Deportivo Seagull
I should coco
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
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
..I think HMS Pickle was the ship sent back from Trafalgar with the news of the Victory...something like that anyway....
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!
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.......................
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!!
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.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.
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 will have to meet up at The Amex one day and swap a few dits over a few beers mate ?
Sod you mates,I'm inboard....Gulpers for me....Right...Questions....try to be honest and not use Wiki and other internet aids.Sippers?
View attachment 28591 Some famous ships from my cap ribbon collection!
Looks like he was quite a pretty boy.......and a sailor too!now there is a genuine true great englishman!
I think it's already crept......I should where my reading glasses more or dyslexia is creeping in!
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!!