Never mentioned my drafts,

Fearless First Commission 66/68

Tenby 68/69   Dartmouth Training Squadron  ( Fleet board and picked up my Hook )

Sultan  221 MTC course

Argonaut 70/71   exit   RN  5th November 71

D/MX673566 - what about that then?

Ted I thought everyone was on first name turns back in those days, did you stand by the Victory in the New Forrest..   LOL

Wilkie once Navy always Navy

Dartmouth Squadron, Albion, Dreadnought, Reso, Repulse, Citizenship.

All them ship names are enough to make a submariner dance round his attack periscope.

geoff

HMS Firedrake Association http://www.hmsfiredrake.co.uk/

David, just but still about 2 miles away!

Frank, Khedive 44, PO Clothing Store, Chinkara 45-46

Air Station

The World War II, however devastating it may have proved elsewhere, brought great importance to Willingdon Island, because the Royal Navy chose it as a strategic site not only for their headquarters in Southern India, but also as an air station cum landing craft and sea plane base. In 1946, the Royal Navy bequeathed their abandoned establishments to the Royal Indian Navy, and part of the deserted base was converted into a small establishment of about twenty Officers and 130 men. The name of the establishment which was then H.M.S. Chinkara was renamed H.M.I.S. Venduruthy (after the name of the original Venduruthy island) and on January 26, 1950, when India became a Republic, H.M.I.S. was altered to I.N.S.

As a result of partition, when the Indian Navy lost three of its best training establishments to Pakistan it became an urgent necessity to select suitable sites for the reconstruction of these and other important schools at the earliest possible opportunity. To set the ball rolling the Navy chose the late Commodore M.H. St. L. Nott, D.S.O., an Officer of the Royal Indian Navy for selecting sites for training establishments. After selecting Vishakapatanam for the Boys' Training Establishment, he came down to Cochin for a survey of Willingdon Island, which in his opinion was the very thing that he was searching for. He met with stiff opposition from his technical advisers who felt that the island was unsuitable for a naval base. But Commodore Nott's judgement prevailed and the Willingdon Island was eventually selected as a site for some of the future training schools of the Indian Navy, and most important of all-for India's first Naval Air Station

This one Ted ???????

HMS Khedive (D62)

Career
Laid down: 30 December 1942
Launched: 30 January 1943
Commissioned (RN): 25 August 1943
Decommissioned: 19 July 1946
Fate: merchant ship; sold for scrap, 1975
General Characteristics
Displacement: 16,620 tons (full)
Length: 495.66 ft (151.1 m)
Beam: 69.5 ft (21.2 m)
Extreme width: 111.5 ft (34 m)
Draft: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed: 18 knots
Complement: 646 officers and men
Armament: 2 × 5 inch guns, 8 × twin 40 mm Bofors, 35 × single 20 mm Oerlikon
Aircraft: 18-24
The USS Cordova (CVE-39) (originally AVG-39 then later ACV-39) was an escort aircraft carrier launched 27 December 1942 by Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma, Washington; sponsored by Mrs. A. E. Mitchell. Reclassified CVE-39 on 15 July 1943, Cordova was transferred to the Royal Navy on 25 August 1943, as HMS Khedive (D62). She was returned to United States custody on 26 January 1946 and sold into merchant service 23 January 1947 as Rempang (later Daphne). She was sold for scrap in Spain in 1975.
And this one !!!!!!

Wilkie Once Navy Always Navy

And Finally,

 Shipmates I present to you Ted's First Draft !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HMS Victory stands today as the world's oldest commissioned warship. Still manned by Officers and Ratings of the Royal Navy, the Victory has seen over 220 years of almost continuous naval service.

Best known for her role in the Battle of Trafalgar, the Victory currently has a dual role as the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command and as a living museum to the Georgian navy.

Launched in 1765 at Chatham Dockyard, the Victory was commissioned in 1778 and continued in active service for the next 34 years. In 1812 the Victory was retired from frontline duty and anchored in Portsmouth Harbour, on the south coast of England. For the next 110 years the Victory remained at her moorings in Portsmouth Harbour fulfilling a combination of practical and ceremonial roles.

In 1922, amid fears for her continued survival, the Victory was moved into Portsmouth's Royal Naval Dockyard and placed in No2 Dry Dock. Work then began on restoring the Victory to her 'fighting' 1805 condition.

Open to the public all year round, HMS Victory allows the visitor to explore the world of the Georgian navy, experiencing both the ship herself and the lives of the men who lived within her 'wooden world'.

Wilkie                 Once Navy Always Navy      

Ted  anytime your near,come round for Half a Tot and in our Stokers Mess   a guest always got  Queens as well.

Ted's

Liable to be slurping at his age, I

t used to make me mad as hell,  when someone who had been invited round took gulppers on Queens

Hi David,

West Country Routine   Afternoon  First and Morning

                                           Dogs  Middle and Forenoon

Four watches                   Afternoon and  Middle

                                           1st Dog and Morning

                                             Last Dog and Forenoon

                                             First and Afternoon

It looks like Chinese