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Ahoy Shipmate RNA Torbay Newsletter

Volume 3 Issue 2 May 2014

In this issue Editorial Editorial ...... 1 By Shipmate Norrie Millen Chairman’s Corner ...... 2 Hi! Shipmates, Another yarn from the Bridge .. 2 Under Two Flags ...... 3-4 Looks like summers here at last. You can Cooks to the galley ...... 5 always tell as I break out my shorts and Who was Moe Berg?...... 6-7 sandals! I even had a very enjoyable pint of ice Vice Presidents Report ...... 7 cold cider in the Rock Gardens beer garden in Goffer Time ...... 8 President’s Patter ...... 9 Torquay dressed in my No. 10’s! HMS Pembroke ...... 9-10 I have included in this issue another article from Point to Ponder ...... 10 “Trident” dated January 1946 and priced 1/6d which as I told you last issue I found looking through some old albums of my grandfather (Nobody answered question what the ‘d’ Deep Thoughts stood for in 1/6d, so that has saved me a tot) If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the The article entitled “Under Two Flags” tells of seven "terminal"? Canadian , which were ex US ‘four stackers’ I don't approve of political similar to those the United Kingdom had on lend-lease jokes. I've seen too many of during WWII. Quite a lengthy article so I will run it in two them get elected. parts. If life deals you lemons, Sorry to keep ‘playing the old scratched record’ but I make lemonade. If life know some of you must have some amusing anecdotes that deals you tomatoes, make you could share with other shipmates. Several of you have Bloody Marys. provided excellent biographies of your time in the Royal Shopping tip: You can get Navy, you that have not, come on give the old grey cells a shoes for a pound at dust off and I am sure you could put together an interesting bowling alleys. account of your time in services. Don’t worry about the I am a nobody; nobody is format I can soon put that in to (ship) shape. perfect, and therefore I am perfect. If we have another nice summer, don’t forget the Every day I beat my own epaulettes on sale in the slop chest. You will all look as previous record for smart as guardsman in ‘shirt-sleeve’ order. Whilst others number of consecutive are sweltering in blazers you can be cool and cool looking days I've stayed alive. and also be advertising the Royal Naval Association. The way I see it anyway!

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Chairman’s Corner However in 1961 following increasing By Shipmate John Soanes complaints about the noise the Royal Hong The Quiz evening on Kong Marine Police exchanged it for a Hotchkiss Mk.1 Three pound quick firing the 24th April went quite naval piece. well. Although it was not as well attended as in the When the gun is fired, eight bells is sounded signalling the end of the forenoon watch. past, the occasion was enjoyed by all, and the branch, by way of the raffle and Make and Mend to all matelots if you are lucky! the one to hundred draw for a bottle of Pussers Rum managed to add a few pounds to Branch funds. The bottle of Pussers was won by our Eds. Notes: For those on Internet check this very own connoisseur of fine rums John link out: Hider, a well-deserved winner - "Bravo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37Gpu37SNd0 Zulu" and enjoy! Anyone who knows about the The 'D' Day Commemoration weekend is Noonday Gun will remember Noel almost upon us and let us hope for good Coward's 1924 song, "Mad Dogs and weather for the 'Sail Past' in Torbay harbour Englishmen," which tells the world: and for the Parade of veterans along the sea "In Hong Kong they strike a gong, front. Most importantly a good turnout by and fire off a noonday gun, to the branch. (See last paragraph of editorial) reprimand each inmate, who's in Our standard will be paraded by Torbay Sea late." This historic relic, built in 1901, cadets. is still fired every day and is the best-known landmark in Causeway A GONG IN HONG KONG – DING DONG Bay. It is situated in a small garden In Hong Kong They Strike A Gong And Fire on Gloucester Road right across from Off A Noon Day Gun. the Excelsior Hotel . The noonday gun in Hong Kong is in situ on the very first plot of land to be sold by public auction in Hong Kong. It was purchased by Jardines in 1841. The trading company maintained its own gun battery and detachment of guards at East Point. The head of Jardines, known as the Taipan was given a gun salute whenever he arrived or departed Hong Kong. The origins of the Noon day gun salute is unknown, but the story I like best is that a senior naval officer, who was new to the Colony was annoyed by the sound of the gun going off at odd times whenever the Taipan arrived or departed and ordered Jardines to fire the gun at noon each day as a time signal for the Colony. (The had quite some power over businesses in those days) This tradition continued until the Japanese occupation in 1941. The original cannon disappeared during the war and at the end of hostilities the Royal Navy presented Jardines with a six pound gun as a replacement and in August 1947 the tradition of firing at noon each day re-commenced.

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The Canadian “Annapolis" (the former U.S. ship “Mackenzie ") which gave her name to the Canadian class that included five ex-American destroyers. Side number changed to I 04 on becoming a Canadian ship Under Two Flags T h e S t o r y of Seven Canadian Destroyers

were the Dominion's share of the fifty over- Aye, tear that tattered ensign down! age destroyers traded in by Britain in 1940 in Long has it waved on high, exchange for bases. That seventh ship was And many an eye has danced to see the St. Croix. She went down, on September That banner in the sky. 19th, 1943, in mid-Atlantic while fighting Editor’s Note: Remember this article was like a faithful sheepdog to protect a flock of published in January 1946 merchantmen from the attacks of German OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES' stirring wolf packs. words received a new meaning when six The end of the heroic little ship had Canadian destroyers recently hauled down dramatic reverberations in Parliament. Mr. their ensigns for the last time. It is not certain Winston Churchill was addressing the House yet when they are making their last bitter of Commons on the progress of the war. For voyage that is the fate of all fighting ships four months the Atlantic had been quiet, unlucky enough to survive the hour of their ominously quiet. Not a single ship had been glory. lost. Optimists began to believe that the Tacit admission on the part of the Battle of the Atlantic was won. As the Prime Canadian Navy Ministry that the six Minister started his speech someone handed survivors of the seven former American him a message and he changed his thesis destroyers which served with the Canadian abruptly. He told the Commons that the Hun Navy during the height of the Battle of the had broken loose on the Atlantic again. Atlantic will soon be headed for the Even as he was speaking the four-day battle wrecker's boneyard, could not but cause in which the St. Croix found her doom was many a nostalgic heart tug on both sides of in progress. The German wolf-packs had the International Border. There are many returned to the fray stronger and more regular Navy old-timers, reservists and numerous than ever and equipped with new volunteer youngsters, who served in these torpedoes of greater reach and detonation ships, either under the Stars and Stripes or power than had been known heretofore. the White Ensign. The westward-bound convoy, to which Better by far, the old-timers mused, if the the St. Croix was assigned as an escort six ships had met the fate that befell the vessel, was just about ready to catch up with seventh of the old U.S. destroyers which another, slower convoy which had left British ports several days earlier. As the two Ahoy Shipmate Torbay Page - 3 Volume 3 Issue 2 May 2014 aggregates of ships converged to form one That one survivor was too stunned when he fleet, the raiders struck suddenly and with was picked up to give a coherent account of unexampled ferocity. The hit-and-run what happened. All that is known is that the technique of World War I U-boats had been little flushdecker was fighting it out with a replaced by a new and highly efficient attack surfaced U-boat. At short range the two pattern. ships, the over-age destroyer and the giant Several wolf packs were deployed en sub-cruiser, believed to be the flagship of echelon over the routes convoys were sure to one of the wolfpacks, were circling each take. As the sound gear of the nearest other. The St. Croix's four-inchers were picked up the convoy it informed hammering pieces out of the submarine's the other members of the pack and, in conning tower. company with another lurking pack, they converged for a concentric attack. Part of a pack suicidally surfaced and feinted an attack to draw the escort vessels off. Meanwhile the rest of them closed in on What happened next is still largely the convoy. The newly-developed German conjecture. Men, who from the deck of a “tin fish" ripped into vessels right and left. nearby merchantman watched the uneven British, American, Norwegian and other contest, later reported that the St. Croix steamers went down. Over 300 members of suddenly seemed to be lifted bodily from the their crews drifted on rafts, in boats and, by waters. There was the flame and crash of a the grace of God, in the wake of the convoy. shattering explosion. Before the eyes of the Untold others went down as their ships were watchers she broke in two. Within seconds torn to pieces by the torpedoes. there was not a trace of the stout little ship Intermittently the battle continued for four left. Seemingly the German submarine had days. The first attack occurred on a Sunday. let go another spread of torpedoes, of which Not until Wednesday, after long-range at least one must have found its mark in the Liberator bombers had gone out from magazine of the St. Croix. Depth charges Canada to join the outnumbered escort stacked on deck did the rest. vessels against the lurking enemies, did the Together with the St. Francis, the St. wolves of the sea withdraw. Even then some Croix formed the Canadian destroyer class of them showed their teeth by surfacing named after her. Part of the famous fleet of boldly and shooting it out with the patrol flushdeckers the United States began bombers, pitting their guns against the depth building during the First World War; the charges and aerial torpedoes two old four-pipers were of the planes. Losses somewhat larger than the other sustained during the five former U.S. destroyers, aerial attack finally which were grouped by the convinced the U- Canadian Navy into the '' boats that they had Annapolis '' class. The found their match. class, which included, Yet only the timely besides the ship that gave it appearance of the her name, the Columbia, Canadian Air Force Hamilton, Niagara and St. units saved the two Clair, were thousand-tonners, all convoys from utter of them launched between destruction. The Canadian destroyer “Niagara” (formerly the July and December, 1918, Meanwhile the U.S. ship “Thatcher”) were for some time used for high-sea training, on runs between Halifax and and they were at the time old St. Croix had Newfoundland regarded as the last word found her end. All in destroyer construction. but one of her 147 men went down with her.

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There was still room for structural and cinnamon. Repeat this layer one improvements, however, which were more time or until the dish is filled, incorporated in the 1,200-tonners. They were finishing with the raisins on top. even more weatherly ships and their gun • In a saucepan gently heat the milk and platforms, raised seven feet above deck cream - DO NOT BOIL. level, protected their gunners from the bane • In a large baking bowl beat the eggs of every destroyer-man's existence, white with 3/4 sugar and the vanilla extract until light and airy and pale in colour. water shipped over the side. At the same Pour the warm milk over the eggs and time the platforms permitted better sight and continue beating until all the milk is fire command. The St. Croix and St. Francis, added. both launched in the spring of 1919, were of • Pour the egg mixture slowly and evenly this later flushdecker type. over the bread until all the liquid is All these ships became officially over age added. Gently press the surface with in 1935. Merely proverbial Navy Department your hand to push the bread into the frugality, dictated by Congress, prevented liquid. Sprinkle the remaining sugar over the surface then leave to one side for 30 their scrapping at that time and thus mins. eventually provided a welcome addition to • Bake the pudding in the hot oven for 40 the arsenal of the world's democracies when - 45 mins, until the surface is golden the need for fighting ships was most dire and brown and the pudding well risen and acute. the egg is set. Serve hot. ••••••••••••• Bread and Butter Pudding reheats well covered with aluminium foil in a hot oven, I also love it cold cut into large wedges - Cooks to the perfect for a lunch box. Galley ]]]]]]]] Norrie’s Bread & Butter Pudding Money can't buy happiness but it sure makes Fed up with all misery easier to live with. that left over stale I got a sweater for Christmas. I really wanted a bread? Here’s an appetising solution. screamer or a moaner. Ingredients ü 2 oz/ 50g soft butter ü 10 slices white /fruit bread, cut diagonally across. ü 2 oz / 50g golden raisins/sultanas ü ¼ tsp grated nutmeg ü ¼ tsp cinnamon ü 12 fl oz/ 350 ml milk ü 2 fl oz/ 50 ml custard ü 2 large free-range eggs ü 1 oz/ 25g sugar ü 1 tsp vanilla extract Preparation: Heat the oven 355°F/180°C/Gas 4. • Grease a 2 pint/1 litre pie dish with a little of the butter. Spread each of the bread triangles with butter. • Cover the base of the pie dish with overlapping triangles of bread, butter side up. Sprinkle half the golden raisins/sultanas evenly over the bread, then lightly sprinkle with a little nutmeg Ahoy Shipmate Torbay Page - 5 Volume 3 Issue 2 May 2014

Moe Berg Tokyo March 2, 1902-May 29, 1972 Berg's father, Bernard Berg, a Who was Moe Berg? pharmacist in Newark, New Jersey, taught his son Hebrew and Yiddish. Moe, When baseball greats Babe Ruth and Lou against his wishes, began playing Gehrig went on tour in baseball-crazy baseball on the street aged four. Japan in 1934, some fans wondered why a third-string catcher named Moe Berg His father disapproved and never once was included. Although he played with 5 watched his son play. In Barringer High major league teams from 1923 to 1939, School, Moe learned Latin, Greek and he was a very mediocre ball player. He French. Moe read at least 10 newspapers was regarded as the brainiest ballplayer every day. of all time. In fact Casey Stengel once He graduated magna cum laude from said: “That is the strangest man ever to Princeton - having added Spanish, Italian, German and Sanskrit to his linguistic quiver. During further studies at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and Columbia Law School, he picked up Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Arabic, Portuguese and Hungarian - 15 languages in all, plus some regional dialects. While playing baseball for Princeton University, Moe Berg would describe plays in Latin or Sanskrit. play baseball.” When all the baseball Tito's partisans stars went to Japan, Moe Berg went with During World War II, he them and many people wondered why was parachuted into he went with “the team”. The answer Yugoslavia to assess was simple: Moe Berg was a United the value to the war States spy working undercover with the effort of the two CIA. groups of partisans Moe spoke 15 languages - including there. He reported Japanese - Moe Berg had two loves: back that Marshall baseball and spying. Tito's forces were widely supported by In Tokyo, garbed in a kimono, Berg took the people and Winston flowers to the daughter of an American Churchill ordered all-out diplomat being treated in St. Luke's support for the Hospital - the tallest building in the General Mihajlovic Yugoslav Japanese capital. underground fighter, rather than He never delivered the flowers. The ball- Mihajlovic's Serbians. player ascended to the hospital roof and The parachute jump at age 41 filmed key features: the undoubtedly was a challenge. But there harbour, military was more to come in that same year. installations, railway yards, Berg penetrated German-held Norway, etc. met with members of the underground and located a secret heavy water plant - Eight years later, part of the Nazis' effort to build an General Jimmy atomic bomb. Doolittle studied Berg's films in His information guided the Royal Air planning his Force in a bombing raid to destroy the spectacular raid on Ahoy Shipmate Torbay Page - 6 Volume 3 Issue 2 May 2014 plant. The R.A.F. destroys the Norwegian Presidential Medal of Freedom heavy water plant targeted by Moe Berg. (the highest award to be awarded to civilians during There still remained wartime) the question of how far had the Nazis Moe Berg’s baseball card is progressed in the the only card on display at race to build the the CIA Headquarters in first Atomic Washington DC bomb. If the ]]]]]]]] Nazis were successful, they would win the

war. Berg (under the code name Welfare Report "Remus") was sent Once again I am pleased to report to Switzerland to hear that I have nothing much to report; so

leading German physicist assume that all shipmates are doing

Werner Heisenberg, a Nobel Laureate, fine. Shipmate Patricia Haward now lecture and determine if the Nazis were back in her own flat at last after her close to building an A-bomb. Moe medical problems .Please phone me if managed to slip past the SS guards at you know of any shipmate on sick list. the auditorium, posing as a Swiss I wish the few on light duties a speedy graduate student. The spy carried in his recovery and hope to see you at ‘Both pocket a pistol and a cyanide pill. Watches’ soon. If the German indicated the Nazis were ••••••••••••• close to building a weapon, Berg was to shoot him - and then swallow the cyanide pill. Vice Presidents Report By S/M Norrie Millen Moe, sitting in the front row, determined Vice President Mike that the Germans were nowhere near Seaward, is living out their goal, so he complimented of his kit bag and Heisenberg on his speech and walked between draft chits him back to his hotel. (moving home) at the Werner Heisenberg - he blocked the moment so apologised Nazis from acquiring an atomic bomb. for not submitting a report (Could not find his quill either!) so on his Moe Berg's report was distributed to behalf I can report that Shipmate Mike Britain's Prime Minister, Winston recently placed a wreath on the memorial on Churchill, President Franklin D. Roundham Head, Paignton. Thus Roosevelt and key figures in the team commemorating local hero Lieutenant developing the Atomic Bomb. Roosevelt Commander Arthur Leyland Harrison VC responded: "Give my regards to the RN, on behalf of the Branch (This was catcher." agreed at the last meeting) He also reports that the inscription on the stone is in need of Most of Germany’s leading physicists attention. This will be discussed at the May had been Jewish and had fled the Nazis meeting. mainly to Britain and the United States. After the war, Moe Berg was awarded HE MUST PAY Husband and wife had a tiff. the Medal of Freedom – America’s Wife called up her mom and said, "He highest honour for a civilian in wartime. fought with me again, I am coming to live But Berg refused to accept, as he with you." Mom said, "No darling, he must couldn't tell people about his exploits. pay for his mistake. I am coming to live with you. After his death, his sister accepted the Medal and it hangs in the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown

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the losers of a darts match are expected to Goffer Time pay for their defeat in "go ffe rs " ; a like ceremony takes place when a man's birthday By "Nautivox” arrives, for he celebrates by forking out for (from 1946 Trident) all the members of his mess. Custom also has ICTIONARIES do not include the it that those among his messmates who take word '' goffer ''; but step on board a their rum invariably reward him in kind with warship on a sultry summer '' sippers '' from their tots. In fact, almost Dafternoon and mention it to the first everything seems worthy of a round or two bluejacket you come across and it is ten of raspberry, pineapple, vanilla, lemon or chances to one he will grin and say: "Thanks. strawberry-flavoured '' goffers '' at 4d a pint. Don't mind if I do." Then he will steer you At the moment, however, soda fountains for'ard to the recreation space and indicate a are exclusive to the Navy's '' elder brethren,'' corner that boasts a small hatch marked '' the capital ships of the fleet. Yet, in spite of NAAFI” this handicap, the smaller fellows do not go It may seem strange to some, without their “goffers." Most of them carry remembering the tough, hard-living among their crew a sick-berth rating whose individuals who once formed the crews of knowledge of dispensing stands him in good our earlier men-o'-war, that to-day's sailor stead; for the price of a penny he quenches should take so readily to soft drinks. But many a thirst on a hot day . progress bows to neither race nor creed and the days of the swashbuckling seadog whose A sailor's tot of rum, it has often been main interest was rum and lots of it are now, said, makes far more friends than his money. happily, passed. ''Goffers,'' imported from The day is not far distant when we shall hear our American cousins, have come to stay. of '' goffers '' having similar power. Nevertheless, it must not be thought that Editor’s Note: The word Goffer may the Navy has gone completely T.T. It is not have appeared in dictionaries in merely that a happy medium has been 1946, but it does appear in my 1991 reached. While the issue of rum has lost Collins Dictionary and is defined as: to little of its long-standing appeal, it is press pleats into a frill, to decorate the interesting to note that the man who draws edges of a book, the iron or tool for his grog to-day seems equally partial to the making goffers. less intoxicating effects of the humble '' goffer.'' HMS Pembroke will not be open Probably few of the many compartments to visitors of a warship are as busy as the ''goffer bar”; it vies with its popular counterpart, the During her Torbay visit canteen. The reason for its importance is plain, for, almost unobserved perhaps, it has done a great deal towards the elimination of branch consciousness, for many years a most Water in the carburettor disturbing feature of lower deck life. WIFE: "There is trouble with the car. It Nowadays, stokers, marines, has water in the carburettor." communications, E.R.A.s, writers and all the HUSBAND: "Water in the carburettor? various specialists that comprise a warship's That's ridiculous” company, gather together in perfect WIFE: "I tell you the car has water in harmony—at the ship's "pub." (Eds Note: the carburettor." Different navy than I served in – HUSBAND: "You don't even know what a carburettor is. I'll check it out. Probably “The Golden Rivet Pub”!) Where's the car? Though a newcomer, the "goffer” is fast WIFE: "In the pool" earning a respected place among the long traditions of the Senior Service. For instance, Ahoy Shipmate Torbay Page - 8 Volume 3 Issue 2 May 2014

President’s Patter Lieutenant Commander M.A Hammon - RN By S/M Peter Brown Commanding Officer MCM1 D-Day Commemoration CREW 7 - Currently CO on 2014 HMS Pembroke RNA Branch should Born in Dorset and muster on Haldon Pier (See educated at Kings School Bruton and Cardiff University, map at end of article) at 10 am on Saturday Mark Hammon joined the Royal 7th June for the short parade from there Navy in 1998. Initial training and around the corner along Beacon Quay to the Fleet Time were conducted in HMS SHEFFIELD, area outside the Harvester pub and by the HMS NEWCASTLE and an exchange with the Spanish memorials, where the service will be in their Tall Ship JUAN SEBASTIAN de ELCANO. conducted at 1100 (six bells of the forenoon) Following Officer of the Watch training, he joined The parade will be dismissed on completion. HMS HURWORTH initially as the Gunnery Officer in 2000, becoming the Navigating Officer after six On Sunday, 8th June, there will be the months. In 2003 he joined HMS CHATHAM in the largest Sail Past that Torbay has ever known. Gulf during Op TELIC and for the remainder of her A Fairmile Launch from WW2 will board deployment which included Op ORACLE off the passengers at Haldon Pier, 1330 (3 bells of coast of East Africa. After Navigating Officers’ Course he was assigned to HMS EXETER in the afternoon) and I have arranged with Tony 2005. His eighteen months onboard included and Rider of Normandy Veterans for 8 RNA exercises in the Mediterranean and inside the Arctic Torbay members to be taken on board. The Circle around the coast of Norway. Fairmile will then proceed to anchor off Completing the first generic Principle Warfare Livermead and at 1400 the Sail Past will Officers’ course in 2007, he joined HMS commence from Torquay, led by HMS GLOUCESTER initially as the Principle Warfare Officer (Underwater) and subsequently as the Pembroke M107 (MCMV) escorted by two Operations Officer. This period included a number of other HM launches. As each craft passes the exercises in European Waters and was completed Fairmile the crews will stand to salute the during a deployment to the South Atlantic. Normandy Veterans and continue on past Having left GLOUCESTER to complete Air Paignton pier and Brixham Battery. Warfare Officers’ Course, he rejoined the Ship as the Three DVDs which I obtained last year Air Warfare Officer early in 2010 fulfilling the role of Operations Officer for a short time prior to becoming from the Imperial War Museum will be the Senior Warfare Officer. This period saw shown on Sat/Sunday PM’s on a mobile GLOUCESTER successfully undertaking an eight screen in Princess Gardens, Paignton at the month regeneration between deployments, which Vue Cinema and Brixham at the Battery. included the reintroduction of the Salvo capability of Two of these DVDs are on the Normandy D- Sea Dart to the Fleet, a period of Operational Sea Training and a further deployment to the South Day landings and the third is on "From D- Atlantic. Day to Paris". Many other events A short period on the staff of Flag Officer Sea will be taking place but I Training followed as a Staff Warfare Officer, have focused on the specializing in Above Water Warfare. main items. He then assumed Command of MCM1 Crew 7 in July 2012 which has included time in HMS PENZNACE, HMS SHOREHAM (in the Arabian Gulf), HMS GRIMSBY and most recently HMS PEMBROKE. Mark is married and has two young sons. When time allows interests include sailing, kayaking, skiing, cycling and supporting Bath Rugby. HMS Pembroke is one of seven Sandown-class mine-hunters based down river at HMNB Clyde at Faslane. Ahoy Shipmate Torbay Page - 9 Volume 3 Issue 2 May 2014

The small ship returned to her home port was raised and wrecked off the East Indies in in August last year, after spending over three 1749. years working in the Gulf alongside multi- HMS Pembroke was a 60-gun fourth rate national forces. However the 7,000-mile launched in 1757, hulked in 1776 before journey home was not without its being broken-up in 1793. excitements, when she and sister ship HMS Pembroke was a 74-gun HMS Middleton were third rate launched in 1812. called upon to guard a She was converted to a merchant ship in screw ship in 1855, pirate-infested transferred to the waters. Coastguard in 1858, and October saw the used as a base ship from small ship lofted 1887. She was renamed skywards when she was hauled HMS Forte as a receiving hulk in 1890, out of the water in Faslane's submarine shed and was sold in 1905. for the first two-weeks of an eight-week HMS Pembroke was a 101-gun screw overhaul – a necessary tasking after her long propelled first rate launched in 1859 as duty overseas. Refreshed and rejuvenated, HMS Duncan. She was renamed HMS she returns to duty this year conducting training and tasking in British home waters. Pembroke on her transferral to harbour service in 1890, renamed HMS Tenedos II in The hull and large amounts of the 1905 and was sold in 1910. superstructure are built from glass reinforced plastic (GRP), ensuring a strong HMS Pembroke is a Sandown-class mine non-magnetic ship, fit to survive the shocks hunter launched in 1997 and currently in associated with mine hunting activities. service. HMS Pembroke uses high-powered sonar ]]]]]]]] to search underwater for mine-like contacts. EIGHT THOUGHTS TO PONDER Upon detection of a contact, classification Number 8 runs are conducted on various frequencies. Life is sexually transmitted. Once identified as a potential mine, the Number 7 Seafox mine disposal system is able to Good health is merely the slowest possible rate visually identify the target as a mine and at which one can die. then destroy it. Number 6 HMS Pembroke also has her own mine Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. clearance diving team which is used to They can't tell them apart. If you see a gleam in identify potential mine threats beneath the his eyes, make him a sandwich. surface. Number 5 Nine ships and a number of shore Give a person a fish and you feed them for a establishments of the Royal Navy have been day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they named HMS Pembroke. won't bother you for weeks, months, maybe years. HMS Pembroke was a 28-gun fifth rate Number 4 launched in 1655 and lost in a collision off Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, Portland in 1667. lying in the hospitals, dying of nothing. HMS Pembroke was a 32-gun fifth rate Number 3 launched in 1690, captured by the French in All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It 1694 and subsequently wrecked. pays no attention to criticism. HMS Pembroke was a 60-gun fourth-rate Number 2 launched in 1694 and captured by the In the 60's, people took acid to make the world French in 1709. She was recaptured in 1711. weird. Now the world is weird and people take In 1713 was purchased in Genoa by Spain. Prozac to make it normal. HMS Pembroke was a 54-gun fourth rate And The Number 1 Thought launched in 1710 and broken up in 1726. Life is like a jar of Jalapeno peppers- What you do today, might burn you’re a** tomorrow. HMS Pembroke was a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1733. She foundered in 1745, but ….... and as someone recently said to me: "Don't worry about old age-- It doesn't last that long." Ahoy Shipmate Torbay Page - 10