Comments on: A Favour – in Russian

By: bugsy^hds

bugsy^hds — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:35:33 +0000

2 Mrs Bod-to-be:
Generally, they are all speak/read in russian (and i`am not exception ;)
Simply, all men have a secrets ;)

By: Mrs Bod-to-be

Mrs Bod-to-be — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:40:09 +0000

Thanks everyone – the translation helped us to find the source of the book! No-one at work believed that Rob had friends who could translate Russian because of his interest in Speccies!

By: icabod

icabod — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:08:52 +0000

Ah, thanks MacB. LaesQ mentioned he pointed you to the blog :)
Yeah, the translation makes some sense. GF was curious about the actual ships mentioned, so I think she’s going to do some research. Personally I only know of HMS Fearless as being a British ship, but then it’s not really my area of speciality.

Thanks again for the translation.

By: Mac Buster (yes, the one)

Mac Buster (yes, the one) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:35:57 +0000

The second inscription is friendly message from Russian warship to British warship: “To chief cabin (saloon ?) of torpedo boat “Southampton” from chief cabin (saloon ?) of torpedo boat “Fearless”, 25 september 1991″

By: icabod

icabod — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:01:23 +0000

Yeah, the date part is the only bit I can easily work out – didn’t spot the Southampton reference (it’s on the south coast of England, in case anyone doesn’t already know, although in this context it could easily be the name of a ship).

Thanks for the title – the book is about military naval “stuff” (I’m making that assumption as most of the books Cath deals with are about military naval “stuff”). I think hand-written text is tricky anyway, even when it’s in English.

By: F6

F6 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:30:37 +0000

Severnyi bastion Rossii – “Northern Bastion (Rampart) of Russia”

I can’t translate the rest, I’m not too good in Russian. It’s for native speakers. There’s something about Southhampton and it’s dated on 25th September 1991.