There was only one thing to do when a keen gardener and model maker found a giant courgette in his vegetable make a submarine out of it. 65 year old Eric Rayment, who is a volunteer at the HMS Alliance Submarine Museum at Gosport, Hampshire, soon got to work and in just a couple of hours HMS Courgette was launched. The latest edition to the fleet is a whopping 17" long and 5" in diameter. He soon added a bit of old pipe from under his sink to make the conning tower. Eric said "When I picked it and put it on the table, it just struck me it would make a perfect submarine an
There was only one thing to do when a keen gardener and model maker found a giant courgette in his vegetable make a submarine out of it. 65 year old Eric Rayment, who is a volunteer at the HMS Alliance Submarine Museum at Gosport, Hampshire, soon got to work and in just a couple of hours HMS Courgette was launched. The latest edition to the fleet is a whopping 17" long and 5" in diameter. He soon added a bit of old pipe from under his sink to make the conning tower. Eric said "When I picked it and put it on the table, it just struck me it would make a perfect submarine and I named it HMS Courgette, Britain's first Vegetable Class submarine." "Her patrol success so far amounts to three attack carrots, eleven merchant peas and one anti-submarine tomato." Eric is one of five volunteer conservationists working on the submarine HMS Alliance and amazed staff at the museum when he took in his handiwork. Bob Mealings, the museum's creator, said "It is brilliant. It was a lot of fun and brightened up our day when Eric brought it in." PIC MIKE WALKER MIKE WALKER PICTURES,2013
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