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A friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth…Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:17 pm Thank you. I have seen pics of gun mounts on shore pointing out to sea, but can’t find them now.
Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:22 pmA friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth…Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:17 pm Thank you. I have seen pics of gun mounts on shore pointing out to sea, but can’t find them now.
To be fair, a launch from a Sea Slug did look like it was blowing itself up.Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:22 pmA friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth…Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:17 pm Thank you. I have seen pics of gun mounts on shore pointing out to sea, but can’t find them now.
By accident. It was a Rocket Society job; they’d tried to launch from a golf course, except the Heddlu (police) turned up and after asking, “Ello Ello Ello, what’s occurin’ ‘ere then?”… they were instructed to take the whole kit & caboodle to Aberporth, where the MoD kindly lent them a twin rail launcher for their efforts.Davion Highlander wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:50 pmCraiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:22 pmA friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth…Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:17 pm Thank you. I have seen pics of gun mounts on shore pointing out to sea, but can’t find them now.
Deliberately or by accident?
I <think> that’s my brother’s old Commanding Officer!Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 6:07 pm I think one of the sites I was thinking of is seen in this film from 4:46 and 9:42 minutes. Anyone recognise it?
Sounds like it could have been the inspiration for the Yes Minister episode where Bernard Woolley discusses a cover-up, he mentions a torpedo landing on "Sandwich Golf Course," to which Hacker replies he didn't read about it in the paper, prompting a joke about the members finding a new bunker on the 7th fairway the next day.Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:43 pmBy accident. It was a Rocket Society job; they’d tried to launch from a golf course, except the Heddlu (police) turned up and after asking, “Ello Ello Ello, what’s occurin’ ‘ere then?”… they were instructed to take the whole kit & caboodle to Aberporth, where the MoD kindly lent them a twin rail launcher for their efforts.Davion Highlander wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:50 pmCraiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:22 pm
A friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth…
Deliberately or by accident?
Then it went big badda boom.
The older I get the more I fear that Yes Minister wasn't satirical!Paul Nuttall wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 8:11 pmSounds like it could have been the inspiration for the Yes Minister episode where Bernard Woolley discusses a cover-up, he mentions a torpedo landing on "Sandwich Golf Course," to which Hacker replies he didn't read about it in the paper, prompting a joke about the members finding a new bunker on the 7th fairway the next day.Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:43 pmBy accident. It was a Rocket Society job; they’d tried to launch from a golf course, except the Heddlu (police) turned up and after asking, “Ello Ello Ello, what’s occurin’ ‘ere then?”… they were instructed to take the whole kit & caboodle to Aberporth, where the MoD kindly lent them a twin rail launcher for their efforts.
Then it went big badda boom.
Appears to be the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment on a hill above Portsmouth - there is now a Type 45 radar set there instead.Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 6:07 pmI think one of the sites I was thinking of is seen in this film from 4:46 and 9:42 minutes. Anyone recognise it?
Here's the clipPaul Nuttall wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 8:11 pmSounds like it could have been the inspiration for the Yes Minister episode where Bernard Woolley discusses a cover-up, he mentions a torpedo landing on "Sandwich Golf Course," to which Hacker replies he didn't read about it in the paper, prompting a joke about the members finding a new bunker on the 7th fairway the next day.
That was actually a real incident; a Sting Ray prototype fell off the testing heli and excavated a few square yards of fairway!Paul Nuttall wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 8:11 pmSounds like it could have been the inspiration for the Yes Minister episode where Bernard Woolley discusses a cover-up, he mentions a torpedo landing on "Sandwich Golf Course," to which Hacker replies he didn't read about it in the paper, prompting a joke about the members finding a new bunker on the 7th fairway the next day.Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:43 pmBy accident. It was a Rocket Society job; they’d tried to launch from a golf course, except the Heddlu (police) turned up and after asking, “Ello Ello Ello, what’s occurin’ ‘ere then?”… they were instructed to take the whole kit & caboodle to Aberporth, where the MoD kindly lent them a twin rail launcher for their efforts.
Then it went big badda boom.