the titles into one block to get a building permit. I did consolidate the land but never bothered with a permit to build, I just built a small slab hut and had a great life there.
Pete