Yes I agree with you DAVE,A few moments a day to add a post,post a new topic or reply to one or two oppo. I wish our shippers would use the forum for the chat and NOT the guestbook,makes sence to me shipper.

OK Dave Blackwell,
Monday night is Forum night sorry I can't do it this weekend 2 classic car shows to go to,
;
-) Slinger.

It's a shame that not many of us using the Forum. It seems that their are about 4 or five actually contributing.

So come on lads. waste 15 to 20 minutes of your valuable time and get writing about you time in the R.N. And your experiences (preferably the funny and stupid things that you have done or seen done. Am I the only one that is interested in what happened to the lads that I served with.

HA - HA - HA - Very good Slinger - It's obvious that your fingers slipped across the keyboard because you wrote that you were well behaved at Mercury????
Now if you'd put you "Sell Slaves" at Mercury or you were "Well shaved" at Mercury I could have accepeted that quite easily but to sit and put "Well behaved" ?????? He He He Oh you have such a great sense of humour there Oppo
Oh yes - you're quite right there as well about the Aft Messdecks being for the "Rum Rats" mate - Isn't he BJ? / Bill Bailey? Jim?
Good job "somebody" down the ar** end manged to stay sober once in a while (no names of course)

Whiskey,
I thought the after mess decks where for Rum rats, I think we had a very good time on the undaunted,I was sorry to leave , they threw me on docks 7.30 in the morning made me find my way to Hms mercury now that was a draft , shore base full of wrens under training. but I was well behaved.
Slinger.

That's the good thing about hating football Slinger - You don't have to eat your words after making a rubbish forecast He He He
The really sad thing is that I do believe you're right about that green curtain - As soon as I read your letter I could actually see that ruddy curtain in my mind
Dave - you probably did well by NOT going into the aft messdecks Oppo - I went down there perfectly normal and look what happened to me!!!!

BJ, YOUR RIGHT WRONG AGAIN.
Spain won.

WELL DONE SLINGER,WRONG AGAIN OPPO, WELL DONE SPAIN.

Hello any body out their.
Are you all watching the football you have no taste.
Germany to win. 2 1 .
Slinger.

Jim,
Tas mess opposite S&S MESS IT WAS CUT OFF BY A I THINK GREEN CURTAIN. Funny how we start to remember these things,
SLINGER.

Jim,
I remember going on wine trip in Oporto we had a coach trip , wine tasting I think they called it, we all couldn't stand up after ,We came back with large casket of red wine , We went to the sand e man wine factory we were supposed to tase and spit the wine out but you know how things got out of hand, next day went to the seamans mission swimming pool, cheap beer then in too town . Tase the local, of course you know what I mean. us single men. Then. Does any body remember those days .
Slinger,

I'll back down Whiskey. I really wasn't sure about Buck. You should know after all you lived and slept with him!!!!!!

As far as the Mess Nos. Not sure either. Us Juniors didn't venture down the after mess decks much. We were told that Juniors had ventured down there under promise of sippers and never seen again!!!!!

As far as the Club swingers are concerned. We had twp. The first, who was on their when I joined had blond hair. Name on the tip of my tongue. The second, L/S Thomas comes to mind.

I forgot - Sorry.
You can bet all your money that it would have been Hoby Hoban who brought day old ducks on board and "swam them" in the sink - I still say that he wasn't "normal" you know
I know Bill Bailey got on all right with him - but that says it all anyway (2 of a kind)

Here we go - going to cause another war between the USA & England - - Got to argue the point Dave - I'd put money on that being Buck Taylor on the right - no arguments for Hoby though
Slinger - no idea of their location whatsoever mate (sorry) I only remember Buck Taylor's home because it always sounded comical to me when he said it.
Maybe these people don't want to be found mate - Done their time and that was enough for them
I can't remember the Club Swinger or a L/Sea Shepherd though - sorry
Jim - I might be wrong - but I thought the TAS Mess was 5 Mess not 7 mess ????
Come on Dave - where the hell did we live for 3 years? You'd think we'd know wouldn't you
I'm half sure that the next mess aft behind us was the Comms mess and our messdeck hatchway was the last hatch (Starboard side) at the bot end of the "Burma Road" with the Junior's Messdeck hatch being on the Port side
I'm open to be shot down on this as the grey cells aint nothing like they used to be
Slinger - I tried to get my wife to go to Australia too but she would insist that I had to go with her - - Always a snag somewhere aint there?

Was the TAS mess opposite the S & S mess, on the same side as the gunners.
If that was the case, I assume that S & S was 8 mess, TAS 7 mess, Gunners 9 mess and Greenies 10 mess. Arthur Ibbotson rings a bell with me. I think he was five foot sixish and would have been lost in BJ's QM greatcoat.
Who was it that brought some day old ducklings onboard in Oporto and was sailing them in the sink in the bathroom?

Thanks Dave, we seem to getting some where but I wonder how do these people disapear. I ran on the portsmouth feild gun for a few months , I wonder where some of them are. !!!. any way how are you doing Dave how come you are in the USA. I tried to go to Australia 1973 when I left the RN but the wife changed her mind.
SLINGER.

Whiskey,
do you know where these ship mates live ,Ive always tried to find old ship mates have been good some times ,I useually write to the evening news paper, any idea.
Whiskey can you remember the club swinger. what about L/SEAMAN Jim shepered I think he was a tas rate. any idea.
SLINGER.

I may be wrong and probably am. But I am not so sure that it is Buck Taylor sitting there. I do recognise him but can't remember his name. But it is definitely Hoban. Don't know who the others are

Slinger - - Yes mate - Checked out your photo and have spotted Buck (on the right) and also Hoby (On the left) Why is it that Hoby never could grow a decent "set" I wonder? He always looked half scraggly with his patchy growth
No idea who the other guys are in the pikky - Sorry mate
Your caption on the side of your photo says Dave???? Dave who though is a mystery mate - sorry
Not sure if it's my Dementia playing up again but didn't we used to call Buck Taylor "Bubbles" as well? Or was that something we did with all Ship's Divers in them far off days?
I can still hear his real Wiltshire Twangy accent as well when he spoke - He used to be dead proud of coming from Wooton Basset - I'd never even heard of the bloody place - I used to think he'd made that name up but like Dave - I too lead a sheltered little life before meeting up with you lot!!!!
It was all downhill from there-on-in
I just never stood a chance - none of us did

Dave,
butchers name was Dave waldron, Ive tried contacting him as he lives in , My brains hurting but I did write to his eveing paper but with no luck his dad owned a butcher in his town but could not contact, but will try again soon, have you looked at the photo buck taylor , hobby, and 2 others I have their names some where ,the lad with the dark hair his Dad got re married and his new wife was 15 years his younger.can you remember.
Slinger.