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HMS Eagle 1970-1972 The printer and his machine If there is one man who is delighted that the Commission is over it is the Editor of the EE. His duties embraced just about every- thing short of editing: Censor, ghost writer, cajoler, persuader, recipient of many broken promises - yes, even troublemaker at times (as when we printed RAS times half an hour later than they To the best of our recollection, should have been!) -all those odd jobs have now, with the no one ever complained that last-ever issue, been laid to rest. No one will miss the paper - they had read the stuff they saw in the EE before in the `Reader's for it was only ever published to cover those times when there Digest', `Week End', `Reveille', were few other substitutes. `Tit Bits', `Playboy', `Who's Who', `Mayfair', etc.; but there were complaints when we re- After the DED, as the new Editor took printed articles that had been over, things were a bit of a struggle for previously run in the EE - even if they had been used more than a while. Tugg had `made' the previous TOO BLUE a year ago. From these facts we editions with his prodigious output conclude that there are some (now he can be seen by all in the Daily Sometimes there were complaints about people on board who not only Papers). Without the assistance of the the articles that never quite made it: read the EE and digested it all - they read nothing else either! CBGLO section, who had previously run `Well, I'll never do another one for the paper entirely, things were very you.' The criterion for what was over much a one-man band for a while. the mark was the letter from an Aus- Wag and Doodle made those early tralian farmer replying to a final tax issues well worth while with their demand. It was over the mark and excellent cartoons. The Welfare Com- never got published. It contained just mittee were then approached and about every swear-word known to Jack agreed to pay a wage to helpers who - anything less potent usually got into gave up time regularly to do chores. the paper. The Editor still has a file of The `style' of the paper was changed: material that is regarded as being `too a new heading, in the same style type- blue'. If he can get it past the Customs, face later adopted by the Daily Mirror, he'll be offering it to Lord Longford. was made up; a new shape of page (even though it meant a special delivery of a lorry-load of paper rushed down from the makers and delivered the day MERCENARIES before we sailed); special supplements Wes Wescott, Bungy Edwards and were prepared prior to every foreign Dave Manley have typed regularly. The last staple is driven home visit; a weekly version was produced, Chats Chater has printed, helped out pruned of all double entendre and suit- by Barny Bush. Cliff Mills and Bungy able for sending home if you wanted to; FAR-SIGHTED Williams have managed the small and a Families' version was produced, too, devoted team of staplers. As long as the The ship has nearly always had a and mailed home automatically to those cash was there, so were the helpers. paper of some kind. EAGLE EYE who subscribed the cost of the postage. They were a dedicated band of mer- developed into EAGLE EXPRESS, cenaries. The object of their dedication but there was never anything par- may have been in doubt at times, but ticularly farsighted or speedy about without it there would have been no the paper. 'Yesterday's news to- paper. Nor would there have been such morrow' was the motto, and the a good one without the efforts of the EE never pretended to be a news- Editor, Instructor Lieutenant `Berny' paper. It set out to entertain. It Harrison, and, of course, the many succeeded, as these press cuttings authors and contributors, both known show ... and unknown, famous and infamous, on the ship and off it, whose work was 'Brilliant, scintillatingly funny . .' plagiarised, hacked, or stolen but above - EAGLE EXPRESS all very much appreciated by everyone 'Jokes getting a bit near the border- both on board and in the many ships in line again . .' Assembling the `FAMILIES' company. - BRIDGE WEEKLY fifty-nine RADIO 4XO Named such because it is midships in X section on four deck, the Ship's radio station is one of the major sources of entertainment on board. From `Call the Hands' to `Pipe Down' the Ship's Relay Equipment, or SRE, channels two radio stations or taped music to all the messdecks. During lunch hours and evenings at sea, Channel B is given over to locally found talent in one form or another: a happy band of amateur disc jockeys and announcers put out a wide variety of programmes from pop to progressive, classics to jazz, folk to Motown and also the comedy pro- grammes from the BBC and those pro- duced locally on board. Over the past year the standard of programmes has become quite pro- fessional. In the early days hardly any- one had any broadcasting experience, and the thought of an unseen audience of two thousand-odd was a bit daunting. Radio 4XO Disc Jockeys : " Dave Gerry (Manager); Chris CAVANAGH; Tams CLARK; Dave (Waz) LOVICK; Ken Ross; Dickic DALE; Taff EVANS; Tony FRANCIS; Tex SOMERVILLE; Ivan HILL; Dick This has been overcome to such an STEPHENSON (in charge);. * * Dave BULMER; Chris SYMES; Dave DONATI; Jack DAVISON; Ken MOULTON. extent that some of the staff broadcast over the air in New Zealand, putting CHILDREN'S PARTIES out a two-hour record show on RADIO 2ZB. The staff has always been on the Mention the awe-inspiring words, lookout for something different - from ` Children's Party', to any EAGLE sailor taping cabaret shows ashore to inter- and you will have a cringing, whining, viewing people like Russ Conway or blubbering heap who would rather go asking for programmes from local radio through shot, shell and Jutland over stations that were visited. again `free' if he could persuade his One of the most popular programmes departmental regulator not to volunteer was `Requests from Home', made only him as a pirate. possible by the wonderful support But Jutland, the King's Cross patrol, from those at home. Despite all sorts of grippos and even duty watches have all local problems on board - at speed the taken second place to pirate's duty at vibration of the ship is sufficient to some time or other. No sooner has the throw off the record stylus - we have cry of `Not me again, Chief' echoed managed to keep some of the Ship's through the ship than Jack has broken Company happy some of the time, but out his No I pirate dress and is ready not, unfortunately, all of them all the to put on a brave face and entertain. time - but that's show business! We have thrown seven children's parties in places as far apart as South- ampton, Villefranche, Malta, Sydney, Wellington, Perth and Durban. Some 1,200 under-privileged children have visited the ship. On a typical fateful day the pirates muster. At 1400, dead on the knocker, along the jetty comes this horde of laughing, screaming, piccaninnies, in- fants, bairns, juveniles, and children - invariably led by a nun. They descend into the bowels of the ship and are sub- jected to all the develish means of piratical torture that could be devised: swings and roundabouts; tea and stickies; Tom and Jetties; rides on `Jack the Flight Deck Railway' and the `Buccaneer Bomber'. Alas, after three hours they depart: some missing, believed lost, but all happy and con- tented. They all say, every time, `Thank you very much HMS EAGLE'. sixty The photograph on the left is taken from one of the prizewinning entries in the Ship's Photographic Competition. All the other photographs in the book have been taken by the ratings of the Ship's Photographic Section THRASH The Organisation for Thoroughly Happy Runs ASHore was born on 5 June, shortly after deploying for the Far East. The motive was to give us a good time in foreign ports of call and to make sure that all invitations received by the The PMO conducts ship were accepted. An office was built were particularly essential in those early, in the starboard pocket of the junior EAGLE BRASS less tuneful, days (especially when we Rates' Dining Hall and large notice- remember the difficulty we had of find- boards displayed the forthcoming attrac- Whilst in the Mediterranean we decided ing a space far enough away from tions. Our army representatives on to form a volunteer brass band, and a anyone in which to practice). board, 63 Carrier Borne Ground Liaison notice to this effect was promulgated. All along we have enjoyed the daily Section, ran THRASH whilst at sea. In Thirty-one musicians of varying skill practices and occasional Saturday Night harbour, an officer, senior rate and responded, and our problem - that of Singalong performances. They, too, junior rate manned the office continu- getting instruments and music - was lacked polish at first, and we fitted into ously from 0800 to 2000 daily. A tackled during the forthcoming leave the programmes well, always receiving similar party manned a shore liaison period. With assistance from the Wel- a welcome from the Saturday Nighters. office in each port. fare Fund and from the Royal Marines We have presented music ranging The organisation operated in Cape- School of Music, sufficient brassware through Elgar from Tchaikovsky to town; Sydney; Wellington; Fremantle; and music was assembled by the time Richard Rodgers, and our major concert and Durban; and collected names and, we sailed in May to let the playing given on the quarterdeck for the ward- when necessary, money for private commence.
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