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DaleCooper

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This is obviously proving difficult, HMS Ark Royal was on the right track when he mentioned infinity but I needed more detail. I'll let this run for a bit longer but if it hasn't been answered by close of play today I'll put you all out of your misery.
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OK, the answer I was looking for was "Cantor's infinite hierarchy of infinities; aleph null, aleph one etc." or something along those lines.

I bet you knew that all the time but thought it was too obvious, if not you've learned that there's something bigger than infinity!

My source was Martin Gardner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gardner writer and Scientific American columnist.

As HMS Ark Royal come somewhere near to the answer I offer him the opportunity to set the next question.
 
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Thank you, Dale - I accept...

The Duty Log of the Board of Admiralty for 1831 is missing a single page - why?
 

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There was a Cholera outbreak in 1831 or 32 (can't remember now - mind you I wasn't there (or anywhere else) at the time) was it anything to do with that?
 

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There was a Cholera outbreak in 1831 or 32 (can't remember now - mind you I wasn't there (or anywhere else) at the time) was it anything to do with that?

Nope - even if there was something affecting the navy, it would have been noted
 

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The page was for the order of the ships disposal. I am not sure why it is missing but thomas hardies wife was upset about him sigining it...
Maybe she tore it out and threw it overboard?
 
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The page was for the order of the ships disposal. I am not sure why it is missing but thomas hardies wife was upset about him sigining it...
Maybe she tore it out and threw it overboard?

Close enough...

When he was the First Lord, he came home in tears and told his wife he had just personally signed the order to have HMS Victory broken up. According to the story, she burst into tears, slapped him on the face and said she would have nothing to do with him until he changed it - hence why he rushed back to the Admiralty and tore out that day's page and changed the orders in order to save the vessel

The watch, trainmania100, is yours...
 

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RMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Queen Elizabeth once met during WW2 for the first and only time. What was the full signal between the two ships?
 

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Hmm ... This attachment (which also contains a fine painting of the event) says that it was just the one word, and I haven't been able to find any other version of it.

I shall be generous and give you a clue...

When two ships talk to each other, how do they format the message?
 

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. - - / - . / ... / .. - ... / - . / . - / . - - . ?

(Was it "Snap"?)

Colder than Ice Station Zebra...

Let me rephrase - when a ship sends a message, how does it do so? Clue 2- watching old naval filmssuch as Sink the Bismarck and Battle of the River Plate might help
 
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