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Ahoy Shipmate RNA Torbay Newsletter Volume 9 Issue 3 June 2020 www.candoo.com/ulsternorrie/rnator Ahoy Shipmate RNA Torbay Newsletter Volume 9 Issue 3 June 2020 In this issue Editorial Editorial........................................ 1 By Shipmate Norrie Millen Report on Chairman & filler ............. 2 Hi! Shipmates, Terry Membery’s Journal Part I ........ 3-5 HMS Protector ............................... 6-9 I don’t know about you, but I am fed up with the way our Crimea Field hospitals & C9 ovid 19 . 10-12 government are handling this Covid-19 situation. Other Bish’s Bit – The White Friar Part II .... 13-14 countries shut their borders right away, nothing in, nothing out Lt Col Weston RM Obit .................... 15-16 and recorded very low or zero death rates. Our borders are still wide open and the rules for us change by the minute are total confusing and really obscure. Now it’s going to mid-June before MURPHY'S OTHER 15 LAWS they do anything about it! 1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear Have you been watching the various debates and interviews of them speak. senior cabinet ministers on various channels? Have you 2. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. noticed they never actually answer a direct question, just a lot 3. He who laughs last thinks slowest. of verbal diarrhoea which actually says and means nothing? 4. A day without sunshine is like, well, night. 5. Change is inevitable, except from a They appear to me to treat the general public as if we are all vending machine. dense, their continual pontificating on the issues instead of 6. Those who live by the sword get shot by taking action leaves me very angry and indeed frustrated as I those who don't. am sure it does to you all. 7. Nothing is fool proof to a sufficiently talented fool. I firmly believe that if our PM and government had taken 8. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50- immediate action there would be many thousands still alive 50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. today. They have knowingly committed a form of genocide, by 9. It is said that if you line up all the cars in allowing this terrible pandemic to go literally unchecked. They the world end-to-end, someone from Quebec have diretly and indirectly caused so much heartache and would be stupid enough to try to pass all of misery to the families who have lost loved ones. If one causes them. death, one is charged with murder or manslaughter. Therefore 10. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it. in my opinion they (PM & his senior ministers) should be also 11. The things that come to those who wait charged with manslaughter. may be the things left by those who got there first. What about the two ministers who broke the lock down rules 12. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a and yet are deemed by PM to have done no wrong? I guess one day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a rule for them and another for us minions. boat all day drinking beer. 13. Flashlight: A case for holding dead But as I always say: we are still here to complain about it. They batteries. say a matelot (and ex matelots) are not happy unless they are 14. God gave you toes as a device for finding ‘dripping’ furniture in the dark. 15. When you go into court, you are putting I hope, pray and trust that you all stay on the right side of the yourself in the hands of twelve people who grass and have no need for your wooden overcoats just yet. The weren't smart enough to get out of jury navy didn’t kill us and neither will this if we follow the rules duty. The way I see it anyway! Volume 9 Issue 3 June 2020 Chairman’s Corner blood test. This led him to be admitted, first to By Shipmate John Soanes Torbay, then transferred to a private room at Newton Abbot Hospital. He is not allowed Hi! Shipmates, The editor writing visitors even from his wife and family. His this column. Holding John’s rd chemotherapy treatment has been halted, and page open from May 23 for his the bladder removal postponed, as it was felt Chairman’s Corner and no the operation might be fatal for him. answer to my emails to give him a nudge, nor any response from To date he has received four pints of blood, growing increasingly concerned. has had stents placed in his kidneys as they are not functioning correctly and everything he Luckily I managed to get Ann to answer the drinks and eats is measured, and likewise phone yesterday. Ann does not do email and everything that comes out is also weighed and did not know how to recover my phone measured. messages hence me not hearing back. He has been transferred back to Torbay Ann related the horrendous tale of John’s (twice I think) but currently back in Newton ongoing and very serious medical problems. Abbot, hoping to be discharged middle of Around 10 days ago, he went to Torbay for a coming week. So not good news. I have passed the Branches regards and good Did the US Navy ever consider a wishes to John via Ann, he is allowed the odd nuclear-powered battleship to phone call and I am sure you will all remember replace the Iowas? him in your prayers. Norrie. From the Internet The last planned battleships, the Montana class, were cancelled at the end of WWII Kentucky's bow. So the USS Wisconsin is before construction began. They were not actually two ships in one.] planned to be nuclear vessels. This was mostly But there would be other classes of ships that a result of nuclear vessels being several years were nuclear powered. Guided missile cruisers in the future long after battleships were for example. But despite the fact that they considered obsolete. It wasn’t played a part in conflicts up until until Admiral Rickover’s Desert Storm the halcyon days push for nuclear of the battleship were over submarines that after WWII. surface ships were considered for The closest the US Navy nuclear propulsion. got to a nuclear The Enterprise CVN battleship idea was USS 65 didn’t happen until Long Beach CGN-9. the sixties. She was a beast. 720 feet The remaining Iowa class long and over 16,000 tons in her battleships were mothballed and prime. She carried at one point close to occasionally brought back into service up until 200 missiles. USS Long Beach was one of a kind. Originally conceived to carry nuclear the early nineties. [Interesting side note: there missiles, including Polaris Ballistic Missiles. were two incomplete Iowa class ships under She eventually became a heavily Anti-Air construction that were cancelled after the war. Warfare focused command and control type After a collision with a destroyer, the USS flagship Wisconsin was fitted with the incomplete USS Get Well Soon John – All Branch shipmates are thinking about you. We are all praying for you RNA Torbay Newsletter Page -2 Volume 9 Issue 3 June 2020 Journal of Terry Membery Life in the RN from 1967 -1993. – Part One Submitted by Shipmate Terry Membery The question most asked is why Ganges at Football and Rugby, captaining the aforementioned. I didn't did one join the Royal Navy? find it hard to adjust to life at Shotley and Rewind to boyhood. so I have no horror stories of Laundry Hill. My father was in the Parachute division in the Army and I was The sport was a welcome distraction from destined for an Army career the mundane chores of cleaning, school work, Engineering and only one problem I Sewing. We had to was scared of embroider our names in heights so that red on our No. 8’s was out (even to which took an age. I this day you will had a year at HMS not get me up a Ganges, looking back ladder). I enjoyed my time there days we're quite With the tragic death full and in the evening we of my father when I was played table tennis and 12 my Uncle influenced my snooker. boyhood life. He was in the RN. I can remember going to The year flew by and on 11th June Plymouth with my Auntie to meet him on 1968, I left HMS Ganges and joined his return from the sea. One such trip I HMS Raleigh the next day 12th June. can remember vividly and once we got on HMS Raleigh - 12/6/68- 29/12 68 the ship they had monkeys and a big Although I wasn't aware I would stay at sword that they brought back from their HMS Raleigh till December awaiting a voyage (I don't think we would get away draft to a ship. Whilst in HMS Raleigh I with it now ) was employed at Jupiter Point sailing and HMS Ganges -20/6/67 -11/6/68. seamanship school. I wasn't aware then At the tender age of 16½, I journeyed to but I would return to Jupiter Point as the Plymouth and signed up to enlist. The Engineering Officer in charge. I liked the journey up to Shotley was an emotional relaxed atmosphere at Jupiter Point the one leaving my home family and friends.
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