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Post by Tanker73 on Mar 3, 2005 21:54:34 GMT 10
 Tank mucking gee's I'm glad thats finished with sure was a bloody dirty job. I can still remember staggering aorund in the bottom of one of the Foo Foo tanks with Les Vivian and a couple of other stokers finishing of a rather sticky affair. I can still remember the look on the OOD's face the day a stoker, (Yes it was a Stoker that did it.) STill in the Dry Dock at GI one Sunday a stoker turned the wrong valve and dropped a heap of Foo Foo into teh dry dock while the ship was floating there awaiting a Monday morning extraction. It sure brough the Island alive that day. No to mention the heaps of it that seaped into the harbour. 
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Post by princejuchau on Oct 19, 2007 11:53:12 GMT 10
That must have been a FOO FOO of a day.
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Post by Jack Knowles on Feb 5, 2009 20:56:52 GMT 10
Well I'll be dipped in a bucket of black FooFoo
Yes I remember those days of tank mucking, looking totaly black from head to toe.
Grap you can almost smell it.
And that nice old bloke SOC Vivian me old ship mate and mentor.
Cheers Alan (Jack Peg Jnr) Knowles
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Post by Webmaster on Sept 30, 2009 15:32:58 GMT 10
:D Well Jack I still wonder what ever happened to old Soc Vivian he was a real gentleman, I dropped in to Taree SW t see Ray Bridge a while back and he is doing ok although a bit on the sore side as he has had a few operations for hip replacements etc.
Cheers for now........ken
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Post by Tanker73 on Dec 20, 2009 19:02:21 GMT 10
Guday Jack I heard last month that old 'Sock' Les Vivian passed away in 2000 and was afforded a guard of honour of fully kitted Lady Bowlers as Sock was well up in the bowling game at a promenent North Sydney Bowling Club and well liked by everyone in the club. Our old mates are few and far between. W.W. Leslie Vivian a gentleman to one and all. May he rest in peace
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Post by bocky on Oct 11, 2011 1:48:17 GMT 10
whats wrong with FOO FOO? I still like to sthingy some on me corn flakes ;D
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