HMS Camel -beast of burden that bites and spits (fire)

[tigercat]

So a Former River Class Monitor converted to a crane ship by the Dutch . It escaped to Britain and was then sent to Murmansk to help with the Artic convoys .

As it will be in Murmansk I'll probably add some more AA .

[PR19_Kit]

What happened to the MONSTER gun then? 

[tigercat]

I'm thinking HMS Camel as there was a mortar vessel converted into a crane lighter by that name and the RN does like it's history.

[tigercat]

The Monster gun to a 6 engine mosquito variant as a tank buster

[sandiego89]

The stockholders in Evergreen sheet styrene must love you  

[PR19_Kit]

The Monster gun to a 6 engine mosquito variant as a tank buster

PERFECT! 

[Gondor]

I'm thinking HMS Camel as there was a mortar vessel converted into a crane lighter by that name and the RN does like it's history.

Would the craft had been built in Birkenhead by any chance?

Gondor

[tigercat]

The Mortar Vessel, I don't know . River class monitors I believe we're built by Vickers at Barrow. There was a surprising lack of names connected to cranes to pick from that weren't being used.

[Rheged]

I'm thinking HMS Camel as there was a mortar vessel converted into a crane lighter by that name and the RN does like it's history.

Would the craft had been built in Birkenhead by any chance?

Gondor

If I'm thinking what you're thinking, we  are both  assuming that HMS  Camel  had as a sister ship HMS Laird.

[Gondor]

I'm thinking HMS Camel as there was a mortar vessel converted into a crane lighter by that name and the RN does like it's history.

Would the craft had been built in Birkenhead by any chance?

Gondor

If I'm thinking what you're thinking, we  are both  assuming that HMS  Camel  had as a sister ship HMS Laird.

I couldn't possibly comment on that   

Gondor

[tigercat]

Some of her was delivered by lorries from Watford.

[Captain Canada]

I like the idea...the crane is looking good so far !

[tigercat]

The crane has earnt the nickname the hump from the matelots  

[tigercat]

[Gondor]

I'm thinking HMS Camel as there was a mortar vessel converted into a crane lighter by that name and the RN does like it's history.

Would the craft had been built in Birkenhead by any chance?

Gondor

If I'm thinking what you're thinking, we  are both  assuming that HMS  Camel  had as a sister ship HMS Laird.

I couldn't possibly comment on that   

Gondor

or perhaps it's captain is/was a member of the Scottish nobility?

Gondor