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What was it like in the Navy Grandad

Jun 17, 2019

You might not see this as funny. If you think it through you can often interpret what function of shipboard life is having the piss taken out of it……

BACK ON THE JOB AGAIN

Jun 16, 2019

Almost a year with no sign of life. The best way to cope with all the changes and complete loss of any memory of how to do this is just get stuck in and break things.

HMS Neptune was a Royal Navy cruiser with a large compliment of New Zealanders returning home to New Zealand to be taken over by New Zealand. She was diverted to the Med and was lost off Tripoli with heavy loss of life 76 years ago. This is the story of the preamble to, and the sinking written by Jack Harker.

A Story From Denmark

Jan 1, 2018

The ideal voyage to “kill two flies with one smack” was a 100 kilometre as the (eel-) crow flies trip round the island, not non-stop, but over a weekend.

Navy Blue Ink

Dec 27, 2017

Use of fountain pen ink in the Navy was a lot more formal that I had thought……..

No known cure

Dec 25, 2017

What are fountain pen collectors called…..

Fountain pen that went to WWII

Dec 24, 2017

I find a 1938 Parker Vacumatic and follow its journey through WWII and then life in the hands of the manager of the principal producer of fencing products for NZ agriculture in the 50’s and 60’s.