Trafalgar Day

[Deportivo Seagull]

WAFU, couldnt really get any worse than that could it You havent got ginger hair as well by any chance ?? LOL

Cheeky bastard, an armourer to boot

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

Cheeky bastard, an armourer to boot

I started on Ships but ended up on Boats in Faslane on the Bombers, so I cant say to much (Except Submarine pay !!)

We will have to meet up at The Amex one day and swap a few dits over a few beers mate ?

 

[smudge]

..I think HMS Pickle was the ship sent back from Trafalgar with the news of the Victory...something like that anyway....

Correct.

 

[smudge]

Senior rates pah!!!!

Here we are Smudge

Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year;
To honour we call you, as freemen not slaves,
For who are so free as the sons of the waves
(Chorus sung once...)
Heart of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men,
we always are ready; Steady, boys, steady!
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.

We ne'er see our foes but we wish them to stay,
They never see us but they wish us away;
If they run,why we follow and run them ashore,
And if they won't fight us, what can we do more.
(Chorus sung once...)

we still make them feel and we still make them flee,
and drub them at shore as we drub them at sea,
so cheer up me lads with one heart let us sing,
oh soldiers and sailors, our statesmen and king.
(Chorus sung once...)

20 years a damn JR, 4 years as PO & 2 years a corned beef, (that's Chief to you skin).

Hearts of Oak, stirs the blood. We used to have ships of wood & men of steel!

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

20 years a damn JR, 4 years as PO & 2 years a corned beef, (that's Chief to you skin).

Hearts of Oak, stirs the blood. We used to have ships of wood & men of steel!

You tell him Smudge !!

Bloody Skimmers the pair of you !!

 

[Storer 68]

Correct.

with the story that Nelson's body was embalmed in a brew of alcohol that the sailors supped at on the voyage back to England.......................

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Jeez...You're all sprogs...I was in the Navy when we had ships of wood and men of steel...now it's ships of steel and men of wood...."Bootneck,Bootneck can't catch me!!...HMS St Vincent 1954,Suez canal 1956, HMS Armada, 1957. Diving course HMS Vernon 1958 HMS Vanguard last british battleship 1958, Resrve Fleet HMS Alert 1958/60 Flagship Far East Fleet.HMS Venus (By christ you should've seen us...) Dartmouth training Squadron 1961/62,HMS Dryad 1963..Royal Tournament gun crew 1964.HMS Victory 1966...12 years,happy getting pissed years,crashing out on many a deck,looking at many bulkheads..."Lash me to the wheel Mr Starbuck"...."Bring me my oilskin....and bucket"
Came out and studied to be Naval historian....Swing that lamp boys!!....Cheers all ex matelots!!

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

with the story that Nelson's body was embalmed in a brew of alcohol that the sailors supped at on the voyage back to England.......................

Hence the name of a Drink called Nelson's Blood.

nelsons blood

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

Jeez...You're all sprogs...I was in the Navy when we had ships of wood and men of steel...now it's ships of steel and men of wood...."Bootneck,Bootneck can't catch me!!...HMS St Vincent 1954,Suez canal 1956, HMS Armada, 1957. Diving course HMS Vernon 1958 HMS Vanguard last british battleship 1958, Resrve Fleet HMS Alert 1958/60 Flagship Far East Fleet.HMS Venus (By christ you should've seen us...) Dartmouth training Squadron 1961/62,HMS Dryad 1963..Royal Tournament gun crew 1964.HMS Victory 1966...12 years,happy getting pissed years,crashing out on many a deck,looking at many bulkheads..."Lash me to the wheel Mr Starbuck"...."Bring me my oilskin....and bucket"
Came out and studied to be Naval historian....Swing that lamp boys!!....Cheers all ex matelots!!

We are not Worthy !! LOL

 

[Seagull on the wing]

with the story that Nelson's body was embalmed in a brew of alcohol that the sailors supped at on the voyage back to England.......................

He was embalmed in Brandy,but when England found that the Rum from the West Indies was far cheaper the Lords of the Admiralty decreed that all tot rations were to be rum,but to stop the ratings bottling it they made it two parts water one part rum...known as Grog...although Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers had non watered rum...many bottled their ration.

 

[Gwylan]

He was embalmed in Brandy,but when England found that the Rum from the West Indies was far cheaper the Lords of the Admiralty decreed that all tot rations were to be rum,but to stop the ratings bottling it they made it two parts water one part rum...known as Grog...although Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers had non watered rum...many bottled their ration.

Nearly right. It was one particular sailor, Admiral Vernon, who ordered the rum to be diluted with water and lemon juice. As this made his sailors healthier (they didn't catch scurvy) the practice was picked up by the admiralty and used on all ships.
Vernon was known as Old Grog as he wore a coat made of grogram and hence the tot of rum became known as grog (it's amazing the trivia I've picked up during the course of my life).

 

[Martinf]

And who were the hardest nuts during the battle? My money is on the crew of HMS Bellerophon (or Billy Ruffian as some called it). They were hard as nails - the sailors could catch cannonballs in their teeth! At one stage during the battle, billyruffian was being fired on by four or five enemy ships. Half the crew were either dead or wounded and the Captain (Cooke), who was on the verge of pegging it himself, ordered his crew to continue firing.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

Jeez...You're all sprogs...I was in the Navy when we had ships of wood and men of steel...now it's ships of steel and men of wood...."Bootneck,Bootneck can't catch me!!...HMS St Vincent 1954,Suez canal 1956, HMS Armada, 1957. Diving course HMS Vernon 1958 HMS Vanguard last british battleship 1958, Resrve Fleet HMS Alert 1958/60 Flagship Far East Fleet.HMS Venus (By christ you should've seen us...) Dartmouth training Squadron 1961/62,HMS Dryad 1963..Royal Tournament gun crew 1964.HMS Victory 1966...12 years,happy getting pissed years,crashing out on many a deck,looking at many bulkheads..."Lash me to the wheel Mr Starbuck"...."Bring me my oilskin....and bucket"
Came out and studied to be Naval historian....Swing that lamp boys!!....Cheers all ex matelots!!

bloody hell, a sea daddy and a half LOL

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

We will have to meet up at The Amex one day and swap a few dits over a few beers mate ?

Sounds like a damn fine plan to me

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Sippers?

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Sippers?

Sod you mates,I'm inboard....Gulpers for me....Right...Questions....try to be honest and not use Wiki and other internet aids.
Which ship appeared in a naval battle which was portrayed on film and appeared in the film itself?
Which ship rammed a German heavy cruiser and sunk from the collision and what was the name of the ship and of the German cruiser?.
Which ship fired the last shots at the Bismarck,what was the weapon used?
What was the name of the ship that rammed the docks at St Nazaire?
Two Tribal class destroyers were torpedoed ,they were towed into dry docks,the front of one was joined to the stern of the other then renamed,(a real case of cut and shut) what was the ship renamed?
That's a starter for you,,now it's tot time and 'MAKE AN MEND'....Cheers muckers,game of 'Uckers!

 

[Seagull on the wing]

Some famous ships from my cap ribbon collection!

 

[smudge]

View attachment 28591 Some famous ships from my cap ribbon collection!

You sure that's not the old back bar of the Black Dog in Weymouth? (Known by Jack as "The Shirley Bassey"!)

 

[Nottseagull]

now there is a genuine true great englishman!

Looks like he was quite a pretty boy.......and a sailor too!

I should where my reading glasses more or dyslexia is creeping in!

I think it's already crept......

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Jeez...You're all sprogs...I was in the Navy when we had ships of wood and men of steel...now it's ships of steel and men of wood...."Bootneck,Bootneck can't catch me!!...HMS St Vincent 1954,Suez canal 1956, HMS Armada, 1957. Diving course HMS Vernon 1958 HMS Vanguard last british battleship 1958, Resrve Fleet HMS Alert 1958/60 Flagship Far East Fleet.HMS Venus (By christ you should've seen us...) Dartmouth training Squadron 1961/62,HMS Dryad 1963..Royal Tournament gun crew 1964.HMS Victory 1966...12 years,happy getting pissed years,crashing out on many a deck,looking at many bulkheads..."Lash me to the wheel Mr Starbuck"...."Bring me my oilskin....and bucket"
Came out and studied to be Naval historian....Swing that lamp boys!!....Cheers all ex matelots!!

f*** Me!
The Dead Sea was just P7R when You joined up!
A tot to warm the cockles tonight for all ex matelots.
Cheers to You all.