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Invernahaille
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Edited by - Invernahaille on 10 April 2007 04:41:19
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 08/02/2009 : 07:40
Time we got this topic going again...... We could do with a sea breeze!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt
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Posted - 08/02/2009 : 10:34
Well, shiver me timbers and blow me down, stand by to blow soot, on fifth black, exercise steering gear failure, hands to stations for leaving harbour, special seadutymen close up, G6 hoist, half ahead Port and let go forard. Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum. I was watching Tornado leaving Darlington yesterday on vid, the camera was at the departure end of the platform with another one half way twixt that and the engine. Driver opens cylinder drain cocks and everything disappears in an enormous cloud of hot fog, magic, one could almost smell it. I have looked at quite a lot of footage of the new type 45 Destroyers lately, there are to be six of them, Daring, Dragon, Diamond, Dauntless, Duncan and Defender, the first four are all in the water at various stages and parts of the others are being assembled. These ships do not have a keel laying ceremony as they are of unit construction, the ceremony takes place when the first plate is cut. The bit that I really enjoyed is the fact that they are all being built in Scotland. British ships for the British Navy. There are also to be built up in Scotland two massive Aircraft Carriers, the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales, add to this several other assorted units under construction breathing life back into Clydeside and other places.
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frankwilk
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Posted - 08/02/2009 : 10:55
Engine Room, Obey Telegraphs, Half Ahead Both Revolution 72
Hands to Action Stations assume Damage Control State 1 condition Zulu Alpha.
Gets the blood flowing that one, almost as much as when we ran into a shoal of Jelly Fish which blocked all the sea water intakes and tripped the Turbo Alternator, closely followed by the DGs that was exciting off the coast of Aden. If FLOSSY or the NLF had, had a 25 pounder they could have taken us out !!!
Only ever saw Full Ahead once when we were showing off in front of a Russian Destroyer in the Med !!!!
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thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt
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Posted - 08/02/2009 : 13:27
I have done many full power trials and I have a pic, of Blake at full shout in the Med, 80,000 SHP at full power and just the hint of haze behind the funnels, I was "bubble watch" on Kilo boiler, certainly no danger of nodding off. The noise inboard was unbelievable and we didnt wear ear defenders then. In the"Cod War" on Dundas we doubled up on all boiler room and engine room personel to facilitate going from full ahead to full astern very rapidly thus enabling us to outmanouvre the opposing gunboats. I had the dubious pleasure of steering Blake in the South China Sea from the after steering position duing full power trials combined with steering breadown exercises, "Thinks, better get this right". One "Pipe" that always brought a lump to the throat when leaving on a long commision was "Shore telephones have been disconnected" and one I will never forget was"Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire in the forard magazine, this is not, repeat, not an exercise, damage control parties go forard, all non essential personel move aft. We also had main circ, problems, in the gulf of Thailand there were collosal amount of waterborne debris, mostly plastic, our divers fitted extra screens over the intakes and we were cleaning the main circ strainers every half hour with some very unpleasant items coming out, lots of dead and nearly dead sea snakes and if youve ever done a main condenser clean you will know thar the strainers do not stop everything, cuttle bones in abundance. Naval terminology is a wonderfull thing and a lot of expressions in use today have their roots in this, anyway, time for a wet, speak later.
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Invernahaille
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 01:36
Time for Smoko,
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thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 09:16
"And sippers".
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frankwilk
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 11:34
What about Queens and no Gulpers
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tripps
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 13:51
I went for a "cruise" on HMS Triumph a long time ago. I was told to parade 'athwartships abaft the after deckhouse' - worked out where I should be eventually. Regarding the tot which was still available then, they spoke of sippers, gulpers, and seeitoffers
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Posted - 17/02/2009 : 15:15
Hi Tripps
Last time I saw HMS Triumph was in Singapore in 1966 she was a fleet maintenance ship at that time. " seeitoffers" was when you passed your glass to someone else and it it wasn't stated sippers, or gulpers, well you could then " see it off" so you drained the glass. One of the best ways to greet an oppo who you hadn't seen for a while was "come round for half a tot "
Frank Wilkinson Once Navy Always Navy |
thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 18:05
It would be interesting to see how many commonly used expresions are salt encrusted, and I still like some of the older ones. Handsomely, Lively, See a grey goose at a mile, Tidley and Cheese it are few. "Touch and go", Swinging the lead and Swing a cat are possibly three of the better known examples in fairly common use.
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Invernahaille
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Posted - 18/02/2009 : 21:58
I understand that one of the reasons the M.O.D. ceased issuing the daily tots was due to teatoatallers and gamblers either giving or gambling their tots. Apparently the idea was to reduce alchoholism and drunkeness aboard ship.
I have only sailed a couple of dry ships. They do not improve efficiencys or improve moral.
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Posted - 19/02/2009 : 20:07
I see that "The Times" newspaper's Saturday edition now has a page devoted to military matters. Very interesting to read. There was a short bit about HMS Northumberland finishing a patrol off Somaliland watching out for pirates. I wish the papers woiuld publish more of this sort of information. People need to hear about these other activities of our armed forces and to realise how important they are, not just to us but to the world at large.
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Posted - 19/02/2009 : 21:25
Invernahaille
I only ever traded a tot when I was Afternoon, Middle, and Forenoon. Not to clever going down below for the Afternoon with a good tot inside you lol.
I hope le Fanu is having to live amongst ex Matelots his life will be hell. In fact I hope he is on a coal fired bar boat.
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Invernahaille
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Posted - 21/02/2009 : 16:36
I hear you Frank. Strangest thing was that in all the time I spent at sea, including when I was a chief I never saw an engineer inebriated on his watch, even though there was copious amounts of alchohol on board. Having said that the engineers did drive in the fast lane when we were in port. Probably got something to do with being let off the lead so to speak.
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thomo
Barlick Born Old Salt
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Posted - 22/02/2009 : 09:47
Work hard, play hard. It was frequently the case that when the bulk of non ME bods were off ashore on a jolly, a large number of the Maren branch would be up to their elbows in some urgent project. Thus when the job was done it was time for some fun. It was also fairly noticeable that different branches would get on well together afloat and ashore, I recall that Stokers and Chefs got on well, maybe something to do with requirement of ingredients for food during the night watches, ie, Pot mess.
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