Forum: Mess Deck
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Daren't lay her up. How would any of us get an...
Daren't lay her up. How would any of us get an ENG1 to rejoin?
Don't expect me to jolly you all up. I am out of Rochas (economising until my 'pot' is out of administration) and damn Tesco is out...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
19th May 2024, 13:09
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
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Forum: Mess Deck
23rd April 2024, 16:47
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22nd April 2024, 14:17
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16th April 2024, 14:07
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14th April 2024, 18:58
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Forum: Mess Deck
14th April 2024, 13:59
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13th April 2024, 12:12
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Forum: Mess Deck
10th April 2024, 18:20
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Bugger. I put the weekly allowance on the...
Bugger. I put the weekly allowance on the undertaker at 3:1. Now someone else will have to buy the fizz at Friday Lunch.
Next time I'll hedge with a Yankee including Oldgit.
(Actually, despite...
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Forum: Mess Deck
7th April 2024, 19:23
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4th April 2024, 16:48
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
30th March 2024, 17:41
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Forum: Mess Deck
25th March 2024, 17:26
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Forum: Mess Deck
24th March 2024, 11:40
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I passed QuarterBridge on my afternoon...
I passed QuarterBridge on my afternoon constitutional. The boys in blue were on point-duty dolled up for ceremonial traffic duty.
Had I known HM(Qc)was due so imminently I would have waited to...
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
19th March 2024, 11:09
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Forum: Mess Deck
7th March 2024, 14:34
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I walk paste Sir William's tomb quite often. He...
I walk paste Sir William's tomb quite often. He rather steals the thunder the early, more local, institutions that came before. South Shields, the site of much good marine 'stuff', being one - if not...
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Forum: Mess Deck
7th March 2024, 12:10
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Forum: The Pig & Whistle
7th March 2024, 12:06
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Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that...
Pa (RN for the war) was fond of telling us that the RAF always had the best nicknames. His favourite was for army types, "Brown jobs". Another I heard from a AAIB presentation "Mechanical palm trees"...
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Forum: Mess Deck
5th March 2024, 12:52
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Forum: Mess Deck
26th February 2024, 10:53
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Naughts and crosses. Lucky it's not eastern...
Naughts and crosses. Lucky it's not eastern medicine - a Go layout would be very painful to remove.
(E-S. Indeed. Hardly Michelangelo, not on a good day anyway - he did say that he did not sculpt...
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Forum: Stormy Weather
24th February 2024, 13:07
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If registered in Britain or other Red Ensign...
If registered in Britain or other Red Ensign group territory then vessel must be owned by persons or corporate entity 'native' to that territory and should fly red ensign. When a corporate entity is...
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Forum: Mess Deck
18th February 2024, 11:11
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12th February 2024, 12:15
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Forum: J & J Denholm
5th February 2024, 12:16
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John, I was ashore just in time to do the...
John, I was ashore just in time to do the Electrical approval of all the HHI vessels. They were good. The NKK Alcan ships were better (barring a misunderstanding over what is, and is not a check...
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