Were you in the NS back in the days......

[moggy]

Murph
You Should Apply For Naval Priest Position

[ELVIS]

He's completely right though.

[hptmurphy]

Easily knowing that you weren't of the seamens fraternity that has to clean up after all these visitors!

[ELVIS]

I agreed with you Murph not moggy. Theres nothing worse than somebody climbing up the gangway claiming she/he's entitled to a tour because he/she pays his taxes and shouting abuse, when you have absolutely no input whatsoever into the decision.

[sba]

Ah...but I found that back in the 80's especially, an armed sentry appearing on the flagdeck usually quietened any of the rabble shouting abuse! Nothing quite like the look on their face when they glance up to see an armed sentry looking down on them!

[moggy]

murph
we all did cleaning up, the moogy even helped sometimes

[Laners]

You should have seen the amount of beer glasses to clean up after some of the sessions in New York

[combatlogo]

I agreed with you Murph not moggy. Theres nothing worse than somebody climbing up the gangway claiming she/he's entitled to a tour because he/she pays his taxes and shouting abuse, when you have absolutely no input whatsoever into the decision.

Yeah, as much as I used to give swabbies a hard time, for the Sailors, the ship is their barracks and there is no base maintenance or emergency services to call when something breaks.

As for punters climbing up the gangway demanding a tour, I can think of a very quick solution for that.

[Goldie fish]

I used to get that on the cargo ship too,people would see the tricolour and automatically assume they would be entertained aboard,as if it were some floating bar.

Nothing more annoying than tourists peeping through your porthole when you are tryin to get some kip before departing on the evening tide...

[yooklid]

As for punters climbing up the gangway demanding a tour, I can think of a very quick solution for that.

I think that one of your solutions would cause more problems than it would solve.

[hptmurphy]

Moggy...i can only ever remember yourself and cullinane cleaning the bridge and that little space of lino outside the comcen. For a patricks day in Dublin in 1988 we were sorely dericent in glasses and the mess comitte issued an insruction that all mess members would have two return wit aleasr two galss each if we were to have sufficient glass for the evenings fetivities,,,guys brought back black plastc bags full orfwhich were promptly dumped over thside when the glasses we empty....hundereds of glasses were dumped

[moggy]

Moggy...i can only ever remember yourself and cullinane cleaning the bridge and that little space of lino outside the comcen. For a patricks day in Dublin in 1988 we were sorely dericent in glasses and the mess comitte issued an insruction that all mess members would have two return wit aleasr two galss each if we were to have sufficient glass for the evenings fetivities,,,guys brought back black plastc bags full orfwhich were promptly dumped over thside when the glasses we empty....hundereds of glasses were dumped

Yes with the new cox george jefferies it was decided that mary's clean bridge and
outside jockey's cabin and comcen this was great, but on the other hand we did help
the mess man clean up after hours, especially if it had to be dumped overboard
Jockey was a good skipper no hassle from him
is he still around???
the Helo test flight in france was carried out by fully qualified test pilots but bringing them on the piss the night before didn't help. several pairs of a/corps pants was ruined on that
trip. the was near the end of the Air corps or near enough.
they insisted on commanding the tels cabin which you know is right beside the gyro
and proberally the steadist part of eithne, but this was refused by officers they were not very happy living up by the heads

[hptmurphy]

Jockey is well retired at this stage.And the TELs ..or what ever they are called now still live in the same accomadation.

[Goldie fish]

Have a pic of a very young Lt Jockey,still with hair...in the fantastis NSR scrapbook collection.

He is "semi retired"...

[moggy]

go ahead send