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Ive alwayswanted a sea daddy!

I was a Ganges six week wonder, November 1975.

The Artic convoys were a brutal, almost inhuman chapter in our seagoing history. I served on the modern HMS Edinburgh,and we used to do sea days etc for the wartime Edinburghs veterans. They had it incredibly rough, even in comparison to the other servicemen in WW2. Churchill called it " The...

Thanks for sharing that, I met a lot of old matelots in my time in the Senior Service, they really were an inspiration in the main. Mostly, as you say, quite , in assuming, ordinary blokes, but they had done the most extraordinary things.