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Rum Tub September Volume 8, Issue 4 September 2019 The Rum Tub or Norrie’s Editorial Nocturnal and Nautical By Shipmate Norrie Millen Natter Hi! Shipmates, said in February issue trouble normally comes In this issue Iin three’s, that is unless your name is Millen! I Editorial ........................................ 1 guess I have not reached my target yet as yet AB George Hinckley VC ................... 2-3 another mishap occurred just before James ‘Danny’ Back in the days of tanners & bobs ... 3 Humour ........................................ 3 Keay’s funeral. As funeral cortege was arriving, I felt HMS Kelly –Witness Reports ............. 5-8 dizzy and went to sit in my car for a few minutes. William Hoste KCB .......................... 8 (11) SBS v SAS ..................................... 9-11 never reached the car, but dropped like a lead balloon William Hoste KCB continued ............ 11-12 I and tried to dent the curb stone with my head but failed! Blacked out and spent time in Queen Alexandra’s hospital in Cosham. Pay special attention to the wording and fter almost 24 hours in hospital with blood pressure spelling. If you know the bible even a Acheck every hour throughout the night, cat scans, x- little, you'll find this hilarious! It comes rays etc., they discharged me at 1515 on Friday. They put from a catholic elementary school test. The last one is the best. blackout down to an extremely low and dangerous level of Kids were asked questions about the old blood pressure. The ER Doctor has consulted with my GP and new testaments. The following as I have a history of these dizzy spells and I have to have statements about the bible were written this low blood pressure issue investigated. by children. They have not been retouched or corrected. was not allowed to drive so Danny’s son picked me up 1. In the first book of the bible, and put me up for the night. I had taken Ted Ditum to Guinness’s. God got tired of creating the I world so he took the Sabbath off. funeral, as he had no way of getting home, Bob & Heather 2. Adam and eve were created from an White took him. I had to get the train home. Danny’s son apple tree. Noah's wife was Joan of ark. is kindly driving my car down to Devon on Thursday Noah built and ark and the animals came on in pears. y son still seriously ill. Just when he thought he was 3. Lots wife was a pillar of salt during the M on the mend he developed yet another abscess day, but a ball of fire during the night. where his wrist had been repaired, also fell when getting 4. The Jews were a proud people and throughout history they had trouble with out of bed for a visit to the heads so had a pump on that unsympathetic genitals. and also wrist to pump out sepsis. 5. Sampson was a strongman who let himself be led astray by a Jezebel like feel sure that between all of our Ulster shipmates, there Delilah. I must be enough material, anecdotes, ‘black cats’ and 6. Samson slayed the philistines with the other amusing things that would fill several books, so axe of apostles. why not share that with other members via this 7. Moses led the Jews to the red sea newsletter? where they made unleavened bread, which is bread without any ingredients. normally have to rely on the Internet for material 8. The Egyptians were all drowned in the which I know you all find interesting, however it dessert. Afterwards, Moses went up to I mount cyanide to get the ten would be so much better if we could use all of your commandments. memories rather than Internet! I know when you have 9. The epistels were the wives of the had a tot or three, lamps swing and the ditties come out. apostles. (More next issue) The way I see it anyway! Humans are allergic to change. They love to say “We’ve always done it this way” I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. Volume 8 Issue 4 September 2019 Able Seaman George Hinckley VC Copied from RNA Plymouth – with additions from Editor THE TAIPING Rebellion is perhaps the Wha. bloodiest civil war of recent centuries, From the fortified walls the Taiping but a name scarcely recognised in the hurled a barrage of metal and shot western world. against the attackers, with death Even the famous Major General and injury slashing through the Charles 'Chinese' Gordon, who with ranks his 'Ever Victorious Army' led the The sailors pulled back to relative safety, Imperial Army in a series of wins with the ground exploding under a against the Taiping, is better known as relentless onslaught of shots. But from their 'Gordon of Khartoum'. shelter the sailors looked out at their wounded The Ever Victorious Army was originally friends and colleagues, lying injured before the created as a mercenary army by the American gates while the bullets rained around them. adventurer Frederick Townsend Ward, and his George Hinckley volunteered to run through death in 1862 - one month before George the deadly hail in pursuit of his ship's assistant Hinckley won his VC against the Taiping - master Mr Croker. brought Gordon to the fore. Hinckley slung Croker across his shoulder and British interests had been strong and then carried him to the cover of a nearby shrine. embedded in the area since the successes of the Opium War of 1840-42 against the ruling Hinckley rejoined his companions, and once Manchu dynasty. again he stepped forward to take on another rescue mission, pulling to cover a Captain Led by Hong Xiuquan, the Taiping Bruman, an army man fighting rebellion of 1851-64 was with the British contingent a perverted form of of the Imperial Army. Christian uprising with its leader Hinckley received his claiming to be the Victoria Cross from the younger brother of Jesus Commander-in-Chief Christ. Plymouth, Admiral Houston Stewart, at Devonport in July 1863. As his Taiping Heavenly Kingdom armies Four months later, he had lost it. A swept across China, some 30 million are replacement cost him the tidy sum of 24 estimated to have died in the devastating shillings. conflict and its accompanying famine. Hinckley had a rather up and down career - in Fighting alongside 3,000 men from the the same year that he won the VC he had been Imperial Chinese Army in October 1862 busted down to second rate for his conduct in were Naval Brigades from HMS January and in a separate incident spent Sphinx, Encounter and the 28 days discharged to a Hong Kong gunboats Flamer and Hardy and prison in May. a Franco-Chinese force of 500 However his service career did men. improve, with promotion to a On October 9, George Hinckley Leading Seaman and and his Brigade from HMS Quartermaster. Sphynx arrived at their target, Hinckley left the service in 1867, the town of Fung Wha, ten miles settled down in Devon; he died in south of Shanghai. 1904 at the age of 85. The sailors had marched through the night, drenched to the skin from the pouring rain, Able Seaman George and tired and weary they Hinckley, aged 42, landed ashore at Fung Wha, China, mustered their energy with a tot as part of the Naval Division of rum before piling into the from HMS Sphinx during the attack on the main gates of Fung Rum Tub Page - 2 Volume 8 Issue 4 September 2019 Taiping Rebellion in 1862. His consequent Back in the days of tanners and bobs, actions earned him the honour of being When Mothers had patience and Fathers had jobs. awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain's When football team families wore hand me down shoes, Highest award. In January 1863 he was And T.V had only two channels to choose. promoted to Leading Seaman and later to Quartermaster. Back in the days of three penny bits, In 1865 he married, and settled in when schools employed nurses to search for your nits. Plymouth. He left the Service in 1867, and When snowballs were harmless; ice slides were died on 31st December 1904 and is buried permitted in Ford Park Cemetery leaving a Wife, and all of your jumpers were warm and hand knitted. Jane, and 3 children. On December 31st. each year the Branch Back in the days of hot ginger beers, organises a Memorial Service, and lay a wreath at when children remained so for more than six years. the grave When children respected what older folks said, Editor’s Note; In RNA Plymouth version they spell HMS Sphyx with a ‘Y’, but all the references I and pot was a thing you kept under your bed. checked spell HMS Sphinx with an ‘I’ However it has been pointed out to me that in fact two were Back in the days of Listen with Mother, spelt with a ‘Y’. when neighbours were friendly and talked to each other. When cars were so rare you could play in the street. When Doctors made house calls and Police walked the beat. Back in the days of Milligan's Goons, when butter was butter and songs all had tunes. It was dumplings for dinner and trifle for tea, and your annual break was a day by the sea Back in the days of Dixon's Dock Green, Crackerjack pens and Lyons ice cream. When children could freely wear National Health glasses, and teachers all stood at the FRONT of their classes.
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