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I JOINED THE MOB: TO READ MORE SEA CHANTIES...
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I JOINED THE MOB. Becoming an Australian citizen - 2010. Thursday, October 4, 2012. TO READ MORE SEA CHANTIES. Please go to I JOINED THE MOB, PART 2, written by Chas Cooper himself! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). If you'd like to read more RN experiences, my mate Hank from the HMS Crane is also writing a blog about his experiences, which can be found at:. Http:/ sailor1953.blogspot.com/. If you would like to leave a comment at the bottom of any of the stories, please do so! LIFE BEFORE THE MOB.
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I JOINED THE MOB: March 2011
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I JOINED THE MOB. Becoming an Australian citizen - 2010. Friday, March 18, 2011. HMS Crane - aka The Drooping Bird. 65279;Leaving HMS Dryad on the 15th April 1959, having only one little hiccup which I managed to slide out from under, I was due to join HMS Roebuck a month or so before finally getting a draft to HMS Crane. This time I thought that perhaps for the extra month ashore, I might have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire! So off I trotted to SORPs office toot de suite. The chicken shi...
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I JOINED THE MOB: February 2011
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I JOINED THE MOB. Becoming an Australian citizen - 2010. Monday, February 28, 2011. Three days after finishing my RP2 course, I was given orders to join HMS Birmingham, a ship about 20-years-old even then (in fact she turned 21 and was 'given the key to the door' while I was aboard). It was a City-class cruiser with 6-inch main armament. We all (CPOs, POs and the rest of the troops) did so; and yes, we got the same old talk. The one we had all heard before! But the art which I soon learnt was not just to...
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I JOINED THE MOB: January 2011
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I JOINED THE MOB. Becoming an Australian citizen - 2010. Tuesday, January 25, 2011. 65279;I was told to report to a Petty Officer at Ipswich railway station on the morning of the 8th of January 1952, then being 15 years and few months old. I had as little as possible of my personal effects with me, only the stuff I might need for a day or so, as ordered in my joining instructions. Or were they hauled from their mother's arms? The boy and his mum both having changed their minds about him joining the Navy?
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I JOINED THE MOB: October 2012
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I JOINED THE MOB. Becoming an Australian citizen - 2010. Thursday, October 4, 2012. TO READ MORE SEA CHANTIES. Please go to I JOINED THE MOB, PART 2, written by Chas Cooper himself! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). If you'd like to read more RN experiences, my mate Hank from the HMS Crane is also writing a blog about his experiences, which can be found at:. Http:/ sailor1953.blogspot.com/. If you would like to leave a comment at the bottom of any of the stories, please do so! LIFE BEFORE THE MOB.
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I JOINED THE MOB: HMS Crane
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I JOINED THE MOB. Becoming an Australian citizen - 2010. Friday, March 18, 2011. HMS Crane - aka The Drooping Bird. 65279;Leaving HMS Dryad on the 15th April 1959, having only one little hiccup which I managed to slide out from under, I was due to join HMS Roebuck a month or so before finally getting a draft to HMS Crane. This time I thought that perhaps for the extra month ashore, I might have jumped out of the frying pan into the fire! So off I trotted to SORPs office toot de suite. The chicken shi...
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I JOINED THE MOB: HMS Crane - Part 2
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I JOINED THE MOB. Becoming an Australian citizen - 2010. Saturday, April 9, 2011. HMS Crane - Part 2. After the trip to Gan and a short stop over in Singapore we once again set off for Hong Kong, everyone's favourite port. Again the old drooping bird was to be the guard ship. Everyone it seemed in Hong Kong was a Mahjong addict. The whole population would be playing day and night! To the west of the city and up on the western heights was the ‘Shanty town’ area. Most places there (one coul...On other occa...
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I JOINED THE MOB: April 2011
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I JOINED THE MOB. Becoming an Australian citizen - 2010. Saturday, April 9, 2011. HMS Crane - Part 2. After the trip to Gan and a short stop over in Singapore we once again set off for Hong Kong, everyone's favourite port. Again the old drooping bird was to be the guard ship. Everyone it seemed in Hong Kong was a Mahjong addict. The whole population would be playing day and night! To the west of the city and up on the western heights was the ‘Shanty town’ area. Most places there (one coul...On other occa...