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I saw a submission from Barrie Lomas, who must
have been on the same commission a I was, 1968 – 1970. Is this the
same (Then) Sub Lieutenant Lomas, who, when we departed from
Melbourne for Sydney decided to take some of the Comms ratings on an
overland exped in HMS London’s Land Rover ? If I remember correctly,
he drove all the way in 4 wheel drive (Maybe had the diff lock in as
well) and on arrival at Sydney, had totally screwed up the Landy’s
gearbox!
Does anyone remember the Beira Bucket
competitions? As we had the flight deck for the chopper, we were
able to play Mini soccer, Deck hockey, Baseball, Judo, Obstacle
course etc. It was a club swingers nightmare trying to come up with
something different to do on a weekly basis. Our main opposition was
the Rothsay, who was on Beira Patrol at the same time. We even
reverted to Kite flying in the end which a certain PO Tiffy (Can’t
remember his name) won for us hands down. Its a small world, as 30 years on, I was working
in Beira looking out ! I can assure you that we didn’t miss any run
ashore there! Even LM radio was still operating, although it is
called Radio Maputo now. Anyone remember the Jimmy, Lt Cdr Robinson ?
I met him by chance in 1980 at Windhoek airport in Namibia. He was
just about to board a plane for Cape Town, but we at least
recognized each other from Yarmouth days. Sorry about the ramblings but these things just
come into my head from time to time. Unfortunately I do not have any old photographs
at all.
I Attended
the HMS Ganges New Years day reunion in Simons town this year
(2007), and met up with Smudge Smith who was on Yarmouth's first
commission in 1960.
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