SOG-UK-L Archives

Archiver > SOG-UK > 2001-02 > 0981242378


From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] British Invisibles
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:19:38 +0000
In-Reply-To: <000b01c08def$e16b9c40$bc32883e@fionarobin>


In message <000b01c08def$e16b9c40$>, Fiona Robin
<> writes
>Dear All,
>
>Today in the Telegraph I read that the Duke of Kent, President of the
>British Invisibles, received the Lord Levene of Portsoken (Chairman).
>
>Who or what are the British Invisibles? Are they like the Old
>Contemptibles?!

No idea, but the British aircraft carrier HMS Invincible was nicknamed
the Invisible during the Falklands War in the 1980s, no thanks to my
cousin who was the navigating officer. The nearest he came to fame in
that campaign was when leaving harbour he nearly sunk the Devonport
ferry...
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

Drake Software web site: http://www.tdrake.demon.co.uk

This thread: